01 Jan 1870
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1870
Page
1
A poem celebrates love as humanitys oldest theme and a poets enduring muse. It recalls Anacreon praising love and notes the world follows that tradition, with the lyre forever extolling romance and beauty.
In a village two quarrelsome neighbors Miss Briggs and Mr Perry feud over a canary cats and a dog and a jumpy horse. After a riding mishap leaves Perry injured Briggs stays by him and love blooms. They wed and move to the brick house while the cottage houses a young couple.
Advice suggests tailoring an elder's diet to energy, mood, and bowels. For fatigue, add fish beef and certain breads while reducing phosphates. for restlessness, introduce phosphatic foods like oatmeal or barley. for constipation, emphasize fruits vegetables unbolted bread. Emphasizes adapting meals to comfort and happiness.
The New York Watchman cites a Thanksgiving piece listing poetic definitions of gratitude. Each comparison uses rich imagery such as a mirror of the soul, a rainbow in the atmosphere, a sunbeam on water, and an infant’s smile to express the virtue’s beauty and usefulness.
The passage extols tiny daily kindnesses as the sun of life. It urges nursery playground and schoolroom readers to give up self at times, avoid conflict, and respond with patience to keep clouds away and bring cheerful days to humble homes and richer households alike.
The piece recounts Mark Twain sharing his daunting first lecture in San Francisco marked by stage fright. He describes booking Maguire’s San Francisco opera house for fifty dollars, selling out seats, and relying on six trusted men in the front row to cue laughter during his performance.
The piece argues that love without solid friendship collapses. It laments partners who cannot discuss important matters or share interests, noting many marriages fail due to lack of genuine understanding. It stresses that couples should first prove a real community of interests and a capacity for friendship before marrying.
The article compares memory to a key impressions on paper. Exposure to light and heat reveals lingering images in the brain from every person we meet, book we read, picture we see, and word we hear. These traces never fade under normal conditions but flash into prominence with cerebral excitement.
The London banker Nathan Rothschild, famed for his wealth, trembled at a threat to send £100 and blow his brains out. Two foreign strangers, tall with moustaches, were admitted to his private room, frightened him, and a ledger and clerks were brought in as guards. The pair turned out to be rich continental bankers seeking introductions.
The article contrasts earning and saving a thousand dollars as a foundation for business life and disciplined work. It argues saving builds industry, time management, and frugal habits, while also noting the value of money earned through long effort. It also includes a household tip from the Ohio Cultivator on a laundry wash for better results. The tone mimics a 19th century publication stressing thrift and practical domestic advice.
A narrator laments that many men chase fashionable, indiscriminate attention from women who dance sing and host gatherings. He argues modest suitors seek sincere companionship over crowded drawing rooms and urges women to shed worthless admirers and guard against excessive courtship.
A travel correspondent recalls a rough ride from New York to Albany with muddy coffee a jammed finger and a rude seated stranger. He endures talk of hogs and weights before alighting at Rhinecliffe. In Scotland a parish visit turns into a rustic meal and a joke about the miracle of the fishes.
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