. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ly extendedin many directions. It was made to light our buildings and streets, and to drawour cars at so small expense as to allow even the little villagesto have their trolley lines to neighbor-ing towns. Go out on the great farms of thewest and see how they are carried is now but little hand workdone on these farms. Plowing, plant-ing, reaping, and mowing, all arecarried on by huge machines that ourinventors have designed and our Telegraph of to-day. great mills have made from the rude products of our ownmines.
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ly extendedin many directions. It was made to light our buildings and streets, and to drawour cars at so small expense as to allow even the little villagesto have their trolley lines to neighbor-ing towns. Go out on the great farms of thewest and see how they are carried is now but little hand workdone on these farms. Plowing, plant-ing, reaping, and mowing, all arecarried on by huge machines that ourinventors have designed and our Telegraph of to-day. great mills have made from the rude products of our ownmines. And now think of womens work. No more weaving andspinning and braiding at home for tliern. The cloth and carpets from the mills are too cheap and toonice to leave room for such work, while millions of sewingmachines hum away in shops and homes, saving the eyes andfingers of the mothers, and doing every kind of work, even tobeautiful embroidery, so cheap that all can afford to other inventions have come to us ? So many that youmust think of them for 268 HAZENS ELEMENTARY HISTORY. LESSON.—New inventions are daily increasing our Tvealth and com-fort. Nearly all of the earlier books ■were religious or political, butFranklin s Almanac contained wise sayings on common things. AVhy, we hcive not mentioiied matches, -vvliith our grandfathers would have thought ahnost a miracle, as they labori- ousl}^ struck their flint and steel forthe tiny spark that they coaxed intoa flame. We have passed by the rifle thatreplaces the old flint-lock, the phono-graph, the telephone, the automobile,the typewriter, and the printing-press, the wonder of the age. Oh !you will find new inventions almostlike the Story Without day adds to their numbers, and
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