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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
4
A Harper's Bazaar excerpt argues few happily married women seek careers, praising the "working housekeeper" as a viable path for unmarried women who love home. It critiques private hotels and loneliness, noting many women are loved but misunderstood, and calls housekeeping the fascinating, enduring occupation.
The piece argues that practical business must blend enterprise with enlightenment and social improvement. Commerce has a mission beyond profit, requiring cooperation to promote welfare, while avoiding the sting of denigrating commercialism as mere sordid money making.
A reflective essay argues that teaching yields intangible rewards far surpassing salary. It extols the uplift of guiding pupils, sparking ambition, and the lasting impact on homes, lives, and national character, noting many teachers give their best despite inadequate pay.
In midsummer the farmer's crops steer national prosperity, as harvests influence farm income, bank resources, and rail and export activity. The piece connects crop success to Western bank credits, railroad demand, and foreign lending, noting past European borrowing and gold settlements when crops fail. It warns that only weather can predict outcomes, forcing adaptation to crop-driven financial cycles.
Suggestions for simple winter pastimes fall short of bridge or ping pong. A revival of onomancy or name divination is favored, using ivory or cardboard letter boxes to spell names like Kitchen er or Livingstone and craft witty sentences. Consonants game adds challenge by tracing word skeletons.
Women with artistic tastes discover wax modeling as a fashion. A convalescent started the trend and now friends buy materials to try the craft. Tools matter little. fingers shape intricate crevices, wax comes in brown and red, heat softens it, and wax can be softened over boiling water if needed. Clay is used but dries out faster.
A meditation on a baby’s grave questions grief and heaven’s value, contrasting small sorrow with divine meaning. The piece shifts to a Russian anecdote about a peasant who asks for a Bible but receives an algebra primer, a misunderstanding that leads to the publisher’s arrest and the policeman’s rebuke.
A contractor estimates at least 4000 red lanterns are hung each night to prevent falls into subway excavations. Lanterns are stored in daytime in chests along construction streets and are lit by three shifts of watchmen. Each worker tends a district like a police beat, suspending lanterns from fence nails around holes.
A note concludes that a cubic inch of the best brick resists up to 4060 pounds of pressure while an ordinary tool cannot crush it. The line urges readers to be a brick instead of a fool, presenting a quirky durability claim as a mnemonic.
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