29 Dec 1881
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 29, 1881
Page
1
A fragmentary holiday verse expresses a mother's grief over losing a child and her love for the surviving infant. The speaker laments choosing one child to spare and prays for God to spare all babes until another Christmas day.
Myrtle and Grandma Follett discuss New Year's Day plans spanning Cedar Mountain and New York. Myrtle favors seeing the world and visiting Aunt Louise, while Grandma urges festive family gatherings at home with Brute Garland and a city-born lifestyle viewed skeptically. The exchange reveals family tensions over tradition versus urban opportunity.
The piece surveys old familiar stereotypes on gender and marriage. It asserts that fear, attraction, and social norms shape who marries whom and when. It notes that some men prefer one thing and then change, while some women favor women, and that marital happiness often hinges on mutual care and societal expectations.
A town merchant explains to his wife why he needs to escort a country customer to the theatre. The wife teases his attire as they discuss the plan while their office boy confirms arrangements. The scene hints at social performance and expediency in village life.
Readable parts hint at a hymn like reflection on the first day of the year and gratitude for guidance. Mentions wind, river, road, and thanks to a higher power for the earth. Names and clear events are absent, yielding a miscellaneous, poetic fragment.
The text urges moderation and steady routines to preserve vitality and mental balance. It advises no hurry, avoid excess work or indulgence, maintain a ventilated clean room, moderate eating, restraint from passion, and calm steadfastness. It emphasizes self discipline, modest ambition, and hopeful views for both worlds.
The text reflects on money as wisdom and temptation, noting how plunder is hidden in purses and jewels bought with others' funds. It critiques distrustful views, then ponders mortality and virtue as tombstones mislead, orbiting around money, reputation, and social fate in a courtroom of judgment.
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