Breakfast Links: Week of September 24, 2018

Breakfast Links are served! Our weekly round-up of favorite links to other web sites, articles, blogs, and images via Twitter.
•  Following the fashions : a basic American pastime.
• Paintings of unruly  19thc children  by Andre Henri Dargelas (1828-1906)
• The history of  surgical gloves  includes a love story.
• Every night, the  U.S. Constitution  is lowered into an atomic-bomb-proof vault to protect it from thieves and terrorists.
• Image:  Skulls  of medieval soldiers, fused with the chain mail they'd been wearing when they died.
• A 17thc sailor's  shameful confession  discovered in his journal - though there's a kind-of happy ending.
• Stylish  woman's hat  c1880 cleverly uses pleated silk trim to replicate the feathers (or wings) of endangered birds.
•  Teeth whitening  in the Victorian era, from charcoal paste to sulfuric acid.
• Image:  Road-trip beauties  posing with a car (and some canoe paddles) c1920.
• Samuel Pepys was a 17thc visitor: the  Cheesecake House  in Hyde Park.
• Newly digitized online: 1,600  pre-1900 books  on astrology, magic, alchemy, and the occult.
•  Exercise  for women in the early 19thc.
• A  serial killer  on the island of Jamaica, 1773.
• Image: The 18thc   Shell Cottage , Carton House, County Kildare.
• Founded in London in 1875: the  Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants .
• How the Rolling Stones in 1968 ended up at 17thc  Swarkestone Pavilion .
• While Europe's  oldest intact book  was found in the coffin of a saint.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.