Witty Aphorisms on Love and Life
A string of pointed quips on gender roles marriage and society each aiming to reveal human foibles. The snippets touch on honesty money love courage and pride with sharp humor about women men and social expectations.
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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1898
Page
3
A string of pointed quips on gender roles marriage and society each aiming to reveal human foibles. The snippets touch on honesty money love courage and pride with sharp humor about women men and social expectations.
A devotional remark emphasizes the image of Jesus on the heart as the key to guiding one’s life toward heaven with swift, steadfast motion. The text urges inner sanctification to shape daily conduct and spiritual progress.
A Washington Star piece recounts a Philadelphia drummer debating the Spain war with a Mississippi farmer who believes the Civil War never ended. The banter highlights divided memories and Southern ambivalence about Yankee victory and national unity.
Visiting a friend’s house with my five year old daughter she saw a photograph of English choir boys in surplices and remarked that they looked like “gentlemen waiting to be shaved.”
A lyrical fragment describes a remote sea shore with blue water, white sail, and empty sands. The passage evokes ancient borderlines and a dreamlike landscape where no human life is visible and mythic imagery suggests nereids and fauns in a world of sunlit sea and sky.
A new discovery claims to cure all forms of dyspepsia regulate the stomach and restore appetite. For sale by Joun H Blacknurn.
Four English writers Lady Jeune Flora Annie Steel Marie Corelli and Susan Countess of Malmesbury explore marriage in London in The Modern Marriage Market. They clash over romance versus practicality with Corelli urging self dignity and Steel urging lasting home life while male perspectives are largely absent.
State job listing notes in office work at home with a fixed salary of $900 yearly plus $75 monthly expenses. Applicants must send a self addressed stamped envelope. Herbert E. Hess, President, Dept. M, Chicago.
A Parisian editor praises a London critic for translating a remark about Anna Thibaud. The item notes the phrase mademoiselle's feet were incased in fairy boots, but the print rendered as pots a fleurs flower pots, revealing translation quirks.
A fragment quotes an old Irish peer advising against criticizing women, presenting it as a gentleman’s maxim. The passage notes the idea that true courtesy involves overlooking faults in women, reflecting period social norms.
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