Quotes on love and faults from Home Notes and World
The passage collects aphorisms on love and self-improvement. It cites Home Notes urging focus on the good in people and imitation to reduce faults, and World’s Love department editor sharing humorous definitions for love and related sentiments, including lines like love as a halter and smallpox of the heart.
One of Woman's Trials The Thoughtless Selfishness of Man
A man argues that a wife belongs as treasurer and partner, not merely a household helper. He cites stories of women’s sacrifices and frugal spending, noting the tension over money, and laments the need to trust wives with salaries. He claims women learn quickly to spend less than earned and urging shared financial responsibility.
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Greatest pleasures quoted on love contentment and health
A quotation presents life’s priorities: love as the greatest pleasure, contentment as the greatest treasure, health as the greatest possession, and sleep as the greatest ease. The saying emphasizes wellbeing and moral balance.
What the Eyes Tell According to Eye Shapes and Souls
An analysis of eye shapes, colors, and gazes offering personality readings. Wide, steady eyes signify sincerity. half-closed or shifting eyes imply cold distrust. Small bright eyes hint cleverness, while dim small eyes suggest dishonesty. Cowlike eyes imply intense depth when stirred. Protruding eyes betoken ambition, round eyes ambition, and long eyes dreaminess. Clear, widely set eyes reflect health and spirituality.
Old Fashioned Bride and the Washing Question
A reflection on traditional domestic roles, noting the surprising turn of a newly married woman who hires washing services, suggesting that such an extravagance was once unheard of and is now a familiar convenience. The remark hints at changing social norms and newer conveniences replacing old-fashioned habits.
What Is Love Like? World offers prizes for wit and wisdom
The New York World awarded ten dollar prizes for the best answers to What Is Love. A New York man likens it to a magical composition with introductions and harmonies, while other winners compare love to hot air, money, champagne, or a bull in philosophy.
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Life is Made Up of Small Kindnesses and Habits
A reflective quotation emphasizes that daily acts of kindness and small duties, not grand sacrifices, shape character and sustain heart and comfort. It highlights habitual goodwill as the key to lasting well being and connectedness.
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Sir H. Davy
Kitchen conveniences and chair posture advice
The article lists handy kitchen devices such as a plate scraper with wooden handle a pie lifter double handle and spring wire rame for pies a combined grater peeler and cover a long tin spoon and a three spoon measuring set. It contrasts easy chairs with straight back chairs noting that proper posture cures round shoulders and that straight backed seating is better for health and appearance.
RAILROADS ARE ACTIVE IN WEST AND HILL AND HARRIMAN BUSY
The article describes intense western railroad activity led by Hill and Harriman. It notes 3600 miles of new lines planned in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Nevada, including Portland to Seattle tracks and a bold Columbia River route. It highlights battles among major magnates to dominate transcontinental traffic and mentions Wyoming irrigation spurring branches from Casper and Denver to Yellowstone.
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Fractured Toast From The Spectator on a French Pastor
A garbled note from a Spectator column recounts a breakfast misadventure with salted herrings. A French Protestant pastor asks for the meaning of a phrase and questions a translation as the day unfolds with awkward humor and a closing blessing.
Late Frills of Fashion From A Winter Wardrobe Overview
A fashion feature previews winter styles with butterfly sashes, lined raincoats, and bright waterprop silk hoods. It notes white shirt waists, crystal and amber buttons, cavitier cuffs, and pastel coats. new hats, stockings with monograms, and light evening outfits in velvet and lace.
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Helpful Household Hints From A Bygone Era
Practical tips cover turpentine for wool and silk, brass tarnish prevention with Vaseline, candles ends for fires, leather care with egg white, rusty grates with black lead, washing windows only in shade, tinware painting steps, cleaning brushes with hot suds, lemon juice for sponges, and fuel tips for leaving fires. Also contains social maxims about charm, love, and marriage in archaic prose.
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Amateur Nimrod Deserted by Dog in Quail Test
A North Carolina quail field tale recounts a setter Belle guiding a novice hunter before unleashing a sharp retreat. After failing to bag a bird, Belle gaze‑tested the hunter, then left him to home with brisk, discriminating intelligence. the incident sparked belief in dog reasoning. Also a comic exchange about a snail and turtle ends the piece.
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Whistler On Thames Embankment Stars Night Mood
A story describes the artist Whistler walking with a friend along the Thames embankment on a starry night. Whistler, in a discontented mood, scorns the city and river while his companion points to beauty. He argues nature is sometimes ugly and even the stars fail to impress him.
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What Sambo Knew About Geography
A rural Arkansas colored school teacher notes geography neglect and tests her oldest boys. Sambo asks about the earth’s shape and jokes reveal limited grasp of geography with a quip about square on weekdays and round on Sundays.
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Saving Mis Money An Trisha Pane Through the Wood
Fragmentary OCR reads as a dramatic street encounter at a lonely pier with a robber threatening to take money. A trembling man pleads for his money and face value, seeking mercy or aid in his old age.
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Independent theater movement broadens play market and fame
The New York Evening Sun notes the independent movement, led by Shubert Belasco and co, has revived theater with special productions and triad matinees. It praises increased public focus, lavish productions, and opportunities for unknown playwrights like Moody, Johnson Young, Forbes, and others who rose to prominence since the movement began.
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Cougar Afraid of Man and Misjudged as Dangerous
A written account argues cougars in the United States go by many names such as panther mountain lion and cougar and adds that while legends exaggerate danger most large cats avoid humans. The author, a lifelong hunter, recalls rare attacks and describes how cougars typically escape when hunted and prefer to avoid people, noting many trappers have only seen them in traps.
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Atchison Globe Lights and Monday Misgivings
A humorous editorial tone comments on fragile friendships and exasperating explanations when apologies arise. It notes how a budding romance ends with demands to quit dancing and facial makeup, and mocks Monday as a source of woes. It also jokes about Thanksgiving cranberries and social misfires in amusing vignettes.
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Court Arguing Over Witnesses Sparks Lively Courtroom Moment
In a New York court a defense attorney pressed for two witnesses to testify while the judge questioned the necessity. The attorney admitted not yet meeting the witnesses, prompting the judge to order their call and triggering amused reactions from the gallery as the moment unfolded.
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