Southern Girl Portrayed As A Charming, Complex Figure
The piece extols the Southern girl as irresistibly charming yet capable, noting her social grace, education, and business aptitude. It contrasts outward helplessness with inner strength, highlighting her roles from hostess and mother to artist and editor, and praising her poised influence in home life and society.
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Old Dominion
Kentucky
Ashe
South
North
T. Bowles
Modeling for Children Amusing pastime with cornstarch salt mix
A simple craft uses one pound cornstarch and two quarts salt to mold smooth forms. Moisten with water to shape balls and cubes, bake slowly or dry in the sun, then use for rainy day play and for older children as relief map projects.
Shelf over doorway for dinning room plate display
A home carpentry tip suggests building a narrow shelf over the lintel in a dining room where plate racks fall short. The shelf, stained to match woodwork, can be stacked with plates and a tall vase of grasses or autumn leaves to fill the high space above the doorway.
Incog Day Sparks Syracuse Debate on Scholarships and Behavior
Chancellor James R. Day of Syracuse University urged students with scholarships to live up to duties and avoid incognito theater going or tobacco use. He cited propriety, warned against disguises, and recounted a magistrate tale about a tramp who forgot his name while traveling incog.
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James R. Day
Syracuse University
Bfg
Day
Tri Travelia
Best 100 Books Listed by Sir John Lubbock in The Pleasures of Life
Sir John Lubbock names a 100 book list from The Bible to Scott’s novels including Marcus Aurelius Meditations Aristotle Ethics Confucius Analects Augustine Koran Spinoza Pascal Butler Taylor Pilgrim's Progress Homer Herodotus Xenophon Thucydides Tacitus Gibbon Hume Grote Carlyle Green Lewes Arabian Nights Gulliver's Travels Defoe Robinson Crusoe Vicar of Wakefield Cervantes Don Quixote Boswell Johnson Mallarmé Schiller William Tell Carlyle Past and Present Bacon Essays Emerson Burke Self Help Voltaire Goethe Thackeray Dickens Pickwick Blot Westward Ho Scott novels and more.
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John Lubbock
Marcus Aurelius
Epietotus
St. Hillatre
Wake
Thomas A Kempla
St. Augustine
Spinoza
Pascal
Butler
Taylor
Duncan
Keble
Mato
Xenophon
Aristotle
Demosthenes
Cicero
Piularch
Berkley
Descarte
Locke
Homer
Herold
Matorny
Kiladasa
Aeschylus
Triology
Orestes
Sophocles
Oedipus
Euripides
Aristophanes
Horace
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Milton
Spencer
Dryden
Wordsworth
Burns
Pope
Defoe
Johnson
Schuiler
Sheridan
Carlyle
Bacon
Smith
Mill
Captain Cook
White
Belhorne
Darwin
Montaigne
Addison
Emerson
Edmund Burke
Sinilea
Voltaire
Goethe
Thackeray
Dickens
Lytton
Pompeii
George Blot
Kingsley
Scott
Freaks in Animal World Describe Odd Creature Traits
An old science notes bizarre animal quirks. It notes horses lack eyebrows, hares lose eye lids, owls fix eyes in sockets but turn heads, frogs suffocate with mouths open, eels breath via head and tail, and snakes with teeth arrangements vary.
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Africa
Honest Grocer Delivers Better Orange Count
A bride praises her grocer's honesty after he corrected a bag mix up. She recalls ordering a dozen oranges and finding only eleven, noting he admitted the error and replaced the spoiled fruit with the best available. The tale, from Harper's Weekly, highlights fair dealing in everyday commerce.
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Eaid
Harper's Weekly
New Words Coined Daily Prompt Answers Curiosity
A playful dialogue between a parent and child on language. The child asks about new words and the father explains that language evolves daily while the mother holds the final say on usage. The exchange showcases family humor and the ever-changing nature of vocabulary.
Changing Temperatures and the Kidneys
The piece explains November as the start of cooler weather and urges the body to adjust to seasonal change. It claims cold weather burdens the kidneys, causing functional issues, and promotes Peruna as a long trusted remedy aiding kidney function and elimination of toxins. It asserts Dr. Hartman used it for years with proven, wide endorsement.
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Bright
Europe
America
Hartman
Reynard's Hiding Place in a Great Burstead Brewhouse
During a Essex Union Hounds run at Great Burstead England the fox sought refuge in a brewhouse. It rested on a boiling copper but fled into rafters when pressed by the hounds. Chairs and dishes were overturned as the hunt intensified until a whip arrived to capture the fox.
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Reynard
Essex Union
Great Burstead
England
Reception Costly Decor Change For Bishop Visit
Mrs. Augustus Heaton of Washington shifted from Episcopalian to Roman Catholic and hosted a reception for the diocesan bishop. She redecorated her drawing room at great expense, removing most furnishings and adding drab silk wall covering, ultimately disposing of $9,000 in the process.
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Augustus Heaton
Washington
Hene Ton
Howton
Doctor's Trials Endorse Grape Nuts For Health Recovery
An overworked Ohio family doctor recounts his health collapse from heavy practice and other work. He credits rapid, lasting improvement to Grape Nuts with breakfast and often dinner, noting gains in weight and stamina and relief from indigestion and fatigue.
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Ohio
Meath
Itte
Postum Battle Crook
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