Model Home Scene Encourages Tasteful Rural Living
A narrator visits a rural family home to admire its modest lawn, lattice porch, and bright autumn plants. The piece extols simple, well kept spaces, DIY framed pressed-fern pictures, and practical kitchen and children’s areas while stressing parental involvement and education.
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New Yorker
Bayard Taylor
Be Mighty Patient with Children
A brief column by Bill Arp urging parents and teachers to exercise patience with children, noting variations in capacity and memory and encouraging steady, calm guidance in education and discipline.
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Bill
Woman's Work Among the Lich by Holmes
An essay praising trained nurses and their crucial role in medicine. Holmes argues for women’s vocation in nursing over broad medical practice and envisions nurses using keen observational insight to aid diagnosis and patient care. He imagines partnerships between doctors and wives improving outcomes and hinting at social change.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ici
James Jackson
Theodore
Lairy Gamps
Betsy Priggs
Woman Not Superior to Dress Says Modjeska
In a Chicago Herald interview Mme Modjeska argues women should value dress and personal appearance. She says youth and health help, urges tasteful attire over extravagance, and contends a well fitting, modest outfit can enhance a woman’s appeal and shelter perceived flaws.
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Chicago Herald
Mme, Modjeska
Dinner Time Dilemma in a Mother’s Pie Promise
In a St Paul Pioneer Press note a mother tries Robert Collyer’s dinner rule. She lets the child start with the pie but daytime daylight reveals the problem, echoing Browning’s line that colors seen by candlelight differ by day.
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St. Paul
Mr. Browning
Cure for Corpulency by Jennie June
An intelligent woman touts a natural permanent weight cure based on diet and liver regulation. Her forty cases show varied plans, but emphasize initial nitrogenous then farinaceous diets, hot water and foot-baths, and reducing meals. She claims success by aligning with each patient’s constitution and eliminating sweets and pastries.
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Jennie June
Addsira
Ellen Terry the Enigmatic American Icon of Stage Grace
The author muses on Ellen Terry as a unique artist whose beauty and genius defy easy judgment. Portia’s charm and her elusive dress are praised, while notes on her height, oriental sensibility, and Camma in Artemis evoke a powerful, mysterious presence.
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Jennie June
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Bassanio
Worth
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Helen Terry
Mr. Irving
Women in the Fourteenth Century on Wifely Obedience
The essay discusses Geoffrey de La Tour Landry’s Book for Women and its extreme view of obedience. It recalls a wager among merchants about dutiful wives who would leap into a basin or table, with beatings and a misinterpreted salt command cited as proof of obedience. The text notes such doctrine as historic yet contrasts it with modern shifts.
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Methodist Church
Geoffrey de la Tour Landry
Wheeler
Mother’s Kiss and Its Lasting Power Across Life
An evocative meditation on the infant kiss from a mother’s touch to a final embrace. The piece contemplates how a mother’s kiss shapes a child’s path, guiding youth and enduring into old age, offering moral influence beyond mortality.
The Sweetest New Hat in Paris Notes
The Marie Antoinette style hat copied from a Louvre picture features a full soft crown a broad curved brim rifle green velvet and a pale pink silk crepe tornade with pale pink coral feathers and a high aigrette. It promises to charm wearers and melt broken hearts.
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Paris
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Munberlesa
A Portrait of Love and Memory in a San Francisco Garden
In a sunlit domestic drama, Mr. Fernaldo recollects a past love Alicia and the chant of memory returns through his wife Rosalie. He speaks of the passion lost to time, the rival, and the enduring bond with Rosalie as a mature life completes the circle.
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Clay
Chinese Interest in Sorghum Sugar Comes to Rio Grande Works
A New York Tribune correspondent notes Chinese ambassadors and two secretaries studied sorghum sugar production at the Rio Grande Sugar Company. They observed the plant from cane to centrifugals, asking detailed questions of Dr. Collier and Superintendent Hughes. The visit signals China may soon engage in sorghum sugar manufacture.
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Chicago Tribune
China
Rio Grande Sugar Company
Celestial Kingdom
New York Tribune
Collier
Hughes
Reading the Bird Dog Lingo From Evansville Argus
An essay-less fieldcraft piece mocks trainer jargon in bird dog work. The author notes simple, direct cues replace formal commands and describes a practical, almost casual approach to guiding a dog through pointing and retrieving tasks.
Corean envoy comments on American women fashion
Soh Kwanji Pom secretary of the Corean embassy in Washington observes in the United States that American women are notably beautiful and dress mainly in black or blue with white in warm weather. He notes hat styles, saying tilted back shows the front hair is nicer than when worn squarely on the head.
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Daniel Webster
Congress
Ben Franklin
Chicago Herald
Soh Kwanji Pom
Washington
America
Wretched Peru and its Military Grievances
The excerpt lists Peru as burdened by many officers awaiting back pay, citing 320 generals 1 400 colonels 2 210 majors 4 000 captains and more lieutenants. It also mocks the situation with a digressive quote about a giraffe and a New Orleans Picayune remark.
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