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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1880
Page
3
Poetic meditation on the brevity of life and enduring duty. It contrasts restless souls with determined virtue, urging resilience against malice. Clotho spins fate while prayerful, disciplined living promises a peaceful closure beyond grief and strife.
Mrs. De Bruse Bellingham tempts fate when a telegram announces cousin Peter Bel lingham's visit. Augusta plots to hide him with maid Isannah, while a schemes to avoid social ruin backfire. Percy Bellingham materializes as a cousin groom, bringing wife Bessie, and the family’s ruse collapses in high-society light. The tale ends with Augusta’s near-disclosure turned triumph as the telegram misdirection yields a happy reunion.
The Milan province dominates silk production with filatures scattered across the region. Basins rose from 6,449 in 1863 to 7,020 in 1871 and more in 1878, yet one third of mills closed and profits scarce. Steam reeling yields brighter silk while most machinery is locally built. Reeling season spans 170 to 230 days, May reserved for silkworm care. About 50 percent of workers are women, with wages up 50 percent since 1860. Milan remains the silk trade hub with 14 cultivators, 32 egg dealers, 43 reelers, 147 brokers, and 34 manufacturers listed in the 1877 Directory.
The piece contrasts American mourning seclusion with English practice, critiques lifelong grief, and cites Gen. Horace Porter on Boston. It then reviews Moore's Rural Life on keeping pure bred fowls, advising breed choice by purpose, proper housing, feeding, and market demand, noting affordable options from reputable breeders.
A Sanitary Magazine piece denounces excessive household labor on women, arguing it harms health, youth, happiness, and family roles. It urges orderly, moderate work and rest, claiming overwork leaves women exhausted, unfit for motherhood and marriage, and suggests it is better to let tasks go unfinished.
Detroit Free Press notes a nine year old faces a tough arithmetic lesson. A crowd at a Cass Avenue blacksmith shop watches as the boy laments a flick and the men joke about fractions and elusive methods. The tale contrasts adult cleverness with a child’s schoolwork. The Princess Louise arrives with sixteen servants, provoking remarks about suites.
A Rural New Yorker extract argues for cash handling in business urging debts avoided and purchases made with cash. It lists maxims like pay cash, never endorse notes, and never count money until in pocket. It cites Solomon for authority and warns many ignore prudent cash discipline.
An old breeder argues for annual improvement of all farm stock through full-blooded thoroughbred sires. He condemns grade or homebred sires, noting crossbred offspring from native cows bred to thoroughbreds can dilute quality. He insists every stock type, including horses and hogs, benefits from pure thoroughbred sires to steadily raise herd quality.
The Senate Committee on Pensions rejected Dr Mary Walker's pension increase. The article notes her controversial career in 1864 Chattanooga, service as a hospital nurse, alleged spy role, and later pension history from $80 to $100 monthly then to $8.50 with doubts about eyesight decline being from exposure or aging.
Indianapolis Journal reports C E Wright experiments with carbolic acid as a prophylactic for scarlet fever. He claims it aborts the disease with treated households escaping infection while untreated members become ill. In the Divine family all who took it stayed well except a servant-girl who did not. The regimen is five drops in a half pint of water, a tea spoonful four to five times daily.
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