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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1921
Page
3
The piece likens a blues episode to intoxication and urges preventing its onset by avoiding poisons. It recommends poison free foods, improved elimination, and fostering optimism via reading and social contact. It also suggests helping others with optimistic guidance as a practical plan.
John Woolman the Quaker refused dyed clothing and wore fur natural color hats. He argued dyes conceal dirt and soil, especially in damp travel through dyed cloth areas. He urged cleaner spirit and person, hoping money spent on dyeing would promote general cleanliness and virtue.
American Junior Red Cross funds aid Tirana's first vocational training school for Albanian children. The organization provides machinery books maps globes pencils and school supplies to public schools stripped of equipment by the war. Colored pictures from American children delight Albanian students.
Visitors note inmates commonly keep pets such as canaries because birds need little space and food. Prisons often ban pets, but smaller facilities report mice and birds, and in one large state prison a long term prisoner was allowed several toy dogs.
In Afghan life the right hand is used for eating and drinking while the left is deemed unclean. Dogs are considered unclean and pious people never touch them. Afghans avoid killing lame animals or vermin, believing all life is under Allah and interfering with the divine will is wrong.
The article recounts that Pocahontas was a nickname meaning tomboy and that her real name was Matoaka. It describes a childhood incident where her rough play sparked laughter among tribe members and led to the boy’s father calling her by the nickname. The piece notes the spelling changed by English speakers and cites the 1607 historical record.
In a narrative from The World's Work Count Sergius White recalls Li Hung Chang visiting as minister of finance. After tea, Li is offered smoke via a narghile. Two attendants manage thepipe while Li quietly inhales and exhales, the scene designed to impress the observer.
The piece traces silk from Greece where women unraveled heavy fabrics into delicate garments, through Byzantine influence, to Europe around 500 A D. Crusader wars carried silk weaving to Italy, spreadingVenetian and Florentine styles abroad amid changing modes and fabric innovations.
A brief notice notes a growing English perfumery industry in rural areas where women and children harvest plants and flowers. In April cowSips and various blooms are gathered for sleeplessness cures, potpourri, sachets, and related uses, with prices for cowSips, bergamot, peony petals, roses, peppermint, and other plant materials.
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