Physical Culture for Smith College Girls at Exercise
Smith College in Northampton runs a strict physical culture program led by Miss Senda Berenson. The article notes a rare field day, heavy emphasis on controlled drills, and brisk marching as practiced by a regimented class of twenty five to fifty students. It highlights disciplined routines, minimal athletic excess, and attention to posture, breathing, and chest exercise.
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Smith Gymnasium Practice Describes Women Students Routine
The article details Smith College gymnasium routines led by Miss Berenson, covering ladder climbs, rope work, and apparatus routines for sophomore women. It notes cycling through easy to hard tasks, fencing, fencing classes, medical exams, and supervised, safe exercise designed to build health while avoiding injury.
Tales of fortunetellers and con artists in old city life
A narrated set of anecdotes about soothsayers, fortune tellers, and clairvoyants influencing merchants executives and artists. It recounts a businessman losing about $1100 yearly to fraud, a musician warned off a tempting job, a purse recovered by a mysterious reader, and prophecies about a partner’s illness and a house purchase.
Cured Of Telling Their Ills In Christian Science Debate
A man questions the value of Christian Science while a patient recounts how many ailments among friends and neighbors were cured or eased by reliance on faith healing. The exchange highlights skepticism about science and praise for peace and relief through belief.
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Frayed Hearth Tales of Illness and Community Aid
A bedridden fall illness and bronchitis reshape a neighborhood as neighbors and a drugstore man discuss remedies. An austere sage quotes Christiaan Science ideas to ease fear, while families recall past sickness, care, and the toll on daily life.
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The Blessed Hand Remembered in Silent Hall
A fragmented meditation on Anselm and faith, tracing a monk’s life, visions, and a sacred hand laid in mold. Reverent scenes of monks, heavenly light, and unseen guardians frame memory, devotion, and eternal solace. The poem evokes reverence, mortality, and the promise of heavenly aid.
Neapolitan and Genovese macaroni in America’s diet
Reading through immigrant food habits reveals vast variety in dried pasta forms imported from Italy. Neapolitan macaroni dominates import volume, with Genovese and Sicilian pastes present in smaller shares, while Tuscan and gluten pastes target special digestives. Native Americans and Italian American communities use many shapes like macaroni, spaghetti, and perciatelli, produced in dozens of forms and sold in machine made and hand made types.
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