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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1917
Page
7
Kin Hubbard notes how vacation season prompts a fling into change of scene. The essay riffs on households skimping on essentials to finance trips while professionals plan escapes, and insists a getaway shifts daily life, dissolving petty grievances as readers glimpse new rhythms, landscapes, and social routines.
Miss Fawn Lippincut extols a country weekend as the cure for city fatigue. The piece humorously lists rural delights from egg hunts and cream separators to fresh streamside daisy gathering and peaceful naps, urging cousins to escape crowded streets for quiet farms and simple pleasures.
James of Cynwys recalls a Bala Philadelphia Bee report about a rat gathering near his stable grain box as his large black cat Thomas Atkins lounged nearby. The group circled and teased the cat, who seemed terrified, while James watched the tense standoff unfold with several rats surrounding the feline.
A reader in the American Magazine argues that middle age holds more value than youth. He cites scientific timelines, the virtues of experience, and the slowing of impulsive emotion, while noting competition from younger workers and cheaper beginner labor. He champions reading as a test of truth and conscience, citing Robert Louis Stevenson on the vital role of open inquiry.
Old John Gargoyle guards his garden as a cherished space. A tele phone mechanic climbs over the wall and intrudes, causing damage to lettuce beds and prized roses before requesting entry permission to access his own yard.
A 1920s style advisory urges forehanded women to grow and preserve vegetables at home to stock hospitals in need. It promotes canning clubs, provides practical tips on vegetables, storage, and simple recipes like tomato stuffed olives, carrot salad, and beef tongue with raisins, emphasizing thrift, nutrition, and self sufficiency.
A quotation attributed to Pliny the Elder on agricultural wisdom. It emphasizes timely action, avoiding delay, and seizing opportunity while it lasts, stressing that missed chances cannot be recovered.
A fashion notes piece describes net gowns as versatile day and evening wear for graduates, with lace trims, pink and blue tafetta girdles, and optional veils. It highlights two in one motor hats, braids in colors like tan and blue, and vivid yellow crowns, plus coordinated slips and accessories for bridesmaids and hats in tinted Leghorn. It also includes housekeeping tips for bureau drawers and a Nebraska legislature discussion reference.
A father warns his son about spending money foolishly after George brings home tops, candy, a squirt gun, and paint bought with his sister’s quarter. George insists he did not steal and explains he simply spent his sister’s allowance. The tale ends with the father aghast at the mix up.
A quoted Indianapolis Star passage contrasts two types of fights in public life. One type earns detailed newspaper chronicles of blows, senatorial scuffles, and biographical portraits, while the other reduces the matter to a terse ten dollars and costs.
A foreign journal cites Jean Jacques Perrett describing a famed French writer in antiquity whose work is linked to a strong cold blast venting from a narrow corridor between two walls built for that purpose.
The text notes willows appear in Leviticus Job Asaiah and Psalms 137. It cites the Salix Babylonica as the tree where captive Israelites hung their harps, common along the Euphrates banks.
A brief note observes Tamil names for apes ivory and peacocks resemble Hebrew terms, then comments on blank verse once read in school as a tribute to its authors. The piece highlights linguistic echoes and literary memory.
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