On the Trail of the American Missionary
William T. Ellis sails into Calcutta and India to study American missionary work from a secular lens. He describes Eurasians and white Europeans, Y M C A and Y W C A efforts, zenana missions, women’s shelters, and schools from Lucknow to Allahabad, noting leprosy clinics, native colleges, and native-made industries, amid a sweeping view of Methodist and Episcopal missions and their social reach.
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Calcutta
India
William Carey
Serampore
Reginald Heber
Church of England
Greenland
American Methodist Mission
England
Methodist Episcopal Mission
Leas
Suez
Far East
Bombay
Y. W
Japan
Kom
Abe
Woman's Missionary Union of America
Allahabad
Wishard
Bertsch
Lucknow
Isabella Thoburn College
University of Alababad
Presbyterian Girls’ School
John Wanamaker
Miss Forman
New India
Mission School
Reid Christian College
Methodist Episcopal Church
America
Methodist Episcopal Missions
Bareilly
Wiliam Butler
Fashionable indoor robes and tea gowns from velvet to lace
The piece surveys elegant women’s attire for home wear and formal evenings, highlighting white silk gowns trimmed with silver sequins, chiffon frocks, and fur accented robes. It notes trousseau styles, velvet and panne options, and cottage indoor garments, including a pale pink rose accents, Valenciennes lace ensembles, and a stylish pinafore blouse in velveteen with taffeta trims.
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Deshrabille
Trousseaus
Singular Coincidence in Death of Truro Bishops
An English exchange notes a striking pattern around deaths of Truro bishops. Dr Benson fell ill at Hawarden church service and died within minutes, Dr Wilkinson died during a meeting in Edinburgh, and Dr Gott died suddenly in Trenython while directing his chaplain.
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Wilkinson
St. Andrews
Stubbs
Truro
Benson
Canterbury
Hawarden
Edinburgh
Boy Answered He Saw Her In Yard Fence
A four year old Harold plays near a yard fenced four feet high. His mother calls about a cow in the next lot. He says he only saw hooks and eyes. In Willimantic Connecticut a woman contesting damage guilt is noted. Mayor Dana says she could not have put her foot in the hole because he couldn’t.
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Allahabad
Samuel Higginbottom
Presbyterian Mission
Charles R. Cook
Lucknow
All India
Reformed Episcopal Church
American Board
Ahmednagar
Robert A. Hume
Hume
King Edward
D. C. Churchill
Oberlin College
Massachusetts Institution of Technology
J. B. Knight
Amherst College
Agricultural College
Churchhill
Emily R. Bissell
H. G. Bissell
India
Mark Keaslar
Agra
Joseph B. Bowlea
Harold
Harper's
Willimantic
Conn
Dana
Adam
Eve
New Ideas in Desserts from a Western Cook
A vintage dessert guide presents a maple mousse recipe costing under a quart of ice cream. It instructs beating yolks, cooking in a double boiler with maple syrup, chilling, then folding in whipped cream and setting in ice for several hours. It notes alternatives like a pineapple Bavarian cream using gelatin, pineapple, sugar, cream, and candied cherries.
Dumplings For The Stew Recipe Method
A chicken is simmered in salted water until tender. Potatoes are boiled and mashed, bread diced and browned in butter, then mixed with eggs flour and seasonings to form dumplings. Dumplings boil five to seven minutes, then are served with the chicken and thickened broth poured over.
Mysterious aged cheese from a Boston writer
A Boston Globe writer recalls a peculiar cheese made from fresh milk curds set with rennet and salted before being packed in a wooden tub. The tub aged in a dark cellar for weeks or months, its strong aroma signaling the hidden ripening process.
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Boston Globe
Mustard Sauce and Cold Mustard Preparations
Two tablespoons butter melt without browning then flour, gradually add a pint hot stock to form a smooth thick sauce. Finish with two more tablespoons butter, salt, pepper, three tablespoons English mustard and a touch of cayenne. For cold mustard sauce blend quarter cup mustard with olive oil and onion juice sugar paprika then add vinegar to paste.
Old Man Pertickiler and the Grumbling Green
Byron Williams portrays Old Man Pertickiler and his misers of charity as neighbors struggle with his cantankerous refusals and neighborly duties. The poem follows Pertickiler Green from begging to burial, ending with a sharp mockery of his afterlife claims and heaven’s gates.
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Charity
Heaven
Gardening spoof and wry humor about daily life
A humorous, vaguely nostalgic monologue filled with garden and domestic quips. The speaker jokes about rising canned salmon prices prompting home canning, polishes tools with improvised gadgets, and shares light anecdotes about lemons, socks, and lawn care. The piece blends playful gardening anecdotes with social observations and wordplay.
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William T. Ellis
Methodistism
Allahabad Christian College
Princeton Hall
Princeton
Arthur H. Ewing
Mt. of Olives
Mount of Olives
Ouldoor Wear
Ganaran
Byron Williams
Old Man Pertickiler
Pertickiler
Pertickiler Green
St. Peter
Mister Green
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