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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1907
Page
2
A London Globe column explains Obeah and Vaudoux in Jamaica Haiti and the French West Indies tracing their roots to West African Fetishism. It describes the snake stick the papaloi the Ma Ma loi and public fear of obeah a deadly social menace disrupting education religion and governance.
A New York Sun reminiscence details the shoe rasp once glued to a counter in shoe stores. It was used to file upstanding pegs from pegged shoes, a task now obsolete as pegged, hand sewn footwear faded. The piece reflects on changing indispensable tools as fashions and tech advance.
Paolo Picca notes a Pincio bust tale tracing Monti from Vittorio Alfieri to Alessan dro Berri and Bellini. Alfieri’s offended Vatican work led to removal, a cellar hiding, and Monti’s bust later altered with a changed nose brows and cheeks to resemble Alfieri as a historic irony.
In a snowbound home, young Sarah Mary and Grandfather Nichols plan a pretend Christmas for New Year’s Eve. They craft a homemade tree from apple wood, enact Santa Claus, and share a simple, heartfelt celebration before a neighbor’s news shifts plans to a church entertainment tomorrow night.
The piece explains how a peer can be deprived of peerage, noting one historic case of Duke of Bedford in 1483 for poverty. It covers five peerage ranks, marriage rules, and rights of peeresses, including eligibility to sit in Parliament and effects of widowhood and marriage for peers and peeresses.
A London 1785 arithmetic puzzle asks a man who met a maid driving geese how many she had. She says she has not thirty but if she had as many more half as many more and five geese more she would have thirty. The problem continues with hazard stake division among A B and C, and a garden meeting with ten maids where the count is clarified by a riddle about doubling and exceeding ten.
The text notes enormous feasts at Persian and Asiatic courts and praises Grecian conquerors for occasional lavishness. It cites Athens poets Archestratus and Athenaeus who celebrated cookery. Hellenic epicures favored grand concerts and dishes like a whole pig roasted on one side and boiled on the other stuffed with delicacies. Their cooks excelled at making vegetables taste like meat.
In his youth Lord Halsbury led the South Wales circuit and once argued fiercely for a Welsh public authority. A judge teased him about being Welsh, but Halsbury quipped that he had earned much money from Welshmen, prompting playful acknowledgment of his heritage.
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