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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1908
Page
15
Poem excerpt urging parents to balance affection and discipline. It argues children thrive on love and labor, not luxury or idleness, urging practical guidance over indulgence. The author emphasizes steady effort and moral training to build character.
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox urges parents to resist denying themselves and hoarding wealth for children. She argues love, guidance, and self‑restraint build character, while inherited wealth breeds arrogance and social harm. Parents should provide a stable home, reasonable pleasures, and opportunities to earn, shaping responsible young citizens.
A portrait of Walt Whitman as a fearless, plain spoken poet shaped by his Dutch mother Louisa Van Velser and family lineage. The piece argues his integrity, honesty, and noble ideals surpass conjecture, praising his lifelong pursuit of truth and humanity.
Dorothy Dix Mirandy warns that what you write not what you dot gets you into trouble. The piece muses on love letters, reckoning that many deeds and scandals began with a penned line and ends with regret and public judgment.
The passage recalls a mother's support for Walt during his trial, praising his brain and character and offering world of mother love that likely aided his resolve and success.
A reflective poem celebrates sunshine as brightness and hope. It describes small acts of faith patience and grace guiding through night toward light. The speaker seeks light outlook rest and quiet resilience behind tears.
In a hot weather tip for women, long cotton gloves with suede finish gain durability by stuffing a tiny amount of cotton wool into the tip of each finger. The aim is to protect nails from wear that causes holes in the fabric after short use.
A fragmentary opinion piece argues that a truly artistic lover forgets other women during intimacy but laments the dull wedding journey. It muses that marriage in a modern flat makes love less appealing and considers matrimonial life in a cottage versus urban living.
Forecast for a child born on this day says the birthday is fortunate and with care business will succeed. Those in employ will prosper. The young will court and rise in life. A child born this day will be steady and persevering. If female, fortunate in wedlock.
A Washington Star line mocks lofty talk as a plain spoken remark at a charity ball. A Philadelphia Inquirer quip shows a captain inviting Miss Passy to the first waltz, noting the event as a charity ball.
A married woman criticizes her husband for not paying attention and questions his discretion. She suggests he should be ashamed, noting that not every husband has such opportunities.
A conversational sketch features the Manicure Lady and Head Barber joking about Bryan and Kern and a two family house. The tale shifts to a cranky new neighbor duo, wild dancing, noisy piano, and a comic clash that ends with a quip about mean dispositions of families and Democrats.
Beatrice Fairfax notes a tea party where an unmarried spinster critiques married life and husbands. Friends debate women’s roles, upkeep, and devotion, with the spinster admitting she has not yet met the husband she could truly love.
A critique of prohibition arguing that addressing a single source of social ills may create greater harms. It notes widespread harms from drink yet cautions against destroying beneficial aspects, comparing to railroads and markets and citing a quote from Hugo Munsterburg on considering consequences before drastic cures.
A simple method describes turning the drowning person head down to drain water from the lungs, then rolling to a back position and performing artificial respiration by raising and lowering the arms, pressing on the ribs, at 18 times a minute, with a stimulant if needed, and calling a physician immediately.
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