Amusury – Fast Reads

The Teeth
The teeth should receive a bit of your attention. A lot of young men have been disgusted with a lady by seeing her unclean and discolored teeth. It takes but a few moments, and if necessary secure some simple tooth powder or rub the teeth thoroughly every day with a linen handkerchief, and it will give the teeth and mouth a beautiful, clean appearance.

Watch Rice Grow - Rice is the seed of a cereal grass. It is claimed to be native to India, but it is known to have been cultivated in China for more than five thousand years. It grows wild in Australia and Malaysia. Rice requires plenty of warmth and moisture. It is cultivated in the warmer parts of the temperate zone, but it thrives best in the tropical regions.

Space is made in Hollywood - A zany former scientist claims rocketry is science fiction. "It’s like how the Red Hot Chili Peppers song says, that space is made in a Hollywood basement," pleads Glen Johnson, who went to a California college.
Johnson flunked out of school because teachers refused to be fair when grading his written reports. He was an astrology and engineering student. They (the teachers) did not like a punk like him levitating the theory of gravity.
"A lot of folks in the world do not believe in the moon landings," Johnson adds. His friends agree with his wacky beliefs. They were interviewed outside a shopping center panhandling money and collecting cans.

Cordial Introductions - With the passing of the ridiculous half-finger handshake, with the arm extended upward and the wrist bent awkwardly, introductions have become more cordial and sincere. Which is entirely as it should be. Too many people go through the ceremony of an introduction merely as a matter of duty, without realizing its portent in the matter of friendship and future acquaintance.

About Baking Bread
It is difficult to give rules for making bread; it depends so much on judgment and experience.

In summer, bread should be mixed with cold water; during a chilly, damp spell, the water should be slightly warm; in severe cold weather, it should be mixed quite warm, and set in a warm place during the night. If your yeast is new and lively, a small quantity will make the bread rise, if it be old and heavy, it will take more. In these things I believe wisdom must be gained by a few mistakes. ●

The First Refugees

The edict of Nantes in 1598, granted the Protestants, known as Huguenots, full civil rights, liberty of conscience, and public worship in many places, and notably in the royal jurisdictions.
The Catholics, whose religion was essentially a state religion, had never accepted this arrangement as final, and at last, in 1685, under King Louis XIV, the edict of Nantes was revoked, and the Protestant pastors expelled from France.
Their followers were forbidden to leave the country, but many succeeded nevertheless in escaping abroad. From the Huguenots escaping an evil France, comes the concept and word we know today as refugees. ◆

How can a Boor be Happy? - With a gloomy face, sour disposition, complaining habits and inherent lack of good taste and culture, a boor sees only the shadows of life. Boors repulse folks, not attract them. Brilliant people of refinement and taste will have nothing to do with them. The boor only lives a sorry, complaining, gloomy, life without companions as an outcast from that better society we all desire to know. ▪

How About Halibut?
The Halibut is the largest of the flat-fishes, specimens of as much as 20 feet in length being on record, while examples of from 6 to 7 feet long are not uncommon in fish markets.

This fish has a wide distribution, occurring on both sides of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, being most abundant in deep water. Many of the halibut that are in USA fish markets are caught off of Iceland.

Clean Toilets & Dress
Don't let one day pass without a thorough cleansing of your person. Don't sit down to your evening meal before a complete toilet if you have company. Don't cleanse your nails, your nose or your ears in public. Don't use hair dye, hair oil or pomades. Don't wear evening dress in daytime. Don't wear jewelry of a gaudy character; genuine jewelry modestly worn is not out of place. ◆

What Good Manners Do
Good manners will enable you to be easy and graceful at all times. You will be able to mingle with the most cultured people and be perfectly at ease. You will lose all self-consciousness, all timidity. And instead you will become dignified, well-poised, calm. Instinctively people will respect you; in business and in society you will find yourself welcomed and admired.

Improper Intentions - An infallible sign that a young man's intentions are improper, is his trying to excite your passions. If he loves you, he will never appeal to that feeling, because he respects you too much for that. A woman that allows a man to take advantage of her just to compel him to marry is lost and heartless in the last degree, and utterly destitute of moral principle as well as virtue. A woman's riches are virtues and that gone she has lost all. ▴

Zen Relaxation — Nowadays people are more stressed. If the problem is left untreated, people can experience muscle and back pain. Practitioners of martial arts and eastern religions mix stretching, exercise, diet, and meditation to balance their lives.
"It is important to stretch 20 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes before going to bed," reported Maya Flynn, a part-time yoga and tai chi teacher in Rhode Island.

"One doctor told my sister she needs surgery and another one said she needed yoga. And now, a year later she is doing great because she started exercising," Ms. Flynn added, who suggests to get books and watch videos on meditation to take away life’s stresses. ◆

Properly Train Children
Training without proper judgment and knowledge is ill advised. Give your children a good example, and never tell a child to do something and then become indifferent as to whether they do it or not.

A child should never be told twice to do the same thing. Teach the child in childhood obedience and never vary from that rule. Do it kindly but firmly. Teach your children well. ▰

The Pine Family
The pine family includes the various species of pine, tamarack, spruce, hemlock, fir, juniper, larch, cypress, and cedar.

A few members of the family thrive in the warmer parts of the temperate zone, but for the greater part they flourish between the fortieth and sixtieth parallels. Most of the species found in low latitudes are mountain-trees and make up a big part of the American and Russian forests.

Go Outside and Play
Give your young people plenty of amusement outdoors, way less of computer screens, and more of croquet, dancing, hiking, and lawn tennis. Stimulate the methods of pure thoughts in innocent amusement, and your daughters and sons will mature to adulthood pure and chaste in character. Wise parents will consider year-round daycare centers outdoors, where mother nature becomes a playground. Acclimate the kids to cold weather and they will happily play in cold winter snow all day. ●

Puerto Rico - Formerly a Spanish colony, it is now a possession of the USA. The island is about the size of Connecticut. The industries are almost wholly agricultural, and nearly the whole surface is under cultivation. Sugar, coffee, and tobacco are grown for export, and these comprise the chief source of income. The coffee-crop is one of the most valuable products and gets a high price because of its better quality. ●

Avoid Awkward Gawking
A lady does not form acquaintances upon the street, or seek to attract the attention of the other sex or of those of her own sex. Her conduct is always modest and unassuming. Neither does a lady ask services or favors from a gentleman.

She accepts them graciously, always certain to express thanks. Gentlemen do not stand on street corners, in hotel doorways, or gaze from store windows to impolitely watch lady passersby. This is the exclusive business of louts. ●

About Brazil - Brazil is the largest of the countries of South America and is level and fertile, producing tobacco, sugar, indigo, coffee, and pepper. Diamonds are found here. In the interior, vast herds of wild cattle abound. They are hunted for their hides, which form one of the chief export articles of the country. ◆

Coin Shortages
Coins last longer. Experts say folks see dollars as a gold standard for money. The USA is not as corrupt as other countries. Hinting at a conspiracy, Penny Ante lives in New Orleans and adds her two bits to say, “foreigners send boxes of coins to the old country.” She fears demand for small change will cause a cashless society. “Folks love money,” says Penny wisely.

Dogs, Pigs and Trains - A compartment of a railway carriage, in which are two passengers, one of whom has two little pigs under the seat, and the other a small curly lap-dog in his lap.

The Conductor (standing outside), asks "Have you a dog's ticket?" "No." "Then get one." "But my dog troubles no one." "That makes no difference." "But this fellow here has two pigs in the carriage." "No matter for that; we have a rule about dogs, but none for pigs."

Old China Curiosities

China is celebrated for its immense population, for the ingenuity of its numerous manufacturers, for its many canals, for the great antiquity of its laws, and for its reserve and jealousy of the people of other nations. Before modern times, the chief productions were cotton, rice,

and tea; and all the necessaries of life are cultivated. Tea and Chinaware were principal exports. Beijing is the center of power and Canton is the chief city and the port where American and English vessels are admitted to trade. ▪

On the Silver Lining

Silver is about as widely diffused as is gold, but it is more plentiful. It is found sparingly in most of the older rocks and also in seawater.

It was used by the Greeks for coinage more than eight hundred years before the Christian era, and was known to the Jewish people in very early times. Silver coins are actively traded today and the metal is used in jewelry and much more. ▴

How to Dress Men
A gentleman should never wear a high hat unless he has on a frock coat or a dress suit. A man's jewelry should be good and simple. Brass or false jewelry, like other forms of falsehood, is vulgar.
Wearing many cheap decorations is a serious fault.

If a man wears a ring it should be on the third finger of the left hand. This is the only piece of jewelry a man is allowed to wear that does not serve a purpose. ▰

Readers Are Sexier

Cultivate personal attraction. This means the storing of your mind with knowledge of current events, and with a good idea of the world's progress or lack of it. If you read nothing, zip, zero, and make no effort to make yourself attractive, you will soon sink down into a dull hack of stupidity.

If your partner never hears from you any words of wisdom, or of common information, he or she will soon hear nothing from you. Dress and gossips soon wear out. If your memory is weak, so that it seems not worth the effort to read, that is more reason for reading. Reading is a fundamental need. Expand your thoughts with great topics and ignore mindless drivel like found even where you now look! ■

Forest Products
Outside the foodstuffs, probably no other material is more generally used by human beings than the products of the large beautiful forests. More people live in homes made of wood than made by brick or stone, and more people burn wood than burn coal. Even in steam-making a considerable power is still produced by the use of wood for fuel. So, plant or hug a tree. ▴

Dress Affects Our Manners
A man who is badly dressed, feels chilly, sweaty, and prickly. He stammers, and does not always tell the truth. He means to, perhaps, but he cannot. He is half distracted about his pantaloons, which are much to short, and are constantly hitching up; or his frayed jacket and crumpled linen harrow his soul, and quite unman him. He treads on the train of a lady's dress, and says, "Thank you", sits down on his hat, and wishes the "desert were his dwelling place." ▪

New World Wonders - The amazing seven wonders of the new world are (1) Niagara Falls, (2) Yellowstone Park, (3) Garden of the Gods, (4) Mammoth Cave, (5) Yosemite Valley, (6) Giant Trees, and (7) Natural Bridge. The new world is generally understood as comprised of both North and South America. ▴

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The poor have more fun in bed

A controversial report disagrees with an official study that suggests rich people sleep better than poor people and is largely being ignored. Accordingly, new research proves poor people sleep better than rich unhappy elites. More Sleep

A Texas sleep center did a study and found that the poor sleep better and have nice dreams. For the study, the center put cameras over beds for the 2016 to 2020 to observe sleep habits of 690 volunteers. It now makes the amazing results public.

Psych Techs reviewed 69,000 hours of bedroom goings on and saw clear answers to the query "how do you sleep?" Of note, John Lennon asked such a question in a song title after the Beatles breakup.

Volunteer bedroom video study participants, 55% who are considered to be poor, "toss and turn" less in the night. In comparison, the restless rich experience "sleep disturbance" and take more trips to the toilet and stay awake longer.

Bedrooms are very active and not equally fun. Low light cameras saw more smiles on poor faces than was seen on rich mugs (faces). The poor laugh in their sleep more, while the sad rich groan, thrash about, and yell as if from nightmares.

Pitiful elites have more lies and secrets to hide. Such facts, all of which if true cause them to have to sleep around problems. It is easy how they can pay bucks and dough to put their problems on the back burner, which haunt them later.

The poor have fewer office politics and business issues. Factors that contribute to the better quality of life on poverty row may be due to extended families and loving friends. Enjoy life and sleep better say sleep psych techs.

For a good life, health and luck, before bed, learn to relax say experts. They (experts) say it is better to fall asleep with a glad heart. Forgive those who trespass against you before pillow talk and lights out. ◆ Click to Close

Light Pollution Problems

Lots of money goes to pay for streetlights and yard lamps. It turns naturally dark, storytelling nights, into overexposed revelations of crass real estate projects, private schools, and empty shopping centers. See More - Pollution

It truly lights up the hell people mistakenly think this life represents. Ancient peoples, including our Native American families, worshiped the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars. Even the three wise men in bible times in the Arabian territory, wisely followed the lights under dark night covers.

Astrologers know how to read the messages, and not everyone listens. The dark skies initiative wants to darken things up a bit. "It will put the heavenly lights on our minds again," says Reverend Polly Lumens, a dark sky activist. "People are missing the signs of heaven in front of their eyes," she adds.

The activists want folks to dim lights, set timers, and observe light discipline. They want city streetlights to go dark after one minute when no movement is detected. A goal is so people in the hearts of big cities can catch glimpses of the Milky Way Galaxy, or the dome over which covers the Earth say some. ● Click to Close

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Hippies See Bigfoot - Gobs of hippies settled in rainy Oregon. But scary monsters were living here way before then. Native Americans have many spooky tales to tell. Read More - Bigfoot

It helps to get a story firsthand and the descendants of the first folks in the new world have lots to say about the ancient ways. This land is not necessarily just up for grabs by all the folks who now stake out claims.

The realm is a large, messed up land registry of back office bribes and ill-gotten deeds. Perhaps even Bigfoot has rights. What of animals and plants? ◆ Click to Close

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