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Newspaper
Lander Evening Post
Location
Lander, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1921
Page
3
In Sparta a honey and water ritual greets the bride as she becomes wife. The bridegroom's mother offers honey as vows are spoken, then the lintel is smeared with honey to keep peace. A guest breaks a pomegranate at the threshold, or Rhodes places it there for a crush with the groom. Guests chant Be good and sweet as this honey.
The article notes Argentina’s custom of naming the seventh son and having the president act as godfather, conferring privileges. It mentions a family incident where Marjorie, four, survived an auto bump after a hospital visit by grateful relatives and nurses.
Camille Saint Saens, the French composer, found music in everyday sounds from childhood. He would sit by clocks and fire to listen for rhythm and tea kettles. The recollection notes Pasteur faced public wrath over new disease treatments and recalls a protest meeting where a speaker urged scientific questions be settled by the people.
A song sparrow egg sells for a few cents in open markets while the extinct great auk egg fetched about 1000 dollars at a London auction. Between these extremes, wild bird eggs command a wide spectrum of prices globally.
The passage notes Lake Gatkal and Lake Halkal in Siberia as inland seas likened to Lake Superior in beauty and size, flanked by mountains and with shores busy with wood cutters. It mentions sparse bases and numerous turbearing animals within the great tortals.
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