Is It Love by Beatrice Fairfax
A reader asks if early fluttering feelings count as love. Fairfax explains real love requires knowing the person, warns against confusing attraction with love, urges patience, and advises building character while awaiting the true, lasting bond.
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Beatrice Fairfax
A Merry Miser on the Bench in Nell Brinkley’s Scene
Nell Brinkley depicts a lively scene on a park bench beside an old tree. A young beautified Bettikin confronts love envy and greed through vivid character portraits and a springtime setting, contrasting a merry miser with Greed’s bold presence.
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Gretchen
The Hen Wins At Lyceum Debate In Rush Creek Style
Rush Creek speaker Kennett Harris Luther Wells defends hens and eggs in a humorous weighty debate. He targets beef, soap grease butter, and chicken product reliance, arguing poultry sustains culture, meals, and Thanksgiving vibes. The aff irmative claim dominates. the chair declares the vote for The Hen.
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Hoop-pole Fork
Mr. Wells
Fun of It and Other Quick-Wit Snippets
A collage of light witticisms and brief exchanges from The Fun of It, featuring jests about romance delays, bridge, Dickens and Christmas carols, actors and managers, farm life, humor in daily chores, football and education, legal careers, and family finances.
The Woman With Ways And The Goodness Trap
Dorothy Dix argues that excuses like it is just her way shield selfish, intrusive women who critique friends, family and servants. The essay urges ending the “ways” excuse and choosing gentler, considerate conduct instead.
Let Idle Dreams and Hope in Adversity
A reflective essay by Ella Wheeler Wilcox urging readers to release lingering dreams and anxieties. It argues that life offers new hopes, joys, and opportunities after hardship, advising constant mental discipline, gratitude, and acts of kindness to foster happiness who endure even under adversity.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Atere
Where He Lapsed. She and Money in a Boston Transcript snippet
A compact dialogue excerpt shows a woman pressing a suitor about marrying for money. He expresses reluctance, while she calls him horrid for suggesting money over affection, capturing a witty social exchange from the Boston Transcript.
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Tle
Boston Transcript
Modern Girl's Good Health Celebrates Active Women
Winifred Black recalls seventeen University of Missouri girls walking sixteen miles before breakfast with Weston the walker. She contrasts modern brisk health with old-fashioned aches, lauds nonconformist vitality, and praises women who maintain activity regardless of fashion or medical fears.
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Winifred Black
University of Missouri
Weston
Walker
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