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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1886
Page
3
A dramatic verse urges a son to seize opportunity when it comes and to guard his blessings with fierce resolve. The speaker, Bari Roy, tells Robert that wealth, home, love, and honor must be gripped tightly to prevent others from taking them. The poem blends admonition with calls to action and loyalty.
An autobiographical tale follows Jacob Allen once mocked as lazy and shiftless. After family punishment and a life at sea, war service and politics propel him to Congress. Returning to Turtle Creek, he confronts old fears, inspires townsfolk, and notes changing attitudes toward ambition.
A passenger recalls a Mississippi Valley haunted house tale from Missouri near Palmyra where a neighbor’s murder sparked fear. The family moves into the house. doors open mysteriously due to shrinking green timber, plus attic noises from windblown tree contact. New doors and flooring end the haunt.
A discussion on leisure versus work shows indolence suffocating vitality. With structured time, motion returns and spirits rise. left idle, life dissolves into a stagnant lake lacking purpose, like a Dead Sea. The argument urges dividing time between business and pleasure to maintain life’s current.
A temperance gathering heard a man claim he spent at least £100 to reach a state of blooming perfection. The remark provided a humorous contrast to the evening’s standard speeches.
The passage argues sincerity is superior to pretense and compares a gentle heart to ripe fruit that readily yields to others, while a hard heart remains out of reach. It notes pretense stems from believing such deception benefits the actor and suggests genuine kindness avoids manipulation.
A satirical column mocks feminine fashion and flirtation with lively phrases. It parades a fictional scene of Geraldine’s charm through ironic couplets and quips about boots and beauty, interwoven with a brief joke about domestic exercise equipment.
A witty exchange from the New York Sun features a wife declaring love for each husband, saying she would remain fond whether married to her first or third. She asserts she values love above all else in marriage.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle extract recalls a sharp exchange over Ethalinda De Wiggs announcing her engagement to Slmpkins, mocked for his toothless smile. The friend defends him, noting he was born toothless, prompting forgiveness.
An 19th century editorial urges young men to distrust all generalizations about women and to honor the integrity of mothers and sisters. It argues that speaking slightingly of women harms character and society, asserting faith in women as essential to happiness and moral order.
A narrator recalls a Maine tale where a young man visits his beloved Matilda beside a kitchen fire. The scene unfolds with quiet tension until the man, chuckling at the tongs, declares his love by jokingly aiming the tool like a gun and saying, I’m goin’ ter shoot yer. Ingleside.
The Boston Globe studies show Athens divides into five classes the wealthy, businessmen, salesmen, mechanics and laborers with expense items suggesting nearly twice as much is needed across ranks.
The New York Star argues that child rearing and marriage customs burden families with gendered expenditures. Mothers prioritize girls while fathers favor sons, shaping clothing, toys, and upkeep. The piece notes rising costs for fashionable dress and domestic vibrancy, urging premarital financial frankness between couples.
The piece outlines romantic pursuit in southern Italy where young men pursue wives through public displays, singing, and patient introductions via elder women. It notes the role of family, modesty tests, and betrothal as a formal step, with humor about a boy fishing after not consulting his parents.
A brief note observes that lawyers are seldom consulted on matters involving ladies suits, implying traditional opinions and legal involvement are uncommon in such social attire disputes.
A veteran traveling salesman recalls two hair raising incidents on the Chicago and Erie routes. He describes a downhill brake failure that left passengers braced for a collision and a later engine ride where a caboose collision was narrowly avoided, with quick engineered action averting disaster.
A Burke County correspondent reports Piedmont families as industrious and intelligent though unlearned. Girls help with plowing, hoeing, and farm tasks alongside brothers, often wearing calico bonnets and woolen mitts. They water stock, fetch wood, and perform chores deemed men's work in the North.
A Boston Journal commentary notes that newer servants quarters are better furbished and more homelike, but calls for education in neatness and order. It cites Good Housekeeping suggestions to allocate daily chores, insist on bed care, and keep doors open when away. It discusses challenges when staff come from varied backgrounds and the impact on household comfort.
A Paris justice of the peace heard a case of 54 francs unpaid bill. The sole defendant, a wife, confessed the debt and described her husband as ill and unemployed. After a discouraging exchange about their family, the magistrate ordered the debt paid in installments and showed pity for the couple’s poverty.
A humorous note from National Weekly recounts a popular young Baptist minister's wedding and prompts three young ladies to propose gifts. One suggests the clever caper a water service as the proper present for the minister, turning the moment into a light anecdote.
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