The Wrong Road to Happiness and Human Folly
Reflections on happiness honesty and conversation note that detours from service harm happiness. The piece muses on patience friendship and the limits of understanding toward women and men while urging daily kindness and thoughtful words.
Cleaning and Caring for Glassware and Privacy Aids
Readers learn washing and drying antique glass with a soda soap solution and warm water. Use a side immersion to avoid breakage, a rotating brush for crevices, and towels or sawdust for drying. Also notes on managing telephone use for privacy and urgent tasks.
New Type of Fairy Tale Emerges in America
English critic Clemence Dane discusses a modern American fairy tale form that uses rocket ships, death rays, and science to satisfy the public craving for magic. She contrasts American and English fairy tales and notes the U S approach blends fantasy with futuristic science.
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Intelligent Optimism Based on Natural Law and Moral Order
A piece arguing that true optimism rests on fixed natural and moral laws. Obedience to these laws yields definite outcomes, with obstacles shaping character. It asserts optimism as a controllable mindset not tied to conditions, citing experience and moral discipline. God's order and universal fate underpin this hopeful view.
Optimism and Fatalism in Life Philosophy
The article contrasts optimism with fatalism, defining optimism as hopeful view of events ordered for the best while fatalism sees events as pre determined. It argues for a nuanced, intelligent optimism rather than Pollyanna sentiment, noting superficial optimism ignores the role of law and order in outcomes.
Grace Coolidge Returns to New York After Europe Tour
Mrs Grace Coolidge widow of the former President arrives in New York aboard a liner following an extensive European tour. She is photographed on the dock as she disembarks with a composed gait and public interest surrounding her post presidency activities.
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Grace Coolidge
New York
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The Completion Test Word Oddities
Four word lists each pose a set where three share a common relation while one does not. Identify the outlier per problem by finding the odd one not fitting the shared category.
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Salem
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