The Fireless Cooker: How To Make It, How To Use It, What To Cook (1908) - Couverture souple

Lovewell, Caroline Barnes; Whittemore, Frances Dean; Lyon, Hannah Wright

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1120879914 ISBN 13 : 9781120879912

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

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Présentation de l'éditeur

By EDWARD H. HAMILTON The dictum went out that the sheep were to be parted from the goats; and the goats were sent toT elegraph Hill. There were many shepherds for the sheep. They were led into the green pastures beside the still waters. At night their folds were watched and tended. But the goats foraged for themselves. They roamed the rough places. They browsed upon the tin cans and detritus of life. There were none to stroke them or call them soft names. They made their bed upon the long, hard road. They lived a strained and rugged life. They made a comrade of Necessity rather than A mbition. But they lived. It was the kids that died. They were not fitted for the chill nights and the buffetings. If they grew, they were gnarled and twisted. They lay down in squalor, and they arose in misery. But the sheep were tended, and the world ran on. Then some young women took notice of this unconsidered hillside where the goats browsed gloomily, and where the kids were gaunt and strange. These were young women of the pleasant ways of life. They could have gone on in the flowerbordered paths, hearing the lark sing and stringing the daisy-chains. But they left the pleasaunces and went up into the hard places, where the rough goats were, and the strange, white kids. Out of their devotion was born the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood A ssociation. They made a small beginning, but it was a good beginning. There were ten thousand discouragements. But those young women put down those discouragements with courage. They established their association and rooted it in the rocks of the Hill. Where there was sickness they sent a doctor and a nurse, a flower and a smile. Where there was discouragement and waywardness they extended a helping hand. Where there was death they sent consolation. They gave fresh air to children who failed and faded in close, untidy rooms. They set up Educati
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1120879914
• ISBN 13: 9781120879912
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 222
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne