21 Apr 1883
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1883
Page
1
A rambunctious tale recounts a Milwaukee evening with a Fenian scare and pranks involving a football with a fuse and broken glass, provoking a frightened father and relieved mother. The narrator reflects on parental norms, marriage economics, and a civic scene in Beauvoir, plus social observations on women's earnings and home life.
The narrator recalls a Sunny South holiday with a Beauvoir visit near Mississippi City. Mrs Jefferson Davis appears statuesque at the gate as a party tours the grand mansion, its venerable trees framing an Englishlike estate and the dignified hostess exuding grace and quiet charm.
Dr Franklin doubts parental instinct though Frank Moore cites a dying Rhode Island battery lieutenant who loses a leg near Mechanicsville. His mother arrives in Washington at midnight, enters unseen, and the son awakens to recognize her hand. He, twenty one, endures multiple operations and death with quiet resolve, saying he has faced death too often to fear it now.
A collection of quips and satirical remarks about photographers, a six daughter inventor with a spark arrester, silk-worm bait ideas, a Rhine flood joke, French post office hires for women, and a jab at Dead Letter Office. The items reflect light social commentary and witty observations of the era.
A dated portrait of French women showing thrift and ingenuity in households. It notes frugality in meals cooked on limited charcoal fires, reuse of dress linings, and careful mend and restoration practices. The piece praises French beauty and charm, then closes with a solemn note about the graveyard.
The Salisbury Advertiser quotes verse celebrating the end of winter and the arrival of spring. It contrasts harsh cold with the cheerful promise of warmth, flowers, and May, depicting King Winter fleeing the field of battle at April's gown in light, lyrical prose.
A long homily extols home ownership as national strength and personal happiness, urging industry and frugality. The piece shifts to Society Notes with quirky vignettes: Miss Filgibbons travels, sea son purse fashion, Mrs. Dinkleman on sublimate, Miss Diffenbach’s temper, a Turkish sultan joke, roller-skating fatalities, and postal cards as curiosities.
The piece argues against rising early and late sitting, claiming both exhaust brain and body and warn that fashionable early rising and the revival tub push people to burn the candle at both ends. It favors balanced rest and criticizes the push for constant strenuous labor without adequate sleep.
A father warns his son that cheek is not superior to wisdom or modesty and warns against bragging. He notes the world rewards merit, not brashness, and that cheeky men are generally reviled once their pretensions are exposed. The tale uses vivid imagery of paint pots and social reaction.
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