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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1925
Page
2
A cautious forecast from Dr A P P Coeman of the Royal Ontario Museum questions the idea that winters grow warmer or that climate change signals an imminent ice age. He notes historical shifts in climate align with measurable physical changes, suggesting more chartable patterns ahead.
Selina spends her first night on a Dutch farm with Maartje Pool and her hired help, facing cold rooms, a heatless drum stove, and a tense welcome. She meets Roelf and Maartje’s family, realizes Roelf reads a dictionary, and endures homesickness before dawn reveals her first day as a schoolteacher.
Selina DeJong, nineteen, daughter of gambler Simeon Peake, grows up in Chicago with a seamy but mostly happy past. She becomes a teacher at the High Prairie school on Chicago’s outskirts living with farmer Klaus Pool after Simeon is killed in a quarrel not of his making.
Selina explores a weathered Dutch bride’s chest in Maartje Pool’s boarding house room. The chest holds a bridal gown, cap, and shoes from two centuries of marriage tradition, sparking Selina’s playful fantasy of dressing up while Maartje cautions against it.
Selina discovers a kin dred soul in Roelf who likewise admires cabbages as beautiful.
A Toledo Blade piece mocks future science of romance where a suitor uses a stethoscope tape measure and blood tests to assess a woman before a hygienized kiss. The scene ends with a comic risk of a kiss or a slap if declined, lampooning sanitized courting rituals.
The text notes uncertainty about Mozart's exact burial location amid a violent funeral storm. It states the hearse departed unaccompanied to the churchyard and his body was laid in the paupers' corner. In 1859 Vienna erected a monument on the probable spot.
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