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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1885
Page
14
A humorist expresses friendly feeling for the South and targets a North Carolina resort in a lighthearted piece. The satire blends social observations with regional character, reflecting travel and cultural tensions of the era.
A traveler recounts a strenuous rail journey to the South for health. He derides failed schedules, rusted rails, and uncomfortable haircloth lounges, lampooning wartime biases, rail executives, and theSouth’s comforts while delivering a wry, humorous critique of postwar railroad travel. He inserts satirical riffs on politics, civil service reform, and fate as he endures delays and misadventures.
The Stittsburg Dispatch notes that girls who begin to look seriously at life and seek to be efficient members of society offer brighter future prospects. It questions the balance between gloom and gaiety, suggesting a touch of fretted personality can enhance attractiveness, and contrasts sedate propriety with lively freedom in youth.
A critical caricature outlines three recipe like plots for Thanksgiving tales. It mocks melodramatic scenarios featuring a snow storm, a widow with seven children, a long standing feud with a country squire, and a shipwrecked mariner or cowboy. It ends by claiming these variations cover most Thanksgiving stories used in periodicals.
A Chicago Opera House tale recounts a handsome young man named Tom who drinks red liquor with lemon and slips out between acts to visit barkeeps. His escort, an Indiana avenue girl, discovers a safety pin securing his coat to the seat. Tom returns, learns a lesson, and vows better behavior.
A veteran recalls the Spottsylvania night march with Hancock and Lee forces. He describes losing a sword, scavenging a musket, misfired volleys into trees, and the mystifying chaos as Grant and Meade move toward Spotsylvania Court House while Confederate forces obstruct the advance.
Chicago Herald recounts a Cheyenne meeting where Salvation Army volunteers sang “Who’s afraid of the devil” as a cowboy brandished two revolvers shouting he was the devil. The desert crowd fled to doors and windows as the siege ended with the devils casting out.
A late 19th century irony on boarding-house life offers maxims about dating rooming choices. The judge notes women met in such houses are better to flirt with than marry. He warns peace is unlikely with roommates and suggests pictorial cues reveal the room occupant.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a young woman laments losing hairpins while her newly married friend notes she is now married and has access to her husband who uses pipe cleaners, implying a practical fix.
A Detroit Free Press writer recalls asking a London officer why everything goes to the left. The officer responds with quiet scorn and a stony head movement, delivering a blunt retort that leaves the author surprised by the simplicity of the answer.
Two weeks after our article on Chicago church music a dialogue emerged. The exchange clarifies positions and counters critics who viewed the initial remarks as overblown.
A choir director sought a singing soprano by inquiry and learned of a performer asking five to six dollars a Sunday. He replied he could hire a stronger voice for 150 dollars, and he did so, with listeners noting the powerful voice.
A narrator recalls a rapid gypsy relocation from a St. Croix camp near Saint Andrews to a new site near Mount Tom, crossing into Canada at St Stephen’s and Calais. The journey unfolds in a single night with vivid scenes of camps, highways, crows, and perpetual wandering. The piece muses on fate and nomadic faith among the travelers.
A New Orleans States excerpt mocks a article urging watchfulness over children, detailing infants ten to sixteen months as prone to dangerous eating, with examples of swallowed items from toys to a father's watch. It warns parents to stay vigilant as babies explore with mouths, noting a North Louisiana case where a one year old swallowed a watch and the timepiece remained ticking in the stomach.
A New York Commercial Advertiser piece observes guests leave character in their hotel registers. A clerk links penmanship to personality, detailing how registers reveal timidity, confidence, or boldness, with examples from a banker, drummers, a senator, and other travelers. The tale ends noting the senator’s signature matches his stature and status.
A rural congressman dreams of the senate and telegraphs family to paint his old home red after winning. The town misreads the message and splashes the house barn pens and stables in bright red as a jubilant joke.
A fragment from the Cambridge Chronicle shows a father scolding his son Johnnie for using the phrase By jinks. The dialogue reveals a playful moral about swearing and propriety as Johnnie questions the meaning and social impact of such expressions.
A satirical treatise on hugging versus embracing, noting dangers of hugs to elders and relatives. It parodies medical jargon to contrast quick impetuous hugs with careful embraces, warning of rib injuries and wardrobe damage while lampooning etiquette among kin and in laws.
New York Mail and Express suggests a graceful retreat for theatre hats by describing compact be coming caps and scarfs. A pink cashmere capote with lace beads, garnet velvet, and pearl trimming offers a portable alternative. Scarves in cashmere or sarah with lace ruffles are urged to promote removing hats and showing styled hair as a refined custom.
A humorous conservational piece notes Biones as a deep sleeper who jokes about sleeping through the end of the world. Friends recall his calm attitude and he confesses occasional worry that he might wake too late to witness the aftereffects, imagining the cold chill when he awakens to his own absence.
A fragmented dialogue shows a maid and mistress discussing attire and church attendance with rustic rhetoric. The terse exchange hints at social expectations and obedience within a household setting.
A New York Mail and Express feature exposes women who lunch daily, chasing vanity rather than liquor. It details observed lunch room hierarchies, rivalries, and dressy expenses, with examples from boarding houses and the social scene. It contrasts frugal regulars with grandstanding lunchers and Anglophone imitators, noting male funds, savings, and wages spent on meals and accessories.
A young waitress pockets a bulky bill from a woman who paid for lunch with an 8100 note. The scene unsettles witnesses as the woman, likely about 18, shows no reaction while counting out change and placing bills in her pocket-book.
Fragmented verse and prose snippets recount romantic woes and moral tales from a late 19th or early 20th style page. Readings include a dramatic stanza on a defeated lover, a judge’s pretext, a potter’s parable about fatigue, social commentary on a “gaseous” man, and verses about Phyllis, love’s gray eyes, and a strawberry box marriage tale along with brief parlor song lines.
Grandmamma reminds Angelina of her engagement ring while Angelina explains George is away and the engagement must stay secret, yet she longs to celebrate at tonight's party. The exchange hints at forthcoming social tension and the couple’s discreet romance during an intimate family moment.
A stage snippet shows a sequence of girl and parent dialogue as suitors rumble with nerves. The characters nudge at marriage expectations using varied tones from bright to tearful, ending with a curtain call.
A Washington critic recounts a pastor arguing against paid choirs while another pastor admits their necessity. The exchange notes that a church faced with volunteers leaving to sing elsewhere ended up hiring a choir for economy, rather than paying congregants to listen.
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