Don't Always Look for Faults
Ella Wheeler Wilcox urges women to cultivate higher principles by avoiding gossip and harsh criticism. A self supporting woman should keep silent about others faults and instead note virtues and good deeds. The piece argues looking for the good brings happiness and social success while blind to faults.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Story of the Star and the Bethlehem Light
A poem reflects on the star that guided shepherds to Bethlehem and the baby Jesus. It emphasizes the star’s brightness, its moral message, and the guidance it provides toward heaven. The piece likens the star to a universal symbol of love and redemption.
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Bethlehem
Jesus
Wrapping Gifts With Care And Style
The piece urges strong neat wrapping using fresh paper and new boxes, with sturdy twine and dainty interior touches. It emphasizes careful address writing, ensuring the recipient's gender and name appear, and warns against overloading with gifts beyond one’s strength to wrap.
Reading Art and Action in Life's Great Games
The author argues that public interest leans to action like baseball and aviation, while art offers fixed outcomes. He urges readers to study the mental processes behind art and life, learning to trace the act back to its origins to gain practical and moral insight. He warns against mere surface viewing and champions active interpretation of culture.
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Yetiow
Louvre
Paris
Raphael
Alphabet of Men and Women Sets Shared Virtues
A prose list presents an alphabet of female virtues followed by a male counterpart. It outlines ideals for true womanhood such as amiability, generosity, and optimism, then calls men to emulate these traits with courage, integrity, faith, and perseverance to become fitting partners.
Mistresses and Maids: Short Rules From a Practical Voice
A compact column on domestic service offers terse guidance for mistresses and maids. It stresses respect, prompt discipline, and fair handling of privilege and fault, noting warmth, comfort, and proper hiring as keys to harmony. It uses aphorisms about meals, labor, and family dynamics to outline practical expectations for households.
Desperate Desmond Continued Picture Drama of Love and Hate
Desmond pursues Claude and Rosamond as a perilous chase unfolds through jungle shadows. The trio’s tense deception and danger escalate with each scene as suspense builds toward a possible confrontation.
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Claude
Rosamond
Desmond
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