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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1902
Page
7
A Mall content piece contrasts information with knowledge noting that knowing where to find facts matters more than collecting data. It mocks the endlessly curious and the resident who insists others know every detail, urging practical use over becoming a walking library.
In a campus debate two students traded bright barbs about oratorical style. One taunted the other for using exclamation marks and italics to win, while the other fired back that italics mark non original and inspired text as in the Bible.
Victor Hugo wrote standing at a high desk and filled pages rapidly. He rose at night to jot ideas or verses and began his day around six, devoting six to eight hours daily. He rarely corrected, with poems conceived fully before writing, and even worked on omnibus rides through Paris during major projects.
The piece notes chrysanthemums in salads and cups exchanged as compliments at banquets. It describes Japanese eating habits with fish as staple, meat limited to the wealthy, and a surgical eyelid straightening practice among some women. It also mentions clothing from paper and hotel fans with Confucian blessings.
The piece notes that Japan endures damp, cold winters with little effort to combat it. Samurai ethos discourage showing cold, so kimono layers and a small hibachi are the only comforts. Homes are light wood with paper panes and open to the elements. Coolies and vendors cope by wearing light clothing while the rich face intensified chill indoors.
The lover of ferns can easily domesticate many attractive varieties by using young plants with soil on their roots. Provide a shady spot and light soil similar to their native ground. Gather soil from woods, wrap roots, water well, and plant after sundown with shade and frequent watering. Some fronds may die but most leaves survive with careful handling and watering.
The text recounts a legend from Edward Webb's Travailes describing two wild men one in Prester John’s court and the other in Constantinople. Each is fed only a daily quarter of raw mutton and, when someone dies for a grave crime, a further daily portion is prepared for them. They are chained to posts with mantles and long hair, neck-chained to prevent devouring passersby.
A Hopi woman selects a husband by sitting in his house and grinding corn until he proves worthy. After a ceremonial marriage, the couple reside in the wife’s house. Divorce is simple if the wife throws the husband’s saddle out. The wife controls the house and fields, while children enjoy high parental indulgence.
The author notes a New England practice where deacons walk the aisles after services to give metal checks to those deemed fit to commune. On the communion Sabbath the deacons ensure every communicant has a check and collect it before bread and wine are passed.
The piece recalls Dumas as lacking formal schooling yet gifted with a lively social mind. It retells a lunch where he cooked turkeys with truffles and calves’ sweetbreads, invited Albani to sing a brindisi, and impressed guests who called him Andre le Grand.
The Atchison Globe reflects on changing social norms by recalling old fashioned figures. It ponders the fate of an elderly man on jury duty a censorious mother and a petite schoolgirl with short braids.
A recipe proposes an onion sauce for lamb chops. It instructs simmering sliced onions in water, then cooking a roux with flour and butter, adding stock cream salt sugar and cayenne, and pressing the tender onions before mixing with the reserved cooking water.
A leading lady bursts into tears over a harsh newspaper critique. She blames a spiteful reviewer for ridiculing her gown and writes off the scathing paragraph as the work of a jealous woman in the Chicago Record-Herald.
The small brother recalls hearing a boy call his sister Duckie and notes she defies him. He comments it may be due to her walk, but he says it isn’t very nice of him. The exchange appears in the Chicago Post.
Brief quip from the Richmond Dispatch on Jobbers being thrown from his wheel this morning and bravely remounting, followed by a sharper remark about knowing when one is well off.
A farmer in a flood district sees his mortgaged house and barn break loose and float down the river. He quips that the scene represents his remaining indebted areas.
A New York Press essay warns doctors to use placebos to calm patients and maintain authority. It describes disguising quinine and other medicines, noting shaped pink pills and the danger of a patient recognizing a pill. The piece stresses solemn dosing and the therapeutic ritual.
The article recalls Germany's swift 1870 mobilization. On July 17 a telegram "Krieg. Mobil" issued from Berlin, and within two weeks an army of 500,000 fully equipped and trained personnel marched to the French border, after prior warning and military training.
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