Streamlining an Old-Time Couch Into Modern Look
Reader guidance for transforming an antique couch into a streamlined style with cotton batting upholstery, box end tables, a partition shelf, and matching painted tables. Full instructions and Mrs. Spears Book No. 3 offer step by step directions for other projects including converting an iron bed.
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Spears
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New York
Wise and Otherwise ISE Words Digest
The column plays on sayings about speaking truth to bosses and social quirks. A writer asserts husbands should wear rings, jokes about nose rings, and cartoons the idea of truthfulness. It mocks reactions to wealth and fitness fads with witty asides.
Apprentices Hurry and Cunning Teach a Trade
A quip notes that speed and craftiness are apprentices to dispatch and skill yet neither learns the master’s trade, reflecting on ambition without mastery. The line suggests practice and guidance are needed to truly gain expertise.
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Colton
Ruse, Betrayal and a Laird's Old Grudge
Bruce Landor confronts Jarvis Dean over a lost Merino flock and a public rift. Autumn Dean seeks a fragile peace between lovers as old enmities test loyalties on a remote estate. Bruce delays accepting a generosity offer, while Jarvis hardens his stance toward the Landors.
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Father
Ancient Giants? Science Finds Tall Palestinians
The piece reports Sir Arthur Keith in Nature linking 50 000 to 100 000 year old Palestinian fossils to biblical giants. It notes four individuals between 5 ft 8 in and 5 ft 11 in height and suggests diet influenced ancient human size. American studies on modern students cite nutrition as a factor in height.
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Palestine
Sir Arthur Keith
Nature
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