Birds and Their Friendly Ways with People
Edward B. Clark offers a lively survey of urban and suburban birds and how humans can cohabit with them. Purple martins, house wrens, brown thrashers, barn swallows, and marsh wrens are praised for their insect control and song. The piece stresses respectful observation, nesting habits, and humane lessons from a boy who shot swallows, which led to a lasting shift toward avian appreciation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis
Eldse
Progne Subis
Chenang
New England
New York State
Wren
Pevey
Chicago
Mmne
Thrasher
B Larly
Prof. Dearborn
Field Columbian Museum
Eloy
Tom
Tabby
Chelidon Erythrogaster
United States
Mr. Wren
Dratothorus Palustris
Bradford Torrey
A Curious Riddle About a Roasted Dish
The poem describes stages from raw earth to a cooked dish with spices and crab, noting brown butter and dice cuts. It warns of a deceptive phase when the dish appears creamy and yellow, unsettling innocent beliefs, and ends with the reminder that things are seldom what they seem.
Old Fashioned Casters and Never Generations Tips
An old advertisement extols silver polish for casters once common in hotels and restaurants, noting their awkward but practical use for proper seasoning. It then lists practical kitchen cautions and habits, such as preserving toast bits for milk toast, saving cake scraps, avoiding frying fish in butter, saving bacon grease, grating orange peels for flavorings, and pricking plums before cooking.
Jane and the Ladder in Rustic Cherry Memory
Poem reflects a narrator preferring the old fashioned ladder and tree cherry picking scene over new platforms. He recalls courting with a sweetheart beneath a tree, apron lines, and the joy of imagining pie with his mother’s recipe, despite modern improvements. The piece laments progress blotting memory of Jane and the ladder.
Appetite and the tongue nerve science
A famous German physician explains hunger stems from low blood in the stomach and a tongue nerve branch triggers appetite. Spicy foods stimulate this nerve, making “bite” and relish natural demands, not whims.
Carnival of Naples by Pain's Circus in Kansas City
Pain's Carnival of Naples arrives at the Circus Grounds for two weeks starting August 3rd. Five hundred performers, five acres of scenery, and a Neapolitan city recreation amid Fireworks and a 1500 dollar Manhattan Beach show. Reserved seating available at Owl Drug Store.
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Pain
Naples
Palin
Kansas City
Vesuvius
Bay of
Manhattan Beach
Owl Drug Store
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Epee
Edward B. Clark
American Ornithologista’ Union
Joseph B. Bowles
Brown Thrasher
House Wren, Nast and Egge
Irhrooms
Jane and the
Ladder
Jane
Swan
Pittsburg
Atlanta Constitution
Brooklyn Eagle
Yale
Blufington
Philadelphia Press
Kansas City Directory
Sesser
Ridenour-Baker Grocery
Senkins
Velie
Nok
Veon
John Deere Plow CO
Organs Eee
Brown's
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