Island Shelter and Bond on a Deserted Island
In ten days Iris Deane and Captain Robert Anstruther convert a desert isle into a shelter. Jenks the sailor builds a two-room villa, a sky lantern, and a ledging camp as they name headlands North Cape Europa Point Filey Brig and Prospect Park. They study food sources and fish though the past haunts of war still linger between them.
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Twenty-fourth Lancers
Iris
Lord Ventnor
Torer
Miss Deane
Captain Anstruther
Jenka
Robert Jenks
Mr. Jenks
Jenks
Howe
Irie
Price
Tito
Benny
Au Naturel
Palm Tree Rock
Sirdar
Jevis
North Cape
Europa Point
Filey Brig
Prospect Park
Deane
Sirdar Survivors Hope for Rescue at Turtle Beach
Jenks and Iris endure island peril after the Sirdar breaks apart. They find a shelved boat with provisions and a salt water basin for a bath. Iris fears for Jenks as a distant cry reveals danger from Dyak captors on the beach.
Lincoln and the pioneer's melancholy
The article portrays Abraham Lincoln as hopeful yet strained by melancholy, reflecting the pioneer spirit's somber legacy. It notes the harsh frontier life shaped by malaria, harsh weather, and hostility, shaping Lincoln's deep mood swings and rare bursts of joy and poetry.
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Mr. Lincoln
Lincoln
Helen Nico
St. Nicholas
Harvest Supper Tale Aimed at British Attache Laughs
Capt Ryan at a Washington dinner recalls a tale of an old farmer renowned for his tolerance to champagne. As he drinks repeatedly, the man’s frown hardens and he asks when whiskey will be provided, joking that minerals are tedious.
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Lord Ventnor
Iris
Hongkong
Singapore
China Sea
Ryan
Washington
James
The Bishop’s Thousand Pounds Story
The Bishop of London recalls a morning when a busy prelate ignored routine to meet a distressed visitor. She offered to give £1000 for a charitable use, and the bishop reveals he had planned to spend that very sum on a compassionate project, and the plan was enacted.
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London
Easter Home Decor Trends and Palm Room Ideas
The piece describes Easter decorating in homes with new dress ideas, Japanese room themes, and palm room greenery. It suggests affordable touches like palm trees, ferns, rubber plants, and ribboned Easter baskets to create bright, spring-accurate interiors.
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Japan
Grandfather
Dainty Easter Trifles and Timely Gift Hints
The piece suggests Easter gift ideas from ornate ostrich eggs hollowed as boutonnières to white and pastel floral arrangements. It describes decorative pillows with butterfly motifs, blue satin foundations, embroidered monograms, and Easter cards featuring playful chicks, roosters, and ostriches to suit seasonal traditions.
Five Ways of Cooking Eggs In Tomato Shells And More
Easter breakfast features varied egg dishes including Eggs In Tomato Shells, Calf's Brain Omelet, Eggs Aromatique, Eggs a la Marnay, and Baked Eggs. Methods cover poaching, frying, shirred eggs, brain omelets, and decorative croutons with tomato sauce.
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Cantynne
Hlongkong
Robert AD
Struther
Ventnor
Tre
Robert Anstruther
Belleal Cavalry
Wilver
Sirb
Turtle Beach
Ment
Furepa Point
Ross
Faust
Lunhheon
Nobert
China and Glass
Land of Flowers
Gitte
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