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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1899
Page
11
A narrator recalls a toy shop overflowing with Christmas wonders and asks a girl what single gift she desires. The child gazes at the store’s treasures and, amid the brimming shelves, answers she would take the entire shop if allowed.
The Olympia diary of Admiral Dewey is crowded with gifts from admirers including hats, medals, albums, and a bound illuminated album with Manila Bay scenes. Aguinaldo presents and the shipboard exchanges reveal cordial relations and reciprocal gestures amid the Pacific conflict era.
The text notes that goods were not confiscated but detained. The following day Aguinaldo issued orders allowing American officers to cross insurgent lines and advance up the river, hinting at a forthcoming gesture to his “illustrious friend.”
Arditi recalls Adelina Patti as a dark-eyed girl during a New York visit with her mother Mme Salvador Patti Barili. He narrates how Patti impressed him and Bottesini by calmly selecting a seat for her doll and preparing to sing, signaling her future as a major operatic star.
Ernest Seton Thompson recalls a crow named Silverspot in the Don Valley who gathers white pebbles shells tin and a china cup handle. The crow hides the trove among docks and skunk cabbages then moves it after the observer discovers the stash. The author never learns where it ends.
A new leather embroidery style is described for chair cushions borders for portieres and hammock cushions. Ground work uses dark silk with lighter leather stitches, creating rich effects like a green leather lion on a library cushion and yellow fleur de lis on portieres. The method involves sketched patterns incised with a sharp tool and filled with narrow leather strips.
Kicknacks from China describe soapstone trinkets and figurines traders bring home. The steatite from near Wenchow is soft when mined and hardens in air. Colors listed include purple red blue gray white and jade with white jade and frozen tones valued highest. Some 2,000 workers mine and carve these pieces.
A household method from Ladies' Home Journal describes sterilizing milk without bottles or expensive equipment. Heat the milk in a double boiler for ten minutes after the outer water boils, keep covered, then seal in a self-sealing jar with cotton wool. Store in the ice chest and keep the plug in after removing portions.
The report notes an 1837 drought in Southwest India with intensely hot weather causing famine and the death of over 800 000 people. It adds that similar famines occurred in 1865 and 1868, with more than 2 000 000 deaths from hunger across those two years.
The sermon lauds the Shunemite woman for hosting Elisha with noble hospitality and kindness to a divine messenger. It praises domestic virtue, simplicity, and piety, contrasting her with casual public benevolence and outlining the Christian elevation of women through faith. It laments woman’s sufferings under paganism and asserts Christianity as liberator and advocate for women.
The piece surveys Christmas origins from Roman Saturnalia to northern pagan rites. It notes late December celebrations, mistletoe, and the yule log, describing how these practices influenced modern Christmas games, merriment, and the holiday’s spread with Christianity.
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