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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1906
Page
3
The writing argues Americans are highly excitable and prone to shifting admiration. It contrasts popular heroes like Dewey and Hobson with changing public favor, then shifts to a view of education shaping wonder. It notes Ota Benga’s reaction, views on savagery, and ends that understanding drains marvel at tricks and stars alike.
The piece argues for trades schools like those in France and Germany tailored to American needs. It notes that while manual training in elementary and secondary schools advances general education, high schools cannot become trades schools. Expensive equipment should yield returns by enhancing trade training alongside broad, culture rich curricula.
The essay asserts the church is a human compact for religion and righteousness. It argues church claims shape moral training, guiding respectable people to allocate time and money to faith over secular pleasures, framing social duty as essential to character.
A vintage cooking note explains celery's versatility with curry and breakfast dishes. The curry uses two cups chopped celery simmered in stock with onion butter curry powder and lemon juice served over rice. The breakfast method cooks four eggs with celery in butter then blends in eggs and serves on buttered toast.
The Pattern Department promotes the jaunty sailor suit in dark blue flannel with a red embroidered shield. It features a headover blouse and elastic waist, knickerbockers with multiple pockets, and suitable fabrics. Sizes range for boys 3 to 12, patterns priced ten cents each and ten cents for pattern Nos 5604 and 5373.
A list details multiple kitchen tips and home hacks using salt. It suggests lightening eggs, blue flame for broiling, preventing cake burns, absorbing spills, a toothpowder note with enamel caveat, feather care with salt fumes, eye bath benefits, and improving baked goods and confections.
The article advises placing an old pier glass for viewing outfits, a dresser style cabinet with a mirror, a kitchen table with a back leaf to cut circular skirts, and a scrap basket as core items. It recommends a work basket, hamper for linings, a low and a high chair, a sewing machine, a Judy form, and a tree rack for hanging half finished garments to enhance comfort and efficiency.
Pattern No 5692 presents a nine gore pleated skirt in dark blue prunella cloth. It can be made round short round or instep length with optional yoke. Suitable fabrics include broadcloth mohair cashmere and tweed. For a 26 inch waist six and a half yards of 50 inch material are required. Sizes 20 22 24 26 28 and 30 inches.
To keep chamois leather in good condition, clean it with three pints of tepid rain water and four tablespoonfuls of ammonia. Soak an hour, then work with a wooden spoon to press out dirt. Rinse in tepid water, rub with hands until clean, repeat as needed, hang in shade to dry and rub until perfectly soft.
Cream butter and sugar then add milk and flour sifted three times with soda and cream of tartar. Fold in stiff whites of a dozen eggs. Flavor with almonds or rose and bake slowly. Cake keeps well and stays moist. Halve recipe if desired.
A silk handkerchief should not be boiled or scrubbed with soap. Make a lather with finely shredded white soap and hot water, wash, rinse in cold water, wring, and dry quickly in the sun or by the fire, ironing while still damp but not wet.
A stock dealer in Colorado seeks to learn Old Bill Sands business methods at his ranch. A nearby rancher cautions that Sands would not go to hell for a nickel but keeps fishing around the edges for it until he falls in.
Mrs Lizzie Vincent Thomas of Fairmount Walden's Ridge Tenn recounts a stubborn eczema case in her child. After consulting a prominent physician she used Cuticura Remedies and achieved relief in six weeks. The family, twelve miles from a doctor, found Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills a reliable household standby.
Paris maintains three principal abattoirs La Vilette Vaugirard and Villejuif where animals are slaughtered for food for a tax of 2 francs per 100 kilograms. Inspectors condemn diseased meat by petroleum treatment and disposal. Prior to 1810 Paris slaughtered in streets until abattoirs were established under official supervision.
A janitor at a large Portsmouth church found a tough sleeping stranger asleep on a pew cushions after opening the doors for airing. The man said he stayed there Saturday night after being drawn by choir rehearsal and slept until morning, leaving without disturbance.
A man recalls indigestion from waffles and meat heavy breakfasts until he tried Grape Nuts and Postum. He reports improved appetite, weight gain of 15 pounds in six weeks, and relief from nervousness after stopping coffee. The ad cites Postum Co. and The Road to Wellville as promotional references.
The quote emphasizes patience as a supreme force, arguing greatness in action is not essential. It notes that enduring calm and steady effort often surpasses flashy achievement.
An emergency drawer is described as a practical feature of a household. It should contain scissors court plaster absorbent cotton vase line a roll of soft linen and an antiseptic for quick access without rummaging through the medicine closet.
House flies provide occupation for transatlantic voyagers as ships cross the ocean. They buzz on deck in fine weather and hide in cabins during high winds. The flies often stay in port and return on the next voyage, thus crossing the ocean multiple times.
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