The Dangers of a Phonograph in Theodore’s World
A long critical letter argues a phonograph corrupts Theodore’s manners and speech by mimicking vulgar street talk. It cautions a mother to police his listening at home, praising restraint while urging artful exposure to refined music and etiquette. It also lampoons fashionable dowdy dress and urges self-improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore
Tittle
Tommy Perkins
Tommy
Eddy Conway
Eddy
Elgarttos
Aleck Saunders
Aleck
Flanders
Aloystun
Phonograph
Hoethoven
Schubert
Schumann
Alick Saunders
Elgar Witea
Theodorn
Boye
Claracter
Germany
Lim Jacklin
Opie Read
Old Fort Destroyed By Fire Reflections On Liquor
A local courthouse crowd recalls a landmark of British days, Linnet Tockiin notes sentiment shifts toward prohibition. Uncle Ben Weatherby and Limuel weigh whiskey’s past influence on trials, speechmaking, farming life, and morals, contrasting past hardships with modern sanitation and life expectancy.
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Fie
Alking
Linnet Tockiin
Tom Marshall
Tom
Tom Ho
Ben Weatherby
Limuel
Satan
Designs in Chafing Dishes Brighten Dining Sets
The article reviews new chafing dish designs featuring curved warms, gold or liver welts, and various metal bodies. Glass, nickel, copper, and brass options are discussed with attractive beadwork, durable nickel bound in copper, and brass screens praised for style though noted to hinder social dining during rabbit making.
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Cairo
Household Hints From a Practical Cookbook Era
Household hints cover pruning by elder stewing, preserving fish with borax, drying cold water starch for reuse, and storing old keys to aid in unlocking lost receptacles. Also notes room paper patterns affecting apparent size, a durable floor stain recipe, and storing hot irons in the under oven for quick heating and safekeeping.
Home Made Desk Pads and Apple Flavor Tips
Home made desk pads are described using cardboard covers, blotting papers, and ribbons to secure the pages, forming a compact pageless book cover. A bread dough recipe provides a lemony sweet bake, while an apples dish suggests baking stuffed cores with nuts dates prunes and preserved ginger, served with whipped cream.
Apple Pudding Bake With Apple Layer
Apple pudding recipe instructs buttered dish with sliced apples then batter of butter sugar milk flour and baking powder. Bake until brown and serve with cream or cold sauce for a simple dessert.
Strawberry Fool Dessert From Strawberries in Sherbet Glasses
A quick and good dogsert called strawberry fool served in sherbet glasses. Press hull quart of strawberries, sweeten to taste, whip three-quarters pint of cream and fold in. Spoon into glasses and serve with vanilla wafers or lady fingers.
Beet and Horseradish Sauce and Strawberry Fluff
Beets simmer until tender then skin mash with melted butter salt pepper and grated horseradish and a touch of vinegar or lemon juice. Strawberry Fluff blends straw berries egg white and sugar to stiff peaks and serves ten.
The Hermit by C E Hughes in Germany
Dickie Fergusvon, a cultivated hermit living in a German castle, forms a bond with an American woman from a visiting party and with her fox terrier Bobs. After the crowd departs, Dickie’s restless life resumes until a letter about a marriage unsettles him, prompting him to seek connection and meaning through his dog.
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Dickie Fergusvon
Dickie
Djekte
Neckar
Heidelberg
Dickle
Dekie
Micke
Tui
Gil
Aganal
Bobs
America
Amer
Bob
Dickin
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Dante
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