26 Oct 1881
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1881
Page
1
The speaker recalls Katie from childhood as a companion through golden times. He contrasts youthful joy with aging and solitude, imagining fond, enduring friendship that once lit his days and now lingers only as memory in a graveyard of long ago.
In a crowded drawing room a suspected theft tests loyalties between Miss Isabel Spencer and Annie Gray Linton. Annie proves innocent after Harold Hetherington exposes a grander plan and recalls a childhood engagement. Annie and Harold wed, while Isabel faces family ruin and Annie forgives her.
A black man named Sandy Horn was brought before a colored justice of the peace on a breach of promise charge. He argued a technicality to avoid conviction, but the judge ruled against him and ordered him jailed after the man admitted a likely woman would not be offended.
The article urges busy housewives to ease kitchen labor with height adjustable stools and relaxed effort. It mocks martyrdom, advocates leisure in cooking, and promotes preserving physical strength through sensible, well judged actions rather than overtaxing oneself.
T W Higginson argues city life offers better winter physical training than countryside. He notes sidewalks, gymnastic options, and improved habits from summer boarders migrate to country life. He discusses gendered health trends, immigrant parental stamina, and a poor Irish widow suffering losses to consumption, questioning poverty versus care.
Charles and Mary Lamb decorate a Temple garret for study after freeing a cat and discovering several unoccupied spaces. They strip books for illustrations, hang Shakespeare and Milton prints, and create a cheerful, beacon-like room called the print room, much to their friends’ delight.
The writer argues against tight lacing, claiming it would ruin the statues’ graceful lines and would distort the wearer’s figure and complexion. Tight corsets are condemned as painful and degrading to beauty and life.
The late Mr Trelawney died of old age after a long temperate life with little illness. He never wore coat or undergarments late in life and remained physically strong to the end. In youth he was handsome and in old age his commanding blue eyes and slender hawk nose defined his visage. The portrait in Mt Millais’s The Northwest Passage evokes his aged figure.
The essay argues that in England the word gentleman has degraded into a vulgar term as many people demand etiquette without question. It recounts personal episodes where being called no gentleman followed refusals to overpay for services or pay for unconsumed items. It also notes many laypeople misuse the term lady and judge social status by pretension rather than behavior.
The passage lauds Shakespeare’s unmatched originality, noting no lines are borrowed and praising his range from witty to pathetic. It highlights Dogberry, Falstaff, Mercutio, and Lear as examples of sudden, irreversible dramatic force that shocks readers and moves them deeply.
The piece explains English hospitality where guests are treated as masters in the house. Hosts provide servants, wine, larder, horses, and game preserves for guest use, who may order food, plan shoots, and even have dress clothes pressed before dinner. Guests are urged to act as in their own homes.
The new Minnesota Capitol at St Paul will replace the one destroyed by fire. It will be built entirely of Minnesota brick and stone with natural wood interior. The basements use limestone, first belt uses brown stone from Fond du Lac, walls are red pressed brick from Red Wing kilns, trimmed with Frontenac sandstone, and a flush sandstone cornice.
A compact survey of famous maxims traced to their authors. Bacon Coke Hobbes Beccaria Selden Oxenstiern Mackintosh Brougham Denman. The piece explains origins and nuances of well known sayings such as Knowledge is power and A house is a castle.
A Spectator account recalls Dean Stanley inviting a poor mother and her two children to Whit-Monday tours in Westminster Abbey. He showed them Henry VII's chapel and John Wesley's monument, praising Wesley's zeal. The scene highlighted Stanley's lasting sympathy and teaching of history to children.
A street talk vignette centers on a man declaring his wife an esthetic and friends weighing the idea. The exchange blends humor and caution about choosing a partner’s temperament, with a warning from the wife’s father that she may be more than half-idiot by nature and to go slow.
Evangelical Professor Grant notes Mennonites in Manitoba keep to themselves and refuse marriage with locals. Some girls went to service, but after one married, all others returned home. Women are described as thrifty and hardworking, dominating field labor, including a neatly turf-edged ditch mile long.
The text notes Sitting Bull growing sad and despondent with a vague hope he may terminate his own life, remarking this would be the one sanguinary act he has not yet attempted in his storied career.
The piece argues ready-made goods are pricier than homemade equivalents. It claims men could marry sooner if they used thrift and forethought, since raw materials cost about half the finished product. Ready-made food and clothing incur labor and profit, with cans and baked goods illustrating consistent yearly savings by self-sourcing.
In Tyrol mountains women and children sing at bedtime while husbands answer from the hills. On the Adriatic, fishermen's wives descend at sunset to sing and await a reply from the water. They listen until the familiar voice signals the loved one’s nearing return.
The claim that Hop Litters brings rich blood health strength and beauty is presented as proven by a trial. It argues cosmetics from France and other beautifiers fail when health is poor, while Hop Litters delivers visible improvements.
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