Mary Mann
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"The incisive and often hilarious story of one of our most interesting cultural phenomena: boredom. It's the feeling your grandma told you was only experienced by boring people. Some people say they're dying of it; others claim to have killed because of it. It's a key component of depression, creativity, and sex-toy advertisements. It's boredom, the subject of Yawn, a delightful and at times moving take on the oft-derided emotion and how we deal with...
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Mary Mann, one of the famous Peabody sisters-reformers and pioneers of modern educational theory-believed that good digestion was synonymous with virtue, and dyspepsia was equated with sin. So the advice and recipes in her cookbook promote good eating habits in accordance with this belief, discouraging the consumption of processed and fatty foods labeling them "death in the pot." In accordance with her temperance beliefs, alcohol should not be used...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class; and Moral Culture of Infancy" by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Mary Tyler Peabody Mann. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work...