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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1910
Page
6
A mother explains to Tommy that children should amuse themselves and spin their own tops. She argues adults should teach, not entertain, fostering independence and usefulness, while a contrasting figure laments spoiling by overindulgence. The dialogue emphasizes self reliance and purposeful activity.
A long reader letter column offers guidance on courtship, home life, and social norms. Questions cover marriage readiness, engagements, dating, and etiquette for teens and young adults amid 1896 Seattle life, with Miss Grey’s practical responses.
Excerpts quote Mrs. Shanna Cummings Jones, Miss Alice May Buckton, and Mrs. Kendrick on motherhood, religion, and the role of women. They discuss public schools shaping conscience, happiness in simple desires, and balance between personal life and household duties.
A reader guide explains making a portable drinking cup from paper or a folded envelope to drink water in public places without using contaminated cups. The method uses an eight inch square sheet, folds into a cylinder, and can hold water for several minutes, with an envelope serving similarly when sealed.
Amanda Theodosia Jones, born 1835, is noted for inventing the vacuum preserving process for canning fruit without cooking and for other culinary innovations. A keen investigator in culinary science, she has contributed to periodicals and holds a patent pending on a liquid fuel burner device. her home is in Junction City.
A festive room game assigns four corner names by compass points with a wind master guiding weather cocks in a center line. The wind calls cardinal directions and vanes face the opposite point. variable prompts cause vanes to oscillate. storm or tempest spins them thrice. Failing to follow any rule costs a forfeit.
A smart dinner gown designed to slim the figure uses broadcloth with velvet trim for a striking effect. The piece suits both fashionable women and the less slender, highlighting current couture. Asbestos towels appear among day’s curiosities, claimed to cleanly renew by re searing in a fire.
In stock here for printing papering and kalfe mining at reasonable prices. Located at 1314 First Ave near University St.
Cut kidneys in thin slices and soak in cold salted water for half an hour. Drain and boil in cold water for two and a half hours until tender. Add butter pepper salt sage celery nutmeg and finely chopped onion. Simmer until done, then add a cup of rich broth and boil once before serving.
A historical recipe instructs combining one cup breadcrumbs with one cup sweet milk and overnight rest. In the morning beat ogee, mix with breadcrumbs season and bake in buttered pan, served with a tomato sauce made by buttering, adding flour, then strained canned tomatoes and nutmeg.
Soak the rabbit in cold water to remove blood. Place in a rotating pan, cover with salt pork, and bake quickly. For young rabbits thirty minutes suffices. Serve on a platter with gravy made from the hot grease, onions, flour, and hot water to form a smooth brown sauce.
AIKEN Dec 28 After more than two years in quarantine at her home a leper missionary Mien Mary V Kirk died today in Aiken South Carolina. Kirk contracted leprosy in Brazil nineteen years ago while serving as a Presbyterian missionary. She was treated by specialists of world wide reputation.
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