The Religions of China and What They Are
A survey of Chinese belief systems notes Confucianism as a state culture though not a religion, Taoism as philosophy with rites, Buddhism as the major faith, and a Christian minority. It discusses Confucius, his family ethics, reverence for ancestors, and the suppression of native Christians and missionaries amid Chinese religious life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Empire
Toheneehi-Tonge
Imperial Legation
Paris
Chion
Prave Venus
Confucius
Maggie
India
Asoka
The Woman of Thirty Opinion Exchange on Women in Society
A debater argues that a seasoned 30 year old woman outshines a naive 20 year old debutante. Travel and education are favored over early schooling, while chaperons are blamed for gendered stereotypes and delayed social maturity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alort
Hazardous Mission Sets Sail for Capetown to Johannesburg
In a perilous assignment, Chas. D. Leslie recounts Pepworth Tring’s plan to send a courier with a crucial map to Johannesburg. The map must reach Mr. Howard at Fox Street under disguise, as rivals seek to steal it. The courier survives a tense voyage and a sabotaged crew, ultimately delivering the map and ending the mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hen Pepworth Tring
Johannesburg
Kimberley
Witwatersrandt
Pepworth Tring
Howard
Fox Street
Gibnon
Capetown
London
Plymouth
Gibson
Transvaal
Switzerland
Kraal
Durban
England
Thad
Hullo
Vicory
Ming
Tam
Wring
Chad
Girl in the Calico Gown Poem by Joe Lincoln
A lyric poem depicts a girl in a calico gown bringing dinner to field workers. The speaker envisions her as a queenly figure with a sunbonnet, while the garden gate scene promises a midnight meeting between lovers despite her father's objections. The piece reads as a verse excerpt from the I. A. W. Bulletin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Lincoln
I. A. W. Bulletin
The Fairy Carnival Reprinted Verse of Evening Fantasy
A lyrical piece depicts a Fairy Carnival led by a Queen and attended by insect and forest creatures. The scene unfolds under moonlit ferns with a banquet of ambrosial honey and nectar, then vanishes as suddenly as it appeared with the waking day.
Australian bride travels 1800 miles for Lynn mass wedding
Miss Helen Isabel Aytoun traveled from Melbourne to Lynn Massachusetts to wed Arthur F P Cary in a home ceremony. The 25 year old bride met Cary during a bicycle world tour and journeyed via Indian Ocean Suez Canal Mediterranean England and Scotland before arriving in Boston. Cary, a civil engineer, met her in Melbourne two years earlier and they pledged to marry.
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Lynn Mass
Australia
Helen Isabel Aytoun
Arthur
Cary
Atlantic
Boston
Aytoun
World
Lynn
San Francisco
Banker's daughter Mae Brown devotes life to East Side poor
Miss Mae Brown daughter of John Crosby Brown millionaire banker spends time at the Henry Street nurses settlement in New York. She chose nursing over wealth and uses her funds and position to aid residents of the East Side tenement district during extreme heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Brown
John Crosby Brown
New York
Brown
Brown Mansion On East Thirty-seventh Street, For On the East Side Miss Brown
Miss Brown
Presbyterian Hospital
Nurses’ Settlement
Henry Street
Miss Ward
Miss Brewster
Leaves Daughter a Fortune After Townsend Estate Death
Mrs Almira S. Townsend dies in San Francisco leaving daughter Mrs Elia F. Murray of Boston as heir to a fortune estimated over half a million dollars. Once estranged since childhood, Ella Townsend was educated in a convent and later lived with the Murray family at Savin Hill before marrying Thomas F. Murray. A telegram reports reconciliation and that Ella has proved her claim and been named administratrix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Almira S. Townsend
Elia F. Murray
Boston
Murray
Ella
Savin Hill
Thomas F. Murray
Monster Eagle Snatches Child In Wisconsin
An eagle swooped on children near Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, grabbed a child in its talons, then fell to a well aimed shot by the infant's father. The child escaped without serious injury. The eagle spanned about 60 feet wingtip to wingtip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Smith
Sheboygan Falls
Wis
Russian epilepsy reform faces medical care push
Epileptics in Russia were long treated as insane and confined in asylums. The Russian press has launched a crusade to end these conditions and to establish proper medical treatment for epileptics instead of confinement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
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the Buddha Dipankara
Illis
Mons
Daniel Cleverton
Yama
Hell
Charman
Chas. D. Leslie
de Beers
Waterloo
Thames
Worthy
Tring
Spellman
Dunbarton
Vandermit
Avas
Madeira
London Telegraph
Yeb
Theo
Beatrice Harlow
Woman's
Home Companion
Sylvan Company
Lincoln Green
Grasshopper Archers of the Wood
Robin Hood
Echo Quick
Massachusetts
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