Golden Bantam Pin Unites Child With Protector
Prescott rescues Flora Ward after kidnapping by Shaw ends when Wang Fo, keeper of the golden bantam pin, reveals the secret lodge where Flora is hidden. Lydia, heartbroken, agrees to accept Prescott as her husband and Flora’s guardian.
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Wang
Flora Ward
Alvin Prescott
Prescott
Mr. Prescott
Wang Fo
Fiora
Lydia
Flora
Leslie Shaw
Shaw
Miss
Health Benefit of Yawning in Respiratory Exercise
Yawning is presented as a highly healthful natural respiratory exercise benefiting the pharynx eustachian tubes and respiratory muscles. The piece advises regular yawns morning and evening to ventilate the lungs and tonify muscles, and notes a physician using yawning to treat throat and ear disorders with suggested imitation deep breaths and swallowing.
New Plants for America from Tibetan China Collect
The bureau of plant industry reports explorer F N Meyer sent in a collection of new fruits from the Tibetan border of China including the Tangutian almond the Potania peach and wild peach forms. Meyer reached Lanchowiu before progress was halted by a desertion of the interpreter. Recent expeditions have increased jujubes and persimmons from western China.
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America
Bureau of Plant Industry
F. N. Meyer
China
Meyer
Lanchowiu
Agricultural Department
Strassburg Cathedral and Storks Across the Ages
The article surveys Strassburg Cathedral from its 11th century origin to 1880 repairs after war damage. It notes the cathedral as a symbolic Gulf of Gothic architecture with the astronomical clock, storks on chimneys, and Strassburg as a historic border city with river branches and forts.
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Strassburg
Alsace-Lorraine
Rhine
Germany
France
Switzer
Marné
Rhone
Mets
Cologne
Christ
Thoreau on weather, skin, and growth in nature
The excerpt argues that outdoor living roughens the skin and strengthens character, while indoor life softens the skin and dulls sensibilities. It suggests balancing exposure to day and night, seasonal shifts, and thought to foster intellectual and moral growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thoreau
British Schoolteachers in England and Wales Numbers
The report lists 41 835 male elementary schoolmasters including certificated and uncertificated staff plus student teachers. It notes 4000 certificated men with colors at end of September and now over 6000, about 12 percent of men under thirty, with up to 40 percent in another category.
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England and
Wales
Humble Pie in Rural Britain Origin and Modern Use
The humble pie, once a grand game pie for nobles, evolved into a home dish for rural Britain. Use plain crust, weighted potato, and a hot meat mix with suet, onion, parsley, and gravy. leftovers from veal, beef, liver, ham, fowl, or Irish stew work well. top with lattice crust and bake until browned.
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England
Scotland
Ireland
How to keep hot biscuits warm with linen covers
A hostess should cover hot biscuits during meals to retain heat. Suggests white linen covers with a square center and four pointed ends. Embroider a biscuit design or the words Hot Biscuit to enhance realism and praise for needlework and cooking.
Angel Cake From Whites of Six Eggs
Angel cake recipe lists six eggs whites with cream of tartar soda sugar flour salt and almond extract. Beat eggs with salt then cream of tartar and soda until stiff, fold in sugar, add flavoring, gently fold in flour and bake forty five minutes in a moderate oven in an unbuttered wigel cake tin.
Rule for Baking a Cake: four part timing guide
The instructions divide cake baking into four parts. First, rise with no color. Second, rise and faint color. Third, even very light brown. Fourth, slight heat reduction if needed and slight pan-side shrinkage. A covered pan helps in some ovens. Do not move the cake during the second and third quarters. Cool while inverted.
How to Make Corn Custard for Pudding Dish
Score the kernels in a dozen ears of green corn, scrape pulp, add to four egg yolks, one teaspoon salt and a saltspoon pepper. Stir in one pint milk, mix, fold in four beaten egg whites, pour into buttered dish and bake slowly until firm.
Flannel Cakes Recipe Fragment
A fragment explains beating two eggs with two cups flour and salt and baking powder. It then folds in beaten whites and cooks on a greased griddle to form fluffy cakes.
Wheat Bath Proves Gentle Clean for Woolen Goods
A published tip suggests washing fine white woolens by soaking in a basin with a small handful of ordinary wheat bran to cleanse delicately and quickly.
Better Butter Through Careful Handling and Simple Rules
H M Baines argues butter quality hinges on careful handling and simple methods. Hand separator cream yields the best butter. deep can and cold water methods are secondary. Ripen cream to 76–80 F then cool to 55–60 F for churning, stir during ripening, and save starter buttermilk for faster ripening. Strain, chill and wash to remove clots, churn in batches with room to agitate, then salt and pack promptly for market.
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H. M. Baines
Great Undertaking in Spraying Apple Orchards
The piece argues for spraying apple orchards three times yearly to care for 500 to 1000 trees, noting that such a workload is not a small undertaking and implies the need for organized effort and resources.
Neglect Expensive for Orchards Says Expert Growers
Orchardists warn neglect costs more than care. An orchard left unsprayed pruned or cultivated for one year may require three years to recover its prior productivity.
Make Money With Fruit Growing Today
In these days of specialties it takes learning nerve and some capital to profit from fruit growing. Learn markets, select crops suited to your region, and invest wisely to build a steady income from orchard or home fruit planting.
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Te Golden Bantam
W. G. Chapman
Metz
Argentoratum
Africa
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