How to Exercise in Your Orchard, 1631
To have occasion to exercise within your Orchard it shall be a pleasure to have a Bowling Alley…
How to Cause a Rat Stampede, 1872
The smell of a goat is obnoxious to the nostrils of rats…
How to Dress for Bathing, 1881
Flannel is the best material for a bathing costume, and gray is regarded as the most suitable color…
How to Give Someone Gas, 1661
A light to make one Fart. The Operation of this Lamp is wonderfull…
The Past Asks You: Strange Families, c. 800
Carolingian genealogy Berlin Staatsbibliothek, MS lat. fol. 295, f. 80v (12th c.)
How to Make Macaroni, 15th century
Sicilian Macaroni. Make a dough of the whitest flour, one egg white and rosewater…
How to Say ‘Drunk,’ 1770
The simple idea of having drunk too much liquor, is expressed in near FOURSCORE different ways…
How to Heal All Wounds, 1683
A Drink that healeth all Wounds… Take Sanicle, Milfoil, and Bugle, of each a like quantity, stamp them in a Mortar…