Training for Leisure in Education and Postures
Arthur C. Benson argues education should cultivate tasteful leisure through habits like handicrafts, reading, music, and collecting. He warns that without deliberate guidance, workers may waste hours in boredom after retirement and urges schools to foster evening reading, crafts, and varied hobbies to enrich long, useful lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beliare la Bett
Steels
London
Morocco
Eton
Oecar Browning
Pinafore Tunic for Revamping Frocks in Net and Lace
This pinafore tunic style uses net and lace to revamp shabby frocks. The design emphasizes practicality and decorative detail, offering a simple way to refresh existing garments.
Reptile transformation experiment at London's Zoological Gardens
The Times reports on amphibian metamorphosis with tadpoles turning into frogs and axolotls showing extended larval traits. At London's Zoological Gardens a curator achieved successful metamorphosis in one axolotl into the true salamander Amblystoma after air breathing induced changes. The transformed animal is smaller, with lost gills and swimming web, and a longer broader head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everyoos
Ayn
Zoological Gardens
Jardin Ges Plantes
Paris
Amaller
Premature Death of Spanish Premier Canalejas
The article profiles Antonio Canalejas, a veteran Spanish statesman born in Ferrol who rose from deputy for Suri to president of the Chamber. It notes his Liberal reforms, especially in religious policy, education, and land taxation, his anti clerical measures, and his controversial stance after Ferrer’s execution. It also covers his strong resolve to implement reforms despite clergy and Republican opposition and his role in Morocco border demarcation with France.
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Don Joos Cannidge
Ft Ferrol
Cacheta
PS Berime
Mt Am Oaurky
Daily Telegraph
Ihe
Ite Iy
Cortes
Suri
Chamber
Benot Moret
Marahil Lopes Domingues
Cuba
America
Ferrer
Canuljas
Spain
Inez
Canalejas
Costa
Ife
Vatican
Madrid
Barcelona
W. M. Donohoe
Senor Canlejan
Conader Ferrer
Van
Clericala
Ald Senor Canalejos
Eay
Senor Canalejas
France
Morocco
Cornish Fishermen and the Drift of a Coastal Industry
A Cape Cornwall scene looks calm under November sun as fishermen prepare a seine catch at Mullion. The piece details pilchard fishing signals and a three hundred hogsheads haul, while noting the decline of landings at Newquay St Ives and Cadgwith. It warns government aid is needed to prevent the loss of a historic industry and naval reserve implications.
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Tregarihen
Newe and Leader
St Michael's
Lisard
Polchman
Mangel
Monemge
Landewedmack
Mullion
Gunwalloe
Breage
Perramuthno
Annes
Huer
Nah
Sannem
Lamorna
Walter
Diuer
Hver
Furze
Newquay
St. Ives
Land's End
Mount’s Bay
Cadgwith
Bt. Ives
Bennen
Porthgwarreh
Mediterranean
Genoa
Leghorn
Naples
Cup
Cure for the alive like mind memory tech discussed
The piece mocks memory boasting as a flaw and critiques new teaching methods to aid recall. It lampoons a married woman’s imagined prompts and argues ordinary minds struggle with invented memory tricks. The tone satirizes memory improvement fads and self deception.
IN COTTON LAND CHIL D LABOR AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
A 1910s view contrasts Southern child labor with Northern laws, noting many Southern states used child workers in canneries mills and mines. It cites reforms: banning factory work for under 14, shorter hours, enforcement agencies in nine states, and support movements for widowed mothers' children. It frames awakening as rapid, urging uniform federal labor standards and highlighting Britain’s earlier failures.
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India
England
Catton Land
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Carolinas
Mississippi Valley
Great Britain
Manchester
Ireland
Scotland
North
Carolines
Louisiana
Bradford
Goth Carolina
South
Britain
Gulf Coast
Florida
Pat
Trock Gardens
Delaware
Maryland
Kentucky
Landa
Elerven
Texas
Virginia
United States Senate
American Bar Association
Alco
Charlotte
Dingulas
Tropics
A Highland School Remembered and Its Modern Rise
The writer recalls a rural Highland school from over thirty years ago, a crowded single room where a strict but passionate teacher guided learners from infant to senior divisions. He reflects on poverty, parental sacrifices, and mothers who funded education, praising tenacity and the link between harsh youth surroundings and sharp minds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lttle Sretech School
Goldsmith
Vllage Echool
Thane
Fifteen-year-old mill girl wins music scholarship
Miele Watson of Meltham Yorkshire aged fifteen wins a two year Royal Academy music scholarship after years of mill work rising at five each morning to study with her parents sacrifices noted by Lloyds Weekly News. Huddersfield College of Music head Dr A Faglefield Lull praises her range and promise in classical and light songs and an oratorio future. Funds are needed to cover scholarship expenses as others contribute from the mill community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tam
Craton
Hugh Miller
Cromarty
Miele Watson
Meltham
Yorkshire
Lloyd's Weekly News
Royal Academy
Firth Watson
Bank Buildings
Abe la
Jonas Brook and
Misse
Blaie
Lioyd
Mra Kenworthy
Calm Lands
Dina Robinson
Huddersfield
Blackpool
A. Faglefield Lull
Huddersfield College of Music
Mia Moncur Kime
Callege
Mra Sime
A. H. Moncur Sime
Hull
Misa Watson
Campaign seeks censorship of suggestive dances in New York Philadelphia
New York and Philadelphia reformers plan a season of strict dance censorship led by prominent hostesses. They target suggestive dances and unruly behavior in ballrooms, aiming to end stair lounging lights out incidents and chaotic ballroom gyrations. Champagne supplies may shrink for the young crowd.
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Philadelphia
New York
Daily Telegraph
Society Shepherdresses
Chicago
Inter Bread
Li Christ
China
Iila
Folka
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Arthur C. Benson
Tong
Fishermen
Humer
Everving
Newlyn
Mounsehole
Chet
Madem
Enka
Lois
Lot
Margaret M'Millan
Highland School
We Spence
Lacydes
Allence
Burns
Bunyan
Mils
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