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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1910
Page
8
MABEL HERBERT URNER presents a vignette in dialogue form about a couple planning a birthday gift for the husband’s father. The frustrated wife Kitten and her husband John spar over a thoughtful present, with repeated jokes about cigars and silk handkerchiefs. The scene hints at strained humor and domestic dynamics.
In a domestic scene a couple debates a birthday present for the husband’s father. They mull various ideas from handkerchiefs to a phonograph, ultimately settling on a Christmas purchase while keeping the birthday gift simple this year. The dialogue reveals family gift pressures and frugal decision making.
A jumble of child observations features a girl who turns "delicious" into do-licious and defends it as elegant. A teacher asks about giants and seasons, prompting witty mishearings from children. Vignettes include a monkey named Jocko and a classroom mix of commandment memory tests and family routines.
In mourning Robert Goelet stood along Fifth Avenue during the Easter parade as a stylishly dressed woman passed. A passerby noted her hair had transformed from gray to jet black, prompting Goelet to remark that she had recently become a widow.
A humorous kitchen scene unfolds as Evelina the pretty cook argues with a grocery boy over steak quality and price. He worries about future marriage and buying habits while they compare notes on orders, fat, and market prices, with sly remarks about eggs and commodities. The dialogue reveals human humor amid a grocery run.
The scene shows a cook busy inspecting a steak after delivery while a grocery boy frets about lard. He laments forgetting the lard as a heavy concern, joking about coal versus fat and the weight of lard. The cook teases him and reassures there is nothing to wait for, as the boy totters out.
Jim Rice, coach of the Columbia crew, praised a stalwart freshman who faced jokes about his youth. The young rower asked a barber if his beard would be strong, hoping for strength like his father. The barber quipped that he seemed to take after his mother.
A humorous domestic essay recounts Mrs Henpeck narrating how she asserts control in marriage. She describes trimming her husband John to fit her taste by shaving his mustache and changing his clothing, collars, and neckties. The piece critiques male vanity and praises decisive, self directed wifely leadership.
Dorothy Dix recalls a wife who dominates household spending and table manners to control her husband John. She boasts of editing his meals his clothes and even his schedule, presenting herself as the family oracle and ruler. The piece ends with a teaser that the story continues.
A humorous exchange quoted from the Washington Star notes a wife asking how the husband knew of her matinee time and the husband replying that she cried until her nose turned red. The brief quip captures a light domestic moment contrasted with the theatergoing scene.
A London born Washington car conductor entertains riders by reciting street names in an excited alphabet style. On a recent Sunday morning he shouted lines like Hattch High and Jay an $1) as three prim ladies started to leave with prayer books, a moment noted at Lipppigcott's.
In a rural dialogue Steena defends Civil War themes in a guide book while questioning the value of all who die for a cause. His wife counters with memorial day memory and the idea that soldiers died for a nation, even as he cites a Stockholm brother killed in a bar fight.
In a dialect filled exchange, Wex Jones discusses a ban on dying on one’s feet and the idea of facing death for the native land. The daughter Steena defends Jackson as a great soldier while questioning masculine duty and national sacrifice in the context of a Har book about General Jackson.
A magazine editor at the Authors' club in New York described Myra Kelley as distressed by graft and crookedness. She recalled an anecdote from a magazine contributors dinner where wealth and honor were deemed synonymous in America today.
The big man at a social club suspects a guest resembles someone he dislikes. The guest reveals he is the man in question and jokes about forming prejudice after passing the collection plate for two years at the same church.
A vaudeville manager tested candidates for stage honors and rejected one by saying his songs would not be allowed due to profanity. The hopeful replied that he did not use profanity, but the manager insisted the audience would.
A critic notes the artist's consistency, pointing out that all marine views are executed in water colors while scenes from Greece are rendered in oils. The remark highlights a clear pattern in the painter’s medium use across subject matter.
The speaker dismisses a farm job offer for weed chopping, noting a disdainful stance toward following great figures like Gladstone and George Washington. The exchange implies pride in not taking such ordinary tasks.
A brisk dialogue contrasts knowledge of current hat trends with price cues. One speaker asserts fashion insight would come from entering a milliner's shop, while the other challenges the method, suggesting prices reveal the latest styles.
Miss Yankie asks about Lord Chi chester’s appeal while Lord Defendus notes a Derby victory. The exchange hints at betting on an election outcome tied to the Derby success, reflecting colorful commentary on public betting and social gossip.
A terse exchange centers on Jack Smart asking to be hosted at a club. The respondent replies he not only did not host Smart but put him down, signaling a sharp, personal rebuke over the request and the impression left at the club.
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