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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1894
Page
3
An OCR snippet references a young rosy maid on a bed of columbine with roses white and red, suggesting a pastoral or decorative garden scene within a historic aside or poetry column.
In Berkeley, Professor Botkine observes his wife as a toad battles a worm, then rushes to city. His wife schemes to entertain Mr Worthington Smith, a Canadian bacteriologist visitor, by staging a bath and lab tableaux to please his scientific mind.
A woman attends a visiting Mr. Smith who asks about Professor Botkine's bacteriology theories. After an awkward bath insistence, the guest departs to catch a train, leaving Mrs Botkine puzzled by the misunderstanding and the odd scientist. The scene shifts to Dr King's New Discovery ads and health remedies amid era newspaper chatter.
The passage reflects shifting self-perceptions of age across life stages. Teens see twenty-five as aged, twenty-two views thirty-five as old, thirty-five fears forty yet aims for more time, fifty feels middle aged and vigorous, sixty recalls great achievers, and even centenarians like Parr at 100 may still feel capable. Source: Loudon Tit-Bits.
The article notes Sarah Bernhardt’s unusual habit of keeping a varied and shocking menagerie of pets including an asp, an alligator, a horned toad, pumas, monkeys, and hundreds of birds. It describes how her tours and travels continually add new creatures to her collection and how visitors are disturbed by these companions. It also mentions plans for a Nile storage reservoir project and details of Wootten and George W. Childs on the estate now occupied by George W. Drexel after Childs’ death.
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