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Newspaper
Cincinnati American
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1914
Page
5
Ping Yie eight year old daughter of Wong Yie a Chinese restaurant proprietor attends Hyde Park Public School under principal G. H. Denham. Once unable to speak English she now joins in games and daily telephones her mother to report her activities in her adopted tongue.
A mixed column offers practical kitchen tips and recipe sketches. Tips include boiling Borax in coffee, salt for coal fires, and utensil use guidance. Recipes cover Eponge Cookies, Mutton Chop Pie, Baked Orange Pudding, Orange Sauce, Chestnuts With Whipped Cream, Lemon Sauce, and Apple Snow with whipped cream.
A reader asks for a method to reduce flesh and guidance on handling a persistent love-struck girl. The response endorses extreme dieting and exercise, then shifts to urging the writer to ignore the girl and pursue normal activities, offering no address for a therapist.
An aging driver named Bill, longtime force on the avenue, bids farewell as automobiles replace horse drawn stages. He recalls familiar faces, exits to a modest room, and later watches profits rise under a new superintendent William Corrigan in a larger office.
An aging former chauffeur named Bill applies for a line job to cover the avenue again. He faces rejection but gains a personal appeal when a president and his daughter appear, revealing Bill’s lifelong dedication and a wish to pass by the park where his late wife once waved.
A historic recipe describes Johnny cakes with two thirds cup flour one tablespoon sugar two tablespoons baking powder one teaspoon salt two cups boiling milk two cups dry sifted flour two tablespoons melted butter two egg yolks beaten and two egg whites whipped beat mix bake in a shallow pan and serve hot.
Recipe fragment describes mixing scaldea milk water butter sugar and salt with yeast and flour then beating in eggs. Let rise overnight. In morning fill buttered muffin tins two thirds then rise and bake thirty minutes in hot oven.
Letters go to prominent women asking them to form a 100 member committee to direct districts and sub committees against suffrage efforts. The Cincinnati and Hamilton County Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage argues a permanent Ohio branch is urgent to defeat any referendum.
The article describes Cairo’s cosmopolitan life and the role of the khatbeh, a marriage broker who tracks eligible girls. It notes Egyptian racial mixing, compares ancient and modern populations, and outlines girls’ pursuit of advantageous matches aided by mothers and brokers.
A letter from Annie L Roélker and committee members discusses the need for clear scientific information on food composition and its functions. It argues housekeepers lack time for technical study, urges access to lectures and demonstrations, and emphasizes food's roles in building the body providing heat and sustaining work.
Members of the New Thought group in Cincinnati host daily luncheons at Aeolian Mall East Fourth Street with talks by Miss Simon at noon. The scene features a Cherry Blossom Land display and praise for organizers including Mrs. Hutton Dr. Carpenter and others. A later note mentions a bridge party at Mrs. Martin E. MeKe and social teas and receptions by Cincinnati clubs and residents, with plans for a Bach Society reception and other social engagements around Mt Auburn and Westwood.
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