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Dulltown, UK: Today's china teapot is the one shaped like a squirrel on a birdfeeder.
It is a very poor pourer.
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The Daily Express Enquire Within, from 1934.
A fat book of information for nice middle class folk of that period. It has bags and bags of information on a wide variety of topics, it has 543 pages. From legal matters in Scotland to cooking forcemeat balls successfully. But it doesn't mention that annoying Adolph Hitler busily stirring things up just across the water in Germany.
Across the top of each page there are some words of wisdom, a proverb, or a historical fact - I will include some of these with today's selection.
Page 60. (Every man knows where his own shoe pinches.)
Forcemeat Balls.
(For turtle, mock turtle, or made dishes). Pound some veal in a marble mortar, rub it through a sieve with as much of the udder as you have veal, or about a third of the quantity of butter; put some bread-crumbs into a stewpan, moisten them with milk, and add a little chopped parsley and shallot, rub them well together in a mortar...
Page 279. (A letterbox saves many knocks.)
Diseases.
Convulsions (Children).
If during teething, free lancing of the gums, the warm bath, cold applications to the head, an emetic, and a laxative clyster - No. 20.
Page 383. (He that neglects time, time will neglect.)
Hints on taking a house.
ii. Healthy Situation.
Find out the nature of the subsoil on which the house stands - for example, a gravel or chalk subsoil is better than a subsoil of clay, because the former admits of a speedy escape of the surplus water in time of heavy and continuous rain, while the latter does not. Avoid the neighbourhood of graveyards and of factories giving forth unhealthy vapours...
Page 190. (Avoid the drug habit as you would poison.)
Quadrilles.
Eightsome reel.
Danced by four couples. All join hands and circle round to left, set and turn partners. Gentleman's arm around lady's waist, ladies give right hand across. Chassé half round to left, gentlemen give left hand and chassé back to places. Set and turn partners, then grand chain...
Page 355. (When alone, we have our thoughts to watch.)
Conduct and manners.
Avoid manifestations of ill-temper.
Reason is given for man's guidance.
Passion is the tempest by which reason is overthrown. Under the effects of passion, man's mind becomes disordered, his face disfigured, his body deformed. A moment's passion has frequently cut off a life's friendship, destroyed a life's hope, embittered a life's piece, and brought unending sorrow and disgrace. It is scarcely worth while to enter into a comparative analysis of ill-temper and passion; they are alike discreditable, alike injurious, and should stand equally condemned...
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