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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1909
Page
4
A collage of short passages offers sketches on laziness and duty, a steamboat prank, a tailor’s saint, jokes about a jockey and a lover’s quarrel, plus musings on happiness and joy. It includes anecdotes from London papers and collegiate policing, with literary nods to Dr. Horace Bushnell and Kinglake.
A boy rushes into a drug store asking for liniment and china cement. When asked why, he explains his father broke a teacup and needs both items to fix it, showing a child's practical, if odd, problem solving.
A collage of short excerpts describes Japanese peasants in rice fields with terraced slopes, blue cotton attire, straw hats, and elevated wooden homes. It shifts to a Boston Transcript Tokyo letter, a dealer noting Jimmy Sloane’s work ethic, a Youth’s Companion aside on labor, a note on illumination preferring dark walls for perceived brightness, and Pathfinder summaries on light-sensitive perception.
A collection of brief anecdotes and curiosities from art history and social wit. It recounts The Picture In Disguise mystery of a Van Dyck beneath a flowers painting at Lord Leigh’s Warwickshire home, Rosa Bonheur’s humor, a customs of joking cures, and short quips from various publications.
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