Grace Before Meals Etiquette Tale From Dinner Conversation
An anecdote recounts a guest prematurely starting a meal before grace at a formal dinner. Adlai E. Stevenson apologizes for the lapse, noting the blessing is expected. The scene shifts through rebukes and humor as the group reflects on etiquette and restores good spirits.
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A Tale of a Hated Dish Tells of Corot Dialogue
The tale recounts a painter Corot and a story about a disliked dish. In the tale a group dines with Corot and admits they detest the dish yet pretend to enjoy it. Adele, the cook, loves dock and potatoes and sways the diners through her influence.
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The Shillalah as a Slow Growing Masterpiece
The piece compares the shillalah to a rare cultivated plant and a poet, noting that only about one in ten thousand shoots may become famous. It describes careful selection, removal of hindrances, and steady growth from a bulbous root shaped into a handle, emphasizing nurture and singular potential.
Asking Too Much Doctor Prescribes Quinine For Lucy
A country doctor visits Lucy, the colored cook’s child, to treat her with quinine capsules for the ailment described as chills. Lucy fears swallowing the small glass bottles and stoppers, asking if she must take them every two hours.
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De Cosmos Stands Twenty Six Hours to Block Bill
British Columbia legislator De Cosmos spoke from dawn to noon and beyond for twenty six mortal hours to halt a bill feared to uproot settlers. He finally collapsed but succeeded in blocking the measure and saving homes.
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Miget Do Campo
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Intuition and the sense that guides daily decisions
A Chicago Tribune excerpt discusses intuition as a guiding force in everyday work. It cites a motorman who stops for a lone woman, bank tellers judging checks by feel, and police relying on instinct to identify suspects. The piece argues intuition informs actions though it is not infallible.
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Spirit of Football Play and Time in Early Games
Walter Camp discusses evolving play pace and timekeeping in 19th century football. He notes lengthened halves, reduced playing periods, and an earlier season end to reduce risks on frozen fields, citing Yale Columbia 1872 as an example of long goal times.
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The Thoughtful Stork
A storks nest near a house by a river shelters young as a fire breaks out. The mother stork plunges into the river to wet her breast and drenches her chicks with cool plumage repeatedly. Eyewitnesses confirm the miraculous rescue.
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Order In the House in Old French Parliament
The article recalls the dull sessions of pre revolutionary France with a prosy speech by a noble count. The president Phawrese jabs his baton and implores members to be quiet, praising those who listen as gentlemanly.
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Wigs in Colonist Days and social norms
The piece traces wigs from natural hair among colonists to the rise of wigs by 1675 denounced in Massachusetts. It notes high wig maintenance costs, the practice among minors, and a 1754 Massachusetts Gazette reference to a runaway slave using a hair curl as a wig.
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Massachusetts Gazette
To Frost a Window frosted glass tutorial
A frosted window admits light while blocking sunshine and remains opaque. It is created by brushing a hot solution of epsom salts on the inside of the glass until it dries into a crystalline frosted coating. Care must be taken to cover the glass fully and prevent running liquid.
Headache in Children Warned by Hospital
The hospital warns that in young children headaches should not be neglected as they can signal acute or dangerous disease. In some cases it reflects educational pressure and brain strain from school life, a concern also seen in adults.
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