How to Make a Simple Water Filter – The Small Filter
How to Make a Simple Water Filter - The Small Filter - excerpt from the book "The Scientific American Boy" by A. Russell Bond
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How to Keep Birds Away From Garden – A Garden-Bed Scarecrow
A Garden-Bed Scarecrow A very neat and successful scarecrow for garden beds can be made as follows: A number of corks are procured, and a feather is stuck in each end of them, as shown. These are tied to a…
How to Make a Secret Compartment in Ordinary Table Drawer
It is frequently desired to have some handy place for storing valuables where there is but little chance of discovering them. Secret drawers in tables usually require special and expensive changes, but with only a few simple changes on a…
Homemade Jar Opener
Homemade Jar Opener – The accompanying sketch shows a handy device for turning up and unscrewing the covers on glass fruit jars. The loop is slipped over the cover and the handle turned in the direction of the arrow. To…
Homemade Corn Sheller
Homemade Corn Sheller - Where there is but a small quantity of corn to be shelled a sheller can be made of a few scraps of wood usually found on a farm.
Preserving Dried Flowers in Color and Form – How to Dry Flowers
Preserving Dried Flowers – One of the most distressing sides of botanical study is the short life of the colors in flowers. Those who have found the usual method of preserving plants by pressure between paper unsatisfactory will be interested…
Distilling Water at Home – How to Distill Water at Home Using Homemade Apparatus
An apparatus for distilling water can be very easily made from galvanized pipe fittings. The outer cooling jacket A is a piece of 1-in. pipe, 2 ft. long, threaded on both ends, and bored and tapped for 1 pipe at…
Household Tips And Tricks – More than Three Hundred Helpful Household Tips And Tricks
Excerpt from the book:MOTHER’S’ REMEDIESOver One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada.By DR. T. J. RITTERPUBLISHED BY G.H. FOOTE PUB. CO. DETROIT MICH 1921 HOUSEKEEPERS’ ALPHABET Apples.–Keep in a dry place, as cool…
Candy Making Recipes – How To Make Candy At Home
From the Following Recipes and Formulae, Hundreds and Even Thousands of Candies Can Be Made. Excerpt from the book: MOTHER’S’ REMEDIES Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada. By DR. T. J.…
Wedding Invitation Wording – DIY Wedding Invitations And Announcements
The number of wedding invitations often must conform to the size of the church or the house, and to the character of the wedding. If it is to be a large one, cards are usually sent as liberally as possible.…