Aunt Kerammik's Art Studies Transform House
Frederic visits his aunt who abandons modern comforts for a fad from First Steps in Household Art. She rewrites rooms with antique furniture, carpets, and ritually old hangings while asserting true art requires primitive forms. He plans to seek a cure abroad as she spirals deeper into the fad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. K
Frederic
John
Frederick
Fred
Greuze
Bougueran
Sol
Croton
William the Conqueror
Harper’s Magazine
Quotable MISCELLANY Saying on Strength Wealth and Wisdom
A reader remarks that strength comes from digestion not eating, wealth from saving not earning, learning from memory not reading, and righteousness from practice not professing. The aphorism emphasizes practical action over words.
Reading as solace in life’s hard hours, from Montague Letters
The passage argues that books soften cruel accidents of life and restore quiet to troubled minds, while chasing relief from cards or company only shifts misfortune. It emphasizes the enduring value of reading over ephemeral distractions.
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Reapixe
Lady Montague
Pay Your Dests Gentlemen and Money Manners
The writer condemns young men who borrow and evade repayment, calling such behavior genteel scoundrelly despite good-natured appearances. Clean money habits are deemed essential to true gentlemanliness and moral self-scrutiny is urged.
How Whisky Pays
A former employee repeatedly left the office to drink whisky while cashiers added ten cents to a drawer for credit. After seventeen months the fund totaled four hundred nine dollars, lent at seven percent to a young mechanic who bought tools. He repaid the loan on February 15, 1876 with interest, reporting a wife two children and property worth five thousand dollars.
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Pomeroy
Democrat
A Rule to Curb Gossip from Sunday Magazine
The passage urges adopting a policy to confront gossip about mutual acquaintances. Note taker should copy words spoken, warn that repeating remarks will occur, and insist on conveying conversations to the absent person. It argues such transparency discourages gossip and may lose some friends who feed rumors.
Afternoon Men and the Dangers of Procrastination
The essay urges removing procrastination habits for lifelong success. It contrasts the "afternoon men" who delay duties with those who start early, noting delays harm present prospects and future health, while morning exercise boosts energy for daily work and age readiness.
The Queen of Tramps and an Anecdote of Stark
A Bangor Maine Commercial item profiles an elderly woman Mary Merriman as a nonconforming but respectable tramp, detailing years of long journeys and daily miles. It then recounts a Manchester Union anecdote about General Stark’s sharp wit paying Whittaker for all men’s work based on a field payroll incident.
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Mary Merriman
St. Albans
Hermon
Joseph Merriman
Clinton
Iowa
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
Washington
Savannah
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
Kansas City
Plains
California
Chicago
Detroit
Niagara Falls
Canada
Bangor
Molle Stark
Stark
Bennington
Manchester
N.H
Hittaker
Whittaker
Setter horse hunt ends with Yankee trickery on Tennessee road
A Southern traveler and a shrewd Yankee swap horses after a boastful sale of a famed setter. The Yankee demonstrates the horse’s scenting trick by dropping to all fours for deer then floods the stream with the horse sinking midstream, declaring the setter also sets for fish.
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LixcoLn
Tennessee
Aime
Ceylon Cinnamon Fields and Cultivation Details
Bishop Heber notes cinnamon gardens covering about 17 000 acres near Colombo. Plants grow 10 12 feet high, with red to green leaves and white flowers. The spice is carefully protected under Dutch law with severe penalties for theft. rain and temperature favor its growth around Colombo.
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Ceylon
Bishop Heber
Sir E. Barnes
Colombo
The Kellephone and Its Quieting Claim
The ad describes a device called the kellephone as a reverse tel ephone that silences chatter and lets cats roam unseen all night on a ridgepole. It claims even a neighbor’s corner becomes harmless and a hand organ loses its sting.
Ingenious use of circumstantial evidence cited in trial
A witness testified the defendant did not lie but used circumstantial evidence ingeniously and deceptively in the case.
A Terrible Night at a Theatre by Dudley Warner
A humorous Hartford Post reminiscence recounts a bashful country girl, a night at a comedy, and a man who loses his boots after mismatched remarks. He endures questions about fidgeting, laughter, vacancy, and crying as the evening unravels. The misfit ending features the quip that the higher classes do not wear boots to the theatre.
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Dudley Warner
Hartford Post
Currency Contraction or Expansion Discussed by Couple
A Peoria Journal item humorously explains contraction and expansion of currency through a conversation between John Henry and Julia. John notes contraction or expansion depends on circumstances as they illustrate with chairs and parental approach.
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John Henry
Julia
John
Cages for Scolds Mark Curious Cornwall Custom
In East and West Looe Cornwall cages once housed common scolds. Two women, Mesdames Whit and Niles, quarreled before Mayor John Chubb and were ordered caged until their dispute subsided. They emerged meek. Penzance also kept a cage, a custom now seen as peculiar to Cornwall.
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East
West Looe
Cornwall
England
Niles
John Chubb
Penzance
Potter's Revenge: Hat Vandalized Over Ginger Jugs
Mr Potter found his new hat defaced with painted bugs and botanical portraits after he refused to import more ginger jugs. He had left the bearer on the table and went upstairs to change while his hat was damaged by vandalism.
Harm in young ladies sitting in the lapse of ages explored
A Boston newspaper contemplates whether it is harmful for young ladies to sit through the period of late adolescence and transition. The piece weighs social expectations and health notions of the era, reflecting prevailing attitudes toward youth and propriety.
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Boston
The Would-Be Poet in Society
The piece lampoons a would-be poet, a dreamy teen who harbors grand ambitions of rivaling Tennyson. He wanders moonlit lanes speculating on revelatory light, floods editors with verses, and declares editorials biased while waging war on those who reject his work. He envisions immortality as a famed literary star.
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Aes
Arment
Tennyson
Longfellow
Whittier
Spelling in Devonshire Adverts by a Quack Schoolmaster
A satire from the Manchester Times reproduces a Prodigious Devonshire shop advertisement by Roger Giles, a parish clerk and schoolmaster. It lists fantastical goods from godfather’s kordales to brass kanel sticks and swate maits and mocks broken schooling and dancing terms.
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Devonshire
Baring Gould
Mr. Hawkes
Morwenstowe
Roger Giles
Surgin
Parish Clark
Skulemaster
Groser
Hlundertaker
P.S. S Taches
Manchester
England
A Strange Use for Old Postage Stamps
A Journal note reveals Catholic convents save cancelled stamps to send to China where missionaries buy infants destined for death. Colored stamps adorn walls and, in a disturbing trade, a hundred stamps can buy a baby who would otherwise be killed. Children are then placed in Christian asylums under local laws.
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China
You Cant Have Everything You Want In This World
An old proverb compares life to a short blanket, noting you cannot cover both feet and shoulders at once. Some cheerful people solve this by pulling the blanket up slightly for a pleasant night.
A Volume of Smoke Brings Tears to Many
A vivid line evokes a volume of smoke likely to move readers to tears, hinting at a scene of tragedy or loss where smoke conceals details and memory lingers. The remark carries a somber, reflective tone characteristic of obituary like lines in a historical page.
Advertising Rates and Policies in the Era
The notice lists ad rates for one week and subsequent insertions, with twelve lines Nonpareil type equaling one inch. It sets 15 cents per line for marriages and deaths, requires prepayment, and restricts yearly advertisers to their own business. Ads must be handed in by Thursday noon. religious, obituary, and political notices are charged as advertisements.
The Sausage of the Fathers in Better Times
A satirical reminiscence on 1840s sausage making contrasts old world craft with modern mass production. The author laments lost culinary traditions and the romantic image of sausage making, recalling bees, grandmotherly guidance, and wholesome breakfasts.
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Bristol Phone
Phenix Building
Hope Street
A. Greene
Warreatages
Flint & CO
Providence
Broad Street
Providence, R. L
Kerammik
Emrich
Peoria Journal
Congress
Weller
Father
Tarboro, N.C
H.R. Stevens
Lomaville
J.W. Lloyd
Bernardston
Mass
Vista
KR. L Crowell & Sons
LF Perkins
H W Scott
Josephus Slate
Cincinnati, O
E. Stevens
M. Shepherd & CO
Vernon
H. BR. Stevens
Boston, Mass
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