Everything Has Weight
Everything Has Weight. We Have All Seen A Magnet. We Have Watched It Pick Up Little Pieces Of Iron And Hold Them Tightly. The Great Earth Upon Which We Live Acts Like A It Pulls Everything Toward Itself. The Pull Or Attraction Of The Earth Is What Makes Things Have ...
Home Geography 201
Home Geography 201 The Older Trees Of The Forest Partly Decayed, And The Winter Storms Threw Them To The Ground. Each Year Some Of The Nuts In The Pine Cones Escaped The Eyes Of The Watchful Squirrels. Some Of These Nuts Became Covered In The Earth And Sprouted, Soon Forming ...
Homes Of The Animals
Homes Of The Animals. Every Animal Lives Where It Can Get The Kind Of Food That It Likes. Some Animals Stay Near The Same Place The Whole Of Their Lives. They Either Store Up Food For The Winter, Or Go To Sleep In Some Protected Place, And Never Wake Until ...
How People Used To
How People Used To Travel. We Have Not Always Had Steamers And Cars To Carry Us About. How Fast They Take Us! We Almost Seem To Fly Like The Birds. It Was Only A Few Years Ago That Steamers And Cars Were First Made. Before That Time It Would Have ...
How The River Made
How The River Made The Valley. The River Has Much Other Work To Do Besides Turning Water Wheels. The Valley In Which You Live Was Made By The River. It Did This By Carrying Away Little By Little The Particles Of Rock And Soil Along Its Path. It Has Taken ...
How The Seasons Affect
How The Seasons Affect Plants And Animals We Have Found That Plants Need Food, Water, And Sunshine. Plants Get Their Food From The Soil. Animals Need Food And Water, And The Most Of Them Love Sunlight, But There Are Some That Hide Away From It. Many Of The Animals Get ...
How The Soil Is
How The Soil Is Made. How Is The Soil Made? Where Does It Come From? We Can Learn Something About The Soil If We Watch The Men Who Are Grading A Road Through The Hill. Some Of The Men Are Driving Horses Hitched To Great Shovels On Wheels. The Horses ...
Hunting And Fishing
Hunting And Fishing A Long Time Ago People Lived Mostly By Hunting And Fishing. Every Man Had His Bow And Arrows And When He Became Hungry Killed What Animals He Needed For Food. He Caught Fish By Means Of Traps Made Of Sticks Woven Together. These He Placed In A ...
Occupations
Occupations. We Call Those People Savages Who Lead A Rude, Wild Life. The Indian Is A Savage. His Life Is Simple. He Does Not Trade Much And Has Few Occu Pations. Those Things Which He Cannot Get Or Make Himself, He Goes Without. The Indian Hunts His Own Food. He ...
Our Homes
Our Homes. A Long Time Ago People Did Not Have Beautiful Homes. Then All The People On The Earth Were Rude And Savage. They Wandered From Place To Place For Food, And Were Like Animals In Many Ways. What Sort Of Homes Do You Suppose These Sav Age People Had? ...
Some Common Trees
Some Common Trees. We Could Not Do Without The Trees. Not Only Are They Very Useful, But They Help Make The World A Beautiful Home For Us. Trees Furnish Us Food In The Shape Of Fruit And Nuts. Their Trunks Are Made Into Lumber For Our Houses. Paper Is Made ...
Something About Lakes
Something About Lakes. You Remember That In Going Up A Mountain We Passed A Pretty Lake. Would You Not Like To Know Something More About Lakes? You Have All Seen Ponds Left By The Rain In Hollows Of The Land. Some Of The Boys Have Built Rafts And Paddled About ...
Something About A City
Something About A City. A City Is A Collection Of Many People And Houses. Why Do So Many People Live In One Place? What Can All Of Them Find To Do? We Have Already Learned That Towns Grow Up Where There Is Opportunity To Trade. The Town May Be Found ...
Something About The Birds
Something About The Birds. If Birds Could Talk What Stories We Might Hear. We Might Learn Of A Time, Ever So Long Ago, When Their Grandfathers Were Not Birds At All. Then They Could Not Fly, For They Had Neither Wings Nor Feathers. These Grandfathers Of Our Birds Had Four ...
Something About The Wild
Something About The Wild Animals. Animals Are Not At All Like Plants. The Plant Spends Its Whole Life In The Spot Where It Sprouted From The Seed. Its Roots Hold It Firmly In One Place. The Soil May Be Poor And The Leaves Of The Plant May Get Little Sunshine, ...
Springs
Springs. Hour After Hour The Rain Beats Against The Window. Where Can So Much Water Go To? Some Of It Runs Down The Street In Muddy Torrents. Some Of It Soaks Into The Ground. You Have Seen A Sponge Absorb Water. The Ground Takes Up Water In Much The Same ...
Stock Raising
Stock Raising. In The Eastern Part Of Our Country The Farms Are Small. Each Farmer Raises A Few Horses, Cattle, And Perhaps Sheep. In The West The Farms Or Ranches Are Often Very Large. They Reach For Miles And Miles Across The Plains And Over The Mountains. Upon These Large ...
Story Of A Mountain
Story Of A Mountain. Before Us Rises A High Mountain. Its Top Is White With Snow. Its Sides Are Steep And Rocky And Very Hard To Climb. Made The Mountain? Has It Always Been There, Or Is It A Little Hill Grown Large And High? Mountains Really Do Grow. Is ...
The Clouds
The Clouds. The Dark Clouds Are Coming Up. They Are Sweeping Over The Blue Sky And Will Soon Hide It. Why Do You Suppose They Rush Along So Swiftly? It Is Because The Wind Is Chasing Them. It Is Blow Ing Behind Them And They Cannot Stop. There Are Many ...
The Country Store
The Country Store. Perhaps You Live In The Country. If You Do, You Can Tell Us Something About The Store Near By. The Store May Be The Center Of The Little World In Which You Live. There Your Father Goes To Buy The Sugar, Flour And Many Other Things Which ...
The Earth Upon Which
The Earth Upon Which We Live. We Are Going To Learn About The Earth Upon Which We Live. This Earth Is Made Up Of Many Things. First, There Is The Land Where Our Homes Are. Then There Is Water, Which We Find In The Hollows Of The Land. Besides The ...
The Home By The
The Home By The Ocean. Would You Like To Know About My Home By The Ocean? We Live In A Very Pleasant Place. We Never Get Tired Of Playing Upon The Beach And Watching The Ships Sail By. When A Ship First Comes In Sight We Can See Only The ...
The Home In The
The Home In The Desert. My Home Is In The Desert. Did You Ever See A Desert? I Will Tell You About It. The Desert Is A Great Valley Where It Seldom Rains. The Ground Is Almost Level As Far As You Can See. Mountains Lie All Around The Valley, ...
The Inhabitants Of The
The Inhabitants Of The Water. The Water Is Full Of Living Things. Watch The Water Of Some Quiet Pond And You Will See Many Sorts Of Animals. They Are Moving About Looking For Something To Eat. The Most Of The Animals That You Find In The Water Spend All Of ...
The Making Of Sugar
The Making Of Sugar. Where Does Our Sugar Come From? Does Nature Prepare It For Us, Or Do We Have To Work Hard And Long To Get It? The Little Boy From The South Knows Something About Sugar. He Says That It Is Made From The Sugar Cane. Another- Boy, ...
The Ocean
The Ocean. Where Is All The Water Of The River Hurrying? It Tumbles Over The Cliffs. It Dashes Past The Rocks. The Source Of The River Is In The Mountains. It Is Formed By The Little Rills That Are Forever Fed By The Springs. The Rills Unite As Do The ...
The Soil
The Soil. How Nice It Is To Play In The Soft Dirt. The Wind Also Likes To Play With The Dirt. It Picks Up The Dirt And Blows It In Our Faces. When The Rain Plays With The Dirt It Makes Mud. How The Mud Sticks To Our Feet, And ...
The Sprouting Seed
The Sprouting Seed. Here Is A Horse-chestnut. How Smooth And Bright It Is! Upon The Outside There Is A Hard, Brown Shell. The White Substance Within Looks Much Like The Meat Of A Chestnut. We Will Partly Cover One Of The Nuts In Moist Soil, And Water It Often. We ...
The Story Of The
The Story Of The Silkworm. A Silkworm Is Not A Real Worm, But An Insect. True Worms Remain Worms During The Whole Of Their Life History. The Common Earthworm Which You See Upon The Ground After A Rain Is A Real Worm. The Life History Of An Insect Is Not ...
The Summer Stream
The Summer Stream. Let Us Visit The River Upon A Summer Day. It Is No Longer A Muddy Torrent. In Fact The Stream Is So Different That We Hardly Know It. The Clear Water Ripples Gently. We Can See The Sand And Pebbles In The Bottom. Little Fish Are Darting ...
The Surface Of The
The Surface Of The Land. Do You Live Where The Land Is Smooth Almost As Far As You Can See? Your Home, Then, Is Upon A Plain. The Plain Seems As Level As A Floor. But Is This Really So? If The Plain Were Perfectly Level The Rain Which Falls ...
The Wind
The Wind. What Is The Wind? We Can Feel The Wind Blow Ing Upon Our Faces. We Can See What The Wind Does, But We Cannot See The Wind Itself. Sometimes The Wind Blows Against Us So Strongly We Can Hardly Stand Up. The Wind Carries Our Hats Down The ...
The Work Of The
The Work Of The Ocean. Did You Ever Think How Much Work The Ocean Is Doing? If You Have Ever Visited The Ocean You Know That It Is Never Quiet. The Waves Are Always Beating Against The Shore And Sometimes It Seems As If They Would Wash The Solid Land ...
Three Forms Of Water
Three Forms Of Water. We Have Seen That Water Is Necessary To The Life Of Plants And Animals. Now Let Us Try To Find Out Something About The Properties Of Water. There Are Three Different Forms Which Water Takes. Each Is Very Unlike The Others. They Are So Unlike That ...
Trade And Commerce
Trade And Commerce. We Have Learned That The Savage Depends Upon Himself For What He Needs. He Is Easily Satisfied. Would You Be Happy To Change Places With An Indian Boy And Live As He Does? You Would Have Only Those Things To Eat Which Your Father Could Get With ...
Traveling
Traveling To—day We Can Travel Now As Far In One Day As People Once Could In A Month. We Can Sit In An Easy Chair In A Car And Be As Comfortable As At Home. The Train Carries Us Across The Rivers And Through The Mountains. It Does Not Stop ...
Water Works For Us
Water Works For Us. We Train Horses To Draw Our Wagons. We Put Up Windmills. The Wind Makes Them Go Round And Pump Water For The Cattle To Drink. The Sailor Places Sails Upon His Vessel And The Wind Blows Him Merrily Along. The Engineer Places Water In A Boiler ...
What Is
What Is Climate? The Climate Of A Place Is The Kind Of Weather Which It Has. If It Rains Much In A Place We Say The Climate Of That Place Is Wet. If The Sun Shines The Most Of The Time And Little Rain Falls, We Say The Place Has ...
What Is_2
What Is A Map? We Have Before Us A Picture Of A Rocky Coast. The Picture Shows What We Would See If We Visited The Place. Can You Mention The Different Forms Of Land And Water In The Picture? In The Front Of The Picture There Is A High, Rocky ...
What Plants Need
What Plants Need. There Are Three Things Which Plants Must Have. These Are Soil, Water, And Sunshine. We Have Already Learned What Soil Is And How It Is Made. When The Little Seed Falls Where There Is Not Much Soil It Has A Hard Time To Grow. If The Rain ...
What Rocks Are Made
What Rocks Are Made Of. We Have Learned That Soil Is Made From Rock. Now We Ought To Learn Something About Rocks Them Selves. Rocks Are Very Useful In Many Ways. It Is In The Rocks That We Find Gold And Other Minerals. We Have Seen Rocks In Many Places. ...
What We Learned By
What We Learned By Climbing A Mountain. Mountains Are Higher Than Hills. We Might Call A Mountain A Grown-up Hill. Mountains Are Also Rougher Than Hills. They Have Rugged Cliffs And Deeper Canons. We Climbed A High Mountain Once. Would You Like To Know What We Saw? We Started From ...
What The Cow Furnishes
What The Cow Furnishes Us. No Other Animal Is So Useful To Us As The Cow. We Ought To Be Very Grateful To Our Grandfathers Who So Long Ago Tamed The Wild Cattle. If The Cattle Had Not Been Tamed They Would All Have Been Killed. How Gentle The Cow ...
Where Minerals Are Found
Where Minerals Are Found. What Minerals Have You Seen? Let Us Think. There Is Iron, Which Is Used To Make Our Stoves. Tin Is Used To Coat Many Of Our Dishes. Copper Is Used In Making Wire And In Many Other Ways. Gold And Silver Are Used For Money. They ...
Where The Flowers Grow
Where The Flowers Grow. Is There A 'girl Or Boy Who Does Not Know Where To Look For The Wild Flowers? Children Have Bright Eyes. They Did Not Learn From Books, But Nature Taught Them. She Showed Them Where To Look In The Meadow, And By The Brook. They Have ...
Where The Water Comes
Where The Water Comes From. Day And Night The Brook Ripples Over The Pebbles. It Never Gets Tired And Never Stops. Did You Ever Wonder Where The Water Of The Brook Comes From, And Where It Is Going? Let Us Follow Up The Brook And See Where It Starts. Back ...