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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
6
A German climber at Mont Blanc makes rescuers quote their price before agreeing to be saved. He remains calm and businesslike, insisting on a written fee for the life saving effort, while guides and companions react to his insistence as they descend into a crevasse.
Jean Viaud Bryant, famed French gardener, argues in a new book that flowers can see and hear and may even communicate. He notes plants bend toward supports as possible volition, cites sensitivity to anesthetics as evidence of a nervous system, and compares perfume to voice with scents mapping to vibration notes like sound and light perceptions.
A visitor from out of town comes to New York, listens to city tales from locals, and visits Spuyten Duyvil and the Palisades. He remains unimpressed by the river scenery and bluffs, learning that the famed appeal of New York is not as strong as claimed.
The passage recalls Cowper’s John Gilpin riding to Edmonton for a wedding, borrowing a horse that leads to a comic chase. The rider explains he followed the horse’s will, with his Nat and wig soon to arrive on the journey.
A London Mail note reports a guest at Hotel Pretor challenging charges for writing paper on a bill claiming no use of paper during the stay. The exchange highlights frugality and billing disputes.
A dialogue excerpt contrasts vanity and poverty as a suitor admits poverty but asserts it is not a crime. A father quotes Seneca urging contentment and a judge shifts focus to riches and modest means. The piece reflects satirical social commentary on wealth and appearance.
The article explains that a bullet fired from the rear of a moving train would leave at 100 miles per minute relative to ground, while the train speeds forward at 100 miles per minute. It notes the explosion drives the bullet, not the train, and that after one minute the train rear and bullet are 200 miles apart. It discusses the infinitesimal interval when the bullet transitions from train to free motion and mentions differential calculus as the tool to study this state.
The Washington Star notes that most domestic work is handled by Kaffir boys who adopt white names, leading to humorous results. They bathe and oil themselves, then wear filthy clothes, with names like Knife or Fork and even Ham and Eggs. The piece praises their cleanliness but mocks their laundry habits.
The Morning Chronicle prints an 1767 ad for Nurse Truelove's New Year’s Gift a Book of Books For Children with cuts. It promises gratis copies to all boys and girls at the Bible and Sun in St Pauls churchyard and charges two pence for binding, author covering printing.
In Prussian Saxony a hunting party member asked to inspect a gun. While examining it the weapon discharged killing a nearby young woman. The owner received one year in prison for negligence. the handler got six months as an inexperienced hunter.
A judge recalls a couple at a film where Mrs Brown urges swift arrest of the villain. The husband calms her noting the operator is winding the action as fast as possible, delivering a witty courtroom aside.
In Borneo winged creatures appear in unlikely places. Flying fish the size of herrings swim in the waters. The well known fruit eating bat called kruang by the Malays is also reported.
A terse dialogue notes blame shifting and accountability as Alice stops venting her troubles after being told she was responsible for causing them. The Boston Transcript quotes the exchange highlighting a shift in dynamics and self-awareness.
A London Punch cartoon caption recalls a quarrel between a man and an irate gentleman over who remembers a past insult. The exchange hinges on who uttered the line first and how the memory is triggered.
Veal brisket cut into pieces simmered with onions carrots and parsley in stock. A second sauce blends butter flour and stock to a rich sauce, then eggs and milk are stirred in. Served over rice with butter and seasonings after baking the rice briefly.
A practical list of household reminders includes using a starch in water to keep flowers fresh, sprinkling saltpetre to curb chimney soot, drying cut glass with chalk, boiling potatoes in their skins, propping a gas stove door to vent heat, using hot ashes to keep a dustbin free of smells, rubbing celery or parsley on hands to counteract onion odor, using lemon borax or ammonia for stains, avoiding ironing brown stockings and instead smoothing them with a mangle to prevent yellow tint.
A historic kitchen recipe instructs to cut a fat hen into pieces arrange back and legs on the bottom of a kettle breast on top cover with boiling water and simmer about an hour and a half until tender. It then directs making gravy by thickening one pint of stock with flour and butter or chicken fat and finishing with beaten egg yolks and chopped parsley.
A simple tomato toast dish mixes canned tomatoes onion grated cheese sugar and butter with flour for thickening seasoned with salt and pepper. Simmer tomatoes then add onion cheese and thickening, pour over toast slices and serve immediately.
Real lace should not be washed but cleaned by placing between tis sue paper with magnesia powder then pressing in a book for three to four days. Shake out the powder to reveal clean lace. For jelly on warm days, set it by placing the mold in cold water with salt and soda to help it firm.
A recipe lists ingredients for cocoanut cake: one cup butter, three cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, four and a half cups flour, four eggs beaten stiff, one teaspoon soda, two teaspoons cream of tartar, and one grated cocoanut.
To prevent cabbage steam odor, place a small piece of bread tied in muslin in the saucepan. The bread absorbs the smell as cabbage boils, yielding a milder kitchen scent.
A 19th century London manifesto proposed a league of housewives to hire only uniformed servants and ban many adornments. The plan failed to gain support. The piece also notes old views on ugliness in servants. Practical home tips cover wash basins, stain removal, silk coats, furniture care, lemon for paint marks, and a linen dress with black velvet accents.
A Spanish nobleman and his daughter discover remarkable prehistoric wall paintings during a cave dig. The red, black, and gray depictions of bison and mammoths show lifelike proportions and skilled technique. Font de Gaume and Nianx caves in France preserve similar outlines in manganese oxide on limestone.
In Random Recollections by R Caton Woodville King George then Duke of York tests a Mauser rifle and compares it to Lee Metford and Lee Enfield. A rude parrot squawks Rats revealing the joke and prompting the duke to demand the speaker.
The frontier between Canada and the United States is described as the longest and safest in the world. Spanning over 3000 miles from Passamaquoddy Bay to Puget Sound, it is guarded by a few small fishery cruisers and features crumbling forts and musty guns. The message from St. John Telegraph emphasizes its peaceful status and limited wartime usefulness.
A cartoonish dialogue shows Mrs Newrich and Mrs Rawler debating discretion about a husband’s cold. The joke plays on the idea that avoiding mention of common illnesses becomes a social absurdity. The snippet captures light social banter from a humorous exchange.
An older Chicago Record-Herald quotation contrasts saving philosophy with actual practice. The speaker claims faith in saving money despite admitting no savings. The exchange signals recurring financial prudence debates in early 20th century urban life.
A quotation notes that nine mines show richer ore in the first thousand feet, while few justify mining below three thousand feet. It adds that light reveals a jewel but darkness reveals a star, attributed to Van Dyke.
A 1920s guide shows thrift tweaks to Coffee Cake and Cornbread recipes. Substitutions include less eggs, milk, and butter, plus coffee, baking powder, and lard blends. Cornbread uses cornmeal, flour, milk, lard, sugar, salt, and baking powder, with eggs omitted.
An English firm introduces a freezer claiming delivery of ice cream within thirty seconds after starting the process. The design places ice and brine in the cylinder while cream sits in the case, with the cylinder submerged. A thin cream film forms on the cylinder as it revolves, then is scraped off into a receptacle via a small chute.
The recipe details making a preserve by boiling four quarts of barberries with twelve large sour apples until soft. Drain overnight, use one pint juice per pint sugar, add orange juice two oranges thin peel and half a pound seedless raisins. Boil till peel and raisins soften, skim out, then add sugar beaten in the oven and boil about fifteen minutes.
Pickled beets are made from half-grown beets boiled until tender. Remove skins while hot to keep the red color. Prepare boiling vinegar with one pint sugar per quart and mixed spices. Fill sterilized jars with beets, pour in vinegar, and seal.
A simple gingerbread recipe uses one egg and can bake as two thin layers or one and split. Fill with grape or currant jelly and top with whipped cream while warm for a fast economical dessert.
A simple home remedy describes applying pure glycerine to fruit stains on linen. Let it sit for an hour, then wash in warm soapy water. Repeat once if stains persist.
After washing dusters, rinse with kerosene and air dry. This process yields a dustless duster. Dry mops may be treated similarly for similar benefits.
Edgar Lucien Larkin in the New York American notes that the fourth dimension rests on an unproven concept and cannot be geometrically demonstrated. He argues that mind and space lack defined meanings, and whether space is curved remains unknown and unproved.
The New York World notes that smoke from a steam plant carries away about 60 percent of coal energy. It explains only 2 percent becomes light in lamps and 99 percent is lost in energy conversion and transmission.
W J Lof tier recalls the frequent poverty of poets buried near Westminster Abbey including Chaucer Spenser Ben Jonson Dryden and Butler of Hudibras fame. Chaucer's house was demolished for Henry VII chapel and his tomb dating from 1555 was funded by Nicholas Brigham a fellow poet with better means.
The piece notes that two of the three men were tailors while George Sandham was a grocer. Meeting after work at a Tooley Street pub in Southwark they discussed politics and public affairs. They drafted a petition during Catholic emancipation era under prime minister Canning, beginning with the phrase We, the people of England.
Shakespeare had two other children besides Susanna a boy and a girl twins Hamnet died at eleven and Judith married Thomas Quincy and had three sons all died childless Susanna married Dr Gall Strat ford physician widow in 1635 died 1640.
A St. Louis Republic quote notes that in fiction a man extols a beloved heroine through forty chapters, yet in real life he never mentions her name. The remark asks how realism can exist in love stories.
A Baltimore American quotation jokes about a piano maker’s business being an infant industry as he produces baby grand pianos. The line hints at wisdom by Fielding about pursuing virtuous pleasures cheaply.
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