The Lord of the Children at the Ward
A nurse recalls a grim hospital scene at a children's ward from Tennyson's New Poems. A surgeon's cold resolve contrasts with patient faith as a dying girl named Emmie nears death. The narrator reflects on prayer and care amid suffering and loss. The tale centers on mercy, spirituality, and the haunting as a healer's work meets mortality.
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Hera
Emmie
Annie
Jesus
Emimie
Euninte
Jong
Tennyson
Fifty Years Old and Still Loving Life
The narrator reflects on turning fifty with a mix of regret and acceptance. He recalls youth with Belle and Alice, fears aging yet celebrates renewed vitality, noting society’s cool politeness and the longing to remain understood by Maskelyn while acknowledging his aging appearance and fading strength.
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Belle
Alice
Maskelyn
Homs
Fifty Years to Love rekindled on the porch
In Harper's Bazaar style a narrator recalls a lifelong love story begun on a porch during honeysuckle evenings. Maskelyn, a traveling suitor, vanishes, returns, and marries Adele as the narrator preserves a quiet longing. After decades apart they reunite at fifty, choosing renewed life together and forgiveness.
Thoughts From Dickens and Classic Reflections
A collage of Dickens quotes and lines from Our Mutual Friend Dombey and Son Little Dorrit The Pickwick Club and Oliver Twist reflecting on sincerity life virtues and human folly across eras and thoughts. The passages touch pride fashion inflection of life and the enduring influence of literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Nwklebu
Barnaby Rudge
Dombey
Pickwick Club
Jarus Copper- Alns
Oliver Twist
A Child's Fancies by Lars Prentice Mulford
A vivid nostalgia for child imagination. The seven year old crafts a whole world from three chairs two rag-babies and a cat creating church weddings funerals and adventures while adults yearn for conversation.
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Lars Prentice Mulford
Europe
Comet's Visit Ends In Planetary Patchwork
A dreamlike tale by J. W. Trowbridge in Wide Awake follows a red nosed Comet crashing into a globe of the Earth and Moon. He mends the shattered world with glue and needle, scattering maps and cities, while newspapers rush wild headlines and the Moon looks on with a smile.
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Ben
Keele
Allen Tepineing
Waled
Doctor Avera
WJ. T. Trowbridge
Spending Money And The Education Of Youth
The article stresses money literacy as essential in schooling. It contends every penny is an opportunity and pennies build toward dollars. It underscores prudent spending and saving habits in youths.
Cultivate Courtesy at Home for Public Demeanor
A Sunday School Classmate stresses politeness begins at home. A polite spy to parents reflects true courtesy, while lacking at home threatens future insincerity. Emphasizes cultivating habitual courtesy and propriety in the sitting room and kitchen to project a natural, attractive demeanor anywhere.
Pioneer White Woman of Leadville Emerges From Frontier
Buffalo Telegraph profiles Sarah Bell Ordway of Leadville as the pioneer white woman who built a fortune from mining and real estate. From Ireland to New York to Leavenworth Denver and Leadville she faced winters, mapped streets, ran businesses, and kept her daughter warm while staking town streets. She owns Leadville properties renting for 2000 a month and recalls shooting Indians alongside her husband. The interview touches on faithless husbands and a Somerset mob scene as other notes.
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Buffalo Telegraph
Sarah Bell
Leadville
Telegraph
Ireland
New York City
Joseph Ordway
Leavenworth
Kas
Denver
Frank Ray
Cora
New York
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Geo. Burt
Children's Hospital
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Flere
Thad
Emimio
Amiloid
Maskélyn
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Earth
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Beauxtemps
St. Louis
Louisiana
Adele
Jacin the Charon
Southorn
Kelyn
Mediterranean
Southern Springs
Old Town
Dickens
Luce
Pleiades
Sam
Torsaly
Steeplea
Daily Press
Ameriqua
Canada
UNION
Constantinopis
Peterabure
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South Carolina
Labrador
Massachusetts
Paris
England
United States
Greenland
China
Jimmy
Himuay
Julia
Arthur
Ailes
Harper's
Somereet
Love
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