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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1913
Page
8
A feature explores traditional Chinese childrearing customs and beliefs, describing birth practices, naming, head shaving, dress, and parental expectations. It notes gender bias, protective charms, education rituals, and rare folk practices, with commentary on parental devotion and social norms.
The text urges yearly thorough medical exams and treating the body like a well maintained machine. It compares the body to a vehicle engine, stressing vigilance, early detection, and medical science to guard health and prevent breakdowns.
The article notes President Wilson attends a church where he is not anticipated, prompting Washington pastors to prepare more carefully in their sermons.
Lilian Nichia recounts in Harper's Magazine her encounter with Anton Rubinstein in St Petersburg. She describes his shift from concert sphinx to gracious host after dinner, his temper during a piano showpiece, and his later struggle with ill health.
A compact historical note traces the zero symbol’s emergence from abacus needs for a place holder to denote absence. It covers Hindu origins from a dot to the circle, Arabic adaptations, and the transmission through Europe via Fibonacci and Italian scholars, ending with the modern term zero and cipher.
Mary Shaw recalls a Terre Haute episode where a fan praised Joseph Jefferson as Josh Whitcomb and mistook him for Rip Van Winkle. Jefferson corrects him, revealing a playful exchange about acting roles and recognition.
The Portland vase, a two layer glass cameo with white design on blue, stands ten inches high and seven inches wide. A vandal smashed it. it was repaired with great skill and is now guarded closely at the British Museum.
The piece notes how custard or custad sparked jokes at medieval English civic feasts with a clown leaping into a large custard. Ben Jonson referenced a custard leap jack who jokily plunged into the custard to amuse the mayor and her sisters.
Lola received a doll and a kitten among her birthday gifts. Asked which she liked best, she whispered to her mother that she preferred the doll but begged the mother not to tell the kitten. The Chicago News quotes the sentiment.
The Hon and the tiger wash themselves like cats using their forefoot as a sponge and brush. They wet the ball of the forefoot and pass it over the face and behind the ears while the rough tongue combs the rest of the borry.
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