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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1921
Page
5
A quoted passage extols American women as beautiful, capable, charitable, and hardworking, praising their housewifely skills and roles as mothers and wives. It contrasts them with French and English women, noting perceived faults and the idea that Americans marry for affordability. The remarks are attributed to Ernest Dinnet via Harper's Magazine.
The steeple jack recalls hanging from the long hand of a clock in a tower about six o clock with townspeople below. He told them to go home for supper and that he would drop about half an hour later.
The tale credits Beau Brummell with a superstition about a crooked sixpence. Once a famed dandy and gambler, Brummell fell into debt at Walter's club and wandered the Leiden streets penniless. He picked up the coin, won repeatedly, and soon turned losses into winnings until he again faced ruin.
This excerpt traces helmet etymology from Norman healme to medieval healmers and the surname Homer. It notes French sound shifts dropping the Il and lengthening the O, linking helmet makers to the surname.
The bride endures a painful tarr zadani facial hair removal using a fine string pulled along the skin by attendants. After the procedure the face is washed with warm water and heavily powder is applied. Ikbal Ali Shah cites Asia Magazine on the ritual widespread among brides.
An interesting explanation shows coal, petroleum and illuminating gas are related like ice water and steam. The volatile elements in coal are locked in solid form and require substantial heat to vaporize.
The piece cites the tortoise and hare parable and notes how figures like Leo the great and Thomas Jefferson achieved progress via steady effort. It cites Westminster Abbey space limits and proposals for a national mausoleum in the undercroft east of the Great Cloisters within the abbey precincts.
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