© Grace S. Richmond (A) (In Woman's home companion, June 1923) © 24Apr23, B575650.

Ladies' home journal.

To make the conditions of a woman's life easier, the very first thing is this: 1. Women should be educated primarily for home-life.

If it becomes necessary to shorten the course in physiology, the various sections printed in smaller type may be omitted or used for home study.

And then there was something about Elsie she did not know what to make of: she would sit and hang her head sometimes, and look as if she were dreaming; and she brought home books they said a young gentleman up at the great school lent her; and once she heard her whisper in her sleep, and she talked as young girls do to themselves when they're thinking about somebody they have a liking for and think nobody knows it.

" It seems probable that this was a harvest-home song, usually sung by reapers in the country: the chorus or burden, "Hooky, hooky," &c. is still heard in some parts of the kingdom, with this variation "Hooky, hooky, we have shorn, And bound what we did reap, And we have brought the harvest home, To make bread good and cheap.

All the governors expatiate on the vast amount of forest wealth and remind the home government that under the French regime the king, when making out patents for the seigneurs, reserved the right of taking wood for ship-building and fortifications from any of the seigneuries.

"I ain't the girl to run a friend down, anyway, when she comes from my home town; but I could tell talesGawd!

He only laughed and cried after me that, if my manners were the equal of my marksmanship, I would be the best lad he had seen since his home-coming.

Home economics in education.

Home industries having been fostered by the war, American manufactures promised a bright future.

At last, just at the most interesting point of the game, the sudden sting of a steel-bee caused Mr. P. to give a quick bawl, when the fish took a home-run and came back no more.

His ailment was home-sickness; for though he had been a great voyager, it seemed he was loath to quit our bleak countryside for ever.

These Protestants, or "Ulsterites," demanded that if the rest of Ireland got home rule, they must get it also, and be allowed to rule themselves by a separate Parliament of their own.

(In The Country home magazine, May 1937)

Mrs. Lambert herself felt this pathos, and it brought back, too, the losses and limitations in her home circle; for what with death and absence, her five children had no one now but herself to look to, where once were the dear grandparents, the fond father, and a score or more of other relations.

BALDWIN, CHRISTINE R. The home edition.

Though it was the first week of November when the Atterburys found home affairs going on smoothly in the town-house, summer still disputed with winter the short lovely days of fall, as Jack described the lingering May-day mildness of this seductive Southern autumn.

Wool was accordingly much the most valuable product; the mutton was sold in the home markets, where, the supply being very plentiful, the price was very low.

However, the experienced breeder would take good care to send the eggs of his everlasting layers to market, and not use them for home consumption, as, although they may be as large as those laid by other hens, the amount of nutriment contained in them is not nearly so great.

James is one of those people who, possessing what Country Life would call one of the lesser country-houses of England, has an indeterminate bit of ground beyond the garden, called, according to choice of costume, "the rock-garden," "the home-farm," "the grouse moor," or "no rubbish may be shot here."

All this she did in intervals snatched from home duties, there being in the house a constant succession of company and employments to occupy her.

The men had come back from their work on shore with branches of green pine and holly, and the women had, stuck them about the ship, not without tearful thoughts of old home-places, where their childhood fathers and mothers did the same.

But I was confident in my home-comfort and peacefulness.

I thought he had sprained his off foreleg for he limped a good deal on the home stretch, but he seemed to limber up all right the last few miles.