A Fifth Avenue Stage Encounter and Unseen Heartfall
On a spring afternoon on a Fifth Avenue stage at Bleecker Street Herbert Repplier, a young lawyer with a vanished interest in life, finds himself opposite Cornelia Winchester. He contemplates confessing love after her rejection, but their uneasy conversation reveals lingering affection as rain begins and he offers his umbrella leading to a fragile, hopeful reconciliation on the doorstep.
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Erbert Repplier
Fifth Avenue
Bleecker Street
van Rensgalaer
Twenty-third Street
Cornelia Winchester
Herbert
Gibson
Vaughn Smith
April Sun Shines as Guests Enter Estate Doors
In a drawn moment the April sun breaks through as a tremulous laugh escapes her. She tells him he does not understand yet, then they enter the room with the butler opening the door, sealing a quiet house scene of anticipation.
Deaf official learns from lips by reading facial motion
Alexander Hunter of the land office in Washington, though entirely deaf, apes a word from the dictionary read aloud to him. He has learned to read the motion of the lips of those addressing him, a facility not rare among the deaf.
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Millington Miller
Alexander Hunter
Land Office
Washington
Thous
Uke Mitchell
Posterity and Romantic Heirlooms Through the Ages
A playful exchange imagines future generations cherishing odd relics from today such as bicycles with blue ribbons, curling irons, blazer relics, and old love letters. The girls joke about aristocracy, dream of folding beds, satin slippers, and costumes while noting posters of the past alongside cautious warnings not to destroy mementos.
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State Street
Dameel
Old Way and Modern Manners in a Changing Nation
Fragmentary verse contrasts old fashioned family hand writing with modern high fashion and New York embourgeoisement. A veteran laments his wife and daughters adopting new styles while recalling Civil War era letters and a run of social shifts from rural to urban life. The piece echoes nostalgia for simpler times and fears of losing personal ties to fashion and academia.
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Mister
Papa
Helen
Clara
Taois
Dance
New York
Boston
Vassar College
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Geon
Con‘getvatry
Ter
Remington
Billy
St. Thomas
Fifty-seventh Street
Miss Winchester
America
Blackbeard
England
Nichola
Air
Courier Journal
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