Chautauqua
Chautauqua (skt-wkwa). In 1874 Bishop John H. Vincent And Lewis Miller Started A Summer Assembly For The Instruction Of Sunday School Teachers. They Loacted It At Chautauqua, A Popular Lake Resort In Western New York. It Grew Rapidly Into One Of The Most Important And Characteristic Of American Con Tributions ...
Checkers
Checkers. Battles Between " Checker Men" Have Interested Young And Old Ever Since The First Crude Game Of Draughts Was Played By The Egyptians —probably As Early As 1600 B.c. Later The Greeks And Romans Enjoyed The Game, And More Recently There Have Been French, German, Polish, Dutch, Scotch, And ...
Cheese
Cheese. You Can Imagine The Delight With Which, Thou Sands Of Years Ago, When Primitive Man Had Learned To Tame And Milk Goats, Sheep, And Cattle, Some Wise Old Housewife Discovered That If The Milk Is Allowed To Sour Into A Thick Mass, Then Squeezed To Press Out The Whey, ...
Chemistry
Chemistry. The Inspired Visionary Often Puts Into A Few Words The Truth That Men Of Science Reach Only By Long And Laborious Toil ; And When The Poet Wrote That Famous Line, " Change And Decay In All Around I See," He Was Saying In A Poet's Way What Chemistry ...
Cherry
Cherry. In Korea The Cherry Tree Is An Object Of Respect Bordering On Worship; And In Japan It Is The Occasion For A Cherry Festival In The Spring Of Each Year, When Thousands Of People Collect In Those Places That Are Famous For Their Rose-flowered Cherry Trees, To Admire Their ...
Chesapeake Bay
Chesapeake Bay. Late In April 1607, Three Frail Little Vessels Sailed Between Two Capes Into The Great Arm Of The Atlantic Which Was Later Named Chesa Peake Bay. These Vessels Found Their Way Up A Stream Emptying Into The Bay, And On Its Banks Founded Jamestown, The First Permanertt English ...
Chess
Chess. The Game Of Chess Is A Warfare In Miniature. If We Accept One Tradition, It Was Invented In India To Divert Men From The Attractions Of Actual War. In Chess Two Opposing Forces—consisting On Each Side Of The King And Queen, Two Bishops, Two Knights, Two Rooks (or Castles), ...
Chestnut
Chestnut. When The First Frost Touches The Prickly Burrs Of The Chest Nut Tree The Brown Nuts Rain Down To The Ground, Bringing Joy To The Hearts Of The Boys And Girls Who Are Lucky Enough To Live In The Vicinity. There Are About Five Species Of The True Chestnut ...
Chewing Gum
Chewing Gum. It Is Said That The Amount Of Money Spent In The United States For Chewing Gum Each Year Is Greater Than For School Textbooks. The Chewing Gum Habit Is Peculiarly American, Although The Sale Has Extended In Recent Years To Canada And England And To Other Countries In ...
Chickadee
Chickadee. " Off Again, On Again, Gone Again!" That's The Nimble Chickadee, Who Picks His Lunch From The Bark Of Your Dooryard Tree Or Accepts The Bounty From Your Window Sill, Stopping Now And Then For A Few Acrobatic Stunts Or To Call On Bird Neigh Bors To Share His ...
Child Labor Laws
Child Labor Laws. In The Early Days Of The 19th Century, Great Ma Chines Were Invented In England To Do The Work That Was Formerly Done By Hand At Home, And Great Factories Were Built To House The Machines. All That Was Needed Was Work Ers To Tend These Great ...
Child Training
Child Training. This 20th Century Has Been Called The Cen Tury Of The Child. Not That There Weren't Plenty Of Children Before The Year 1900! What Indeed Would The World Have Been Worth Without Them? Some Of Them Had A Heal Thy, Happy, And Busy Childhood And Grew Into Strong, ...
Chile
Chile (chetd). With The Exception Of Egypt No Other Country Is So Remarkably Shaped As This Narrow Ribbon Strip Of Territory, Which Stretches Along More Than Half The Pacific Sea Coast Of South America. Place This " Shoestring Re Public" Upon The Pacific Coast Of North America And It Would ...
Chimpawzee
Chimpawzee. The Most Intelligent Of The Anthro Poid Or Manlike Apes, The Chimpanzee Is Also Very Docile, And Individuals Are Often Shown In The Theaters So Highly Trained That They Wear Clothes, Sleep In Beds, And Eat With A Knife And Fork. It Is Affectionate When Treated Kindly, And Becomes ...
China
China. "if You Could Dig A Hole Deep Enough To Go Right Through The Earth And Come Out On The Opposite Side, You Would Come Out In China." This Is What They Told Us When We Were Very Young, And It's True Enough Of The Physical World. But As We ...
Chinch Bug
Chinch Bug. One Of The Worst Enemies Of The Corn- And Wheat-grower Is This Tiny Insect, About One-sixth Of An Inch In Length, Blackish In Color, And With White Wing Covers Marked With A Dark Spot And A Y-shaped Line. It Attacks Corn As Well As Wheat, Destroying It Has ...
Chinchilla
Chinchilla. The Chinchilla Is A Friendly Little Hopping Creature Of The Rodent Family, Akin To The Guinea-pig. It Is About 15 Inches Long From Its Nose To The Tip Of Its Tail, Lives In Burrows, And Eats Vege Table Food. Its Home Is In The Andes Mountains Of South America. ...
Chinquapin
Chinquapin (ching'ket-pin). Dear To The Heart Of Every Boy Are The Sweet Kerneled Chinquapin Nuts Which Fall From Their Prickly Burrs When Autumn Sets In. Scarcely More Than Shrubs, These Dwarf Chestnut Trees (castanea Pumila) Flourish In The Warmer Sections Of The Appalachian Mountains. The Golden-brown Fruits Are To Be ...
Chipmunk
Chipmunk. This Wide-awake, Sun-loving Little Chipmunk, Often Called The Ground Squirrel, Is Noted For Its Beautiful Markings. Its Grayish Or Reddish Brown Fur Is Conspicuously Marked With Light Buff Stripes Along The Back And Sides. It Is About Six Inches Long With A Bushy Tail Nearly As Long As Its ...
Ill Chicago
Chicago, Ill. The Visitor Who Approaches Chi Cago From The Lake Front Finds It Difficult To Realize That Less Than A Century Ago There Was Only A Dreary Swamp Where Now Rises The Mountainous Skyline Of The Business District. He Sees A City Curving Along The Shores Of The Lake ...
Lost In Chicago
Lost In Chicago. Once A Little Boy Was Lost In Chicago. That's Nothing New, You Think. A Little Boy Is Often Lost In Chicago, And In Every Other Big City In The World. His Mother Just Tells The Police About It, And Sometimes He Is Found Right Away. If He ...
The Clerks Tale Of
The Clerk's Tale Of Patient Griselda. The Day Set For The Wedding (said The Clerk) Was At Last Arrived, And Great Preparations Had Been Made In The Castle. The Choicest Dainties Of The Land Were Brought Together For The Feast. Costly Garments And Precious Gems Were Ready To Adorn The ...
The Knights Tale Of
The Knight's Tale Of Palamon And Arcite. One Bright May Morning (the Knight Said), The Lovely Emily, Sister-in-law To The Duke, Was Walking In The Royal Garden Beneath The Tower In Which Palamon And Arcite Were Prisoners. She Was Fairer Than The Lily Upon Its Stalk Of Green, And It ...
Wung Foos Busy Day
Wung Foo's Busy Day And His Land Of Queer People. When Wung Foo Was A Boy— Which Was 20 Or 30 Years Ago —he Studied Very Hard At School, And If He Learned As Many As 25 New Sign Words, His Grand 1 Mother Told Him Stories In The Evening. ...