Month: January 2011
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Where Sick Animals Are Cared For Like Humans
Veterinary medicine has been practiced for at least 4000 years. But we’ll never get tired of cute animals being treated in ways we usually think of people being treated, so let’s take a look inside this animal hospital. She evidently felt very sick indeed, poor little thing, and there were many patients waiting in the […]
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Old Age A Preventable Disease, Says Dr. Lorand
Back in June, I posted an article in which Dr. Woods Hutchinson proclaimed that nobody has ever lived to 100 (people who claimed to be that old were mistaken, he said). But today, another doctor says that he has a plan for us all to live to 100. Just like so many others who have […]
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The Times Review of Books to Be Issued on Sundays
After 14 years on Saturdays, the Times Review of Books moved to Sundays this week in 1911. This notice appeared that Saturday, with similar notices appearing throughout the week. It could bee seen as more information than the reader needs about why the section is moving, but I find it refreshingly open and honest in […]
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Why Don’t College Women Marry? Only One-Third Of Wellesley Graduates Wed
Oh, sure. I could make the obvious joke about Wellesley girls not getting married because they’re all lesbians. But instead I’ll just point you to the 2001 Rolling Stone article by Jay Dixit called The Highly-Charged Erotic Life of the Wellesley Girl and you can make your own jokes. True, 90 years passed between the […]
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Senator F. D. Roosevelt, Chief Insurgent At Albany
100 years ago this month, future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn into his first political office, as a new member of New York’s State Senate. The Sunday Magazine ran this flattering profile of the young politician, just shy of his 30th birthday. Those who looked closely at the law-maker behind desk 26 saw a […]
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Answers To Queries Asked By Readers Of The Times
The New York Times has a history of answering reader questions in columns like Science Q&A and the F.Y.I. feature of the NY/Region section (available in two paperback compilations called The Curious New Yorker and Only In New York). This article is one early example of a column that ran at least as far back […]
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Mrs. John A. Logan Criticises The Man Of The Period
About a month ago, the Sunday Magazine ran an article by Mrs. John A. Logan in which she criticized the women of the era for how they dressed, raised their kids, and generally behaved. There was such an overwhelming response that she’s back again to criticize the men. For the most part, she sees men […]
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What A Rich Man Learned In Living With Hoboes
A rich man living with hoboes? That sounds like the plot of a Mel Brooks movie (because it is the plot of a Mel Brooks movie). The article is actually considerably less funny. It’s by Edwin A. Brown, a wealthy man who spent “years studying the lives and conditions of the great floating body of […]
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A County Where Selling Votes Is Universal
This scandal is shocking enough that I’m surprised it doesn’t come up during election years. It’s a small but ugly anecdote in American history, and I can find very little mention of it online. For the most part it seems to have been swept under the rug. For decades, the nice people of Adams County, […]
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Strangest Poison Mystery In Criminal Annals
It’s quite a whodunnit. See if you can figure it out. Charles Twigg and Grace Elosser were, by all accounts, in love. They were to be married on New Year’s Day. But the night before the wedding, they were both found dead. “Charlie is the best man that ever lived,” she said to an intimate […]
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