National Vitality report highlights diet and air for health
A Yale professor leads a review of National Vitality and Its Conservation, a bulletin from the Committee on One Hundred on National Health. It argues meat reduction, vegetarian endurance, and alcohol limits improve strength, with clean air and proper housing as essentials. It cites experiments by Chittenden, Brussels vegetarians, and pasteurized milk in Liverpool, urging readers to seek the report for guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving Fisher
Yale University
Chittenden
University of Brussels
England
Liverpool
Washington
Fisher
Yale
No Friend Like a Mother Stands By Her Boy
A mother smothers a frightened infant and a brutal father retaliates with a breakable shrine of glass. The tale threads Willie Jukesberry through school mischief, arson, fights, prison, and a fatal end, showing the harsh burden of a mother’s loyalty and a father’s harsh discipline across a Mississippi style ledger of small town tragedy.
Born Old Maids in Abridged Modern Life
Column notes different types of old maids from birth to adulthood, describing born old maids as prim, orderly, and tradition driven. It explores how their love of routine shapes marriage and family, and how men perceive their perceived caution and rigidity.
The Born Old Maid in Just Girls Calendar
A narrator reflects on a girl described as a born old maid, her primness, wallflower status at parties, and incompatible habits with romance. The piece urges gentle brotherly teasing to soften her set ways, noting her true and sweet nature beneath the polish. It teases more entries in the Just Girls calendar.
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Tom
Some Citizens Abroad By WEX JONES
Cairo reports American John Smith bought a Neith statuette for 27 dollars that later bore a New York inscription and a 1909 date, suggesting modern value. Paris hosts Hiram Hoople of Freshwater College who urged large families as citizenship proof, while Prof Leroux mocked the idea. Berlin notes Osteopath J Edward Pillbox’s pilsner mixup and calm reaction, echoed in a cable urging restraint and peace.
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Paris
Hiram J. Hoople
Freshwater College
Mont
Berlin
J. Edward Pillbox
Oshkosh
Wis
Dr. Pillbox
Alas The Poor Sculptors By James J Montague
A caustic note on Barye’s animal sculptures in yellow plaster, mocking leopards, dik dik s pace, mongooses, and a predatory tiger. The tale contrasts Barye with Phidias’s marble Colossuses and laments incomplete anatomy and misfired details.
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Nile
Teddy
Barge
Phidias
Sphinx Carving Flaws Prompt Rage At Baffin Boy
The passage mocks an unnamed carver who laments lacking guidance from T. Roosevelt. He claims he cannot succeed because he did not study Sphinx figures or Rameses politics, leading to a flawed sculpture with two fore pawns and no tail, provoking his fury as Rameses boils him and grinds him to pulp.
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Baffin Boy
Arab Sands
Rameses
Baffin
Teddy
Retorik and Declamashun Class Leaves Pa Amused
A playful reminiscence unfolds as a father eavesdrops on a home class in rhetoric and declamation. The scene features a chorus of ladies reciting verses and a mischievous child’s bedtime-like humor. Tension rises as references to prices and a distant longing mix with Victorian era cadence.
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Nere
Hasey
Tom
Up-to-Date Jokes Exit Coal Man Wood Man
The riddle notes a shift from coal and wood to Ice man figures as winter heating evolves. It observes paying for thawing in winter and paying to freeze in summer, hinting at modern energy or climate related costs and services. The terse verse frames a seasonal bill cycle with changing utility roles.
Seasonal Rent To Lord Bankhurst Cited In Courier Journal
A Louisville Courier Journal item notes that a speaker praises a man as seen with Lord Bankhurst and mentions he has rented him for the season, signaling a social or sporting connection and ongoing arrangement. The brief reflects Regency or gentry style banter typical of the period.
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Lord Bankhurst
Louisville Courier-Journal
Not of Women Hats but Fear of Mice and Rats
A fragment from the Chicago News hints at a curious contrast, noting women’s hats and their relation to mice and rats. The snippet implies a social or humorous reflection on fashion and pests without providing full context or events.
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Chicago
Newe
Forcing a Handicap and the Lantern Stolen
Diogenes returns from a quest for an honest map and responds to the question of giving up the chase with a remark that the pursuit became a necessity. He notes that someone stole his lantern in a witty classical reflection from Lippincott's.
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Hoople
Diogenes
What's in a name in a old time jobs quip
A brief humorous exchange notes a man named Holdfast unable to keep work while his neighbor Gunn has never been fired. The remark plays on surnames as a small social satire about employment fate and identity.
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Jerry Fargo
Mother
Willie
Jerry
Lavin
Harry’ Simmons
Mexico
Hancock
Holdfast
Gunn
Buffragette wage quote sparks mixed reactions
A columnized quip from Tit-Bits cites a married man arguing that a woman should receive the same wages as a man, reflecting ongoing debates on pay equality. The remark, attributed to a Buffragette context, highlights gender wage discussions in contemporary society.
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Buffragette
A Psalm of Still Life
A fragmented verse reflects on storage life and deceit, urging action and courage. It contrasts trust, public perception, and mortality with a call to live intensely and endure the burdens of false innocence while pursuing purpose.
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