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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1907
Page
3
A verse from Howard Waite in Metropolitan Magazine warns a boy about leaving the home of love for a distant land of emptiness and pain. It contrasts tender childhood joys with the perilous lure of grown up desires and lost faith.
A reader might marvel at globe fish or sea hedgehogs of the Atlantic and Indo Pacific. When chased by a shark the fish inflates its body with air becoming prickly and unpalatable, deterring the predator while remaining nonaggressive. Also includes a Twain anecdote about a mother’s failed punishment.
The mother finds Susy responds to ordinary punishments that teach reform while Clara, a philosopher who seeks novelty and pleasure, dodges severity. After much effort to craft penalties that truly reform, she finally resorts, with a sore heart and reproachful conscience, to a harsher measure.
A New York Sun anecdote praises a sidewalk sweeper who showed diligence and awareness. The store manager recalls hiring him for neat work and responsibility, leading to steady advancement, and asserts that a boy who makes a square job of sweeping will succeed in any task.
A Washington Star description of a counting game led by Zero where players number from three, pass numbers divisible by their own, and penalties or shifts occur for zero digits and repeated dividends. Points awarded for mistakes and detections. highest score wins when stopped.
Collect all odds and ends of candles and place them between the folds of an old duster. Clean the iron on this while hot before using it, and it will go over the articles as smoothly as one could desire.
The article advises cleaning gilt frames and moldings by gently rubbing with egg white. For fly spots use a camel's hair brush dipped in spirits of wine applied to the spots.
The article notes techniques for linen work. Rubbing white soap on the cloth eases drawing threads. For eyelet embroidery, placing a white scar beneath the material and guiding the stiletto through yields neater eyelets due to soap imparting stiffness.
A housekeeper outlines a method to preserve strawberries without cooking. Use fresh berries and clean utensils, sterilize jars, mash with sugar, let sugar dissolve, fill jars to the brim, sun cure for two days, then seal and store in a cool dry place. The result is a fresh flavor and rich jam.
A Pittsburg Press tip suggests renewing mattresses, airing and rotating them weekly, and washing bed ticking with cold water and permanganate of potash to keep bedding fresh. It notes France and Germany remanufacture mattresses each spring and urges simple, affordable upkeep at home.
Walnut Candy combines brown sugar rich milk and English walnuts boiled and cut into squares. Also includes a salad dressing with eggs mustard salt sugar vinegar and cream. Johnny Cake uses cornmeal flour sugar salt baking powder egg milk and butter baked twenty five minutes. Lobster Salad mixes chopped lobsters lettuce rings boiled eggs mustard salt vinegar and butter.
A five year old pupil Vera Coster in the Great Barrington public schools writes from right to left and in mirror form. Placing the writing before a mirror reveals a clear readable copy, attracting attention from teachers and observers.
The city will lay seventy eight miles of salt water mains from sight to twenty four inches in diameter with 2021 hydrants for fire protection. New York.
The white marble McKinley monument in Niagara Square Buffalo will be formally dedicated Thursday September 5 as the centerpiece of Old Home Week September 1 to 7. A commission oversaw the $150000 project which includes a civic military parade carnival sports and evening decorations. Former Buffalonians are urged to attend and send names to James W Greene chairman Old Home Week Committee. Railroads will offer excursion rates to and from Buffalo.
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