Home Page For The Home Of The Temp
A reading page designed for family groups with a home centered focus. The text highlights features, reader suggestions, and aims to appeal to grandmother mother daughter and men of the house with wholesome home oriented content.
Fragmentary animal scene ends with quiet night watch
A damaged excerpt describes a night scene with horses, oxen, and a girl smoothing her work and bidding it good night. Sounds of birds and distant calls accompany travelers as figures pass toward a nearby place. The text is garbled but conveys a tranquil rural mood.
Good morning to the Sun Poem Reflection
A poetic vignette where a girl bids the night goodbye to the sun as sheep, foxglove, violets, and Lucy prepare for rest. The scene shifts to dawn with the sun waking the world while the girl recites her favorite prayer and lies down, awaiting a new day. The verse closes with morning optimism and a note of divine timekeeping.
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Lucy
Richard Monckton Milnes
Doctor confessional reveals women’s medical rise and feelings
In a personal confession the author, a woman doctor, details choosing medicine after college, securing a path through hospital work, and focusing on women patients. She argues for economic independence, criticizes bias, and expresses pride in her profession and its future.
Quotations Echo Musing and Nature in Prose and Verse
A compact collection of literary quotes and reflections appears, weaving lines from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Shakespeare, Boyce, and others. The snippets touch on faith, sorrow, memory, and the natural world, mingling authorship with natural imagery and moral insights.
The Compliment Brigade of Barbara Lee
A column extols the value of giving harmless compliments and positive remarks. It urges readers to praise friends and family to boost happiness, noting how praise can uplift even aging or modest talents. The piece stresses that kindness builds, while harsh critique harms.
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Barbara Lee
Picnic in March With Calamity and the Five
A lyrical reminiscence recalls a March picnic with Calamity and five companions as they escape four walls for grass and horizon. The group shares food, weathered mishaps, and reflections on friendship, youth, and a sense of belonging in the woods.
Moonlit road romance and a fateful hill race
A narrator recalls a moonlit proposal to Alice during a tense walk home while a derailment of love and ambition unfolds. Alice rejects marriage for art, love lingers, and a dangerous accident during a race with Big Chief nearly ends in tragedy. Time heals but choices linger as Louise receives a miniature commission and social visits unfold.
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Big Chiefs
Alice
John
Lady Girl
Cosier
Big Chief
Queen Alice
Mystery of a Grand Dames Muse in a Quiet Ball
Robert Linton spots a girl resembling Grandaunt Denise among dancers and pursues a meeting. At Louise Oliver's studio he discovers the subject is Louise herself, learning she mirrored the miniature and earned his praise. Their budding connection deepens as family ties surface and a gift parcel links them to Mrs. Hayward.
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Oliver
Louise
Mrs. Hayward
Mrs. Crittenden
Mrs
Nattier
Sister Jane
Robert
Janesson
Bob
Jane
Denise
Rmeiden
Loulse
Sarth
Darling
Lou
Robert Linton
Pourbons
Deus
Napoleon Sephine
Caes
Sarah
Esther Hayward
Grippe
Sheays
Louise Oliver
Misrepresentation and Envy Spread Hurtful Judgments
A reflective piece compares misrepresentation to frost gnawing a flower and a Bedouin facing hostility. It argues unkind scrutiny wounds character, reshapes souls, and urges youths to guard against jealousy and provincial judgments that distort motives.
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Dye
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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