Touch Your Lips with Gladness Poem by Nixon Waterman
Poem exhorts readers to brighten others lives with cheerful acts and words. Aimed at lifting weary souls, it encourages daily smiles and kind words as a remedy for hardship.
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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1903
Page
2
Poem exhorts readers to brighten others lives with cheerful acts and words. Aimed at lifting weary souls, it encourages daily smiles and kind words as a remedy for hardship.
In a bitter New York winter night on a snow covered side street by the East River, Jack Norton restrains a desperate stranger in a pea jacket who plans suicide. A small girl Connie calls out for her father, and Norton halts his plunge to safety by offering help and a shared sense of loss. The two men, joined by mercy, walk away with Norton proposing to delay his own plunge to rescue a life by funding the man’s future.
Norton, unsettled by Connie’s distress and a tense confrontation at the McCorkle home, resolves to accept a check and visit a tenement. A morning note reveals Dr Brereton’s role and that Jack’s estrangement may end as Mrs Brereton’s daughter claims him as stepfather, changing the dynamic and his plans.
A London Telegraph report discusses how life may endure extreme cold in space. It notes 1871 ideas on plant seed origins seem unlikely, yet recent Jenner Institute work shows bacteria frozen in liquid air or hydrogen can germinate after heating. Experiments test if months or years in cold erase vital life energy.
A Boston report notes possible adoption of women as elevator operators. An elevator company official says no physical barrier, as modern cars use metal cranks and motorless lifts. He adds that a level headed operator, even a girl, could manage many 18 to 20 story runs.
The article recounts a French novelist adored by women who endures two chatty female admirers in a railway carriage. After they praise his work, a tunnel journey ends with him kissing their hands to defuse the scene, then he quips about never knowing which woman kissed him. It also mentions Septimus Winner inspired songs born from a mother’s loss, in a Pittsburgh Post item.
The Globe Fish, scientifically tetrodon, is said to be the only fish able to swim and walk downward.
A compendium of rhymes and folk beliefs on rain and weather sayings. Includes sunshiny showers, Friday rain, predictions from red mornings, and charms used by children to ward off rain, with regional notes from Norfolk and Northumberland.
A humorous fragment shows two girls, Betty Lawton and Joan, staging a mock quarrel to test self control, then laughing it off as they race across a yard. The piece sits among notes on weather lore, rolling hoops, and a playful lunch critique.
A collage of jokes and quips from newspapers like Detroit Free Press Washington Star and Puck. It includes verses about living at sea a photographer flattering a subject and a gag about stamps in a marriage letter. Several light exchanges from Town and Country and other sources add humor.
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