Viewed From a Back Window By Beatrice Fairfax
A country visitor muses on an urban back windows and rooftops scene. Through playful dialogue the piece spots domestic life across the way including a baby, neighbors, pets, laundry, a girl in geraniums, and a roof garden family, ending with a tease about the view's dullness.
When a Wife Is Wronged by Neglect and Punishment
An unhappy wife reflects that vengeance harms the wronged more than the offender. She urges restraint, self respect, and forgiveness, warning that revenge degrades the pursuer. The text advocates dignified endurance, support from society, and preserving loyalty and moral growth.
Oyster Song and Oyster Bay Romance
A playful verse invites readers to an oyster gathering amid sea imagery and satirical jests. It references characters and rumors, warns against romantic follies, and ends with guidance to protect one’s pearls and reputations.
Which loves the better woman or man Dorothy Dix says
Dorothy Dix argues that woman’s love is greater and more enduring than man’s, citing divorce statistics, poets, and stories of loyalty. She asserts women sustain relationships through hardship while men grow restless and depart, ending with a vivid image of a wife’s faithful devotion.
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Dorothy Dix
Wheeler Wilcox
Mrs. Elly
When Love Is Undemonstrative by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
An essay on human development portraying awakened minds as gods in latent form. A warm wife and an unemotional husband illustrate that lack of spontaneous affection creates loneliness within marriage. The piece urges daily kindness, patience, and subtle romance to build a serene, happy home.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Earth
The Whang of Korea Poem by C. B. Quincy
A playful verse presenting Korea about to be ruled by the Whang with mock ceremony and buzzing sounds. The poem mocks royal diction and chorus like a coronation howl featuring clangs and bangs.
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Korea
C. B. Quincy
Does Spunk Breed Happiness or Misery in Girls Advice
Dear Friend writes about a young girl's struggle with the term spunk and whether striving to mend quarrels brings happiness or misery. The reader asks if apologizing and making up belittles her, while the columnist urges kindness and forgiving conduct as the path to happiness. The piece also includes anecdotal scenes of women on a car reflecting on manners and temper.
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San Francisco
Cal
E. Lacey
England
Czarma
Tassia
Golden India
Beneficent Advice Against Malicious Gossip
A reflective piece contrasts two women amid a park duel of gossip. A near sighted reader recalls a cruel remark by a spiteful peer and urges generosity, self restraint, and kindness. It extols moral strength, forgiveness, and keeping a loving heart despite pettiness around.
Heir to a Homemaking Dream Seizes Freedom in Love
A young man defies his parents and elopes with Ellen Kelly, a determined horseshoer. Locked in his room until a night signal and a waiting ladder, the couple escapes by window and ladder. They marry an hour later and plan a home near the smithy to watch Ellen at work.
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Ellen Kelly
Horseshoer
Handsome
Ilen
Jove
John Anderson
Onan
Ellen
Cleaning contest pits charwoman against scientist in county schools
A county council inaugurated contest compares cleaning methods in schools. One site uses soap and water, the other employs a scientist with disinfectants and oiling floors to skip washing. Culture plates test bacterial results. early reports show one school satisfied, another adverse due to teachers’ skirts soiled by oil, prompting calls for training and supervision.
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County Council
London
Smile and Be Affable as a Social Guideline
A text urging pleasant demeanor and friendly conduct. It argues that arrogance or a frozen countenance invites judgment after death, and stresses that haughty manners dishonor social respectability. The piece counsels kindness, affability, and family-centered steadiness as proper behavior.
The Ardent Waoter
The excerpt describes a bashful man and a woman feeling blue on a seashore drive. She laments lack of love and cold hands while he offers consolation that God and her mother love her and jokes that she can sit on her hands.
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Success Magazine
Upright Jokes and Wry Exchanges in Town Gossip
A volley of quick wits and quips from New York Press style cartoons, pairing playful verbal jabs about marriage money and manners. The exchanges feature characters like Cholly Gwendolin Violetta and Jinks with light humor on drink, fortune and outdoor life.
Encore Sam Seeds Forest Regrowth Plan After Fire
The plan involves giving foresters ten tons of tree seed with 300 million individual seeds started in nurseries. Most seeds are sown or planted in burned or bare forest spaces while wildlife may benefit from the spread.
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Sam
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