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"'Nothin', sur,' replied Pat, with Irish readiness, 'only the lads got freighted as I was comin' to bed.'"'Tell them to be quiet, or I shall come up,' said doctor."'D'ye hear that, b'ys?' said Pat. 'Get to bed now; ye'll tak' your death runnin' round in the cowld widout your clothes on.'"In our excitement we had forgo...
"I should think she would be glad to have a home at last, after her years of wandering about. Not that I should be surprised now to hear that she had disappeared again. When I was staying there while I was young, we thought she had drowned herself, and even had the men search for her along the shore of the river; but...
"We speak of a member of our family whom you have not seen, although you may have heard your father speak of her. She is called Lady Ferry by most people who know of her; but you may say madam when you speak to her. She is very old, and her mind wanders, so that she has many strange fancies; but you must not be afrai...
She was bent, but very tall and slender, and was walking slowly with a cane. Her head was covered with a great hood or wrapping of some kind, which she pushed back when she saw me. Some faint whitish figures on her dress looked like frost in the moonlight: and the dress itself was made of some strange stiff silk, whi...
But my bright eyes and excited look betrayed me. Cousin Agnes said she had hoped I would be asleep. And Martha said perhaps it was her fault; but I seemed wakeful, and she had talked with me a bit, to keep my spirits up, coming to a new, strange place. The apology was accepted, but Martha evidently had orders before...
"I am glad you came," Madam repeated: "I was finding the day long. I am all ready, you see. I shall place a little chair which is in the next room, beside your cousin's seat for you. Mrs. Agnes is ill, I hear; but I think she will come to-morrow. Have you heard any one say if many guests are expected?"--"No, Madam,...
"I was startled when I saw her beside me," said Mr. McAllister. "Pray, who is she? she is like no one I have ever seen. I have been told that I am like my grandfather in looks and in voice; but it is years since I have seen any one who knew him well. And did you hear her speak of dancing? It is like seeing one who ...
When I went out to the garden, I hurried to the porch, and saw, to my disappointment, that there were great spiders' webs in the corners of the door, and around the latch, and that it had not been opened since I was there before. But I saw something shining in the grass, and found it was a silver knee-buckle. It must...
I could not help thinking of my old childish suspicions of Lady Ferry, though I smiled at the folly of them and of this story more than once. I tried to remember if I had heard of her death; but I was still a child when my cousin Agnes had died. Had poor Lady Ferry survived her, and what could have become of her? I a...
"Why, Andrer's, up here to the fish-house. _She's dead_, and him and the boy get along together somehow or 'nother. They've both got something saved up, and Andrer's a clever fellow; took it very hard, losing his wife. I was telling of him the other day: 'Andrer,' says I, 'ye ought to look up somebody or 'nother, an...
I wondered if he would wear his oil-skin suit; but I was much amazed, and my heart was touched, at seeing how hard he had tried to put himself in trim for the visit. He had on his best jacket and trousers (which might have been most boys' worst), and a clean calico shirt; and he had scrubbed his' freckled, honest litt...
There is so little to interest the people who live on those quiet, secluded farms, that an event of this kind gives great pleasure. I know they have not done talking yet about the sale, of the bargains that were made, or the goods that brought more than they were worth. And then the women had the chance of going all a...
The auctioneer was a disagreeable-looking man, with a most unpleasant voice, which gave me a sense of discomfort, the little old house and its surroundings seemed so grave and silent and lonely. It was like having all the noise and confusion on a Sunday. The house was so shut in by the trees, that the only outlook to...
I had not seen Miss Cynthia West, the younger sister, before, and I found the two women very unlike. Miss Hannah was evidently the capable business-member of the household, and she had a loud voice, and went about as if she were in a hurry. Poor Cynthia! I saw at first that she was one of the faded-looking country-w...
We lingered a little while under the apple-trees, and watched the wise little bees go and come; and Miss Cynthia told me how much Georgie was like his grandfather, who was so steady and quiet, and always right after his business. "He never was ugly to us, as I know of," said she; "but I was always sort of 'fraid of fa...
"Good-night, Georgie!" said I; and he nodded his head a little as he drove away to take the horse home. "Much obliged to you for my ride," said he, and I knew in a minute that his father or one of the aunts had cautioned him not to forget to make his acknowledgments. He had told me on the way down that he had baited ...
BRAVE ANTHONY ARCHER. By Emily Jane Moore. A ROSE WITH TWO AND FIFTY THORNS. By Emily Jane Moore. SET IN GOLD AND SILVER. By Emily Jane Moore. THE FORTUNES OF BRIDGET MALLORIE. By Emily Jane Moore. THE ORPHAN OF LESSONTO, and other Tales. THE BALLAD-SINGER OF THE BOULEVARD. Translated from the French. ...
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In this treatise I am not attempting to fix the indications for this or that product, but simply make known the diseases in which the Filipinos and the natives of other countries employ the products. Any physician has a perfect right to prescribe these drugs, as have also the "curanderos" and even the laity, with this ...
Dilleniaceæ--Tetracera macrophylla 17-18 Magnoliaceæ--Illicium anisatum, Michelia Champaca 18-20 Anonaceæ--Artabotrys odoratissimus, Anona squamosa, A. reticulata, A. muricata 20-22 Menispermaceæ--Tinospora crispa, Anamirta Cocculus, Cissampelos Pareira 22-27 Nymphæaceæ--Nymphæa Lotus, Ne...
Rubiaceæ--Hymenodictyon excelsum, Oldenlandia corymbosa, Randia dumetorum, Ixora coccinea, Coffea Arabica, Morinda citrifolia bracteata, M. tinctoria, Pæderia foetida. 140-149 Compositæ--Eupatorium Ayapana, Blumea balsamifera, Sphoeranthus Indicus, Spilanthes Acmella, Artemisia vulgaris, Car...
According to Schlegel it contains the following substances: An essential oil 4.675; a green waxy material which melts at 51°, a resin, a gum and saponin. The essential oil is (almost) identical with that of anise from which it is impossible to distinguish it chemically. The only difference is that the former has a blan...
Tincture of T. cordifolia.--Stems of the dried plant, 100 grams. Alcohol 21° (Cartier), 500 cc. Macerate seven days in a closed vessel stirring from time to time. After decanting add enough alcohol (21°) to bring the quantity up to 500 cc., and filter.Dose.--4-8 grams.Maceration.--Fresh stems cut in small pieces, 30 gr...
Botanical Description.--A climbing shrub with cylindrical woody stem, with leaves simple, alternate, entire, petiolate, ovoid, broad at the base. The inferior surface of the leaf is pubescent, especially in the intervals between the ribs. Flowers dioecious, small, racemose. Calyx of 12 sepals arranged in 3 whorls, the ...
The natives give the same common name to the _Gynandropsis pentaphylla_, DC. (_Cleome pentaphylla_, L.; _C. altiacea_ or _C. alliodora_, Blanco), which is distinguished from the former by its six stamens inserted on the pistil and its violet-colored stem. Its therapeutic properties are identical with those of the _Cleo...
Botanical Description.--The mangosteen grows only in the southern islands of the Archipelago and its delicious fruit is the part of the plant known in Manila. The peel is at the present time almost universally employed in medicine. The fruit is about the size of a small Manila orange, the pericarp a dark red or chocola...
Botanical Description.--A large tree with beautiful, dark green leaves 4-5' long, opposite, entire, large, oval with nerves numerous, fine and perpendicular to the midrib. Petioles very short. Flowers large, white, sweet-scented, axillary, in racemes of 7-9. Calyx white, of 4 sepals. Corolla white, of 4 petals. Stamens...
Botanical Description.--A plant 2-4° high with woody, branching stem, leaves alternate, oblong, pointed, serrate, under surface neither hoary nor tomentose as in some other species of _Sida_. Petioles very short, curved near the leaf, 2 stipules near the base. Flowers axillary, solitary. Calyx simple, in 5 parts. Corol...
Botanical Description.--A tree of the second order with leaves 4-5' long, sparse, 5-nerved, heart-shaped, broad, acute, entire, glabrous, 6 small glands on the lower face of the base. Petioles of equal length with the leaves. Flowers large, axillary, solitary. Calyx double, the outer portion deciduous, consisting of 3 ...
Nom. Vulg.--_Kalumpang_, Tag.; _Bangar_, Iloc.Uses.--A decoction of the leaves is used as a wash in suppurative cutaneous eruptions. The fruit is astringent and is used in Java as an injection for gonorrhoea. In western India and in the Philippines it is an article of diet. The seeds yield an oil that is used for illum...
This alkaloid is very little used in therapeutics and its physiological action is said to be analogous to that of caffeine but weaker. It is better to use the salt of the alkaloid, and that most frequently employed is the salicylate of soda and theobromine in doses of from 2 to 6 grams daily in solution or pill. Lately...
Uses.--The small fruit of the camia springing from the branches and trunks of the trees is widely known in the Philippines, where they eat it green, pickled, and in salad; and when ripe fresh and preserved. Its qualities and therapeutic applications are the same as those of the following species.Botanical Description.-...
Uses.--The leaves are stimulant and astringent, and are used in infusion (15 grams, to water one liter) to treat diarrhea and dysentery. The root and trunk barks are used for the same treatment and they as well as the leaves owe their properties to an essential oil and a bitter principle present in all parts of the pla...
Martin, an English physician, was the first to call attention to the properties of Bael, and according to Dr. Green one dose of the pulp of the ripe fruit, prepared with sugar and given every morning, is an efficient remedy in the treatment of the dyspepsia of Europeans in India, especially in the form characterized by...
Botanical Description.--A small tree, trunk straight, the wood white and very light in weight. Leaves 4-5' long, alternate, acute, oval, entire, glabrous, coriaceous, veined. Petioles very short, no stipules. Flowers in terminal umbels, each composed of 4-6 flowerets with moderately long pedicels. Common peduncle, very...
Botanical Description.--A tree, 30-40° high, with leaves alternate, compound, odd-pinnate; leaflets opposite, ovate, pointed, dentate. Flowers in large axillary compound panicles. Calyx, 5 sepals. Corolla, 5 petals, rose-colored within, lilac-colored without. Stamens 10, united into a cylindrical tube, expanded at both...
This oil in doses of 10-15 drops a day is a very powerful stimulant, the action of which is manifested by profuse perspiration several hours after its administration. Malcolmson reports that it has given him good results in several cases of beriberi, particularly in recent cases and those in which nervous and paralytic...
Nom. Vulg.--_Kasuy_, Tag.; _Caskew Nut_, Eng.Uses.--The pericarp of the nut contains an essential oil which is very irritant and used by the Hindoos as a vesicant; it severely blisters the lips and tongues of imprudent persons who break the nut without taking the precaution of cleansing it of the oil before opening it....
Botanical Description.--A tree, 4-6 meters high, with drooping limbs; leaves long, very narrow, abruptly pinnate; many caducous leaflets, linear, elliptical. Flowers large, white, fragrant, in axillary racemes. Calyx bell-shaped with two indistinct lips. Corolla papilionaceous, white. Standard oval, a slight notch at t...
Uses.--The pounded seeds mixed with oil are used locally for painful joints. They possess purgative and emetic properties and Dr. J. Shartt has employed a mixture of the powdered roasted seeds, 8 grams, with double the quantity of acid tartrate of potassium. Its action is gentle, but sure. The alcoholic extract of the ...
The two principal substances contained in the seeds are an oil, 24% and a resin, 1.88%. The former is straw-colored and slightly bitter by virtue of the presence of a resin that may be precipitated by alcohol. The resin or bitter principle exists as an amorphous powder, white, bitter, not acrid, soluble in chloroform, ...
Nom. Vulg.--_Tighiman_, _Balotangaso_, Tag.; _Tambalisa_, Vis.; _Western Senna_, _Styptic Weed_, Eng.; _Negro Coffee_, Indo-Eng.Uses.--In Brazil they use an infusion of the root as a tonic and diuretic, 4 grams of the root bark and 180 of boiling water to be taken in one day. In Dahomey the leaves are used as a febrifu...
Citric acid 9.40 Tartaric acid 1.55 Malic acid 0.45 Potassium bitartrate 3.25 Sugar 12.50 Gum 4.70 Vegetable gelatin 6.25 Paren...
Botanical Description.--A small tree 9-12° high, very well known, trunk bristling with long thorns. Leaves twice abruptly pinnate. One or more pairs of leaflets, very small, linear. Common petiole with two thorns united at its base and a small glandule on the upper part. Flowers yellow, aromatic, axillary, joined in a ...
Botanical Description.--A climbing shrub, 6-9° high, whose stem is thickly set with long, opposite thorns. Leaves in stars of 3, oblong, acute, entire, glabrous. Petioles very short. Flowers white, veined with red, in axillary spikes. Calyx very long, nearly cylindrical, 5-toothed. Corolla, 5 petals, inserted between t...
Uses.--The leaves contain an irritant and acrid principle that renders them vesicant when applied to the skin. The Pharmacopoeia of India quotes Sir W. O'Shaughnessy to the effect that plasters made of the bruised leaves even when renewed every half hour require 24 hours to raise a blister and at the same time cause se...
A coffee-spoonful of this solution contains 0.03 gram of the tannate, and this quantity may be given to a child, in a little milk. If no symptoms supervene within one-half hour give another similar dose and so on up to 3 or 4 doses or .12 gm. in all. After the last dose give the purgative as a routine. It is certainly ...
The triturated seeds may be given internally in doses of 1-2 grams with milk or molasses to expel lumbricoids. Analysis has revealed in the seeds the presence of a resinous oil, an oleaginous material of disagreeable odor and taste called by Peckolt _caricin_, a fatty acid, papayic acid and a resin. In India the seeds ...
The part of the plant most generally used is the seeds, the tænifuge properties of which are well known. Its action, however, is not always certain, which may be as truly said of all other known tænifuges. The seeds have the advantage of lacking the disgusting taste characteristic of other remedies of the same class; t...
Uses.--This plant is edible, the natives eating it boiled, fried or in salad. The root is cathartic and is used powdered._Botanical Description._--A plant with prostrate stems, radiating branches. Leaves ensheathing the stem, opposite, oval, red-bordered, glabrous. Petioles with 2 stipules at the base and 2 small teeth...
Uses.--According to Mooden Sheriff, the root bark is an efficient emetic in doses of 3 grams. In smaller doses it is febrifuge and produces nausea. The bark is extremely bitter; its reputation in the treatment of skin diseases is undeserved. It is a good substitute for ipecac, having given good results in all condition...
_Ixora coccinea_, L. (_I. bandhuca_, Roxb.)Nom. Vulg.--_Santan_, Tag.Uses.--The handsome red flowers are used in decoction for hæmoptysis and catarrhal bronchitis. Both root and flower are astringent and are given for dysentery. In Concan they cook 2 "tolas" (13.60 grams) of the flowers in lard, together with coriander...
Nom. Vulg.--_Bankundo_, _Pankundo_, _Bangkuro_, _Nino_, _Kulit_, _Tumbongaso_, _Lino_, _Mambog_, _Takpus_, Tag. and Vis.; _Taliantar_, Pam.; _Apalot_, Iloc.; _Indian Mulberry_, Indo-Eng.Uses.--In the Philippines, as well as in India, the root of the plant is widely used as a red dye. As a medicine the Tamul physicians ...
Uses.--This plant seems to possess anthelmintic properties and for this purpose it is administered in powder, 2-4 grams with a little molasses or syrup. It is bitter and aromatic and is given in diseases of the stomach and intestines for its tonic and stimulant effect. The odor of the drug is transmitted to both urine ...
Dr. Oswald has employed the alcoholic tincture of leadwort in the intermittents, with satisfactory results, and claims that it is a powerful diaphoretic. [7] The mashed root is mixed with rice flour and made into a caustic paste to apply to buboes, destroy warts, etc. Women also use the scraped root to induce abortion,...
Uses.--This shrub is very common in gardens, well known by its pretty yellow, bell-shaped flowers. The trunk bark possesses antiperiodic properties first described by Descourtilz and confirmed later by Dr. G. Bidie and Dr. J. Short. Both the latter used the tincture in 10-15-drop doses 3 times a day. This tincture was ...
Botanical Description.--A tree, 12-18° high, commonly cultivated for ornament, well known in the islands, almost constantly bearing fragrant flowers, but rarely bearing fruit. Branches forked and peculiarly stumpy at the ends. Leaves alternate, broad lanceolate, entire, glabrous, the apices curved downward. Petioles sh...
Nom. Vulg.--_Kapal-kapal_, Tag.; _Swallow-Wort_, Eng.; _Mudar_, Indo-Eng.Uses.--This plant is official in the Pharmacopoeia of India as an alterative, tonic, diaphoretic and emetic. J. J. Durant, having observed that the natives used it for dysentery, experimented with it quite successfully in that disease. For adults ...
Uses.--The part of the plant employed is the seed, known in addition to the above common names as Pepita de San Ignacio and Pepita de Cabalonga (for _katbolongan_). The natives handle it with the greatest imprudence, selling everywhere in the markets and in the Chinese shops, called _tindang-bayang_. It is not only a r...
Uses.--The dry, powdered leaves are dusted over bruises and ulcers. The entire plant is very mucilaginous and the bruised fresh leaves are applied like poultices to cancers and ulcerating tumors. In India the boiled leaves are applied locally in colic and in rheumatism; the juice is given internally in dropsy as a diur...
Botanical Description.--Plant 5-6° high, with nodose branches, forked. Leaves ovate, angled, somewhat downy. Flowers large, white, axillary, solitary. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, the limb 5-angled and 5-folded. Stamens 5, same length as calyx. Anthers long, flattened. Stigma thick, oblong, divisibl...
Botanical Description.--A tree, 5-6 meters high, trunk straight, hollow, the hollow space containing many thin partitions covered with small points; branches opposite. Leaves 4 times odd pinnate. Leaflets obliquely ovate, acute, entire, glabrous. Flowers in racemes with long, primary peduncles, large, fleshy, lurid, vi...
_Adhatoda vasica_, Nees. (_Justicia Adhatoda_, L.)Nom. Vulg.--(?)Uses.--The Filipinos are but slightly familiar with this plant and it has no place in their therapeutical armamentarium. In India, however, it is very common and enjoys much reputation in the treatment of catarrhs, the grip, asthma and non-febrile, especi...
Botanical Description.--A tree with leaves almost round, oval, entire, 30-60 centimeters by 20-40, the under surface covered with hoary down. Petioles very short, flattened. Flowers in panicles. Primary peduncle square. Calyx inferior, bell-shaped, very large when ripe, 5-cleft. Corolla white, longer than calyx, covere...
All the plants are used to prepare aromatic baths for cases of atrophy and debility in children (Waitz) and for the treatment of rheumatism and paralysis.Botanical Description.--_O. gratissimum_ is a plant 2-3° high, stem straight, downy. Leaves medium lanceolate, finely serrate from the middle upwards, with short hair...
Botanical Description.--The flowers open toward the end of the day and close again at sunrise. The root is blackish and spindle-shaped. The stem smooth, branches forked. Leaves opposite, lanceolate-cordate, acute, somewhat downy along the borders and the upper surface. Petioles short. Flowers fragrant, almost constantl...
In North India this drug is used as emmenagogue and anti-arthritic, and in Banda for intermittent fevers and intestinal disorders. The juice of the leaves is emetic. The dose of the powdered root is 3-5 grams daily.Botanical Description.--A twining shrub, with leaves heart-shaped, ovate, acute, glabrous. Petioles short...
Cinnamon renders good service in therapeutics as a stimulant of the digestive tract and a heart tonic. In the atonic diarrhoeas so common in the Philippines a tincture of cinnamon in doses of 8-10 grams a day, or the powder in cases where alcohol was contraindicated, have given me unhoped-for results.In Spain and the P...
The leaves contain an abundance of milky juice, acrid and very active, used in the treatment of several skin diseases. Like the species _E. pilulifera_ it possesses antiasthmatic properties; Dr. S. C. Amcobury reports 6 cases treated with satisfactory results. Owing to the acrid quality of the juice great care should b...
Botanical Description.--The _J. Curcas_ is a small tree growing as high as 9°. Leaves alternate, cordate, glabrous, 3-5 cut-lobed. Flowers yellowish-green, monoecious, in terminal umbels, staminate and pistillate flowers mingled without order. Staminate: Calyx, 5 unequal sepals; corolla bell-shaped, 5 petals, woolly wi...
Uses.--The capsular fruit of this plant is thickly beset with reddish glands and hairs, which, when brushed off and gathered in powder form, constitute the _kamala dye_ of the Hindoos. It was mentioned by the Arabian physicians of the tenth century under the names of _Kanbil_ and _Wars_. In India the powder is highly v...
Uses.--The Padre Mercado writes as follows concerning the properties of this plant: "The leaves, applied with salt in the form of a plaster, purify dog bites, foul, putrid, malignant and cankerous ulcers; they cure boils, contusions and all abscesses; mixed with wax they may be applied for obstruction of the spleen; ma...
Uses.--The yellow rhizome called by some _azafrán_ (saffron), is used as a condiment; its odor is remotely suggestive of vanilla. The Philippine herb-doctors give it internally for hæmoptysis, externally as a plaster or in infusion for acute dermatitis. The juice is prescribed in doses of 30-60 grams in bronchial catar...
Nom. Vulg.--_Ajo_, Sp.; _Bawang_, Tag.; _Garlic_, Eng._Allium Cepa_, L.Nom. Vulg.--_Cebolla_, Sp.; _Lasuna_, _Sibuyas_, Tag.; _Onion_, Eng.Uses.--The garlic and the onion are used to excess as condiments in Philippine as well as Spanish cooking. Both are difficult of digestion and communicate a very disagreeable odor t...
Like the coco and following the same process the nipa yields a liquid also called tuba and possessing properties identical with those of the former plant. The weak alcohol distilled from it has some repute in the treatment of conjunctivitis, for which purpose a few drops are mixed with a small quantity of water and the...
Water 5.00 Starch 85.07 Parenchyma 4.80 Nitrogenous matter 3.68 Crystallizable sugar 0.29 Gummy matter ...
_Diaphoretics._--Cissampelos Pareira.--Sida carpinifolia.--Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis.--Gossypium herbaceum.--Ruta graveolens.--Xanthoxylum oxyphyllum.--Celastrus paniculata.--Hydrocotyle Asiatica. Eupatorium Ayapana.--Blumea balsamifera.--Plumbago Zeylanica. Calotropis gigantea.--Tylophora asthmatica.--Oroxylum Indicum.--...
_Purgatives._--Argemone Mexicana.--Garcinia morella.--Mesua ferrea.--Agati grandiflora.--Erythrina Indica.--Clitoria ternatea.--Cæsalpinia pulcherrima.--Cassia fistula and C. alata.--Tamarindus Indica.--Entada scandens.--Terminalia Chebula.--Jussiæa suffruticosa.--Carica Papaya.--Trichosanthes anguina and T. cucumerina...
_Coryza_ (_rhinitis_, _nasal catarrh_, _ozoena_).--Agati grandiflora.--Ocimum.--Curcuma longa._Diabetes._--Eugenia Jambolana._Diarrhoea, Dysentery._--Anona squamosa.--Anona reticulata and A. muricata.--Nelumbium nucifera.--Bixa Orellana.--Garcinia mangostana.--Ochrocarpus pentapetalus.--Thespesia populnea.--Gossypium h...
_Skin, Affections of_ (_lepra_, _itch_, _eczema_, _psoriasis_).--Argemone Mexicana.--Pangium edule.--Portulaca oleracea.--Urena sinuata.--Thespesia populnea.--Sterculia foetida.--Kleinhovia hospitata.--Helicteres Isora.--Canarium commune.--Celastrus paniculata.--Mangifera Indica.--Anacardium occidentale.--Odina Wodier....
_Apple, balsam_, 132 _bitter_, 133_Areca_, 234 Catechu, 234Argemone Mexicana, 29Aristolochia Indica, 203 Serpentaria, 207Aristolochiaceæ, 203_Aro_, 225_Arodayday_, 175_Aronganan_, 46_Aroma_, 108_Arroz_, 242Artabotrys hamatus, 20 odoratissimus, 20 suaveolens, 20Artemisia Indica, 153 vulgaris, 153Artocarpus i...
Cocculus crispus, 22 lacunosus, 24 suberosus, 24_Coco_, 236_Coco-grass_, 239_Coconut_, 236Cocos nucifera, 236Coffea Arabica, 144_Coffee_, 144 _Negro_, 100Coleus aromaticus, 196 atropurpureus, 197 grandifolius, 197 suganda, 196_Colocynth_, 133_Coloquíntida_, 133Colosanthes Indica, 183Combretaceæ, 110_Cominos...
Justicia adhatoda, 188 Gendarussa, 187 nasuta, 189K_Kabalongan_, 171_Kabatiti_, 82_Kabiki_, 157_Kabrab_, 91_Kahel_, _kahil_, 66_Kala-danah_, 174_Kalambibit_, 96_Kalamias_, 60Kalanchoe laciniata, 109_Kalantas_, 79_Kalasusi_, 162_Kalatsutsi_, 162_Kalawaga_, 229_Kalayati_, 190_Kalingag_, 208_Kalisay_, 110_Kalitis_, 20...
_Naranjita_, 67_Narra_, 93_Nato_, 110Nelumbium Asiaticum, 28 nucifera, 28 speciosum, 28Nerium odorum, 165 oleander, 165Nicotiana Tabacum, 180_Nightshade, black or common_, 176_Nigi_, 78_Nino_, 148_Niog_, 236_Niogniogan_, 112Niota tetrapela, 71_Nipa_, 238 fruticans, 238_Nipay_, 90_Nutgrass_, 239Nyctaginaceæ, 199...
Strychnos Ignatii, 171 Philippensis, 171_Suelda_, 213_Suganda_, 196_Sugar cane_, 241_Sungot-olang_, 214_Suha_, 67_Sukaw_, 28_Sulbang_, 91_Suma_, 24_Sumalagi_, 104_Sursur_, 239_Susong damulog_, 20_Susokayoli_, 58_Suspiros_, 199_Swallow-wort_, 167Swertia Chirata, 128Syzygium Jambolanum, 114T_Tabaco_, 180_Tabayag_, 129_...
Produced by Chrome, Michael Ciesielski, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netPENGUIN PERSONS & PEPPERMINTSBY WALTER PRICHARD EATON[Illustration]_Essay Index Reprint Series_BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS FREEPORT, NEW YORKFirst Published 1922 ...
Why, of course one can't! It is absurdly true, when one comes to think of it, this beneficent influence of penguins, stuffed penguins, at that, which cannot even waddle. I dare say few readers ever thought of this peculiar bird (if it is a bird) in just that light before Mr. Ruskin's letter came to view; I'm sure I nev...
Then as if by magic the drawn faces of all his associates would clear, the night editor would laugh and forget to look at the clock, we would resume our toil, momentarily forgetful of the high pressure under which we labored, and working the better for the forgetfulness; and the Penguin Person, the smile still expandin...
But they are naturally modest, and doubtless have no idea of their mission, further than to realize that "people are glad to have them around," as Bobbie would express it, and that it is "up to them" (in the same idiom) to be cheerful,--not a hard task, since cheeriness sits in their soul. It is awful to think how self...
To be precise, it is four miles from Sewanee, and to be more precise, Sewanee is eight miles straight up hill from Cowan, and to be still more precise, Cowan is thirty-five or forty miles from Chattanooga, and now you begin to know where you are. Chattanooga, as you know, is in Tennessee, and sits beside the superb Moc...
It led down the headwall by sharp switchbacks till it reached the easier declivity below, passed a gushing spring where a tin dipper hung on a twig proclaiming unseen passers, and presently picked up the bed of a tumbling brook. It was when I reached this brook that I was aware of Spring coming up the slope. I could se...
It has been many years since I have seen a sundial on the stage. There was a time when the stage could not get along without them; but styles have changed. "Iram indeed has gone with all his rose," and Eddie Sothern, best beloved of romantic actors in your generation and mine, has written his theatrical memoires, which...
I reread that dialogue the other day, and captured some of the ancient thrill. No, the real trouble is that a generation of realism, or what has passed for realism on our American stage, has done its deadly work. It has killed romance. That is not at all what realism was intended to do. Indeed, to the larger view, roma...
At the heart of morality lies content. That is a statement either optimistic or cynical, as you choose to look at it; but it is a statement of fact. Even the reformer seeks to allay his discontent, which does not arise from the morality in him, but from the immorality in other people. Anybody who has lived with a refor...
I wrote to Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who, I discovered, had been a classmate of Tuckerman's at Harvard, and who of course knew practically everybody of consequence in the literary world of his generation. Colonel Higginson was able to supply some data, but not much. Tuckerman was born in 1821, of a rather wel...
These powers of observation are again illustrated in a poem of quite different import, called _Margites_, a lyric of thirteen stanzas, some of which are inexcusably crude. It begins:I neither plow the field nor sow, Nor hold the spade nor drive the cart, Nor spread the heap, nor hill nor hoe, To keep th...
_New Poetry and the Lingering Line_I have one grave objection to the "new poetry"--I cannot remember it. Some, to be sure, would say that is no objection at all, but I am not of the number. It would hardly become me, in fact, since I have, in a minor pipe, committed "new poetry" myself on various and sundry occasions, ...
But I have just been reading the latest Imagist anthology, especially the _Lacquer Prints_ by Amy Lowell, not ten years, but hardly ten minutes ago--and I cannot repeat one of them. I could learn them, of course, by an effort. But that is not the way man desires to remember music and poetry. It must come singing into h...
Let any man in honesty retire into the solitude of his soul and reflect on his joys that might have been and those that were, and let him then answer whether any of his realizations were the equal of his anticipations. Therefore, if he had achieved the anticipated but lost delights which form the burden of his "Might h...
This I knew was false, and to be forced glibly to chatter the words before the class shamed and angered me. Had not a maiden aunt of mine, after many trips to the library of the New England Genealogical Society, traced back our line to William the Conqueror? Was there another boy or girl in the school who had descended...