Why He Values the Cheap Picture
The tale follows Raffy Giotto Biggin, a clever painter raised amid turpentine, who marries Josephine O Rourke. After a clash over decorating tastes, Raffy endures a grim home life amid Josephine's plush whims until her death, after which he becomes a renowned but reclusive artist.
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Kipling Seest the World on Paths and Death
A rugged verse in Kipling’s voice muses on life, work, travel, and the urge to experience all the world offers before death. The speaker finds variety and risk essential, arguing that one should seize many jobs and places, as life’s page must be read to its end.
Up-to-Date Jokes and Street Corner Theater Bits
A brisk collage of quips and sketches from a street corner scene and social satire. Characters spar about reform, language, and marriage while a captain urges bold action before retreat. Humorous lines mix workplace yelps and a Wall Street quip about bulls and bears.
Stars Across the Night Sky Inspire Timeless Reflection
A reflective poem contemplates the vast heavens and humankind's place within the cosmos. It traces how distant stars have witnessed and shaped epic eras from Greece and Rome to Napoleonic wars, suggesting future ages will remember these starry beacons as mankind dreams of the ages yet to come.
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Asia
Greece
Rome
Homer
When Husband and Wife Forget to Replenish the Lamp of Affection
Dorothy Dix argues that divorce often follows neglect rather than whim. Indifference, lack of appreciation, and daily drudgery drain love, while reciprocal praise and tenderness sustain marriages. The piece contrasts unhappy, neglected homes with couples who stay together through mutual support and affection.
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Dead Sea
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Mrs. Astor
Delmonico
Pirate Home
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When a Man's Deeply in Love By Beatrice Fairfax
A Practical guide for men pursuing love, urging earnestness and patience. A devoted suitor believes perseverance wins a woman who may never love him. Advice covers handling rejection, timing engagements, financial readiness, and seeking the right partner over flashy appeal.
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Beatrice Fairfax
First Aid to the Wilted in Summer Town
A Philadelphia Bulletin reader describes a daily summer routine to stay fresh in town. She carries camphor water, absorbent cotton, a tiny atomizer and aromatic spirits, a fresh collar, and uses a veil and a cooling dressing room routine to revitalize herself after heat.
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Philadelphia
Evsenizgg Bulletin
Why She Was Absent
A girls school teacher received a pupil’s note making a playful excuse for absence. The message cites a worryment and a need to take Annie to the hospital with her sister’s sore eyes. It also mentions a family’s Mayflower voyage and a joke about the Lusitania.
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