Hints for Picnic Season From Edith M Barber
Practical guidance on two picnic meal styles with open fire cooking. Includes ready packs, equipment lists, broiled buttered toast, broiled bacon, frankfurters, corn in ashes, sides, and kid friendly snacks. Provides recipes for hot hamburgers, stewed potatoes, and soft molasses cookies.
How to Organize a Telephone Desk and Weight Loss Myths
Dr James W Barton advises proper desk setup to avoid missed messages with a secured pencil and attached calendar, plus a filing system and prompt message delivery. He also analyzes weight loss pills, warning against laxatives and thyroid/ dinitrophenol products and endorsing sustained effort and moderate dieting with increased activity.
Wise Working and Training for Consistent Daily Effort
The text extols work done willingly and moderately for a fixed daily hours goal excluding Sundays as a form of wisdom. It argues that combining disciplined practice with a positive mindset yields a enduring system of achievement and the best outcomes.
Surface Paints of Early Americans Hint at Sun Defense
Prehistoric humans in America used facial and body pigments widely for adornment. The paints may have also served to protect the skin from sun exposure.
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America
Heat stains on furniture ease with wood alcohol method
White heat marks on furniture vanish when a cloth saturated with wood alcohol is applied. Wipe dry and finish with a clean soft cloth to restore shine.
Oddities and farm facts reveal curious agricultural notes
A survey shows more than 30 million tin cans used yearly in the U S and that cucumbers do not counteract poisonous juice. plants benefit from ammonia mixed irrigation in California. Dahlias have lower chances of flowers named after men than women, especially if married. Flies respond to light colors, beekeeping depends on nectar from clovers, and sour cream bears no extra butterfat.
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W. G. Campbell
Federal Food and Drug Administration
Washington
Behan
San Francisco
United States
California
Country Home Magazine
Sad Case of a Forgotten Man
A college freshman flunks history after the professor asks who Judas Iscariot is. The letter notes the class never studied Judas and half the students claim ignorance. The piece, quoting Bruce Barton, reflects on missed chances to become one of the immortals in triumphalist contexts.
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Judas Iscariot
Judas
Bruce Barton
Cosmopolitan
Sweet Temper and Able Men
A humorous note praises sweet tempered boys while cautioning against overreliance. It quotes Aristotle on becoming able in any profession, listing nature study and practice as three necessary elements for success.
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