The Man with an Ideal in Wartime Romance
Captain Marius Dulac pursues an elusive ideal of love while torn between a rich Parisian heiress and practical marriage. Claire Daveluy, her mother Mme Daveluy, and Daniel Daveluy frame a chance at happiness as Dulac weighs fate and duty in postwar France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilius Dulac
Hss
Dulac
Engineer Corps
Dulacugh
Eorges Plessy
Blanche
Essy
Marius
Paris
Plate
Sease
Venus
Bon-Bon
Plaster of Paris
Rvs Dulac
Metz
Pomia
Ress
Marius Dulac
France
St. Germain
Heavi
Mlle. Daveluy
Mule
Claire
Legion of Honor
Daniel Daveluy
Fate
Chance
Destiny
Zampa
Lyons
M. Daveluy
Mme. Daveluy
Celestial Clock Demonstrated by Mr Wynn Molesworth
A description of Molesworth's celestial clock shows a rotating clock face aligned with the equatorial horizon. It completes one revolution in twenty three hours fifty six minutes four seconds matching Earth's rotation. Movable pins simulate sun moon and planets with polar stars revolving separately to display the heavens in their actual positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wynn Molesworth
Pall Mall Budge
Untidy Hair Habits Among Chinese Women
An excerpt notes Chinese women spend little time on hair dressing, arranging tresses monthly and sleeping with their heads uncontained in boxes, reflecting cultural grooming norms and daily routines.
Yankee Shrewdness In A Claim And Quiet Waiting
In Ironwood a tale is told of a taciturn Yankee miner who sold a worthless hole in the ground for 60 000 after capitalists proved it rich by samples. He warned it was only a hole but collected a price, proving human nature can outplay even eager investors. Also described is a natural rock house in Cabine Canyon Arizona built by nature and a humorous wedding-day mishap at Broad Street Station.
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Judge Stevens
Ironwood
Pws
Cabine Canyon
Arizona
Mike
Salt River Valley
New York
Broadstreet Station
George
Pater Familias
Philadelphia Press
Sir Walter Scott and Fellow Authors Handwriting Styles
An excerpt from Chamber's Journal notes varying penmanship among major writers. It praises Scott for legible early drafts but cites later blurred manuscripts, while Fenimore Cooper Hawthorne and Dickens receive mixed critiques. Thackeray is praised for clear, neat writing easy to read.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Scott
Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dickens
W. M. Thackeray
Filling Nail-Holes by Glue and Sawdust Paste
Carpenters and painters often fill nail holes with putty but the Scientific American favors a glue and sawdust paste. A simple method pounds fine sawdust mixed with glue into the hole and, when dry, restores the wood. A correspondent reports thirty years of success repairing bellows frames where perforations hinder nail insertion and air retention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Giraffe Meat Valued For Farm Prospects In England
London Standard writer argues high edible value of giraffe meat could prompt wealthy farmers in England to raise giraffes if such creatures exist. Describes meat as excellent, veal like with game flavor, second only to a few African game animals and notes fat young cow meat is delicious by comparison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Standard
England
Africa
A Thoughtful Wife Outwits Husband Over Typewriter Plan
A Cincinnati Tribune item describes a wife who schemes to hire a shorthand girl by presenting as a buyer of a machine and a “pretty girl” for her husband. She purchases a bric a brac piece and foreshadows his reduced correspondence, imagining his need for no assistant.
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Charley
Cincinnati Tribune
Policeman Nickname Sparks Old Time Chat
Dialogue notes why policemen are called coppers with a jibe about value. A character recalls being moved on at the corner during hard times. A teasing line warns that a missing boy by noon might be in the swim.
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Tommy
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Ove
Efrancois Copper
Minerva
Psyche
Maris
Sooung
Guilteless
Daveluy
Davelay
Capt. Dulac
Milo
Daydlay
Adele
Mme
Mme. Davelay
Daniel Daverty
Mais
Florence
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