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Ishiqsay Selected Ghazals of Ghalib by Mirza Ghalib Free Children's Books Online Library.
इस दिस इज गोल्ड जूलरी बॉक्स रिकॉर्डिंग सॉलिडवर्क्स रिकॉर्डिंग साफ इन पब्लिक डोमेन फॉर मोर इंफॉर्मेशन और ट्वेंटी ईयर्स प्लीज विजिट डिलीवरी बॉटम वर्क वेल बाय असद उल्लाह खन वास लैड ओं का रेट बाय काजी मोहम्मद अकरम स मैं इश्क से तबीयत ने दीक्षित का मजा पाया दर्द की दवा पाई दर्द दवा पाया वहीं चैप्टर लगा खेलने आज हमने अपना दिल हूं किया हुआ देखा उम्र किया हुआ पाया फिकरे नाला में धोया हल्का हूं जैसर तापा डुबो जंजीर व्यक्ति ले सदा पाया है क्यों हाले दिल नहीं मालूम लेकिन इस कदर यह नहीं हमने एक बार हल ढूंढा तुमने बरहा पाया है कि शब्द नजारा पर्व था ख्वाब में ख्याल उसका शुभ मोजे गुल को वर्क से बोरिया पाया जिस कदर जिगर खून हो कुछ दाने दिल है जख्मी तेरे कातिल को तूफान दिलकुशा पाया है Nagin की पासदारी नाम साहेब एक खाना हमसे तेरे कुचे ने नक्शे के मुताबिक पाया दोस्त और दुश्मन है तमाम दल मालूम अब है सर देखिए ना रस आप आया ने असद जगह साइकिल ने समय जुनून माइल तुझे कुछ इस कदर ढूंढूं उल्टा चश्मा पाया है कि टेंडर पोयम

Ishiqsay Selected Ghazals of Ghalib by Mirza Ghalib Free Children's Books Online Library.
इस दिस इज गोल्ड जूलरी बॉक्स रिकॉर्डिंग सॉलिडवर्क्स रिकॉर्डिंग साफ इन पब्लिक डोमेन फॉर मोर इंफॉर्मेशन और ट्वेंटी ईयर्स प्लीज विजिट डिलीवरी बॉटम वर्क वेल बाय असद उल्लाह खन वास लैड ओं का रेट बाय काजी मोहम्मद अकरम स मैं इश्क से तबीयत ने दीक्षित का मजा पाया दर्द की दवा पाई दर्द दवा पाया वहीं चैप्टर लगा खेलने आज हमने अपना दिल हूं किया हुआ देखा उम्र किया हुआ पाया फिकरे नाला में धोया हल्का हूं जैसर तापा डुबो जंजीर व्यक्ति ले सदा पाया है क्यों हाले दिल नहीं मालूम लेकिन इस कदर यह नहीं हमने एक बार हल ढूंढा तुमने बरहा पाया है कि शब्द नजारा पर्व था ख्वाब में ख्याल उसका शुभ मोजे गुल को वर्क से बोरिया पाया जिस कदर जिगर खून हो कुछ दाने दिल है जख्मी तेरे कातिल को तूफान दिलकुशा पाया है Nagin की पासदारी नाम साहेब एक खाना हमसे तेरे कुचे ने नक्शे के मुताबिक पाया दोस्त और दुश्मन है तमाम दल मालूम अब है सर देखिए ना रस आप आया ने असद जगह साइकिल ने समय जुनून माइल तुझे कुछ इस कदर ढूंढूं उल्टा चश्मा पाया है कि टेंडर पोयम

Learn About Printing Story Book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre Kids' Education Free Books.
chapter 20 of the storybook of science this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by john hoover the storybook of science by jean henry frober translated by florence mcnell printing after a book is written the author sends his work his manuscript to the printer who is to reproduce it in printed letters and in as many copies as our desired picture to yourself fine and short metal sticks on the end of each of which is carved in relief a letter of the alphabet one of these sticks has an a on the end another a b another a c etc there are others which have a full stop a comma a semicolon in fact there is many distinct kinds of these little metal pieces as there are letters and orthographic signs in our written language besides each letter and each sign are represented a great many times let us take note 2 that all these characters are carved wrong side before you will soon see the reason a workman called a compositor has before him a stand of cases of which each compartment is occupied by a single letter of the alphabet or by an orthographic sign the a's are in such a compartment the b's in the second the c's in the third and so on the letters furthermore are not arranged in the case alphabetically to shorten the work they put in the compartments near the hand the letters that occur most frequently such as the e's r's i's and a's and they place in the more distant compartments the letters less often used such as x's and y's the compositor has before him a manuscript and at his left hand a little flanged iron ruler called a composing stick as he reads his right hand guided by long habit searches in the case the desired letter and places it in the composing state upright and in a row with the others he separates the words by means of a metal stick like those of the letters but the end of which remains depressed and does not bear any carving the first line finished the compositor begins another by setting a new row of little metal pieces next to the row already finished finally when the composing stick is full the workman consciously places the contents in an iron frame which keeps the delicate combination from going to pieces and he continues thus until the frame is quite full and we have what is called the printing bed this plate is composed of a multitude of little metal sticks simply placed side by side there is many of these as there are letters orthographic sides and spaces separating the words the arrangement of these numerous bits of metal is a masterpiece that a false movement might ruin it is held firm in its iron frame by means of wedges so that the whole thing seems made of a single block of metal the bed is then ready for printing a roller impregnated with a thick ink made of oil and lamp black is passed over the plate the letters and orthographic signs which alone stand out in relief become covered with ink the rest does not take it because its surface is lower a sheet of paper is placed on the ink plate and is covered with a pad to protect it then pressed hard the ink of the characters is deposited on the paper and the sheet is found printed on one side to print the other the operation is repeated with the second plate the metal letters are as i said carved wrong side before as the letters of a book appear when you look at them in the mirror the inky imprint left by them on the paper reproduces them in a reverse position and consequently in the right way the first sheet is followed immediately by a second with the roller the plate is inked again a sheet of paper is applied pressure is exerted and it is done then comes the third sheet 100 a thousandth indefinitely all that is needed each time is to ink the plate cover it with paper then press all this is done with such rapidity that in a short time we have a great...

Learn About Printing Story Book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre Kids' Education Free Books.
chapter 20 of the storybook of science this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by john hoover the storybook of science by jean henry frober translated by florence mcnell printing after a book is written the author sends his work his manuscript to the printer who is to reproduce it in printed letters and in as many copies as our desired picture to yourself fine and short metal sticks on the end of each of which is carved in relief a letter of the alphabet one of these sticks has an a on the end another a b another a c etc there are others which have a full stop a comma a semicolon in fact there is many distinct kinds of these little metal pieces as there are letters and orthographic signs in our written language besides each letter and each sign are represented a great many times let us take note 2 that all these characters are carved wrong side before you will soon see the reason a workman called a compositor has before him a stand of cases of which each compartment is occupied by a single letter of the alphabet or by an orthographic sign the a's are in such a compartment the b's in the second the c's in the third and so on the letters furthermore are not arranged in the case alphabetically to shorten the work they put in the compartments near the hand the letters that occur most frequently such as the e's r's i's and a's and they place in the more distant compartments the letters less often used such as x's and y's the compositor has before him a manuscript and at his left hand a little flanged iron ruler called a composing stick as he reads his right hand guided by long habit searches in the case the desired letter and places it in the composing state upright and in a row with the others he separates the words by means of a metal stick like those of the letters but the end of which remains depressed and does not bear any carving the first line finished the compositor begins another by setting a new row of little metal pieces next to the row already finished finally when the composing stick is full the workman consciously places the contents in an iron frame which keeps the delicate combination from going to pieces and he continues thus until the frame is quite full and we have what is called the printing bed this plate is composed of a multitude of little metal sticks simply placed side by side there is many of these as there are letters orthographic sides and spaces separating the words the arrangement of these numerous bits of metal is a masterpiece that a false movement might ruin it is held firm in its iron frame by means of wedges so that the whole thing seems made of a single block of metal the bed is then ready for printing a roller impregnated with a thick ink made of oil and lamp black is passed over the plate the letters and orthographic signs which alone stand out in relief become covered with ink the rest does not take it because its surface is lower a sheet of paper is placed on the ink plate and is covered with a pad to protect it then pressed hard the ink of the characters is deposited on the paper and the sheet is found printed on one side to print the other the operation is repeated with the second plate the metal letters are as i said carved wrong side before as the letters of a book appear when you look at them in the mirror the inky imprint left by them on the paper reproduces them in a reverse position and consequently in the right way the first sheet is followed immediately by a second with the roller the plate is inked again a sheet of paper is applied pressure is exerted and it is done then comes the third sheet 100 a thousandth indefinitely all that is needed each time is to ink the plate cover it with paper then press all this is done with such rapidity that in a short time we have a great...

What are Books? Story Book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre Kids' Education Free Books.
chapter 19 of the storybook of science this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit liverbox.org recording by john hoover the storybook of science by sean henry farber translated by florence mcnell the book now that i know what paper is made of said jules i should like to know how they make books i could listen all day without getting tired to mill asserted for a story i would leave my top and my soldiers to make a book my children there is double work first the labor of the one who thinks and writes it then the labor of the one who prints it to think a book and write it under the sole dictation of one's mind is a difficult and serious business framework exhausts our strength much more quickly than manual labor for we must put the best of ourselves into it our soul i tell you these things that you may see what gratitude you owe those who solicit for your future think and write in order to teach you to think for yourselves and to free you from the miseries of ignorance i am quite convinced returned jules of the difficulties to be overcome in order to compose a book under the sole dictation of one's mind for when i want to write a letter of half a page to wish you a happy new year i come to a full stop at the first word how hard it is to find the first word my head is heavy my face flushes and i can't see straight i shall do better when i know my grammar well i'm sorry my dear child but i must undeceive you grammar cannot teach one to write it teaches us to make a verb agree with its subject an adjective with a substantive and other things of that kind it is very useful i admit for nothing is more displeasing than to violate the rules of language but that does not impart the gift of writing there are people whose memories are crammed with rules of grammar who like you stop short at the first word language is in some sort the clothing of thought we cannot clothe what does not exist we cannot speak or write what we do not find in our minds thought dictates in the pen rights when the head is furnished with ideas and usage still more than grammar has taught us the rules of language we have all that is necessary to write excellent things correctly but again if ideas are wanting if there's nothing in the head what can you write how are these ideas to be acquired by study reading and conversation with people better instructed than we then in listening to all these five things you tell us i'm no doubt learning to write schedules why certainly my old friend it is not true for example that if it had been proposed to you a few days ago to write only two lines about the origin of paper you would not have been able to do it what was wanting ideas and not grammar although you know very little of that yet it is true i was entirely ignorant what paper comes from today i know that cotton is a flock found in the bowls of a shrub called the cotton plant i know that with this flock they make thread then after the thread cloth i know that when the cloth gets old with use it is reduced to pulp by machines and that this pulp stretched in very thin layers and pressed finally becomes a sheet of paper i know these things well and yet i should find it very hard to write them you are mistaken for all you need do is put in writing exactly what you have just told me you write then just as you talk ask the boy incredulously yes provided that speech is corrected if necessary on reflection since writing gives time for it whereas talking does not in that case i should soon have my five lines on paper i should write cotton is a flock that is found in the bowls of a shrub called the cotton plant with this flock they make thread and with this thread cloth when the cloth is worn out machines tear it into little pieces and millstones grind it with water to make it into a pulp this pulp is...

What are Books? Story Book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre Kids' Education Free Books.
chapter 19 of the storybook of science this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit liverbox.org recording by john hoover the storybook of science by sean henry farber translated by florence mcnell the book now that i know what paper is made of said jules i should like to know how they make books i could listen all day without getting tired to mill asserted for a story i would leave my top and my soldiers to make a book my children there is double work first the labor of the one who thinks and writes it then the labor of the one who prints it to think a book and write it under the sole dictation of one's mind is a difficult and serious business framework exhausts our strength much more quickly than manual labor for we must put the best of ourselves into it our soul i tell you these things that you may see what gratitude you owe those who solicit for your future think and write in order to teach you to think for yourselves and to free you from the miseries of ignorance i am quite convinced returned jules of the difficulties to be overcome in order to compose a book under the sole dictation of one's mind for when i want to write a letter of half a page to wish you a happy new year i come to a full stop at the first word how hard it is to find the first word my head is heavy my face flushes and i can't see straight i shall do better when i know my grammar well i'm sorry my dear child but i must undeceive you grammar cannot teach one to write it teaches us to make a verb agree with its subject an adjective with a substantive and other things of that kind it is very useful i admit for nothing is more displeasing than to violate the rules of language but that does not impart the gift of writing there are people whose memories are crammed with rules of grammar who like you stop short at the first word language is in some sort the clothing of thought we cannot clothe what does not exist we cannot speak or write what we do not find in our minds thought dictates in the pen rights when the head is furnished with ideas and usage still more than grammar has taught us the rules of language we have all that is necessary to write excellent things correctly but again if ideas are wanting if there's nothing in the head what can you write how are these ideas to be acquired by study reading and conversation with people better instructed than we then in listening to all these five things you tell us i'm no doubt learning to write schedules why certainly my old friend it is not true for example that if it had been proposed to you a few days ago to write only two lines about the origin of paper you would not have been able to do it what was wanting ideas and not grammar although you know very little of that yet it is true i was entirely ignorant what paper comes from today i know that cotton is a flock found in the bowls of a shrub called the cotton plant i know that with this flock they make thread then after the thread cloth i know that when the cloth gets old with use it is reduced to pulp by machines and that this pulp stretched in very thin layers and pressed finally becomes a sheet of paper i know these things well and yet i should find it very hard to write them you are mistaken for all you need do is put in writing exactly what you have just told me you write then just as you talk ask the boy incredulously yes provided that speech is corrected if necessary on reflection since writing gives time for it whereas talking does not in that case i should soon have my five lines on paper i should write cotton is a flock that is found in the bowls of a shrub called the cotton plant with this flock they make thread and with this thread cloth when the cloth is worn out machines tear it into little pieces and millstones grind it with water to make it into a pulp this pulp is...

What is Paper Story Book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre Kids' Education Free Books.
chapter 18 of the storybook of science this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit livervox.org recording by john hoover the storybook of science by jean henry farber translated by florence picknell paper mother ambergene called claire a friend had just come to see her to learn about an embroidery stitch that troubled her at the request of jewels in the mill however uncle paul continued he knew jules would take pleasure in repeating the conversation to his sister flax linen and cotton especially the last name have still another use of great importance first they clothe us then when too ragged to use anymore they serve to make paper papers claimed a meal paper real paper that on which we write of which we make books the beautiful white sheets of your copy books the leaves of a book even the costliest guilt-edged and enriched with magnificent pictures come to us from miserable rags despicable tatters are collected some of them are picked up from the filth of the street some are unspeakably filthy they are sorted over these refined paper those for coarse they are thoroughly washed for they need it now machines take them in hand scissors cut them still claws tear them wheels make pulp of them and reduce them to shreds millstones take them and grind them still more then try to rate them in water and convert them into a sort of suit the pulp is gray it must be whitened then recourse is had to powerful drugs which attack everything they touch and unless the no time make it white as snow behold the pulpit mass thoroughly purified other machines spread it in thin layers on sieves water drips through and the rag soup forms in the felt cylinders press this belt others dry it others give it a polish the paper is finished before it became paper the first material was rags or cloth too tattered to use how many uses has not this cloth served and what energetic treatments has it not undergone before being cast out as rubbish washing with corrosive ashes contact with acrid suit pounding with a beetle exposure to the sun air and rain what is then this material which in spite of its delicacy resists the brutalities of washing soap sun and air which remains intact in the bosom of rottenness which braves the machines and drugs of paper making and always comes out of these ordeals more supple and wider to become at last a sheet of paper beautiful satiny paper the confidant of our thoughts you know now my little friends this admirable material source of so much intellectual progress comes to us from the flock of the cotton plant and the bark of hemp and flax i'm certainly going to surprise claire said jules when i tell her that her beautiful prayer book with the silver clasp was made from horrid rags perhaps from ragged handkerchiefs thrown away for rubbish or from tatters picked up from the mud of the street claire will be interested to learn the nature of paper but i am sure the lowly origin of her prayer book will not lessen the value of it in her mind skill performs a marvel in transforming despicable rags into a book depository of noble thoughts god my dear child does incomparably more in the miracle of vegetation the filth of the dunghill when buried in the soul becomes transformed into the most pleasing things in the world for it becomes the rose the lily and other flowers as for us let us be like claire's book and the flowers of the good god let us try to have real value in ourselves and let us never blush at our humble extraction there is only one true greatness only one true nobility greatness and nobility of the soul if we possess them the merit is all the greater by reason of our lowly origin end of paper

What is Paper Story Book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre Kids' Education Free Books.
chapter 18 of the storybook of science this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit livervox.org recording by john hoover the storybook of science by jean henry farber translated by florence picknell paper mother ambergene called claire a friend had just come to see her to learn about an embroidery stitch that troubled her at the request of jewels in the mill however uncle paul continued he knew jules would take pleasure in repeating the conversation to his sister flax linen and cotton especially the last name have still another use of great importance first they clothe us then when too ragged to use anymore they serve to make paper papers claimed a meal paper real paper that on which we write of which we make books the beautiful white sheets of your copy books the leaves of a book even the costliest guilt-edged and enriched with magnificent pictures come to us from miserable rags despicable tatters are collected some of them are picked up from the filth of the street some are unspeakably filthy they are sorted over these refined paper those for coarse they are thoroughly washed for they need it now machines take them in hand scissors cut them still claws tear them wheels make pulp of them and reduce them to shreds millstones take them and grind them still more then try to rate them in water and convert them into a sort of suit the pulp is gray it must be whitened then recourse is had to powerful drugs which attack everything they touch and unless the no time make it white as snow behold the pulpit mass thoroughly purified other machines spread it in thin layers on sieves water drips through and the rag soup forms in the felt cylinders press this belt others dry it others give it a polish the paper is finished before it became paper the first material was rags or cloth too tattered to use how many uses has not this cloth served and what energetic treatments has it not undergone before being cast out as rubbish washing with corrosive ashes contact with acrid suit pounding with a beetle exposure to the sun air and rain what is then this material which in spite of its delicacy resists the brutalities of washing soap sun and air which remains intact in the bosom of rottenness which braves the machines and drugs of paper making and always comes out of these ordeals more supple and wider to become at last a sheet of paper beautiful satiny paper the confidant of our thoughts you know now my little friends this admirable material source of so much intellectual progress comes to us from the flock of the cotton plant and the bark of hemp and flax i'm certainly going to surprise claire said jules when i tell her that her beautiful prayer book with the silver clasp was made from horrid rags perhaps from ragged handkerchiefs thrown away for rubbish or from tatters picked up from the mud of the street claire will be interested to learn the nature of paper but i am sure the lowly origin of her prayer book will not lessen the value of it in her mind skill performs a marvel in transforming despicable rags into a book depository of noble thoughts god my dear child does incomparably more in the miracle of vegetation the filth of the dunghill when buried in the soul becomes transformed into the most pleasing things in the world for it becomes the rose the lily and other flowers as for us let us be like claire's book and the flowers of the good god let us try to have real value in ourselves and let us never blush at our humble extraction there is only one true greatness only one true nobility greatness and nobility of the soul if we possess them the merit is all the greater by reason of our lowly origin end of paper

Explaining Cotton Story Book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre Kids' Education Free Books.
chapter 17 of the storybook of science this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit livervox.org recording by john hoover the storybook of science by jean henry farber translated by florence bignail cotton cotton the most important of the materials used for our woven fabrics is furnished by a semi-tropical plant called the cotton plant it is an herb or even a shrub from one to two meters high and its large yellow flowers are followed by an abundant fruitage of bowls each as large as an egg filled with a silky flock sometimes brilliantly white sometimes a pale yellowish shade according to the kind of cotton in the middle of this flock are the seeds it seems to me i've seen flock of that kind fall in flakes in the spring from the top of poplars and willows eclair the comparison is very good willows and poplars have for their fruit tiny little long and pointed bowls three or four times as large as a pins head in the month of may these bowls are ripe they open and set free a very fine white down in the middle of which are seeds if the air is calm this down piles up at the foot of the tree in a bed of cotton wool as white as snow but at the least breath of wind the flakes are born long distances carrying with them the seeds which thus find unoccupied places where they can germinate and become trees many other seeds are provided with soft aggregates silky plumes which keep them in the air a long time and permit them distant journeys in order to disseminate the plant for example who is not familiar with the seeds of thistles and dandelions those beautiful silky plum seeds that you take pleasure in blowing into the air can the flock of popular bowls be put to the same use as cotton jewels asked by no means there is too little of it and it would be too difficult to gather besides it is so short it might not be possible to spin it but if we ourselves cannot make use of it others find it very useful this flock is the little bird's cotton many gather it to line their nest the goldfinch among others is one of the cleverest of the clever its house of cotton is a masterpiece of elegance and solidity in the fork of several little branches with the cottony flock of the willow and poplar with bits of wool and hedge thorns pulled out from sheep as they pass with the aggregates of thistle seeds it makes for its young a cup-shaped mattress so soft and warm and wanted that no little prince in his swaddling clothes ever had the light to build their nests birds find materials near at hand they only have to set to work when spring comes the goldfinch does not have to think of the materials for its nest it is sure that the ocean beds thistles and roadside hedges will furnish in abundance all that it needs and it ought to be thus for a bird has not the intelligence to prepare a long time in advance by careful in white's industry the things that it will need man whose noble prerogative is to acquire everything by working reflection procures cotton from distant countries a bird finds its cotton on the poplars of its grove maturity the cotton bowls open wide and their flock bursts out in soft flakes that are gathered by hand bowl by bowl the flock well dried in the sun on screens is beaten with flails or better submitted to the action of certain machines it is thus freed from all seeds and husks without any other preparation cotton comes to us in large bells to be converted into fabrics in our manufactures the countries that furnish the most of it are india egypt brazil and above all the united states of north america in a single year the european manufacturers work up nearly 800 million kilograms of cotton this enormous wage is not too much for the whole world closed itself with this precious flock turned into print per cow calico thus human activity has no greater field than...

Explaining Cotton Story Book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre Kids' Education Free Books.
chapter 17 of the storybook of science this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit livervox.org recording by john hoover the storybook of science by jean henry farber translated by florence bignail cotton cotton the most important of the materials used for our woven fabrics is furnished by a semi-tropical plant called the cotton plant it is an herb or even a shrub from one to two meters high and its large yellow flowers are followed by an abundant fruitage of bowls each as large as an egg filled with a silky flock sometimes brilliantly white sometimes a pale yellowish shade according to the kind of cotton in the middle of this flock are the seeds it seems to me i've seen flock of that kind fall in flakes in the spring from the top of poplars and willows eclair the comparison is very good willows and poplars have for their fruit tiny little long and pointed bowls three or four times as large as a pins head in the month of may these bowls are ripe they open and set free a very fine white down in the middle of which are seeds if the air is calm this down piles up at the foot of the tree in a bed of cotton wool as white as snow but at the least breath of wind the flakes are born long distances carrying with them the seeds which thus find unoccupied places where they can germinate and become trees many other seeds are provided with soft aggregates silky plumes which keep them in the air a long time and permit them distant journeys in order to disseminate the plant for example who is not familiar with the seeds of thistles and dandelions those beautiful silky plum seeds that you take pleasure in blowing into the air can the flock of popular bowls be put to the same use as cotton jewels asked by no means there is too little of it and it would be too difficult to gather besides it is so short it might not be possible to spin it but if we ourselves cannot make use of it others find it very useful this flock is the little bird's cotton many gather it to line their nest the goldfinch among others is one of the cleverest of the clever its house of cotton is a masterpiece of elegance and solidity in the fork of several little branches with the cottony flock of the willow and poplar with bits of wool and hedge thorns pulled out from sheep as they pass with the aggregates of thistle seeds it makes for its young a cup-shaped mattress so soft and warm and wanted that no little prince in his swaddling clothes ever had the light to build their nests birds find materials near at hand they only have to set to work when spring comes the goldfinch does not have to think of the materials for its nest it is sure that the ocean beds thistles and roadside hedges will furnish in abundance all that it needs and it ought to be thus for a bird has not the intelligence to prepare a long time in advance by careful in white's industry the things that it will need man whose noble prerogative is to acquire everything by working reflection procures cotton from distant countries a bird finds its cotton on the poplars of its grove maturity the cotton bowls open wide and their flock bursts out in soft flakes that are gathered by hand bowl by bowl the flock well dried in the sun on screens is beaten with flails or better submitted to the action of certain machines it is thus freed from all seeds and husks without any other preparation cotton comes to us in large bells to be converted into fabrics in our manufactures the countries that furnish the most of it are india egypt brazil and above all the united states of north america in a single year the european manufacturers work up nearly 800 million kilograms of cotton this enormous wage is not too much for the whole world closed itself with this precious flock turned into print per cow calico thus human activity has no greater field than...