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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1895
Page
4
A playful quatrain from Ned Whately notes a cheeky suitor’s wish for kisses from three girls. The speaker recounts requests and rejections with a lighthearted, rustic tone as his sister offers no sympathy and chides his luck.
Mrs Venning, a stylish London widow, faces debt and social pressure as she contemplates marrying one of eight suitors after writing to each. She weighs wealth against affection, recalls past choices with Reginald Beresford, and prepares for a country retreat while letters reveal mixed responses from potential husbands.
Elkanah Watson of Philadelphia funded a Copley portrait after the Revolution. The painting's background features a ship bearing news of U S independence. On December 5, 1782, after hearing the king’s recognition speech, Copley painted the flag, possibly the first American flag seen by George III at the studio.
A day old calf belonging to Dr J M Munday leaped from a cliff near Wount Zion to the river below a drop of 500 feet but was unharmed. The animal was guided down the river to the ferry and hauled home in a wagon, safe and sound.
The speaker recalls beauty fortune and fame visiting his ruined porch only to depart leaving him to seek love. He notes love finally arrives later with roses yet refuses reward and remains unbothered by rewards seen around him. The poem contrasts transient visions with enduring inner contentment.
In a London Tit-Bita style sketch, George Timbs narrates his brother Reginald’s antics as he dodges a creator of sensational tall tales. Reginald mocks his uncle John Timbs of Windsor Plains and schemes to cash in on imagined riches, while Uncle John arrives to expose imposture.
A visitor asks to see the widows and learns the widow section employs about 100 mostly older women, widows of soldiers, paid by piece work for tasks folding papers in a government printing office.
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