Banting Diet Sparked Idle Debate On Fat and Society
Across the Atlantic oil discoveries inspire talk of fat and diet with Mr Banting's method praised by some and mocked by others. The piece argues fat is not simply a personal parasitic issue but ties to clothing, city life, and social order, warning that dieting alone cannot reshape a nation’s body or priorities.
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Felix Graham and the road to riches at Grahamville
A narrator visits Felix Graham, a nephew obsessed with wealth, at his farm in Grahamville. Felix boasts of cucumber profits and neglects family reading, soldiers in need, and Sabbath devotions as he chases profits. The visit ends with the narrator's belief that Felix is growing miserably poor while a moral on road etiquette and a beekeeper’s parable punctuate the tale.
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Sensible Advice From Professor Silliman
Professor Silliman of New Haven offered prudent guidance to youths after a Smithsonian lecture. He urged avoiding all drinks beyond water and mild infusions, shunning tobacco, and relying on nutritious food and mild dilutions with water as the base. He claimed such living would yield long, happy, useful lives and a serene evening at nightfall.
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Early Gray Hair From Oil Deficiency Not Disease
Aging hair turns white or gray not from disease but likely oil deficiency from follicles. Gray hair can appear rapidly under fear or grief, though may revert after stress ends. Heredity causes some families to gray early, yet hair remains strong though baldness risk rises. Courage is shown by facing fears, not by absence of fear.
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Byron
A Christian Life Woven by Time’s Loom and Pattern
A sermon-like reflection describes life as a loom where God guides a believer. Sorrow and joy alternate as the shuttle moves, weaving a thread that is white or black as the divine pattern requires. In the end, God reveals the finished garment, showing that dark colors were essential to beauty alongside bright ones.
Voice of God in the soul of man guides youth
A boy resists killing a tortoise after hearing an inner voice declare killing wrong. He shares the moment with his mother, who explains conscience as the voice of God guiding right when listened to, but fading when ignored, in a Nation column.
Perilous Train Wreck Leads to Embarrassing Rescue
A Hartford Times account recalls a Civil War soldier returning from Potomac duties who survived a Berlin railroad smash up. In a forward car he sat beside a stranger, the wreck hurled the two into a comic yet perilous entanglement under a hoop skirt. After freeing themselves, the bashful pair met again on Main Street, eliciting further blushes from the pretty stranger.
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Words on death and faith from Goo D Prentice
The passage, attributed to Goo D Prentice, reflects on death, the afterlife, and divine power. It contemplates life’s abrupt end, the burden of grief, and the idea that truth endures. It ends with a cryptic line about preserving a secret in frankness.
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