Tuning Glasses and Vigorous Play for Health
A curious home science piece teaches tuning glassware with water to hear pitch changes. It compares glass music to piano strings and urges children to exercise outdoors, play hard, and enjoy baseball as a path to physical and mental health.
Boyhood of Millet Traced From Humble Beginnings to Fame
The article recounts Jean Francois Millet’s childhood in Gruchy and early life in a peasant family. It notes his fight as a boy, his father’s encouragement, self taught drawing, and the initial recognition in Cherbourg before Paris critics mocked him as a “painter of sabots.”
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New York Tribune
Gruchy
English Channel
Jean Francois Millet
Angelus
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
Francois
France
Jean Louis Millet
Henrietta du Perron
Jean Francois
Fran
Cois
St. Francis of Assisi
Cherbourg
Mouchel
Paris
The Season for Sport Encourages Youth Fitness
A Boston Herald piece urges American youths to value outdoor activity and sports. It stresses regular outdoor play, learning baseball, and balancing study with exercise to build health, character, and future success. It notes cricket in England as an example and warns against neglecting either mind or body.
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Boston
New England
England
A Midsummer Afternoon Nap in the Barnyard
A midsummer scene shows young pigs, lambs with their mothers, chickens, ducks, and children resting. The girl and boy nap in a hammock while animals seek cool shade and a deep pool to lie by. The verse captures a lazy, sunny day in a rural setting.
Story of a Little Patriot
Nine-year-old Robert Arthur longs for home while living a year in London. He studies English history and visits British sights, yet dreams of the American flag. On Flag Day he sees a red white and blue display, a glimpse of home that fills him with patriotic joy.
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Philadelphia
Robert Arthur
Free States
London
America
Alfred the Great
Eayward
Paris
Tower
Westminster Abbey
England
Thames
Kensington Gardens
Betsy Ross
Arch Street
General Washington
Marie
Night Blooming Cereus Awakens in Aunt Jennie’s Home
A child recalls Aunt Jennie’s ugly plant cereus in a bowl, its green leaves, a green shoot growing into a large white bloom. Neighbors Mrs Ray and the family witness the rare flower opening at dusk spreading a delicate perfume that stirs memories of a mother with God.
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Jennie
Japhet
Jenny
Mother
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