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  • Football Basics: Delivering the Ball
    On the assumption that you use either the overhand, or thumb method of holding the ball, the thing to consider is the delivery. For a start, the arm and hand are cocked backwards over the shoulder, elbow relatively close to the body, hand well back to where it feels comfortable and natural. Then, fire the ball forward as fast as you can.
  • Two Ways to Make Money from Your Greenhouse
    Perhaps you are not particularly interested in making money from selling potted plants, bulbs, or seeds. Still, you want a self-supporting or profit-making greenhouse. Although a number of hybridizers use their greenhouses to hasten the growth of many plants, including iris and roses, there are many things you can do with your greenhouse.
  • Basketball Basics: Faking and Moving Without the Ball
    Two important skills in basketball are faking and moving without the ball. Both should be practiced well.
  • Neat, Clear Lettering for Your Mechanical Drawings
    Lettering is an important skill which draftsmen must learn to master. Lettering on plans and shop drawings must always be done freehand. Never use a ruling pen for small lettering. There are special kinds of pens known as Speedball, made by the C. Howard Hunt Pen Company of Camden, New Jersey, which are designed for this kind of lettering.
  • Defend Yourself Using Aikido
    The origin of Aikido can be traced back to the Jiu Jitsu School of Daito. According to the records concerning the secrets of marshal arts, the Aiki Jiu Jitsu, as it was called during the Kamakura period in about the 12th century, was founded by Yoshimitsu Minamoto.
  • Helpful Tips for the Yachtsman
    Every boat, obviously, has its limitations and ordinary judgment dictates that the one designed for lake and river use should not be expected to be suitable in all weather offshore. It is a fact that just what a boat will do is governed to a great extent by the skill of the man at the helm.
  • Four Fun Projects for the Family
    With the help of a responsible adult, any young child can have a lot of fun completing these simple woodcraft projects.
  • Select the Right Orchids for Your Purpose
    It is harder to select orchids for your beginning collection than it is to grow them. While growing orchids is a feat of memory aided by experience and common sense, selection requires long association with orchids and long evenings spent studying orchid catalogues. Here are some which you can begin with.
  • FAQs About Portrait Painting Answered
    Here are some frequently asked questions about painting, in particular painting of portraits.
  • Fishing: Know the Breeds You're Catching
    Surprising as it may seem, many fishermen can't specifically name the fish they catch. They will say, "it looks like a perch" or "it's a bass" - but whether it's a largemouth or a smallmouth bass is beyond them.
  • Help Your Child Using the Tools of Learning
    The tools of learning are indeed many, but those which will concern your child most aside from you, his parents, are: (1) Time, (2) Books, and (3) Teachers. Indeed, without the proper understanding and use of the tools the whole process of learning is drudgery, characterized by disinterest and delay.
  • Housekeeping Hints for the Home Handyman
    Here are some household hints which will save you time and effort.
  • Gymnastics Basics: The Horizontal Bar
    The horizontal bar in gymnastics is one of the most difficult pieces of apparatus. The requirements of strength, timing, coordination, and daring - typical of gymnastics - seem to be somewhat exemplified on the horizontal bar. As in all life situations, the element of danger is present but, as with all gymnastics, if approached in a progressive manner the element of danger can be reduced.
  • Simple Ways to Get Your Gridiron Gang in Shape
    The game of football demands that you respect your body. It is vital that you not only get all your muscles in proper condition, but that you keep them that way. A muscle that is in good condition will not be easily injured.
  • Plant a Terrarium at Home
    Terrarium planting is a specialized part of home gardening, but an interesting one. A great many woodland plants which prosper in their natural environments fail to grow at all in the house due to the lack of moisture in the air. Terrariums provide this humid atmosphere and allow you to bring the forest plants home.
  • Golf: Mindset Makes All The Difference
    There is a mental side to the game of golf which will always attack your nerves and exploit your imagination if you allow it to.
  • Coaching and Strategy in Baseball
    School teams have one coach who directs all play, offensively and defensively. He usually sits on the bench and gives signals to the first-base and third-base coaches, who in turn pass them on to the batter or base-runner.
  • Useful Tips for Training Your Puppy
    Up until now, your puppy's training has probably consisted of a series of corrections when he erred. You've been pointing out his mistakes after he's committed them. When he jumps on the furniture, you push him off and tell him "No!" If he misses his newspapers and stains your rug, you reprimand him with a stern "No!" and rush him, belatedly, over to the newspapers.
  • Build a Beautiful Patio in Your Backyard
    Probably as a result of increased leisure time, outdoor living has gained tremendous impetus in the United States in recent years. In fact, the home that lacks adequate outdoor facilities may now be considered virtually obsolete.
  • Flower Arrangements: The Right Materials Make All The Difference
    There are only a few essential tools for your new hobby of flower arranging.
  • Pressing: Look Professional and Put-Together
    You may find the seam board helpful when pressing seams in collars, in hard to get at corners, or when pressing any seam that should be pressed open and very smooth before turning to the inside.
  • Keep Your Masonry Looking Like New
    It may be inaccurate to apply the term "maintenance" to such permanent installations as masonry projects, but there are times when some touch-up work is in order. The most common fault that will appear in concrete - is, despite the most careful preparation of mix, installation and curing - is a crack.
  • Easy Ways to Improve Your Skiing
    You should not only run on skis with your legs, you must have your wits about you. In other words, you might easily run into a tree. Trees don't step aside and are not to be considered as brakes. You must also be able to recognise bad snow. So take a good look at the terrain, the snow, etc. and consider how you propose to overcome this or that obstacle.
  • How to Select the Right Evergreen
    When we enter the world of evergreens we find there is almost no part of this vast country of ours where they cannot be grown. From the tender Gardenia that blossoms in the genial warmth of a Louisiana garden, to the sturdy Spruces of Alaska, and the Junipers, Pines, and other stalwart conifers that grow into Maine and Canada, these woody ornamentals abound.
  • Midnight Snacks You'll Respect in the Morning
    It has been discovered where the diet is still simple, as it is in many rural communities, people eat much raw food and are consequently healthier than in the cities.
  • Skin Diving: Learn What To Expect
    What kind of things can I expect to see underwater? What are the dangers to encounter from marine life? In short, what is this underwater world like? These are some of the questions that have undoubtedly come to your mind as you have thought about diving in "live water" in the very near future. We will answer as many as we are able.
  • Steeplechasing: Get All the Facts
    A steeplechase is a horse race over brush obstacles on a prescribed course. The term is sometimes used broadly to mean any kind of race over obstacles of whatever nature - on a course or cross-country.
  • Let Faith Help You Win At Golf
    Success in anything is hardly possible without faith, and this is true of success in golf. One way to develop golfing faith is to study experts.
  • Hunting: Be Sure to Get the Trophy You're Looking For
    There are few things more disappointing than for a hunter to wait all year for an expensive hunt, spot his game, estimate it as a prize, shoot it, and then come up to find that he has downed a scrawny trophy.
  • Give Your Furniture a Personal Touch
    It is interesting to plan an odd piece of furniture for some special location or to serve some particular purpose, and, in the case of built-in units, it is nearly always necessary to plan or lay out the parts or units for the best effect. The aim should be to secure results that combine good workmanship with nice proportion and beauty of line.
  • Temperament: The Key to Successful Golfing
    The secret of success in golf lies in temperament and that is true whatever grade of golf you may aspire to play. Tournaments are not always, not even usually, won by the greatest stylists. They go to the men with the best balanced outlook on the game. And how frequently we have seen the fellow with a rank, bad swing take the half-crown off a man who looked far better on the tee.
  • A Precious Model Ship Revealed
    The principal object of this article is to reveal and provide leads and contacts to sources of information for those modelers who are interested in research work. The model below was dug up out of the dust of time. No plans or pictures of it existed and no one knew what it looked like.
  • Judo Grappling Tips and Tricks
    The term grappling is often inaccurately called ne-ivaza, which refers only to techniques of grappling performed in a sitting or lying position. The correct word is katame-waza, which refers to the execution of grappling techniques in a standing position (that is, locks and strangles) as well as in a lying position. Grappling is classified into three forms.
  • Basketball Basics: Tactical Defense Explained
    Most of us have a tendency to think of tactical situations in terms of offense. The jump ball, out-of-bounds, and free throw line-ups are generally considered to be excellent scoring opportunities. Unfortunately, only one team will have an opportunity to score: the one that gets the ball. One team will be required to take the defensive.
  • Mass Media vs. Reading: The Battle Continues
    Much has been written about the way in which the mass media of communication affect children. Paul Witty has systematically studied this question over a period of years; he has summarized information on how many hours a week children spend viewing television, which programs they watch, what effect television has on their reading.
  • Common Dog Breeding Misconceptions Explained
    The breeding and keeping of dogs has been cluttered up with as much superstitious trash as has the breeding and rearing of the human animal. The care of dogs has been left largely to uninformed underlings who have wished much of their empiric nonsense upon their betters.
  • Tips From the Bowling Champs
    Bowling wasn't always as it is today. It wasn't too long ago that the sport - with its unreliable pin boys and its dark and cloistered settings - was on a social par with love-making on the front stoop. In Old Forge, Pennsylvania (my home town), and in just about every other small American town, one never bowled if he valued his reputation.
  • Make Minor Repairs to Your Model Ships
    Hidden in a dusty loft, cupboard or the spare room, one occasionally comes across a genuine old-time ship model, built years ago by craftsmen who had the advantage of knowing and seeing the ships they modeled. Rare indeed is it to find one such model that has not suffered from the devastating hand of time. Yet by their age, they awake an irresistible appeal to the craftsman of today.
  • Wild Game: The Responsibility is Ours
    The study of American game birds is actually the study of the country itself, from the standpoint of nature and outdoor life. Where proper conditions for these species exist, you will find them in varying numbers according to the amount of disturbance man has caused in their environment, feeding and isolation.
  • Treat Your Clothing Well; It Will Return The Favor
    The clothes you make and the clothes you buy will look nicer and last longer if you care for them properly and intelligently. Listed here are some suggestions for clothing care.
  • Tips for the Advanced Skiier
    Here are a couple of the more interesting turns and techniques available to the advanced skier.
  • Helpful Tips for Landing Your Fish
    Locating and hooking a fish on a lure or on natural bait is usually the toughest problem in fishing, but after the fish is hooked there's also the important job of boating or landing it. In doing this, experience is the best teacher; the best way to learn how to play and land a fish is by hooking many of them.
  • Sailboat Safety: What You Need To Know
    Sailing is one of the most relaxing, enjoyable sports imaginable. It's one in which any member of the family, regardless of age, can participate, but there are some basic water safety rules which any good sailor should learn.
  • Develop Your Aesthetic Instinct for Harmonious Paintings
    Lacking the guidance of definite rules and regulations for color harmony, the artist must rely to a considerable extent on what we rather loosely term the aesthetic instinct or the "eye." This vague, subconscious power helps him in many ways. Strangely, he can often depend on it more than on his conscious judgment.
  • All About Radio Controlled Model Aircraft
    One of the most fascinating aspects of model airplane construction and operation is radio control. The ability to maneuver your craft at will and literally put yourself in the "driver's seat" has caused the radio controlled phase or models to become one of the fastest growing hobby-sports in recent years.
  • Homemade Jewelry: Your Personal Touch
    Interesting jewelery can be made from ceramics, and the instructions below will get you started on a lapel pin.
  • Golf: The Right Equipment Makes The Difference
    Selecting the proper equipment is a big step toward playing better golf. This phase of golf is so often overlooked that I feel impelled to point out how important it is to have clubs that fit you and your swing.
  • Amaze Your Friends With Four Fun Magic Tricks
    After you have become proficient at doing these tricks you will be amazed at the amount of pleasure your friends will derive from watching you do them... but more importantly you will be astounded at the feeling of satisfaction you will have at being able to do something everyone else can't do.
  • Using the Parallel Bars in Gymnastics
    Parallel bars represent the most desirable apparatus for the aspiring gymnasts. It is easier to learn most of the fundamentals that are common to other apparatus on the Parallel bars. It is here that the fundamentals of tumbling are most easily applied to apparatus. Time spent on the Parallel bars is usually rewarding in terms of stunts learned and in terms of progress on other apparatus.
  • Choosing Ideal Dress Making Fabrics
    In dress designing your basic material is the cloth which, by means of your artistic and creative genius, you intend to change into a glamorous costume. There are a great variety of materials on the market today. Each is especially suited for specific uses, each has certain advantages and drawbacks.
  • How To Locate and Track Game
    Finding where the game is located in hunting country is far more dependent upon an understanding of its basic characteristics and traits than upon an ability to follow each consecutive hoof mark in a trail.
  • Propogate Your Evergreens Successfully
    In former days many home gardeners found it difficult to increase the supply of their favorite evergreens by the usual methods of reproduction, viz., seeds, layers, and cuttings. The complexity of starting new plants has been materially lessened since the introduction of polyethylene plastic. No longer is a greenhouse a necessary possession for raising these plants from seeds and cuttings
  • Improve Your Child's Reading Skills
    It is not difficult to get clues as to how a child is feeling. He reveals this by his facial expression, by twisting and squirming like an animal that wants to get out of a cage, or by subdued docility, as well as by the words he says.
  • Building Model Ships - A Fanciful Hobby
    A workmanlike finish with varnish means your ship model will be extremely well presented and durable. In the case of old-time ship models the bulk of the materials employed are wood, paper, card and plaster, with only a few metallic parts; and of the woodwork, the most important is the hull.
  • Five Simple and Fun Woodwork Projects
    The following few projects are simple enough for the young primary school child to complete with supervision.
  • How To Grow Beautiful Bulbs Inside
    There are very few more rewarding tasks in the cultivation of a home garden than forcing bulbs into riotous bloom in the middle of winter. With a little practice and a little foresight you can assure yourself of some wonderful spots of color throughout your house that will continue all winter long.
  • How To Install A Silent Switch
    A mercury-type light switch is easily installed as a replacement for noisy controls - it's perfect for bedroom or bath.
  • Golf Basics: Know Your Clubs
    If you have a good grip and a fundamental understanding of the basic swing, wood shots should not give you too much trouble. The full swing is employed in hitting both the fairway woods and the driver, but there is a distinct difference and, as a result, a different feeling between hitting a ball off a grassy lie and hitting off a tee.
  • Basketball Basics: How To Dribble
    Dribbling is a very important fundamental of both offensive and defensive basketball. Offensively it is used to advance the ball in the back court, to make a drive-in to the basket, and to free oneself from close or congested defensive areas. Defensively, the dribble has become very effective in stalling tactics, especially when a press is being used.
  • Keeping Your Dog Healthy
    Query a dozen dog breeders as to what they feed their dogs and you'll more than likely get a dozen different answers. You'll find the subject of dog feeding very similar to politics; it will start an argument most any time. How and what you feed your dog are for you to decide.
  • Mending Minor Rips and Tears
    Mending can be fun if you treat it as an art and work for careful, durable, flat finishes. Study the weave of the fabric and try to duplicate it. Try to get as invisible a finish as possible except where you are making a decorative mend.
  • Golf: Practice Makes Perfect
    If you are serious about your golf practice, you would be well advised to add a large mirror to your equipment. Any old Victorian relic, if large enough, will do, and it matters little if it is cracked. Any second-hand furniture dealer should be able to meet your requirements, and when you have found what you want set it up against the wall of your garage or box-room.
  • Building Your Model Ship Skills
    Well known nineteenth century American clippers are suitable for model building, because they represent an age of splendor, performance and historical significance. Aside from the construction of them, there is a patriotic pride of possession attached to them.
  • Helpful Tips for Night Fishing
    The great majority of salt-water anglers go out during the daytime and rarely venture forth at night. But today more and more anglers are discovering that plenty of fish and good sport can also be had at night. In fact, if you are interested in big fish which are found near shore, your chances are much better fishing at night than during the daytime.
  • Geese Hunting: Helpful Tips and Tricks
    From a distance the Canada goose is easily identified. His body is brown, neck and head black, but his head wears a triangular white patch. He is the biggest of our geese, and is found either as a resident or a migrator over most of the United States.
  • Plan The Perfect Sailboat Cruise
    Sailboat living is for the entire family. And the most popular of all family boating sports is cruising. This may range anywhere from a few hours' trip to a week or more.
  • Learn the Crucial Techniques for Judo Throwing
    Throwing is one of the crucial aspects of judo technique. Below are some advice on these techniques.
  • Basic Yoga Tips and Tricks
    What is the basic difference between concentration and meditation? In concentration, one involves only the mind; in meditation one involves the heart and the whole being as well.
  • Choosing the Right Wood for Turning
    I can well remember my first approach to woodturning, and the subsequent visit to the timber yard in search of a few suitable pieces of wood. All I knew was that I wanted some hardwood suitable for turning and that it had to be well seasoned.
  • How To Protect Yourself Using Jiu-Jitsu
    A Japanese who is versed in the snares of jiu-jitsu is better equipped for fighting than any man can be who is not so equipped. At the base of all true jiu-jitsu are good nature and leniency. The adept in jiu-jitsu must never be a bully; he must not go about with the proverbial chip on his shoulder.
  • Making Your Own Jewelry Beautiful
    Jewelry making is interesting work for children who wish to make jewelry of silver and other metals. It is an ancient and honorable craft which has unlimited possibilities.
  • Ice Hockey: Rules and Referees
    Knowing the rules is especially important in hockey, because it is one of the few games in which players are provided with equipment that could injure an opponent. Both sticks and skates can be dangerous if players do not use them properly, as described in the rules. An understanding of the role of the referee is also an important component of the game.
  • Make Your WWI Plane Replicas Accurately
    It is surprising and somewhat disappointing to witness the astounding number of scale replicas of aircraft that sport incorrect color schemes. This is not just a matter of small details but of the overall color scheme which ruins an otherwise beautiful model. We shall now endeavor briefly to summarize the outstanding color schemes used by the principal air powers during the First World War.
  • The Problem Dog: How to Deal
    You may from time to time have a problem with your dog. Here are some of the common problems and how to deal with them.
  • Learn Savate Style Self Defense
    Although Savate is primarily the art of foot fighting, the hands do play a part in this technique. The use of the hands to fight as a sport can be traced back over five thousand years. During the Greek era, hand fighting, or as we know it, boxing, flourished through the use of gloves with metal spikes.

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