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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1902
Page
7
An Era letter argues for a society to guard words and phrases from overuse. It laments worn epithets losing vitality and calls to retire household terms so nouns adjectives and phrases can reawaken with fresh meaning.
The article notes Parisians thread frog legs on willow wands for table presentation and discuss preparation. They are enjoyed at home rather than only in restaurants, with broth for invalids and convalescents. Fall is preferred for fattest, most delicate frogs, though many are caught in spring.
A historical note describes a treatment plan where speaking is banned for ten days to rest the voice then allowed in whispers for ten days and gradually returns to normal conversation. The method emphasizes staged vocal rest and incremental reintroduction of speech.
In the Amazon palm region a tribe makes infant cradles from woven palm leaves. A single leaf edge can form a cradle or even serve as a bat. Strong palm fibers create cords to suspend the cradle from a tree, allowing the wind to rock the baby gently.
A man named Mr Closefist regrets giving his last 10 cents to a beggar. He walks home in the rain and grudgingly complains that Providence did not reward his charity. His wife retorts that rain was unlikely to pause for charity. The piece explores disappointment and humor.
The plant known as rice claims aristocratic lineage as an old family. Originating in India, it crossed the ocean and settled in warm, moist soils worldwide. It now feeds about one third of humanity as a principal staple.
Scientific gardening is taught in the national schools of Sweden and in seminaries for training national schoolteachers. A school garden exists in nearly every rural district, placed near the schoolhouse, where children receive practical instruction in cultivating plants, berries, flowers, herbs, and fruits, plus management of hotbeds and greenhouses.
A hurried doctor on a city sidewalk is asked for medical advice by a man famed for giving sidewalk remedies. The patient pleads he is worn out and sick, seeking guidance on treatment. The doctor bluntly retorts to take a cab, delivering a dry one liner.
In modern discourse some naturalists claim horses transforming into living snakes and toads lasting thousands of years without sustenance in rock crevices. They also speculate the barnacle goose arose from the shellfish of that name and that the sora is a winged frog species.
The elector of Saxony sent Luther black cloth when he left the monastery. Luther wore a black suit in current court fashion and his pupils followed. Black then became the clerical garb distinguishing hue. The clergyman's coat stayed similar to lay fashion for years.
Practical tips on housing feeding and breeding chickens and a humorous anecdote from a Lutheran minister in western Maryland. The article discusses ventilation, nesting, feeding recipes like Iran and cracked wheat, rooster selection, and early mating to prepare eggs for winter. It ends with a Baltimore Sun anecdote about a German man who gave pigs in marriage and offered more pigs if remarrying.
A four year old girl frets when her father misses dinner. Her sister threatens no tea for him. The child returns with pennies to offer, saying she will give them all if her father gets his tea. She displays the saved coins in her tiny fist.
Olio State Journal quotes Phil Ossifer arguing honesty in politics serves citizens, while dishonesty serves the self. Phil Brick contrasts motives as refrain on political virtue.
A salesman pitches a product as an excellent coffee substitute that is wholesome and claimed to "make red blood." A young woman with earrings asks if there is something that makes blue blood. The exchange appears in the Chicago Tribune.
A Boston Christian Register note recalls a Nantucket family debating nautical phrases. The mother claims she never uses them, and a child challenges her, then the mother instructs a child to deliver a message to Cousin Phoebe and says it will square the yards with them and that the child must send for almost schooltime.
A Nashville Banner quotation notes that life improves not by turning a new leaf alone but by consistently filling the new page with steady effort. It emphasizes that bad habits fade only as good habits are cultivated through persistent discipline.
The article explains doll production involves eighty men each handling a small repetitive task to assemble the body. In some large factories, 1 000 dozen dolls can be produced daily. After body assembly, women workers paint dress and pack the dolls for market.
A brief comic exchange about a young woman finishing a Faust selection and an old lady recognizing Minnie’s performance of Home Sweet Home by the way she crosses her hands. The humor rests on anticipation and familiar musical cues.
A Hyde Park preacher's daughter ponders marriage to ministers or doctors in a humorous exchange. She notes doctors save lives now while preachers save souls later, and concludes a preacher’s wife faces weekly sermons rather than medicine, as recounted in the Chicago Herald.
A description explains the blind spot where the optic nerve exits the retina located near the nose. It guides a self test by aligning thumbs and eyes to reveal the spot as an object vanishes from perception. The phenomenon was first noted in the era of Charles II, with insight on conscious perception.
In a rural England church a minister asked the bride to answer for herself but a gruff voice replied Or will and again oi will. A groomsman finally explained that the bride is deaf and the groom answered for her.
The Sublime Society of Beefsteaks founded in 1735 by an English actor met in Covent Garden theater painting room and dined on beefsteaks with members including the Prince of Wales. The Scriblerus club, created by Swift in 1714, included Pope Gay and other literary figures.
A Paris visitor sees a woman in mourning whose parlor holds a portrait of her deceased daughter, aged about twenty five. The woman explains she had the image painted to show how the daughter would have looked if she had lived.
A Temple Bar critique notes Hindoo shopkeepers collect foreign clocks as curiosities of wealth rather than for utility. They may own many clocks yet ignore time, judging it by sunlit bamboo lengths rather than hours.
The Japanese list 269 chrysanthemum colors: 63 yellow 87 white 32 purple 30 red 81 pale pink 12 russet and 14 mixed shades. The piece notes a belief that no two blooms show the same tint, likening the flower to humanity’s endless variation.
A moral note urges calm when facing problems and delays. It compares an angry person failing to find the right key with wasting time and money on a broken lock, advising patient persistence to seek the correct solution.
A Bulwer quotation warns that talents and prospects should not tempt one to gamble away a potential palace that might later serve as a provision against the workhouse.
Russian census reports 640000 idolaters in a population of 126668000. The data show for every 121 men there are 100 women. The phrase Not Like Other Men is cited as context.
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