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(3.81) | 5 | "Whether you wish to model a flower in wax; to study the rules of etiquette; to cure a headache; to make a will; I hope you will not fail to 'Enquire Within'." First published in 1956, Enquire Within Upon Everything was created as the ultimate household reference guide and remains a real gem of cultural history. Including thousands of fascinating entries, such as how to dance the polka, bake partridge pudding or even declare bankruptcy, this book provides rich insight into the day-to-day life of people living in Victorian Britain. This encyclopaedic guide inspired Tim Burners Lee to invent the internet, influenced by the book's huge array of knowledge contained in one place. It also records some games and customs that would have otherwise been lost to history, such as the English version of trucco, a croquet-like lawn game.… (mer) |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. Choice of Articles of Food. - Nothing is more important in the affairs of housekeeping than the choice of wholesome food. IF there be any among my Readers who, having turned over the pages of “Enquire Within” have hastily pronounced them to be confused and ill-arranged, let them at once refer to THE INDEX, at page 389, and for ever hold their peace. | |
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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. Daughters, Management of 2187 Debt, Don't run in 2615 Dirty People to be Avoided 1726 Windows, What a Sign of... .474(«) Diving for Eggs to test Buoyancy of Water.... 1398 Dutch People, Cleanliness of.... 1729 Eat Slowly Esquire to be written in full Fair Person, Sky Blue Becoming to Falling into Water, How to Act Family Circle, the Clocks, Oil for Pudding Floating in Water, Test of Capability of Girls, Management of Habits of a Man of Badness Kind Words, Power of Matches, Keep from Children's Reach Person on Fire Plate, Uncleaned, Don't put by Poor, Beds for the Quadrupeds, to Stuff Quotations, Greek and Latin, to be Avoided Rabbits, Care of to Choose Cold, to Dress to Hash Royal Game of Goose Scandal, Live it Down Scottish Brogue, Hints for Correction of Semicolon, Nature and Value of Singing, Utility of Superiority, Intellectual, Rudeness in Boasting of Suppers, My Wife's Taste of Medicine, to Prevent Temper, Female, Management of 2184 Keep Your Uncteanliness of Person, Deprecated Vulgarity, Avoidance of W, Use of, for V, Enigma on Water, Adulteration of as Beverage, Excellence of on the Brain, Remedy for Effect of, on Meat, if Left in, when Cooked Ecrustation of Certain Vessels by Erect Position in Hard, to Prepare for Washing Hard to Soften Hot, Efficacy of in Holland and England Soft, to Prepare Window-Curtains on Fire, How to Act Work by Daylight Preferable in Winter How to accomplish Wow-Wow Sauce Yorkshire, Dialect, Errors Although the art of knitting is known perhaps more generally than almost any other kind of fancy work, still as the knowledge is not universal, and there have been of late years great improvements in many of the processes, we hope that a short account of all the stitches, and the elementary parts of the craft, will be welcomed by many of our friends; and most seriously would we recommend them to attain PERFECTION in this branch of work, because, above all others, it is a resource to those who, from weak eyes, are precluded from many kinds of industrial amusement, or who, as invalids, cannot bear the fatigue of more elaborate work. The fact is that knitting does not require eyesight at all; and a very little practice ought to enable anyone to knit whilst reading, talking, or studying, quite as well as if the fingers were unemployed. It only requires that the fingers should be properly used, and that one should not be made to do the duty of another. [from the index] Ink, Dr. Ure’s for Garden Labels Marking, without Preparation Powder Preparation of Red Writing Ink-stains, to Remove from Boards from Books from Mahogany from Silver from Table Covers. Paper: - Cement; for Children; Fire Screens;, Hangings, to Choose to Clean; Patterns, Black; Printed, Unfit for Wrapping; to Remove Writing Ink from; to Stain; Wrapping; Paper-Mâché Articles, to Clean; Parchment, to Stain 351. Paper Fire Screens should be sized and coated with transparent varnish, otherwise they will soon become soiled and discoloured. 326. Printed Papers are unfit for wrapping anything, as the printing ink rubs off on the articles enclosed in them, and also soils the gloves of the person that carries the parcel. 437. To Take Writing Ink out of Paper. – Solution of muriate of tin, two drachms; water, four drachms. To be applied with a camel-hair brush. After the writing has disappeared, the paper should be passed through water, and dried. 2486* Manifold Writing. -- The demand for a rapid and simple method of multiplying letters, circulars, &c., has led in recent years to the invention of several ingenious processes. So few copies are obtainable by the ordinary reporters’ system of sheets of tissue paper, or “flimsy,” interleaved with sheets of prepared black paper, that various kinds of “graphs” have been produced, by which upwards of a hundred, and in some cases many more, copies may be produced from one writing. The “graph” process usually consists of transferring a writing made in an aniline dye on to a gelatine surface, from which, by the application of successive sheets of paper, subjected to a smoothing pressure by the hand, a number of copies may be obtained, in a manner very similar to the ordinary lithographic process. ... Some other methods of manifold writing, such as the Edison, the Trypograph, the Cyclostyle, &c., (by which 1,000 copies can be taken from one writing), ... based on a principle of a fine stencil on prepared paper, and squeezing ink through the minute perforations on to a sheet of paper fixed underneath. ... For those who would like to make a gelatine “graph,” we append the following recipe: -- ... Any chemist will supply an aniline dye for the ink. [This entry in full takes a whole column of the index.] 435. To Extract Grease Spots from Books or Paper. – Gently warm the greased or spotted part of the book or paper, and then press upon it pieces of blotting-paper, one after another, so as to absorb as much of the grease as possible. Have ready some fine clear essential oil of turpentine heated almost to a boiling state, warm the greased leaf a little, and then, with a soft clean brush, apply the heated turpentine to both sides of the spotted part. By repeating this application, the grease will be extracted. Lastly, with another brush dipped in rectified spirit of wine, go over the place, and the grease will no longer appear, neither will the paper be discoloured. 436. Stains and Marks from Books. – A solution of oxalic acid, or tartaric acid, is attended with the least risk, and may be applied to paper and prints without fear of damage. These acids, which take out writing ink, and do not touch the printing, can be used for restoring books where the margins have been written upon, without injuring the text. 437. To Take Writing Ink out of Paper. – Solution of muriate of tin, two drachms; water, four drachms. To be applied with a camel-hair brush. After the writing has disappeared, the paper should be passed through water, and dried. | |
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The Index of the 78th, revised edition of Enquire within upon everything (Houlston and Sons, 1888)—27-page, triple-column, is full of such useful entries as
Beds for the Poor, How to Make
Dirty People to be Avoided
Falling into Water, How to Act
An unusual feature is the use of this index to promote moral precepts. Each of the book's 388 text pages has one, in small capitals, as its headline, and the index is no exception to this stern rule. So one is admonished as one searches; usually in rather glum fashion. The precept above the page of As is most appropriate to its place:
an index is a key to a treasury.
Splendid! (But any index . . .?) Then, above B, we move to
HONESTY IS A STRONG STAFF TO LEAN UPON.
Good thought, if not particularly apposite to information retrieval. And so through such good advice as
study not TO BEAUTIFY THY FACE. BUT THY MIND; BUSYBODIES NEVER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO; THE LANE OF BY-AND-BY leads to the house of never.
Some use is made of facing pages; D-E casts double gloom with
for age and WANT SAVE WHILE YOU MAY Opposite THERE ARE NONE poor but such as god disowns.
A comma at the end of the headline above P,
keep on good terms with your wife,
is the only indication that this thought is continued above Q-R,
your stomach, and your conscience.
Above Z, page 415, the editor sinks thankfully back with
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. ( )