Household Flints By Betty Wells
A woman on a hill with six children describes tidy, clever space saving in a small colonial cottage. The boys share a dormitory room with four bunks and green decor, while two girls’ room features pale blue walls and pink floral fabrics. A reader discusses upgrading a living room with a blue and green modern style and potential wall color changes for warmth.
River packets fade as record steamboats bow out of era
An old river lore observes the end of the era of fast packet boats on the Mississippi. Modern towboats haul vast loads, with Federal Barge Line and Mississippi Valley Barge Line shaping the traffic. The famed Robert E. Lee record trip of 3 days 18 hours is unlikely to be surpassed.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Robert E. Lee
St. Louis
Natchez
United States Department of Commerce
Steamboat Inspection Service
Department of Commerce
Bill
Mark Twain
Federal Barge Line
Inland Waterways Corporation
Mississippi Valley Barge Line Company
Doan
The Children's Hour and Trust in Kindness
A reflection on Longfellow and the lesson from children about trust. The author cites how kindness and confidence from a child prompt mutual trust, showing that measured by how we respond to a child’s outreach, our own capacity for hope and love is revealed.
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Ongfellow
Tourists Spoil Bears Anger Park Officials
Park officials in Yosemite, California, lament that tourists have taught bears laziness by feeding them. Bears no longer climb trees for food but raid cars to steal lunches, drawing amused responses from visitors.
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Yosemite
Calif
Royal Form Through Years of Preparation and Purpose
The piece reflects on lessons from a child about effort, opportunity, and perception of ownership. It argues confidence, activity, and obedience build character, that work is required, and that life’s blessings come with responsibility and gratitude, citing the line a little child shall lead them.
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Santa Claus
Western Newspaper Union
Remembering God in Our Nation's Formation
Lesson emphasizes remembering the Lord amid national achievement. It warns against pride in human effort, urges humility, and calls for revival and a renewed zeal for salvation, ending with a plea for America to seek God.
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God
Israel
Flint
America
House of Magic
Legion
Joseph Parker
Ada a Bluebird To Your Linens Pattern 1475
Embroidery pattern for bluebird motifs on linens includes border and corner designs with tulips. Features transfer patterns in multiple motif sizes, color suggestions, stitch illustrations, and materials list. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York for pattern 1475 with name and address.
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Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Alms Giving Reflects Need Over Merit
A pious reflection urges charity focus on recipient need rather than personal merit. It emphasizes that God judges the manner of relief more than the requester’s standing, urging compassion and humane giving.
Submissive Will Through Constant Self Denial
A reflective line discusses the will yielding to habitual self denial to curb impulses and maintain subjection over its sallies and inclinations.
Favorite Recipe of the Week
A home style dessert recipe outlines making a custard with orange rind milk eggs sugar and vanilla, cooked to coat a spoon then chilled, served with meringue and jelly garnish. An uncooked meringue mixes egg white sugar vanilla and salt before folding in stiff foam.
Soft Answers and Gossip Taints Temperance
A reflective piece argues that gentleness may fail to curb anger and that tolerance can become laziness. It notes how repeated thrills fade and how gossip ruins trust as soon as it’s discovered.
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