The Tombs and Temples of Nanking’s Historic Rulers
The piece tours Nanking noting the Ming university halls once housing 30000 students and the tomb of Ming emperor Tai Dzu. It contrasts ancient exam halls with modern schools, explains Confucianism versus idol worship, and describes Tai Dzu’s tomb complex and five pairs of stone guardian statues.
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China
University of Nanking
Hong Wu
Schoors
Vachei T
Catherine F. Lindsay
Ballinois
Confucius
Mencius
Nanking
Assyria
Peking
Lincoln
Tomo
Tai Dzu
Tai Dan
Purple Mountain
Kang Hsi
Fishes with Built-In Lanterns Displayed at National Museum
A model of a phosphorescent deep sea fish is shown at the United States National Museum. The sides bear luminous spots and a large lantern-like area sits atop the head. In the display, the glow is represented by glass buttons connected to the interior by tubes, illustrating the bioluminescent adaptation.
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United States National Museum
Fire Destroys Stirling Mine After Five Year Blaze
A Sauchie Colliery near Stirling Scotland endured a five year fire in its mine. The early shaft was abandoned as the blaze continued underground and the company pursued alternate plans.
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Stirling
Scotland
Sauchie Colliery Company
Secret whisky stills use abandoned mine as fiery hideout
An old shaft housed a gang’s illicit distillery producing untaxed Scotch. A coal seam fire forced its escape as flames spread across the countryside. Firefighters built a mud wall over five years at $80,000, then sealed the mine and injected carbonic acid to quench the blaze.
Young novelist ridicules reader’s railway mishap
Kirking quotes a smug novelist who boasts a reader took his latest work on a train and, while reading, traveled 20 miles past his destination. The novelist’s friend quips that sleeping on trains is a bad habit.
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Kirking
Vegetables Should Be Picked Young and Cooked Quickly
The article urges housewives to demand fresh young vegetables and avoid overcooking. It cites peas and beans as often past prime and notes that steaming preserves flavor better than boiling. It argues farmers push size over flavor and stresses vegetables require careful, skilled preparation.
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Lima
France
Italy
Cream Sponge Cake Recipe from Old Cookbook
A quick sponge cake method beats two eggs with sugar until light then folds in boiling water and flour with baking powder and salt. After baking in greased pans for twelve minutes a whipped vanilla cream fills and decorates the layers.
Dandelion Wine Recipe Steps From Old Almanac
Use four quarts of dandelion petals over a gallon of hot boiled water. Let stand three days, stirring often. Strain, boil with lemon rind orange rind ginger and sugar per gallon. Add sliced rind back in, ferment with yeast on toast. After a day or two transfer to a cask and bottle in two months.
Veal Soup Recipe from Historic Household Guide
Boil a knuckle of veal in three quarts cold water with a pinch of salt and one tablespoon uncooked rice. Simmer four hours until reduced by half. Remove from heat and whisk the yolk of one egg into a cup of cream or fresh milk, add butter, strain the hot soup, and beat vigorously for one minute before serving.
Steeped Prunes Method for Soft Dried Fruit
Wash and sterilize prunes with boiling water then soak 24 hours to become tender. No sugar is needed. use in any recipe calling for stewed prunes. Dried fruits can be treated the same, as cooking may create acidity sugar cannot mask.
Cleaning white sweaters with plaster in a pillow slip
A home method suggests whitening white sweaters by placing them in a pillow slip and sprinkling with plaster of Paris worth ten cents. Shake until bright, hang outdoors, then beat out the remaining powder.
Home Cookery: Quick Desserts and Light Dishes for All
A dated household menu offers fruit desserts and simple dishes for children and guests. Includes strawberry shortcake tips, stuffed Bermuda onions with veal filling, fruit salads with pineapple and banana, cocoanut buns, fish pudding, and easy puddings like stow pudding and baked caramel custard plus orange trifle.
Little Economies In Everyday Kitchen Habits
The article highlights small savings in daily cooking such as scraping egg shells to measure eggs, preserving eggs with water glass for winter storage, using spatulas to scrape bowls to save batter, and boiling parings with water to make jelly. It emphasizes mindful use of eggs and scraps to reduce waste and stretch food purchases.
Left over meats ideas for reheating and repurposing
Practical guide on reclaiming leftovers with flavor preserved. Reheat in gravy to avoid toughening, slice or dice uniform pieces, and use in dishes like meat pies shepherds pie hash and croquettes. Recipes suggest thin gravy, biscuit dough topping or mashed potato layer and optional vegetables to extend small portions.
New Electric Bell Eliminates Battery Wiring
A Paris invention uses an electric bell with batteries housed inside the bell body. The magnet components are beneath the gong while the box holds three dry cells, lasting years. Only the push button and wires remain as touch points.
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Paris
Boy questions Grant sincerity in a Civil War quip
A Wichita boy reports to his father that General Grant seemed insincere. He cites Grant's memoirs and a letter to a Confederate general at Fort Pillow in which Grant signs off as Your obedient servant U. S. Grant, prompting a humorous discussion on sincerity.
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Grant
Fort Pillow
Smithereens
Practice Versus Preachment in Zeno's Stoic Platform
A disciple fears bearing pain without complaint. Zeno responds that bearing pain is not required to be praised, labeling the avoidance of trouble as merely their platform. The exchange highlights the tension between practice and preachment.
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Zeno
Army Size Claim Sparks Debate Over Military Strength
The discussion covers a claim about the United States having no army, quickly countered by a statement that the country’s “traveling public” amounted to 1,004,081,346 last year. The exchange reflects skepticism about official military figures and rhetoric.
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Gotham
Necessity for Coin Sparks Philosophical Banter
A philosopher notes that some things are more valuable than money, while an iconoclast retorts that money is needed to obtain those things, highlighting a playful clash over value and wealth.
Care in Selecting Mutton and Lamb
The article advises careful mutton selection with clear hard white fat indicating freshness. It notes leg fat is least and shoud er acceptable, lean mutton is deep red, and spring lamb should be pink with white fat. Lamb is digestible but often pricey, and market choices should balance nutrition and cost.
Vinegar Kills the Germs of Typhoid
Paris doctors Loir and Legagneux report vinegar kills the typhoid bacillus in an hour and five minutes when used at ten grams per liter of water. A practical note suggests washing salads and immersing leaves in this vinegar solution for about an hour and a quarter to remove typhoid danger.
Try This Next Time for Leftovers and Cleaning Tips
Practical house guidance on avoiding waste with a spare plum pudding reboiling croquettes from leftovers and storing odds and ends. Instructions cover croquette pot use, cleaning cake tins, and renovating old fur with bran and ammonia for refreshed appearance.
Fig Pudding Step by Step for Home Craft
Combine suet and figs until creamy then mix in bread crumbs soaked in milk. Beat in eggs sugar and soda, fold with fruit paste, steam three hours in a buttered mold. Serve with a yellow sauce of sugar beaten with brandy vanilla for flavor.
Cream of Onion Soup Recipe Steps
Slice onions to one and a half cups and melt butter in a large pan. Cook onions slowly until tender. Stir in flour until absorbed then add hot milk gradually. Bring to a boil, season, simmer ten minutes, sieve, reheat and serve hot.
Maple Cream Puffs with Maple Icing
Recipe instructions for maple cream puffs including butter, boiling water, flour, and eggs. Details cover mixing, beating, piping onto pans, baking, whipping cream, folding in maple sugar, filling puffs, and topping with maple icing.
Cold Bean Croquettes for Easy Breakfasts
Mash two cupfuls baked beans with the yolks of one or two eggs and melted butter and a pinch of salt. Form into cones, roll in cracker crumbs and cook for a quick morning treat without an egg wash.
Baby Health in Summer Nourishment and Care
The article from the Children's Bureau emphasizes keeping a baby comfortable in heat through proper feeding, clothing, bathing, and sleep. It stresses breast milk as essential, safe milk handling, and maternal care including nipple preparation, regular nursing schedules, and a supportive home environment to ensure a healthy infant.
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Children's Bureau
U. & Department of Labor
Castile
Orange Cake Instructions from a Historic Recipe
Cream three quarters cup butter with two cups granulated sugar. Sift two teaspoons baking powder with three cups pastry flour. Add one tablespoon flour to creamed butter and sugar, then add four eggs one by one with flour between each. Alternate flour and one cup milk, add one teaspoon orange extract. Bake in two pans in moderate oven about thirty five minutes until edges shrink.
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