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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1906
Page
3
Local Daughters of the Confederacy and businessmen meet at Carnegie hall to organize housing for delegates to the upcoming U D C convention. Committees for day and night host duties are set, a subscription fund raised about 300 dollars, and a long list of officers and delegates from multiple Texas chapters announced.
A long list of names and chapters appears, naming women figures from various J. B. Gordon, J. E. B. Stuart, John H. Reagan, and other chapters located in Huntsville Mexia Rusk Manor McGregor Wharton Calvert Forney Floresville Denton Longview Chappel Hill and more. The roster includes Misses Mrs Mes dames and Mrs. W. M. Kay among others.
The term scapegoat comes from a Passover rite in ancient Hebrew practice. Priests prayed over a young goat and, after individuals placed guilt on the animal, it was released to be destroyed by wild beasts in the forest.
A guest asks to borrow an umbrella on a wet night. The host agrees and hints at accompanying the guest home for shelter, suggesting a walk together.
A visitor asks a child Dudley if he can stand on his head and Dudley replies he cannot because it is too high. The exchange ends with a reflection on fear and its limits.
From Scientific American a description of the Kattea or Vasipens, a little known group in the north Transvaal to the Limpopo. They are pitch black and about four feet tall, live in ground holes and rock shelters, barter with ostrich feathers, have no arts or weapons, and speak a language distinct from Bushman and Bantu.
The Mjiji of the Limpopo region wear a reed dress for three months before marriage, a rigid seclusion ritual tied to courtship. Mounted police barely gained consent to photograph the practice, noting uncertainty about its effects on marriage popularity.
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