The Fate of the Roses
A poem from the Boston Transcript narrates a white rose and a red rose summering in a garden. The white rose and the red rose each represent a lover as they linger under moonlight until they become one in sunshine and storms.
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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1898
Page
6
A poem from the Boston Transcript narrates a white rose and a red rose summering in a garden. The white rose and the red rose each represent a lover as they linger under moonlight until they become one in sunshine and storms.
In a tense drawing room scene, Joan and Reginald debate love and duty while a poised Lord Roper arrives with a rival claim. The primroses become a symbol of choice as Joan must decide between staying or leaving with Reginald, and both men confront their fates.
Mrs Brua Kringer of Knightstown Indiana reports eight years of female trouble with rapid relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Pills and Sanative Wash. She claims renewed health and urges others to use the remedies, noting high demand from druggists and prompt results.
Mary B. Mullett quotes Josef Hofmann in The Ladies' Home Journal on practice habits. He describes his own progression from one to six hours daily and warns that excessive practice dulls the mind and confuses the fingers. He urges playing just enough to keep fingers supple and avoid fatigue.
Notes and Queries recounts that hair powder fell out of use as flour became costly. The rich used flour as a luxury while the poor struggled, seen as nearly criminal. Voluntary groups pledged to abstain from hair powder and abolitionists opposed sugar produced with slave labor.
A vast garden in China spans 50 000 square miles of meadow covered with lakes ponds and canals. Reports note high yields in orange fields of New Zealand with crops earning up to 1000 dollars per acre. Russia reportedly has about 1 000 000 titled personages among a 100 000 200 population snapshot.
A customer tests hats in a gentlemen’s outfitting shop while the salesman praises a brown felt bowler. The man considers the hat, asks if it suits him, and ultimately declines, the salesman having praised the old hat. The scene captures shop dialogue from Pearson’s Weekly.
A vendor advertises Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into shoes. It claims to cool swollen feet, relieve smarting, sweating, blisters, bunions, and callous spots, and to provide rest for tired feet. Trial package free, 25c, sold by druggists and shoe stores. ad addressed to Le Roy, New York.
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