Abstract:
Chapter 8: Ming's Hopes Grow Brighter -- Sings of Character In The Face: How To Read Them: The Nose -- The Betrothal -- Foes Afield: Plants Poisonous To The Touch -- Health, Grace, Beauty: Delsarte Philosophy Made Practical -- Dr. Bisland's Diary -- How to Harness and Unharness a Horse-- Dallo -- Home Art and Home Comfort: China Painting for Beginners -- Choice of Objects To Decorate -- How To Use Your Materials -- Grounding -- Spatter- Work Or Spraying On China -- Striping -- Hints -- Sanitarian: Thirst -- Strawberries: From A Therapeutic Point Of View -- Kindergarten Work and Play for the Home: 16: The Use Of Clay- (Concluded) -- The Last Day of Herculaneum (See Page Engraving) -- Artistic Notes -- The World's Progress: CURRENT TOPICS, NOTES AND COMMENTS ON EVENTS
OF THE DAY.—INTERESTING SUBJECTS AND NOTABLE THINGS WHICH HAVE OCCURRED DURING THE PAST MONTH -- Chili's Civil War -- The First American City -- Some Scientific Definitions -- The Kingdom of Sheba -- Chat -- What Women are Doing -- Household: And Green Peas -- What Does Your Handwriting Indicate? -- Summer Millinery -- Fashionable Coiffures -- Fashion Gleanings from Abroad -- Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic: W. Jennings Demorest Interviewed in the City of Mexico -- Advertisements. pages 466-516 (53 pages). William Jennings Demorest; Ellen Demorest. New York.