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Show I A Serviceable Scrap Book. A correspondent of an educational newspaper believes he has found a good thin? in the way of a serviceable scrap , book. Instead of leaves on which to paste tlie scraps, it lias ixickets r envelopes, envel-opes, into which he drops his cuttings from newspapers or magazines. By this simple method lie is saved the time and trouble of pasting. These cutting are classified according to subjects; all the scraps on a given subject, or class of subjects, are put into the same envelope. The title of the subject is written on the envelope coi.taining it, and the name is also entered in the index in front of the book. "When information is wanted upon any subject, all the scraps will be found in one place, and can be easily removed, consulted and replaced at pleasure. Besides printed scraps, notes, one's own thoughts reduced to writing, lectures lec-tures or addresses can thus be filed, and a record of the time and place of delivery deliv-ery written on the outside of the envel-ojie. envel-ojie. Busy, practical men, literary men, teachers or clergymen can in this way keep their scraps of information in readiness readi-ness for future consultation. An ingenious in-genious student of natural history lias perhaps an improvement upon this method. Instead of a scrap book with pockets or envelopes, he utUizes a row of pasteboard boxes made to resemble books, upon the backs of which the contents, 'Biography," "Natural History," etc., are inscribed. Both of the foregoing methods of scrap keeping have been tested and found practically useful, and by either of them an article, when useless use-less or finally disposed of. can be withdrawn with-drawn and destroyed. Chambers' Journal. |
