Dolls Party Without Boys Ends In Tragedy
Four Alabama girls plan a dolls party after Christmas 1859 with Hal Stanley excluded. On party day the girls light candles around dolls, creating a brilliant table display before a scream ends the scene.
24 Dec 1902
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1902
Page
1
Four Alabama girls plan a dolls party after Christmas 1859 with Hal Stanley excluded. On party day the girls light candles around dolls, creating a brilliant table display before a scream ends the scene.
A chaotic party ends with doll hangings in a room as girls laugh and fret. Lizzie Ella demands who did it while Hal Stanley is blamed. Mrs Langhorne frees the dolls, declaring they remain alive. The scene shifts to holiday reflections and small gifts, including broom and coal-scuttle presents.
An 1900s style recipe details plum pudding ingredients such as currants, raisins, bread crumbs, brown sugar, flour, lemon zest, and candied peel. It describes mixing, boiling, unmoulding, and serving with hard sauce, plus confectionery techniques, chocolate creams, and nougat style bits. Also touches on adventuring explorers and varied curiosities from the era.
The article explains candy making from sugar and eggs, noting it is harder than common confections. It details separating egg whites from yolks, using two egg whites per pound of candy, mixing whites with water and vanilla, and gradually adding sugar to form a doughlike paste.
E A Bingham argues in the New York Mail and Express that Arctic exploration draws from many motives from knowledge to adventure. He notes Peary’s efforts, the hazy mystery of the Arctic, and the solitary pull of the pole as a universal human curiosity with no guaranteed reward.
The article explores the variety and history of beans from ancient cultivation to modern spread. It notes the Lima bean’s arrival in England in 1779, mentions beans in indigenous cultures, mummy graves, and colonial accounts, and discusses the unusual growth and distribution of different bean varieties worldwide.
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