A Night of Song at Mrs Dunderdale’s Christmas Party
Paxton confronts the mystery of Viola Arnold at Mrs Dunderdale’s home where Sealli mentors the nineteen year old singer. He recalls Florence and Arnoll’s fallen fortunes as Viola, penniless after Bruce Arnold’s death, lives with the Sealli circle and tours under their schemed engagements.
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Christmas Secrets and Sothern Pranks in a Storied Tale
In a fragment from a vintage piece the scene shifts to Mrs Dunderdale and Paxton as a Christmas moment unfolds with a kiss promised and a vanished operatic career foretold. A lively aside remembers Sothern the Lord Dundreary as a practical joker and a dramatic episode with a Boston theater policeman. The Grand Canal of China is lauded as the world’s longest artificial waterway with bustling traffic, varied crafts, and beggar-operated boats amid a vivid travelogue tone.
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Sothern
Lord Dundreary
Goodwin
Globe theater
Boston
Godwin
China
Technical World Magazine
Antiquities and Archery from Historic London Pages
The London Graphic describes St Giles Cripplegate with grisly yet picturesque features including Milton and Shakespearean connections and a Cromwell marriage registry fragment. It then recounts the ancient use of the bow from Genesis through Henry V, noting its rise and decline as a martial weapon and its role in Tudor and Civil War history.
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Cripplegate
London
Milton
Voxe
Shakespeare
Lacey
Olver Cromwell
Elizabeth Boucher
London Graphic
Ishmael
England
Egbert
Edward I
Henry V
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Hettry VII
Trolinshed
Devizes
Cupid Versus Yale Ends In Yale Victory
Robert Saunders, torn between school loyalties and love, frets after betting a Yale girl Elaine on a college baseball game. Yale dominates the Princeton clash as the Tigers win 6 to 4, leaving Saunders torn between heartbreak and sports pride as Elaine expresses mixed triumph.
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Elaine Sheriff
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Cinderella’s Fur Slipper Not Glass, Scholar Argues
A philologist recounts the historic slip from vair to verre in the Cinderella tale. He asserts the original slipper was fur, carried orally for generations, and laments the later editorial error that led to a glass slipper in print.
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Prench
The Motionless Tiger on a Battlefield Scene
A tiger reputedly killed by an explosive shell without moving. Captain Forsyth in Highland of Central India recounts a deer felled similarly by a shell. While elephant hunting, a tiger crouched unmoved at thirty yards. a three ounce shell then burst in its brain, killing it instantly despite no prior movement.
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Forsyth
India
Ministers Are Lute Hisera Latest Risers in New York
A long serving cook reports to her latest mistress in New York that ministers are the latest rising class, more than physicians. She notes many rise after 9 or 9:30, lacking early offices or fixed appointments, and praises ministers as considerate and generous while criticizing their morning loafing habit. She says she has worked in forty seven places, eleven with ministers, who she finds faultless aside from late mornings.
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Lute Hisera
New York
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