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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
6
The piece argues society women may have business roles beyond hosting teas, noting many women are prominent as physicians, educators, or writers. It endorses a blended view where social life and professional aims mix to produce a healthier, more grounded standard for women in public life.
Practical old fashioned advice covers draining fried foods with coarse brown paper, drying towels to prevent mildew, vinegar and paraffin oil polish, heating frying baskets, choosing days for jelly, sugar boiling, and dust prevention with soaked newspaper. It also suggests boiling cans, baking bread airy rooms, sunning quilts, collecting salad recipes, asbestos table pads, olives for digestion, and curing rancid butter with milk and water.
A collage of verse and prose notes includes Eliza Cook’s memory of a mother in an armchair, Cardinal Newman’s lead that reflects faith, a report on a new Turkish sect, a rustic poetry fragment about a broke landlord, and a hobo seeking charity in a brief street encounter.
The piece contrasts a couple in a short engagement with a sorrowful mood. It notes superstition about rice at weddings and jokes that if luck from throwing rice exists it would be thrown after a funeral, highlighting morbid humor.
Sidney Smith deflects a natural history bore at an archdeacon’s dinner by quoting immortal verse. The fly eye anecdote silences the table as the guests recall the famous lines I saw him die I said the fly with my little eye. The dinner resumes with no further talk of natural history.
A collection of brief notes covering diverse topics. It notes UBER STORES Thunder’s distance, a governor’s wife owning a baby rhinoceros, moose horns, brilliant beetles, Denmark’s army size, butterfly wings, height loss with age, coal limits for England, tobacco consumption and value, Bismarck’s wine haul, medicine exams across states, wind-measuring prize plans, New York City Record's vast size, Penn fellowship details, and honesty among Chinamen in markets.
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