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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1894
Page
3
A lyric meditation ponders an abandoned garden and its perennial memories through trees flowers and season’s symbols. The speaker questions whether beauty remains unchanged despite absence and time, envisioning renewed visits to a familiar, tranquil place.
A husband returns early to a sunny Rue Royale home and finds his wife missing. In a secret ebony secretary he discovers a false drawer containing a fresh bundle of letters, written in a modern hand, hinting at a concealed romance beyond a Revolutionary past.
Louis discovers love letters in a secret drawer revealing Fabienne's duplicity and a past romance. A navy officer arrives to reclaim a cherished ebony secretary tied to a different wife, exposing a tangled history. The man confronts betrayal, then yields to a bittersweet resolution with his wife.
A nineteenth century account details a taupau from a neighboring village performing a ballet with four girl dancers. She wears a remarkable headdress with nautilus shell bands and bleached hair, topped by red hummingbird feathers, while attendants provide musical and choral support. The five dancers perform topical songs with lively movements and synchronized arm and body motions.
The Bank of France reportedly Torques its vaults with hydraulic mortar flooding the cellar each night. Masons wall doors as water floods the area and only a diving suit could breach the cemented vaults, then officers arrive to find vaults opened.
The article urges thorough cultivation and broadcast manure for old apple trees to restore bearing. It cites examples where pruning dead shoots and improving soil revived crops. It stresses four requisites for good fruit quality and warns against neglect. It also briefly promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for consumption and related remedies.
Mme Kaechlin Schwartz head of the Union of French Women is named chevaliere of the Legion of Honor along with Rosa Bulladhi Mme Dienlafoy the explorer and others including Mme Furtado Heine and Mme Marie Laurent founder of the Orphanage For Artists' Children.
The group meets weekly to study a republic, reading an exhaustive history and discussing it. Each meeting features an exhaustive resume read by two appointed members offering a concise summary of current events for busy women.
The piece notes women adopting masculine dress including boots similar to male footwear and jokes about street boot black use. It then critiques catarrh treatments claiming common remedies offer only temporary relief and praises Ely's Cream Balm as a fast acting, safe, pleasant option widely sold by druggists.
A London joke in the Lower Arcade has a man asking for what he cannot find. The shopkeeper teases him by inviting the request and unveils the prank by wrapping the fool in heavy paper as the man vanishes. The anecdote comes from the London Figaro.
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