Divided Shame Haunts the Speaker in Poetic Reflection
A fragmentary poetic meditation recalls lasting shame that sears the lips and spirit. The speaker reiterates enduring memory of a transformative moment and its haunting effect on fate and self.
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1893
Page
2
A fragmentary poetic meditation recalls lasting shame that sears the lips and spirit. The speaker reiterates enduring memory of a transformative moment and its haunting effect on fate and self.
Lucia Marsden, loved by Ang Howland, faces opposition from her miserly father Old Marsden who despises the pauper. Ang vows to return rich to win her, while Lucia fears the looming confrontation as her suitor departs for California seeking a fabled valley of fruit and a fortune.
Lucia, firm in protecting her father from ruin, rejects marriage to Ang Howland until a mortgage cancellation proves his worth. The elder Marsden, near destitution, gains hope as Ang reveals the safe possession of the home and property, changing their fates.
An old Russian law imposed a fine four times the finger loss for pulling beard hair. The piece notes the beard’s high value, comparing leg loss at 12 shillings to beard loss at 20 shillings, illustrating cultural importance in the English Illustrated Magazine.
Mrs Harriet Wampler of Minneapolis writes of relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. She praises the product and thanks Mrs Pinkham, noting prior failed treatments and urging others to try the remedy.
The text outlines a fat reducing diet advising per day limits of one and a half ounces of fat mainly from butter and about six to seven ounces of albuminous foods such as lean meat or fish. It suggests daily intake of most food compounds, plus one-third pound of vegetables like asparagus and cabbage, and warns fluids fatten fattening. drink tea coffee or water only outside meals.
Recipes for a facial mask using alum rose water egg white and rose water are given with instructions to apply overnight and wash off in the morning. Also described are methods to clean ivory ornaments: brushing with lukewarm soap and water rinsing drying and brushing until luster returns, plus a tip to use gentle heat for yellowed ivory.
Practical tips on shell coloring with lacquer dye and tin chloride, clothing photography advice favoring simple frocks and white backgrounds, neck bone straightening, a home egg drink for upset stomach, making a whisk holder from felt, rubber cutting with caustic potash, keeping the cellar healthy, and making glove cleaning powder. Includes step by step and safety notes.
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