Roses and thorns earn the giver wealth of thanks
A quotation reflects on wealth through giving up versus taking up. Beecher notes richness comes from sacrifice not possessions, contrasting grumbling with gratitude as roses exist alongside thorns.
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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
6
Household Hints and Frugal Kitchen Fixes From Old Time Columns
Useful weather helper for stamps and pins, guidance on lace threads, sewing tips, and safety in the basket. Home duties for children, moth prevention, and a crust of salt pork with milk gravy. Frugal meals, custards, omelets, foot care tips, and care for corns with adhesive plasters.
Art Aims to Harmonize Labor and Rest Says William Morris
The quote reflects Morris’s view that true creativity arises when work is joyful and rest is purposeful. It frames art as a balance between productive effort and recuperation, guiding makers toward sustainable, fulfilling practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Morris
Dishes for the Vegetarian Menu Plans and Substitutes
An article urging gradual shift to vegetarian diets with high protein non meat foods. It lists nuts cheese macaroni rice beans peas oatmeal whole wheat and recipes including mock fowl cream of tomato soup scalloped cheese and peanut soup. It emphasizes cost savings and balanced meals with desserts and salads.
Emersonian Resolve in Everyday Duty
Short ode on steadfastness urging steady effort in small tasks and duties. It frames fate testing a person as a call to prove worth by doing the right thing when asked. The tone mirrors moral reflection and personal resilience.
Meat Substitutes For Meatless Diets
Living without meat requires study of foods to supply protein from other sources. Suggestions include Peanut Loaf with milk bread crumbs and peanuts, tomato sauce, Pea Timbales from mashed peas and eggs, Peas on Toast with white sauce, and Asparagus with hard cooked eggs. Nut dishes and nut breads offer valuable nourishment even when used simply or with other foods.
Josh Billings Quip on Knowing and Belief
A succinct Zen remark attributed to Josh Billings jokes that having excessive knowledge is worse than knowing little and being wrong. The wry line underscores skepticism toward partial truths and overconfident wisdom.
Children’s Bonnets of Lace and Silk for Little Misses
A report on a range of children’s bonnets featuring lace straw and silk braids with light silks and ribbons in blue pink and multicolor trims. Describes two bonnet styles with braid frames, Dutch flare sides, square braided crowns, ribbon puffs and rosettes, elastic fastening, and adjustable fits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Bottomley
Cheese Dishes From Creamy Classics
A vintage guide outlines multiple cheese preparations including sandwiches, cheese squares, cheese balls, and a cheese souffle. It details butter, American cheese, olives, and paprika blends, plus a cheese salad with gelatine and whipped cream, and serving ideas with celery, toast, and garnish.
Do Good to the Sick and Poor Says John Howard
The quote urges taking action to aid the ill and needy. It emphasizes visiting the sick, inquiring into their needs, and ministering to them. It presents compassionate service as the best remedy for a heavy heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Howard
Putting the Shoes in Order for Summer Footwear
The article advises cleaning and restoring last year’s shoes before summer. Bring old footwear to the cobbler for half soles, new heel lifts, replacement buttons, and strap repairs. After repairs, fit new ribbons, lace ties, then tree and polish each pair to protect them from moisture.
Proper Patching For Faded Dresses And Striped Fabrics
When patching children's dresses match the weave and if striped or plaid fabrics align lines. Ensure patch color matches the dress and avoid new material on a faded garment. For fading, sun-dry a piece of new material to mimic the dress, place under the tear, trim frayed edges, sew with invisible stitches, dampen and press from the wrong side to conceal repairs.
Footwear Indorsed by Paris Fashion This Season
The white boot dominates the Parisienne toilette this season paired with white costumes and conspicuous white touches. Boots feature very high tops fitting the ankle for a trim look. Flesh-tinted silk stockings accompany buttoned boots while black stockings pair with black evening slippers. A new gun metal colonial pump with a curved buckle appeals for piazza and country wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Parisienne
Keeping Cream Sweet in Cold Storage
Advice to preserve cream for days by adding two to three lumps of sugar and stirring well before covering and refrigerating in the coldest corner.
Sweetbreads in a New Way Ready for frying
Take sweetbreads remove rough parts soak overnight wash boil simmer then cool and drain. Fry browned in butter or drippings, cook tomatoes in remaining butter then combine. Season with salt pepper and cloves and finish with a flour bound butter and simmer briefly before serving.
Cleaning Garments With Gasoline Method
A dated cleaning method describes piping some contrasting color threads around spots, soaking in boiling water, heating gasoline in a separate vessel covered by cloth, then cleaning the fabric by working it up and down to target spots. Air dry with careful hanging to preserve shape.
How to Blanche Sweetbreads for Preparation
The guide explains blanching sweetbreads starting with soaking in cold water for two hours, changing water until clear, then boiling with salted water. After draining, rinse in cold water, chill thoroughly, press into shape, wrap in a clean cloth, and set aside. For slicing, place a weight to flatten before use.
Simple Cabbage and Egg Dish From Common Kitchen
A home recipe describes slicing cabbage fine on a rolling board with a tin can, seasoning with salt and pepper, mixing finely chopped hard boiled eggs, and combining with the cabbage in a covered dish. It instructs making a vinegar and sugar sauce with butter and egg then pouring over the cabbage and serving warm with sliced eggs as garnish.
Scalloped Tomatoes with Cheese and Crackers
A recipe notes layering tomato mixture with salt pepper and onion juice, adds minced celery, buttered soda crackers, and grated cheese. Bake a covered dish for twenty minutes, then finish with cracker crumbs and bits of butter.
Petticoat Flounce Finishes with Beading and Ribbon
A crafting tip describes replacing a flounce button with a narrow beading loop at the ruffle height. Sew half to the skirt and finish the other half with a ribbon to head the flounce. The method prevents sagging and yields a refined look.
Tint Curtains With Turmeric Dye
Instructions outline making a tint for white curtains using turmeric dissolved in a gallon of water. After cleaning, curtains are boiled in the solution for a few minutes to achieve an ecru shade.
How to Press Heavy Cloth
Instruction on pressing heavy cloth using a board with no soft layer. Press on the right side of the fabric with four cloths laid between to prevent marks from the iron. Maintain firm even pressure to avoid impression on the material.
Lydia E Pinkham Product Ad Claims Female Health Restored
Ashland Kentucky and Camden New Jersey readers praised Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles and relief from displacement. The ad invites letters to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co for confidential, woman-to-woman advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ashland
May Wyatt
United States
Camden
N. J
Ella Johnston
Vine St
Lynn
Mass
Heart risk warned after General Grant death
The Medical Record links Gen. Frederick D. Grant’s death to heart failure and warns hearts over forty five cannot endure internal pressure. It notes Grant’s own report on officers as poor insurance risks and urges gentler treatment of aging hearts to prevent more deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick D. Grant
Educator Troubles Echo as Paris School Ails Over Luncheon Worm
Chancellor Day recalls months ago expelling a student for complaint while M Bournier director of the Paris High School of Commerce suspends a pupil who protested by sending him an artichoke with a worm in it served at luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Day
M. Bournier
Paris High School of Commerce
Suspect Quip on Husbands View of Woman Suffrage
In a playful exchange, a woman asks Mrs Hewrigus about her husband’s stance on woman suffrage. She replies with a witty line: “One foot in the air, of course. He’s one of the chronic kickers.”
Quotations on Courage and Beauty by Landor
A literary epigraph reflecting on gendered perceptions of bravery and beauty. The text contrasts women commiserating the brave with men praising the beautiful and cites William Michael Rossetti style phrasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landor
Postum touted as remedy for biliousness malaria
A Fort Worth resident credits Postum with curing bilious temperament and malaria after stopping coffee for a year. He says red blood improved, weight gained, and no medicine used. The letter from Postum Co. emphasizes health benefits and links to The Road to Wellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ft. Worthman
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Also Mentioned on This Page
N. W. Beecher
Emerson
Josh Billings
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