Birds for the Home in Harper's Bazaar
Olive Thorne Stiles writes that decorative Baltimore orioles and bluebirds charm homes with gentle temperaments and distinct warbles. The Virginia cardinal adorns cages for beauty and song, with the female praised as lovelier and softer in tone than the male. parrots and finches are noted for tameness and curiosity while preferring human company.
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Olive Thorne Stiiler
Peta
Harper's Bazar
Baltimore
Binebinds
Jane
Practical Suggestions for Matting and Home Decor
Practical advice covers summer matting choices from China and Japan including color variety and one-piece weave. It recommends leaving matting down with a thick carpet lining, avoiding underlayment, and using plain paper for cracks. Also describes furniture refinishing, wool moth prevention, piano draping, coal data, and a sample cottage plan with detailed construction notes.
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China
Japan
Mastering the Skin Hair Function and Herbal Acids
A science excerpt reviews how hair scale structure aids cleansing, noting edges direct debris away from skin and sebaceous glands aid surface cleanliness. It contrasts rubbing direction on hair and cites housewife practices and plant acid contents in citrus and rhubarb. A German complexion lotion using sulphur camphor mimosa limewater roserrater is described for nightly use.
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Ibis Hos
Muse
Wuechi
Germany
An Irritating Mannerism The Social Talk Habit
The piece analyzes polite chatter such as How do you do and weather talk as ingrained social rituals rooted in native diffidence. It discusses how these phrases function as coin of social exchange and how interruptions reveal class and etiquette norms in interviews and daily greetings.
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Antenaz
Medias Resef
Marion Harland
Harper's Bazar
Manifestations of Eleptomania in Animals and Humans
The passage discusses animal stealing behavior, noting dogs steal for food while magpies rats and monkeys engage in systematic hoarding or hiding. It labels such acts Eleptomania or pecuniary love of stealing and distinguishes practical theft from hoarding.
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Literatura
Diatoms And Asbestos In A Glimpse Of Nature’s Work
The article explains diatoms as plant like organisms with silica cell walls and protoplasmic threads enabling movement. It surveys asbestos varieties, their properties, and global production challenges, noting Italian and Canadian types as practical while many other regions fail fire resistance or fiber quality.
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Alem
Ivestus
Italy
Canada
The Old Curigaty Shop Home of Little Nell in London
A fragmentary account describes a Portsmouth Street shop claimed as Dickens’s Little Nell home. The piece notes interior curios and an exterior of a dingy shop selling waste paper and cheap stationery. It mentions Dickens portraits and local affection for the place.
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Little Neil
Charles Dickens
Grea City
London
Portsmouth Street
Chelea
Dickens
Little Nell
Nell
Little Nel
World Fair Globe model and oddities form local exhibit
The article describes a 63 foot circumference globe at the world’s fair with a 90 foot diameter and extensive scale features. It also notes curious items such as two tame muskrat pets in Houston and a discussion of old gold jewelry recovery, dental gold, and refiners in Boston.
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Sarah Steward
Houston
Hol & Heywarth
Assayem
Tremount Streets
Sol Cacy
Syme Das
Heston
Boston
Boston Herald
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