A Heart's Problem in the Cuthbert Household
Chapter segments show Maurice Calthorpe and Lucy Cuthbert confronting a painful past. Arkwood arranges a brief, tense meeting at Colonel Cuthbert's home where Lucy seeks forgiveness and Maurice contemplates a decisive reply. Teddy reveals he kept a letter from Lucy, sparking guilt and further conflict as the pair face an uncertain future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkwood
Cuthbert
O'Bryan
Lucy
Colonel Cuthbert
Miss Cuthbert
Maurice
Mr. Calthorpe
Camberwell
Thepeen
Mrs. O'Bryan
Teddy
Bullying and honor among boys across schools and life
A Cornhill Magazine excerpt reflects on bullying among boys as a transitional savage stage and notes the strong sense of honor that binds male groups. It recalls feeble victims, deadly pranks, and the matu reproof of cruelty, alongside broader social observations including education and church leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsley
Her Majesty
Onor
Cornhill Magazine
Pungent Paragraphs and Quips Lighten Daily Life
A collection of humorous clippings from various papers. Jokes about stockings gloves and a lazy poet pair with puns from the Chicago Times and other papers. Exchanges on dope and dodgy teas mix with country dialect yarns and a Prussian officer’s servant tale.
How to Marry a Rich Girl
A satirical guide outlines schemes to woo a wealthy heiress by strategic social maneuvers and feigned indifference. The piece mocks mercenary aims and depicts a staged courtship ending in marriage with a noble lifestyle, contrasting romance with greed.
Whistling Craze Spreads Among Texas Women
The article notes a rapid whistling fad among Texas women with an estimate that at least thirty percent whistle like mocking birds. A young lawyer traveled from Palestine to Jefferson to visit his fiancée and was surprised when she tapped him from behind and whistled, prompting his flat greeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Palestine
Jefferson
Death They Were Not Divided Elwin Hoff and Eva Hoff
A Toledo couple united in marriage fall to consumption within months. Eva Hoff dies in Coldwater Michigan on May 19 1883 at about twenty five. Elwin Adelbert Hoff dies in Union Springs New York on May 22 1883 at twenty five years two months and twenty one days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elwin A. Hoff
Toledo
Coldwater
Mich
Union Springs
Eva
Elwin Adelbert Hoff
N. Y
Dream of Cornmeal Labors Ends in Baby’s Death
A Georgia mother’s dream of beating cornmeal for bread reveals a real tragedy as she wakes to find her baby dead, with the body showing signs of severe injury. The incident raises questions about cause and responsibility and is under local investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice
Teddy
Marie
Devil
Miss Cuthbert
Chicago Times
As Tall as Papa A Child Desires Grown Up Style
A child proclaims readiness to outgrow baby clothes and mimic adult fashion. He wishes hair cuts, ruffles shed, a stiff collar, tall hat, longer trousers, a cane, and a watch, confident he is as tall as papa. The piece reflects a boy's playful, eager push toward adulthood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Papa
Sydney Dayre
Independent
Rufus Plans a Systematic Money Box for Ten Purposes
Rufus explains a savings box with ten labeled compartments for future spending, including mother, clothes, sisters, books, house, rent, sickness, and benevolence. Eva questions feasibility as Rufus details reallocation of income, sparking a lesson on budgeting. The tale closes with a schoolyard planting party and a fifty year remembrance by a Harper's Young People narrator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus
Eva
Rufus Briggs
Mamie
Fannie
Pansy
Tree-Planting Holidays and Youth Involvement
A speaker warns against deforestation around Middlesex Falls near Boston noting pine forests have vanished and soil erosion follows. He recalls a Swiss village where a public forest project used a school holiday to mobilize children to transform wasteland into woodland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Middlesex Falls
Switzerland
Young Editor Finds Fortune in New Mexico Mines
A Philadelphia editor recalls leaving to seek fortune in the West. In New Mexico's Silver City region he grub-staked a mine partner who became rich, transferring half the claims. He later sold ore worth 1,600 dollars on 6,400 dollar per ton estimates and still plans to stay in journalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
West
Colorado
Chicago
New Mexico
Las Vegas Gazette
Civilization
Royal College of Mining Engineers
Silver City
Denver
Col
Philadelphia Press
Nannys Chocolate Creams and a Sweet Surprise
Nanny Grover cooks chocolate creams for Cousin Prue Johnson using cream sugar lemon and melted chocolate. Prue buys fifty creams for fifty cents while Nanny secretly pays Joe Spooner to buy bread for his family, showing a small act of help behind a friendly kitchen tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cousin Prue Johnson
Cousin Prue
Anny
Mamma
Nanny
Prue Johnson
Nanny Grover
Joe Spooner
Joe
Dolly
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Little Wife
Gilad
Bied Barr
N. ¥. Ledger
Charles Gibbon
Robin Gray
Cach
Kensington
Globe
The
Presbytery of
Utah
New York
Law School
Howard University
Washington
Department of the Interior
Washington, D. C
Bureau of Education
Cincinnati
St. Peter’s Cathedral
St. Paul In Chains
Murillo
Gardiner
Methodist Church
Chicago Herald
England
Arent, Tait, Benson
Temple
Farrar
Butler
Harrow
Jex Blake
Rugby
Abbott
City of London School
Baker
Merchant Tailors
Currey
Charterhouse
Sardan Herman Singh
India
Christ
Golak Nath
New Bedford
Mass
Sarah McAfee
Boston Transcript
N. Y. Post
Detroit Free Press
Oman
Chicago Tribune
Scotland
Holland
Cesar
Hudson
WN. Y. Journal
Papal
Rufus’ Money-Box
Ile
Hugh Craig
Harper's Young People
Nanny’s
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