Visions of California and a Mission Feast
Pedro Fages and Eulalia share dreams as they gaze over the water before turning back toward the presidio. Padre Lasuen notes the fiesta as a milestone in California history and departs to prepare a spiritual feast at Mission San Carlos de Carmelo.
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Pedro Fages
Eulalia
California
Presidio
Dagelet
Padre Lasuen
Senora la Gobernadora
Mission
San Carlos de Carmelo
Night at Carmel Ends With Forbidden Longing
In a candlelit mission scene Governor Fages and La Gobernadora Eulalia witness dances by Indian youths as Le Pante Dagelet seductively flirts. Temptation grows as Eulalia contemplates leaving California with the French explorer, risking scandal and a possible affair. The tale continues.
Tea Brewing as Art Shaping U S Cup Habit
A Detroit News writer notes Americans drink about 19 billion cups of tea a year. A survey of 5,000 housewives in five states finds eight of ten are tea drinkers, but four in five waste much of it by underbrewing or using too little tea. Experts recommend one teaspoon per cup and five minutes of brew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit News
Swain
United States
New York
Chaldeans Pioneered Early Refrigeration Practices
A Detroit News writer traces refrigeration history from ancient Chaldeans using evaporation in porous jars to modern advances. The piece notes ice storage was once for the wealthy and recounts a Boston clipper voyage 100 years ago carrying ice to Calcutta, half of which melted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit News
Boston
Calcutta
Cape of Good Hope
Bay of Bengal
Ganges River
Dresses for Street and Home Wear Featured in Pattern Book
Practical fashion in two dresses for shop and home use with front closing and complete sew charts. Frock with girdled waistline emphasizes draped neckline and tailored silhouette. house dress offers simple unbelted line for sizes 36 to 52. Patterns 1489 and 1476 with yardage shown and a spring summer pattern book offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Around the House Tips and Tricks for Cooking and Craft
A collection of practical kitchen and household hacks. Stoning raisins, improving fudge with cornstarch, stuffing eggs by cold-water cooling, soaking dried fruit with lemon, varnishing straw items, vinegar in pie crust for flakier crust, and stretching salad portions by hollowing tomatoes.
Sell Army Navy Hose Ad Sample Request
Workingmen urged to buy Army Navy Hose with a sample and postage refund offer. Send $1.00 for samples and postage to Federal Merch Co at 1823 Tremainsville Rd Toledo Ohio, refund given with initial order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Merch, Co
Tremainsville Rd
Toledo
Ohio
It Almost Worked A Miserly Man and His Dying Horse
A penny pincher tried to train a horse to live on nothing by subtracting meals daily. The animal weakened and died just as the man believed he could force it to survive without food. The tale illustrates the folly of extreme frugality.
Ex Lax Advertises Improved Laxative for Families
A vintage advertisement promotes Ex-Lax as a tasty safe laxative for children and adults. It claims decades of popularity and scientific improvements, promising gentler digestion and reliable relief. Boxes priced at 10 and 25 cents are advertised for purchase at druggists.
Natal Métider Quote on Pretension and Borrowed Nature
A quotation from Lavater appears about pretension and borrowed nature, noting that much is borrowed where there is pretension and that nature itself does not pretend.
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Natal Métider
Lavater
Also Mentioned on This Page
Monterey
Virginia Stivers Bartlett
Chapter
Cruces
Carmelo
Don Pedro
Monsieur le Gouverneur
la Perouse
Northwest Passage
Fages
la Gobernadora
Indizuela
Augustias
le Pante Dagelet
Fray Lasuen
Gloria
Junipero Serra
Senor el Conde
Francois Lasuen
Fermin Lasuen
Padre Presidente
Lasuen
Serra
Fermin
Fray Palou
Mallorcan
Mexico
Junipero
Hell
Mariano Rubi
Bartolome Gili
Manila
Querida
Californias
Mon Ami
U. S
Met. Sta
Los Angeles
Calif
P. O. Box
Hollywood
America
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pineham
Beattie
Harold Somers, Inc
de Kalb Ave
B'kiyn
N.Y
Nature
Dean
Dean's
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