Country Life in America December issue highlights outdoor world and grand photo features
The December Country Life in America showcases outdoor topics with a Christ mas cover design and a three-foot photo of California's big tree forest. L. H. Bailey writes An Outlook on Winter, plus a Snowdrift poem by Joel Benton. Features include The Chesterbrook Stock Farm by Francis Nelson Barksdale and A Flower of the Million and of the Millionaire, two large plant studies, with Henry Troth's Harvesting prize photos and Radclyffe Dugmore’s two fish images.
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Country Life In
America
California
L. H. Bailey
Joel Benton
Chesterbrook
Francis Nelson Barksdale
A. J. Cassatt
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Henry Troth
A. Radclyffe Dugmore
About the House Department Seeks Reader Thoughts
A Lowell house column invites Lady readers to send suggestions and tips for the About the House department. The item notes practical household content and asks for ideas, addresses, and reflections to enrich the column.
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Lowell Weef
Home Life And Domestic Labor In A Curious Era
The piece muses on children in rented houses and kitchen access, then shifts to employment expectations for maids, contrasts cranberry sauce methods, violet care, cake mixing tips, and the irritations of a stubborn collar button, weaving domestic lore with social observations of daily life.
Household Hints on Stain Removal and Care
Household hints offer stain removal tips using a raw potato for mud on black garments, bread crumbs to clean light suede gloves, and turpentine paraffine and naphtha as moth preventives. Rubbing lard then soap removes pitch and varnish from hands or clothes along with plaster stains. Patent leather boots stay supple with light oil applications several times weekly.
First wear harms most when items are not oiled before use
If they are thoroughly oiled before they are first put on there will be but little risk afterward, for it is the first wear which does the mischief.
Mrs Kretschmar and Maryland Chicken Recipes
Scalloped oysters recipe with drained liquor, crackers, butter, cream, and bread crumbs baked for a soft brown crust. Maryland chicken dish marked by a crispy crust, egg wash, breading, butter baste, cream sauce, and parsley garnish.
Advice to Parents on Clear Rules and Gentle Discipline
A historical guideline urges parents to set simple rules, explain reasons, and prefer reason over force. It emphasizes non harsh discipline, proportional corporal punishment only after other methods fail, and teaching virtues like courage and generosity while modeling conduct at home.
Effects of Eskimo Food and Fasting in Arctic Life
Robert Stein recalls three years in the Arctic where a hunting trip extended beyond plan. Facing shortages of civilized food, he ate reindeer bear seal walrus and musk ox meat. The shift to fresh meat caused ravenous hunger and a temporary inertia lasting about ten days before normal work resumed. Returning to civilized meals removed the issue.
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Robert Stein
Arctic
Ellsmere Land
Mises
Washington Star
Bank Stock Values Rise Sharply Since 1896 in Chicago
The Chicago Post compares stock values of city banks in 1896, 1900 and 1901 noting several banks more than doubled their value since 1896. The report highlights notable gains and reflects on investment trends among Chicago financial institutions.
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The
Chicago Post
Choice fiction at Buffalo Midway delivers a prankish elephant
A reader recounts a Buffalo Pan-American Midway tale where a baby elephant steals a pin and pranks a woman by drawing her belt pin and then jabbing it into her back. The scene triggers screams and raucous laughter as the crowd and onlookers react to the comic mischief. The elephant remains unmoved by the chaos.
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Mr. Elephant
Presto
Elephant
New York Sun
Herschel in America Discovered by Yankee Observatory
Harvard Observatory director E C Pickering found Herschel’s missing manuscript with a complete sky record. A study of old and new star brightness showed virtually no change since Herschel’s era, yet his photometric accuracy impressed and predated later work by Argelander.
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Harvard Observatory
William Herschel
Herschel
Royal Society of England
E. C. Pickering
John Herschel
Collinwood
England
Argelander
America
Alaska
Klondike
Prince of Wales Guests Actress in Pocahontas Burlesque
Stephen Fiske recounts King Edward VII in his youth as Prince of Wales visiting Mrs. John Wood in a Pocahontas burlesque renamed La Belle Sauvage. The prince and Alexandra, now Queen, admired theatre, with a staged stag story interrupted by the royal box visit. The anecdote ends noting the prince’s swift departure to join the box.
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John Wood
America
England
John Brougham
Czarowitz
Princess of Wales
Queen Alexandra
Fernande
Herman Vezin
Scotland
Stephen Fiske
Mr Brown’s Coincidental Guest at a London Party
At a London party hosted by Mr and Mrs Phil May a guest arrived in casual dress, mistaken for a distinguished figure. The host introduced him as an old friend, only for Mrs May to reveal the truth that the visitor was Phil May’s tailor seeking payment for riding breeches.
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Mr. May
Mr. Brown
Public death by own action of a Chinese Widow
A large crowd witnessed a Chinese widow’s suicide by hanging in a suburb after two delays due to typhoon and floods. She sold her paddy field for £160 to buy clothes and a coffin, defying taotai warnings and law. The widow’s temple was questioned, yet the act occurred as described.
Masters of Architecture and the builders famed through time
A reflection on memorable architects across eras and regions. The list honors Bramante and Bramante's St Peter's, Alberti, Palladio, Giotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, Perrault, Wren, and Isidore among others. It contrasts fame of works with the obscurity of designers, noting forgotten contributors and enduring legacies in Rome Florence London and Athens.
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Harvard
Bramante
St. Peters
Rome
Vatican
Alberti
Fra Giocondo
Arnolfo
Brunelleschi
Giotto
Michelozzo
Cronaca
Palladio
Sansovino
Vignola
Michael Angelo
Raphael
Peruzzi
Sangallo
Buschetto
Mnesides
Polyclitus
Florence
Christopher Wren
St. Paul's
London
Ictinus
Parthenon
Athens
Perrault
Louvre
By ron foot disproved by Cambridge librarian evidence
A Trinity College Cambridge librarian states that By ron is not clubfoot, citing found lasts from Nottingham matching two long narrow feet. He notes decades of belief but says measurements prove no clubfoot, as lasts resemble his feet exactly.
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Byron
Trinity College
Cambridge
Nottingham
Dowry and Dowager Funds Tangle in French Marriage
Modern Society reports that Levi P Morton’s daughter wed Count de Talleyrand-Pericard with a dowry set for the groom’s mother to transfer 290000 dollars, delayed by the Duke de Sagan’s illness and French legal proofs of her own fortune. The duchess then secured permission to place the couple in the Talleyrand mansion on Rue Saint-Dominique, Paris. Previously a German prince with 10 million dollars considered as a match for Miss Morton, nothing came of it.
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Levi P. Morton
Count Boson de Talleyrand-Pericard
Wis de
Duke de Sagan
Talleyrands
Rue St. Doinique
Pat
Miss Morton
Birth of a Hymn Sankey Composes The Ninety and Nine
Cleveland Moffett recounts Ira D. Sankey creating The Ninety and Nine during Moody and Sankey's Britain tour. In Glasgow a penny paper inspired the hymn about a lost sheep. In Edinburgh at Assembly Hall Sankey improvised verses on the organ then later wrote the melody after singing five stanzas.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Cleveland Moffett
Ira D. Sankey
Moody and Sankey
Great Britain
Glasgow
Sankey
The
Christian Age
A Lonely Missionary on Herschel Island
Rev. J. O. Stringer serves a remote mission at Herschel island near the Mackenzie river in the Arctic circle. His latest letter is dated October 22, 1900, noting no shipping for two winters and distant white neighbors at Peel river, 250 miles away.
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J. O. Stringer
Herschel Island
Mackenzie River
Arctic Circle
Peel River
Darwin's Theory Reversed Provokes Civilizational Debate
A Washington Star op-ed questions how far humans may degenerate from noble ideals before social or moral collapse occurs, using provocative imagery of abandoning civilization to primitive behavior. The piece challenges readers to consider the boundaries between intellectual progress and ethical conduct.
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Washington Star
Pessimism Agnosticism Compared In The Westminster Review
The Westminster Review notes the distinction between pessimism and agnosticism. A pessimist may hold a creed while an agnostic must live without any religious system. Belief ends agnosticism, fanatical conviction risks cynicism, and prolonged doubt risks psychological atrophy and chronic apathy.
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Westminster Review
A Family of Preachers in a Noted Clerical Line
The Rev Henry Fiegenbaum of St Joseph recently celebrated his eightieth birthday as a member of a notable family with four brothers and two sisters. The four brothers are German Methodist ministers and the two sisters’ husbands also preach. The youngest Rudolph is sixty eight, while Henry, the elder, preached in Minneapolis and St Paul when the Twin Cities were trading posts and rode a circuit in Wisconsin before railroads. Now retired, he remains active and often preaches with enduring vigor.
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Henry Fiegenbaum
St. Joseph
Rudolph
Henry
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Twin Cities
Wisconsin
Kansas City Journal
Roosevelt piece on Wallihan camera shots at wild animals
In the December Worlds Work Roosevelt writes on A G Wallihan and his remarkable camera shots of wild animals with fine illustrations. Julian Ralph outlines Boer War to date results offering fresh insights. Greater New York rebuilt with illustrated reports by Cunniff and Goodrich on the city’s replacement of the old.
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Roosevelt
A. G. Wallihan
Mr. Wallihan
Julian Ralph
Greater
New York
M. G. Cunniff
Arthur Goodrich
Li Hung Chang
William Justus Boies
George W. Perkins
W. S. Harwood
Forrest Crissey
Henry H. Lewis
Day
Industrial Commission
E. Dana Durand
W. Frank McClure
Middle West
The Christmas Criterion Enlarged to Sixty Pages
The Christmas Criterion expands to 60 pages with John Ari Lloyd leading a satirical piece The Wasted Wife of Sam Hill. Features include short stories by Elizabeth Wells Champney Poultney Bigelow Stephen MacKenna Helen M Winslow and others plus sociological study Leonora Beck Ellis and recollections by Col Murat Halstead.
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John Ari Lloyd
Sam Hill
Elizabeth Wells Champney
Poultney Bigelow
Stephen MacKenna
Helen M. Winslow
Leonora Beck Ellis
Col
Murat Halstead
Shermans
Kyrle Bellew
Gen
Ballington Booth
Richard Burton
Joanna B. Wood
James Huneker
Tudor Jenks
Clinton Scollard
Yule
Annah R. Watson
Criterion Publication Co
East 21St Street
New York City
Mind magazine profile and essays on philosophy and spiritualism
Horatio W. Dresser is featured in a frontispiece portrait and biographic sketch in Mind for December, with his article The Philosophy of Adjustment. The issue also discusses Mrs Piper and a symposium on Spiritualism, while Abby Morton Diaz begins a series with Beliefs Concerning Human Nature. Alliance Publishing Co., New York.
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Horatio W. Dresser
Abby Morton Diaz
Alliance Publishing Co
Fifth Avenue
New York
America in England and other pieces in Ainslee’s Christmas number
The issue showcases Allen Sanger’s dramatic study of American business in Britain, L. A. Coolidge’s profile of Senator Aldrich, Norman Duncan’s In Remote Newfoundland, and Melba at Home by William Armstrong. It features Bliss Carman’s A Forest Shrine poem and varied fiction by Rafael Sabatini, Q., William MacLeod Raine, and George H. Brennan.
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Ainslee
America
England
Allen Sangree
Aldrich
Congress
L. A. Coolidge
Newfoundland
Norman Duncan
Melba
William Armstrong
Bliss Warman
Lal Faversham
Rafael Sabatini
William MacLeod Raine
George H. Brennan
Street & Smith
New York
Woman's Home Companion Christmas number features gifts and fiction
The Christmas number offers dinner ideas holiday entertainments and simple gift tips. Read of Charles Mellivale’s The Reincarnation of Captain John Radnor Lady Mary’s Adventure The Singleton Syndicate and Peter and the Green Men. Includes Uncle Sam's Coin Factory and a Metropolitan Museum reproductions feature.
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Uncle Sam
Gustav Kobte
Madame Nordica
Metropolitan Museum of New York
Crewell & Kirkpatrick Co
Springfield
Ohio
Christmas The American Queen December Number Highlights
The December issue of The American Queen is a true Christmas number with articles on Christmas Church and Home Decoration dressing the Christmas Tree games for all ages how to dress dolls simple home made toys and more. It also includes a page of embroidery designs featuring holly and mistletoe and complete stories.
American Queen Fashion Notes Highlight Household Style
The article praises the current issue for maintaining the magazine’s high standards in both content and illustrations. It notes two feature areas, the household topics and fashion articles, as strong elements reflecting the publication’s quality.
Christmas Number Highlights In Ledger Monthly
The Christmas number of the Ledger Monthly offers multiple illustrated features. Children and families find pieces on Christmas Trees in Many Lands Scenes of Our Saviours Life and Labors and a variety of articles by Rev Egerton Jt Young Waldon Fawcett N Hudson Moore Elizabeth Wadsworth Morrison and Gesine Lemcke. The issue also includes seasonable fiction and notes the Ledger Publishing Company at 4th Avenue and 19th Street New York City.
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Ledger Monthly
Wild Northwest
Rev. Egerton Jt. Young
Englan
Waldon Fawcett
Hatfield House
Lord Salisbury
N. Hudson Moore
Elizabeth Wadsworth Morrison
Gesine Lemcke
The
Ledger Publishing Company
4Th Avenue and
19Th Street
New York City
December Forum Contents Show Religious, Trade, and Policy Debates
The December Forum features leading article by Dr. Rudolf Eucken on The Status of Religion in Germany, with James G. Whiteley’s Private Property at Sea, and a rejoinder by Hon. Robert Hutcheson on The Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. Other items include essays by Henry L. West, Joseph Sohn, Dr. Gilbert Reid, Dr. Nathan C., W. S. Merriam, Charles Truax, and pieces on reciprocity, gambling in Belgium, and lessons from international exhibitions.
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Rudolf Eucken
Jena
Germany
James G. Whiteley
Spanish Treaty Claims Commission
Robert Hutcheson
Henry L. West
Joseph Sohn
Gilbert Reid
Nathan C
Superfier
W. 8
Merriam
United States Consular Service
Charles Truax
Belgium
Harper & Brothers Publish Memoir of Madame Recamier
Ongoing literary notices highlight Harper & Brothers issuing a limited 250 copy signed life of Madame Recamier titled Madame Recamier and Her Friends. The edition marks the first full biography of the celebrated woman, linking her life to diplomatic history and French memoirs.
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Harper & Brothers
Madame Recamier
Recamier
Memories of a Hundred Years by Edward Hale
Dr Edward Everett Hale describes his preparation for writing Memories of a Hundred Years in The Outlook. He reveals his father's and grandfather's prolific penmanship and a house crowded with diaries, correspondence, diaries, pamphlets, newspapers, and family manuscripts.
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Edward Everett Hale
Munsterberg Publishes American Traits at Houghton Mifflin
Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard has released American Traits through Houghton Mifflin & Co. The book offers brilliant contrasts of social and political life, character and scholarship in Germany and America from a German perspective.
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Hugo Munsterberg
Harvard
Lowell Institute
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Germany
America
Munsterberg
Old Ballads in Prose Featured in New Houghton Edition
Miss Eva M. Tappan presents modern prose versions of England’s beloved ballads in a new edition from Houghton Mifflin & Company. Illustrations by Miss Fanny Cory accompany the charm for young and old readers, with Dr Tappan heading Worcester English high school and authoring England’s Story as context.
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Eva M. Tappan
England
Houghton, Mifflin & Company
Fanny Y. Cory
Tappan
Worcester English High School
Morning prayer by Stevenson on daily duties and cheerful work
From Balfour's Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, a gentle morning prayer asking for patience, cheerful conduct, and steady industry. It prays to play the man, perform duties with laughter, keep cheerfulness in work, end the day content and undishonored, and receive peaceful sleep.
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Balfour
Robert Louis Stevenson
Youth's Companion offerings and 1902 volume prospectus
The Youth's Companion presents features by famous authors and regular departments on health Current Events Nature and Science and a children's page. An illustrated prospectus for the 1902 volume is offered free to address requests along with a subscription promo for 1901 issues and a colored Companion Calendar 1902. The address is Youth's Companion 195 Columbus Avenue Boston Massachusetts.
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Columbus Avenue
Boston
Mass
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