Patience Unrewarded at Lake With Faint Hopes
A puzzled angler asks if fish inhabit the local lake while noting it is only his second day fishing there. The exchange hints at low expectations and suggests a lighthearted, idle moment by the water.
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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1910
Page
3
A puzzled angler asks if fish inhabit the local lake while noting it is only his second day fishing there. The exchange hints at low expectations and suggests a lighthearted, idle moment by the water.
A vintage ad extols Cuticura for smooth white hands and protection from redness and chapping. It advises a nightly routine of hot creamy lather baths, drying, ointment application, and cotton gloves. Also featured are a humor snippet from He Was an Old Hand and a Dyola Dyes promotion offering bright colors on all fabrics.
A playful exchange asks how much marriage costs, with a quip about time and longevity. The ad copy touts cures and remedies, warning that money talks, and promotes Allen's Long Hearted preparation and various products sold by druggists.
On a cyclone wreck, Blake and Winthrope drift ashore with Miss Leslie after a Cape Town start aboard a steamer. Blake drinks through peril, Winthrope schemes, and the trio endures a brutal night in a leaner pool while awaiting rescue as the cyclone winds abate. The castaways face exposure, tides, and the moral tension of looming danger on a desolate shore.
Winthrope and Miss Genevieve Leslie awaken aboard a wrecked ship’s boat after a cyclone. Blake, an American, asserts authority, taunts English manners, and a tense alliance forms as they face a swampy shore and possible death while awaiting rescue. Blake recalls a past surveying job with Miss Leslie’s father.
A Harper's Magazine anecdote describes Salem's thrifty scene through a domestic tale of a maiden shop owner who charges ten cents for entry and for each item. The narrator notes the bold price for admission and laments the fin de siecle urge to monetize every gesture in commerce.
In a Life magazine caption witty exchange, a lady enters a studio to hire a portrait painter saying she wants the portrait with her new hat. The artist replies he is not a landscape painter, highlighting the humorous misalignment of expectations in a brief studio scene.
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