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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1885
Page
6
A Confederate veteran recounts the severe shortages after the Seven Days and Antietam. He details the lack of footwear, improvised moccasins, rampant disease, and exhausted regiments marching toward Maryland. He notes supply failures, straggling, and paroled wounded under observation, with vivid scenes of hardship and endurance.
P Brown in Chicago Ledger reflects on a woman's baby talk as an astonishing force. He contrasts male and female receptivity to baby talk, praising a mother's instinct, musical chatter, and its power to reveal love. The piece extols feminine warmth and the purifying effect of motherhood on relationships.
A speaker recounts a farm hog dispute with a sharp Yankee, alleging a swindle in exchanging a sham razor-back for a Berkshire. The Texan narrator, after酒distillery smoke and humor, insists the hog remains thin despite boasts of improvement, urging press action to redress such wrongs.
The article discusses memory aids through association and external devices, recounting examples from the Cheshire squire John Bruen and his servant Pasfield. It explains rudimentary mnemonics and advances to a consonant key system that converts words into numbers to fix dates and facts in memory.
The Philadelphia North American recounts a Japanese dinner invitation ritual where a host deprecates his modest home and meager fare to honor guests. Upon arrival, the house shines, hosts are pleasant, and the meal features many courses, illustrating a ritual of self-debasement used to show respect.
A well known minister with a richly described house guides a friend through rooms and a kitchen linked by a speaking tube to the study. On the wall the words the Lord will provide appear in bold letters beside another message near the tube mouth blow and wait for an answer. The visitor asks if the inscriptions relate, and the tale hints at a change in the letter.
In a May Atlantic essay Oliver Wendell Holmes evokes the ocean as a timeless, indifferent force that dwarfs human lifespans and civilizations. He contrasts the sea’s vast history with human transience, urging readers to feel the ocean’s enduring voice and its quiet total erasure of individual concerns.
An account of a fierce New Mexican sand storm from Harper's Magazine details a calm sky turning white with blinding heat as a dust cloud devours mesas and hills. A party rides to shelter, witnesses a wall of dust move in at five miles away, and endures a half hour of obscured vision before returning home to find their house covered in fine impalpable powder.
A 1720 Paris anecdote recalls Thevenard a wealthy French actor who becomes obsessed with a tiny shoe found on a cobbler's stall. He seeks the owner, courts the humble girl linked to the foot, obtains parental consent, and marries the maiden, noting social distinctions collapse before love.
A debate over sewing machine brands is noted with amusement as a bright eyed brunette, aged about 18, and estimating 120 pounds, is cited as possessing advantages unmatched by other makes. The odd remark highlights the humorous tone of the item.
A humorous Hudson River era vignette follows Mickey Finn and Jack Coolan carting bones to a junk store for crackers. Mrs Murphy narrates a mock tale of a cured husband via a quack doctor as the two boys dash away with tote cans and a surprise ending near Cooney Island.
A comic tirade condemns a modern summer house as a grotesque, misbuilt folly. The narrator ridicules speculative design, comparing it to a skating rink turned tannery and laments its impractical, chaotic features while imagining drastic drama to save the structure from ruin.
Describes the bedroom of a young New York millionaire heiress, detailing gilt bedstead, pale gold wallpaper, silk inlays, a six foot mirror, folding glass, fireplace, hot air registry, dressing stand, ornate boxes, ivory clock, chairs, a prie-dien for prayers, and a refined, dainty setting before noting an adjacent room used for writing and painting.
An anecdote recalls Charlotte Cushman coping with ill fitting slippers after a rheumatic attack. The actress squeezes into shoes too small, pleading for air as a young actor offers to lend slippers or threaten to pull her stockin. The scene captures backstage humor of the era.
The article surveys Turkish proverbs and their English equivalents, noting shared wisdom on honesty, speech, fate, and virtue. It cites sayings about gift horses, nail and shoe links, silencing discourse, truth versus lies, charity, wealth, and friendship, and contrasts Turkish views on women and marriage with European or Western tones.
A young man courting a girl learns her twin sister served as substitute in the sitting-up-at-night business during the girl’s three-week absence, revealing a charming ruse and mistaken identity in Drake's Traveller's Magazine.
A man faced a tricky engagement when he learned his fiancée might be one of twins, leaving him both charmed and confused. The siblings allegedly kept vigil nightly, sharing duties to appear alert, a curious health preserving scheme that underscores the comic peril of mistaken identity.
A collage of captions and verses notes on original sin, May and June, bachelor tests, a papa's speech, rail travel humor, a moss rose poem, and wheat price chatter. The snippets reflect a broad era’s column snips with social quips and light verse.
Ell a W Ricker is referenced with May Outing verses about sea and shore. The piece blends poems and prose from Harper's Bazaar style extracts and a library scene where Mary asks where to shelve a book. It includes Cradie Song by L Francis H Williams and a lullaby about sleep and nature.
The ribbon counter man ponders whether to pawn his overcoat or keep it for a cold spell. A cheerful housewife thinks of cucumbers and early vegetables. A playful hungry tramp returns with violets as book agents hint that spring has finally arrived.
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