The Fear of Women and the Power They Wield
Junius Heart Browne argues that women feign fear of men while in fact wield quiet dominion. He cites Cleopatra, Josephine, and other figures to show how women tame strong men, using wit, charm, and social influence to shape power dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junius Henri Browne
Una
William the Conqueror
Julius Cesar
Cleopatra
Napoleon
Josephine
Martinique
Europe
Will superstition keep him from a will
A husband panics at the idea of making a will, fearing it signals his death. His wife gently questions him until a misunderstanding about health and indigestion escalates. He storms out, convinced misfortune awaits his grave before any paperwork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polly Pry
New York Recorder
The Gypsy Merchant and the Pearl Offer
An old man shows a dubious pearl to a purchaser, claiming a 20 guinea value and a sale to a Duchess of M. He offers it for two pounds, citing seven weeks of work. The narrator recalls a cheaper Perth Tay pearl 5 shillings set as a ring, noting the phony bargain and leaving as the seller travels to Loch Rannoch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perth
Loch Rannoch
Duchess of
Henry James cites bachelor life as art’s sole condition
The writer argues Henry James upholds single blessedness as essential for genius, noting his London bachelor rooms, sociable entertaining, and preference for solitude amid admiring women. The piece then shifts to describe how Chinese tradition dates public acts from emperor accessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry James
London
Three Begasse Children Cross Atlantic to Joined Father
Nicola Begasse aged 11 led his sisters Anna 7 and Eliza 5 across the Atlantic to their widowed father Lorenz Begasse in Batavia New York after four years apart. The trio traveled aboard the Southwark with tags marking their destination and received careful care from Ellis Island officials and railroad staff on arrival in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorenz Begasse
Cologne
America
Begasse
Oriés
Nicola
Anna
Eliza
New York
Southwark
Nicola Begasse
Hallam Place
Harvest Avenue
Batavia
Ellis Island
Uncle Sam
New York Central
New York World
The Little Duchess and the Lion Tamer in St Nicholas
Fanny Locke Mackenzie shares a Russian tale from St Nicholas about Puska the lioness and baby lions. The tamer describes lullabies sung to cubs and a gentle motherly scene, followed by a reflective moral about worry and mischief among children and a noted German poet’s simple medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fanny Locke Mackenzie
St. Nicholas
Puska
Leo
Pusha
Kiva
Cubkin
Ivan
Nana
Bursa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Junius Heart Browne
The
Song of the Lioness
Chicago
Edith
Mamma
Doe
W. A. Haynes & CO
Maynard, Mass
Stanhopes
Surreys
Road Wacons
Democrat Wacons
Waldo Littlefield
Garriage
Mass
West Acton
C.d.holmes
D. Dilmore
Maynard’s Block
Maynard
Horace- Tuttle
Walden Street
Concord Mass
J. C. Friend
Boynton
GEO
Keith
Concord Junction, Mass
James T. Foote
Summer Street
Richardson
Middlesex County
ALBERT + BATLEY
Acton St
Ernest Hosmer
D. D
Acton
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