January 16, 2006

Children have more need of models than of critics.
~Carolyn Coats






Baby your skin
Keep it fitter
Or "baby"
Will get
Another sitter
Burma-Shave



The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.
Christian Nestell Bovee




CHOCOLATE
part 4 of 10 CHOCOLATE TIMELINE
  • 1824: John Cadbury, an English Quaker, begins roasting and grinding chocolate beans to sell in his tea and coffee shop. In 1842 Cadbury's Chocolate Company in England creates the first chocolate bar.
  • 1875: A Swiss chocolate maker, Daniel Peter, mixes Henri Nestle's con- densed milk with chocolate and the two men found a company to manufacture the first milk chocolate.
  • 1894: Milton Hershey adds a line of chocolate to his caramel manufacturing business. Soon he invents the Hershey Bar by experimenting with milk chocolate. Hershey's Cocoa appears next.
  • 1896: Leonard Hershfield invents the Tootsie Roll, named after his daughter.
  • 1897: Brownies are first mentioned in print, listed for sale in the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue.
  • About 1900: A machine called the enrober is invented to replace the task of hand-dipping chocolate.
  • 1930: Franklin Mars invents the Snickers Bar.
  • 1939: Nestle introduces semisweet chocolate morsels.
  • 1940: The Mars company invents M&M's for soldiers going to World War II.
    • CONTINUED TOMORROW


    An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
    Sydney J. Harris



    "Don't kid me, Mom, I know they're my feet." -- 3 year old son, when his mother told him his shoes were on the wrong feet



    OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
    Henry Clay "Statistics are no substitute for judgment"
    Henry Clay



    I have keys that open no locks,
    I have space, but there is no room,
    You can enter, but you can't go in.
    What am I?



    When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver's side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. "Hey," I announced to the technician, "it's open!" To which he replied, "I know - I already got that side."



    Harvard University, according to the directory of the American Society of Colleges and Universities, is a "type of weevil".



    I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government