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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1908
Page
3
The piece discusses the heart as a vital muscular pump and cautions adults over fifty against extreme physical strain while promoting regular moderate exercise. It then notes American fearlessness, questioning risks from fires, accidents, and travel, and ends with a provocative set of rhetorical questions about safety.
A literary note laments public notices in St Andrews mis-spell Sabbath and grass on golf course signs. It contrasts Druids and mistletoe lore with France exporting nearly 200 tons of mistletoe annually for weddings, a curious regional detail.
A comical tale follows an English nobleman on a railroad car who, sitting beside a stout older woman, offers to store a bundle of rags in the rack. He then lifts the woman into the rack, realizes his mistake, and is astonished by the awkward misunderstanding.
A laborer in the grounds of an insane asylum ignored all remarks from officials and continued digging. The asylum governor asked once, then threatened. He finally admitted he did not know the doctor and returned to his task without further reaction.
The banana yields far more nutritive value than potato or bread and can feed a large family from a small garden in the tropics. In the West Indies natives dry and grind the fruit into pecs flour for many dishes. The plant bears after fourteen months and requires little care for eleven years. The saying about living in glass houses stems from a London incident during England Scotland union when Scotsmen broke windows at the duke’s glass house. a court favorite warned the king. An invalid seeks medicine, pays two guineas, then learns the prescription was the cure but cannot afford to have it made up.
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