Does Education Make Women Safer to Be Clever
A long essay discusses women education and liberty in America, contrasting eastern and southern views with Schopenhauer on jealousy. It argues that a cultivated mind strengthens a wife’s partnership, not rivalry, and urges serious, broad curricula over finishing schools. It warns against dangerous overeducation and urges balance with sympathy and social duties.
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Virginia
South
Cleveland
Chicago
Schopenhafer
Thia
Europe
America
Vitaline
Pete Ae
Milla
A Reign of Graft In Noble Practices Condemned Yet Enduring
The piece traces graft through history from Moses to modern times, noting its persistence across commerce and government. It contrasts graft’s corrosive effects on virtue with the belief that enduring truths and divine laws remain, even as graft claims influence from street corners to high offices.
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Moses
Solomon
Ephlrein
Raselas
Pliny
Cagliostro
Congress
United States Senate
How to Sweep: student directions reveal quirky method
A teacher asked girls to give room sweeping instructions and one pupil replied with a guidance that covers furniture with dust sheets, scatters damp tea leaves on the carpet, then sweeps the room into the dustpan and throws it out the window, showcasing humorous wit.
He Was Disenchanted, Disenchanted Letter From Constantinople
A Vienna paper prints a letter from a correspondent in Constantinople. The writer recalls friends’ envy at his move, describes Turkey as “the city of beautiful women,” and notes disillusion with modern life and the prevalent love of money as a pitiful disease. The piece contrasts youth and age and reflects on appearances and reality.
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Vienna
Constantinople
Turkey
Whisky in boots and cold feet tale in smoking car
A crowd endures cold on a smoking car as a clergyman pours whisky into his boots to warm his feet. The piece then plugs Frank P. Lewis Peoria’s Lewis’ Single Binder cigar, praised for aroma and draw, claiming factory sales will top $9,000,000 this year without traveling salesmen.
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Frank P. Lewis
Peoria
Lewis
All the Earmarks Fi Tramp Man Wanted to Chop Wond
A garbled humorous ad page shows a man listing tasks like chopping wood coal gardening and babysitting while a pal complains about matrimonial ads. The illustration highlights faded clothes and a Red Cross ball blue ad promising whitening soap. The text critiques justice as blind and deaf amid scattered fragments.
An Inward Quote From Scovil About Bearing Others
A reflective line on collective endurance and compassion. The saying notes that one cannot endure others' pain for them, nor triumph over them by withholding aid, urging consideration of shared humanity and mutual support.
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By Anna DeKoven
Joseph B. Bowles
Anna Farwell de Koven
Reginald de Koven
Pierre
Iceland
Peck
England
England Entodia. Her Novel, “By the Waters of Flabylon
Wan Alao
Marades
Buainese
Clergyman
Tse
Red Cross
Scovil
Dodds
Carter
Carters
Western
Canada
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Crawford
Ninth Street
Kaposs City
Missouri
St Patrick
Ireland
ST Jacobs Oil
5Oc
Texas
Alamo Plaza
St. Yo
F. Simmons
San Antonio
Mall
Frenchirh
Turkey Creek
Revere
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