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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1914
Page
35
World Magazine describes a local practice in the Orange Free State where women balance a baby in a cradle called a chihungfu on their heads. When the cradle is empty it is inverted to form a hat, a common sight noted for its clever balance.
A feature describes a film stunt showing a death scene and a breath hold. It explains how actors regulate carbon dioxide to suppress breathing, offers a home method to hold breath for two to three minutes, and notes drowning asphyxia timing.
In a nostalgic look at newsrooms past editors preferred typewritten manuscripts over pen or pencil copies. Quill pens blotted, wrankled, and made legibility scarce while early reporters labored with wooden nibs and pencils, often producing unreadable copy that printers had to decipher. The piece contrasts antiquated penwork with the advent of the typewriter.
The article reflects on Dickens and writers of old, contrasting the quill pen with the modern typewriter. It recalls ink stained desks, sand on manuscripts, and the romanticized image of authorship, arguing the quill remains a lasting emblem of literature despite mechanical advances.
A Bond Street jeweler shows a pearly collection with a £ 60,000 rope, a £ 14,000 single drop, and a £ 24,000 necklet of extraordinary hue. Also featured are black and pink pearls and £ 8,000 button-shaped earrings. An expert advises avoiding long safekeeping in dark places and recommends wearing pearls close to the skin to preserve luster and prolong life.
An eighteenth century style remark argues that a woman’s wardrobe should reveal personality rather than a husband’s wealth. It lampoons a woman’s aim to change attire as often as her mind shifts, claiming the apparel arts reveal the man and expose the woman.
A ferocious chase unfolds as a wounded lion battles hyenas and insects near a blood pool, then scenes shift to a petty thief eluding police in New York. Twitchell pursues the thief while a Monroe bank affair looms, ending with Old Peterkins learning the full story of the theft and its aftermath.
A Colorado inventor created a ventilating device for hose nozzles. Water flowing through a chamber powers a wheel that drives two fangs linked to rubber tubes feeding air to face masks. Tests showed firefighters could breathe in smoky conditions that would otherwise suffocate them.
Monroe bank president Peter King faces internal trouble as trusted runners like Twitchell, Birdseye, and Littlefield spiral into thefts and prison. In New York Twitchell gambles away his debt in a Tenderloin billiards room while investigators close in on the missing $10,000.
A humorous column laments uneven rainfall across the globe and in the corn belt. It mocks political control of weather, notes crops suffer when moisture is scarce, and warns that a drought could threaten distilleries in Peoria while Providence alone governs the skies.
An article describes experiments cited by Leonard Bastin claiming plants can sense distant objects without touch. It details sundew prey catching by leaf movement toward flies nearby and dodder parasitism where threadlike growth ensnares host plants, siphoning their sap.
A long discussion on how aging stars appear to gain speed, based on Campbell of the Lick Observatory. The piece reviews stellar classes 0 to 5, the relation of age, temperature, brightness, and velocity, and alternative explanations from Russell and Schwarzschild. It considers giant and dwarf stars, and suggests a velocity increase may come from mass differences rather than age alone.
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