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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1902
Page
3
A Christmas scene with laughter and memory as relatives share old tunes and greetings. Nellie discovers a treasured portrait of her mother in a holiday-morning moment, while Aunt Amanda’s handmade pincushion arrives. The piece closes with a postal reminder about holiday wrapping and postage.
Nellie Sherminer chooses to visit the Winston household near Warrenville for Christmas despite poverty and dreariness. She brightens the dreary cottage by helping Eliza and Aunt Amanda, singing and telling stories, hoping to lift spirits and share joy with her cousins Lucy and Nesta.
Nellie receives a watch hidden in a pincushion as Lucy eyes the gift with envy while Aunt Dallas and Uncle Hiram brighten a holiday morning. Nellie’s tears mingle with joy as she shares gratitude, and the scene contrasts luxury gifts with humble ones amid family warmth. The excerpt ends reflecting on fate, providence, and maintaining high purposes despite hardship.
The piece urges leaving past regrets behind and entering the new year with courage hope and resolution. It warns against discouragement and encourages focusing energy on making the future better despite past mistakes and misfortunes.
A nostalgic verse bids farewell to the old year praising its gifts from Christmas carols to seasonal imagery. The poet thanks the year for cheer, blooming roses, violets, ripening corn, fragrant springs, and the turning of leaves and harvests.
A guidance note warns against marking parcels with words like photo or printed matter when sending Christmas packages by mail to avoid postal classification changes. The advisory stresses using plain descriptions to ensure proper handling and delivery.
A description of the Chinese New Year celebrated in February with drumbeats, crackers, bunting, and visits to joss houses. The article notes the ritual of settling accounts and the social emphasis on maintaining gentlemanly standing as the year begins.
Above the forest mold. If you gathered fair flowers that blossomed on your way you bore them to a fairer clime where time or decay never touch them. One tiny baby flower nestles on its mother's breast as song-birds seek their crude nest at twilight. Year, farewell to you. we grieve to lose you. You have been a friend and we offer heartfelt thanks.
The article explains how mistletoe seeds spread by birds. Pearly white berries tempt robins to gulp the fruit, but the sticky seeds stick to their bills and transfer to tree branches. The seed sprouts in the bark, finds sap-rich channels, and the mistletoe survives winter by keeping its leaves.
In Brooklyn Life a short anecdote shows Mrs Jorkins asking her husband Tohn if he recalls a present from Mrs Page last Christmas. He confirms, and she fears she may have sent the same gift to her this year, highlighting a humorous mix up.
The essay argues that learning shapes the mind and builds character across all vocations. It compares work to a life school where effort, faithfulness, and endurance fruit the inner self, ripening virtue through trials, illness, and weather, guided by grace in Christ.
Dr George F Hall advises spending winter evenings at home reading and enjoying family activities. He promotes buying good books, using public libraries, family co operation, music, simple games, and avoiding excessive theater and social duties while keeping Sunday services and spiritual mindedness central. He says Christ provides presence through long winter evenings.
A collection of brief religious quotes highlighting a single standard of Christian conduct. Includes Rev Parkhurst on consistent faith in service, Rev Tillinghast on seeing and hearing, Rev Chadwick on self-help and social duty, and notes on desire for divine power.
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