Romance and the Emotions By Kell a Wheeler Wilcox
A 19th century style contemplation on romantic love blending danger and devotion with reason. The writer questions if true affection requires tumult or can grow from calm, educated emotion and stable judgment, noting a married woman’s letter reflecting on marital position and emotional balance.
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Kella Wheeler Wilcox
Lfe
Can a Flower Grow in Mud
A wandering essay warns against moral decay in urban life urging readers to seek wholesome surroundings. It contrasts noxious environments with healthy thoughts and warns girls to guard their good name, choosing uplifting company to avoid moral erosion and romantic temptations.
Sergeant Warns Rookie In Harsh Aid for Cavalry
A cavalry sergeant vents fury at a hopeless recruit who ignored orders about approaching horses. The rookie is told not to come up from behind without speaking to them first or risk frightening the mounts and causing injuries.
Bridge at the Boarding House
A New Rochelle boarding house parlor hosts three women and a law boarder as they play bridge while a phonograph upstairs provides discordant music. Frustration grows over the sound, culminating in the phonograph owner’s polite request for operatic airs and the women finally retire for the night.
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Letters to a Business Girl by Dorothy Dix
A moral guide for women entering business urges cold storage of feelings and thick skin. It argues women face harsher criticism, should accept blunt feedback, and act like professionals in male-dominated workplaces, shedding gentler social expectations while staying practical and resilient.
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Dorothy DIX i A
Sadiem
Up-to-Date Jokes and Advice on Women in Business
The piece shares jokes and moral guidance about workplace behavior and gender. It argues that business is separate from society, urges women to avoid flirting on the job, and stresses that work should be judged by results not looks. It calls for eliminating sex in work and praises practical, reliable female conduct.
Wreck of the Flittermouse on the Arctic Cloudberg
The narrator details taking second mate duties aboard the Flittermouse, a rough voyage ending in a collision near Sable island. He rescues a girl from a ruptured deck gas bag, drifts on a frozen cloudberg toward Broadway, and starts an ice and game company with his wife after their wedding.
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New York
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