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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1915
Page
2
An essay-like meditation argues plain women offer steadier, deeper devotion as ideal wives, while beauty attracts fleeting notice. It extols homely charm, loyalty, and domestic harmony, contrasts beauty’s allure with lasting companionship, and links Eastertime婚 to marital happiness.
The piece reflects on spring weddings and the belief in luck linked to early year unions. It discusses betrothal wardrobes, marriage portions, and the desire to wed in spring for lasting happiness, noting how spring outfits enable a self made dressmaker to prepare stylish attire.
A reflective essay counsels women to end unfulfilling engagements rather than endure jealousy and mistreatment. It urges calm reasoning, self respect, and seeking new happiness, arguing that fate may reward bravery with a worthy partner and remove a worthless lover.
A Chicago businessman in Missouri tells of a junction incident where with two minutes to departure he orders sandwich and coffee. The counter man offers to hold the train while the superintendent is telephoned, since the lunchroom owner runs the branch line lunchroom and wants the man fed.
A reflective vignette questions how a man would react upon realizing the tall woman beside him is the mother of the girl he plans to propose to that night. The scene blends humor with a tense social moment aboard a surface car as fate intervenes.
In wartime London Helen aids a neighbor sobbing over a ruined romance and a dying lover, revealing a tangle of fidelity, guilt, and unspoken longing amid Zeppelin rumors and civic fear.
A reflection on how the eye shapes emotion and judgment. It notes that a single glance can render people sad glad or severe, and that instinctive knowledge of the person behind the eyes enhances this effect on the imagination.
Fragmentary quotation from Life magazine expresses regret about leaving needed items and taking unwanted ones, with a stark remark on health and spiritual longing.
The piece argues tactfulness stems from considering others, while tactlessness reveals selfishness. It asserts self-centered thinking leads to blunt interactions and urges reflection on personal selfishness when tact fails. The tone is prescriptive and moralizing, urging self-examination.
Mr Groucher repeats a doctor’s prohibitions while his wife jokes about needing a new physician. She quips that the list forbids drinking smoking and even worrying, leaving little they can enjoy together.
A spool of brass wire is fed into jaws that cut pins. Heads are formed by three hammer blows. Pins are sharpened on all sides by a file like cylinder, tin coated, polished, and packed with paper in a rapid mechanical process.
Minerva recalls entering the theater when a remark about dirty work was heard. Her brother Ben wonders if a villain abducted a girl, but she explains a comedian on stage began to black up his face before the audience.
The Wall Street Journal cites a 62.5 million dollar London estimate for Baron Rothschild as the fourth largest English estate, behind Westminster Cassel and Iver. It notes Cassel and Iver incomes exceed Westminster real estate, Barnato’s fall from 400 million securities to 15 million estate, and compares Rothschild wealth to Astor Carnegie Rockefeller and several U.S. fortunes.
King Albert decorated Miss Dor mer Maunder an English nurse at Rouen with the Order of Leopold for Belgian army aid. Mme Clara Muriel Kipling, nurse at Paris American hospital, received a gold medal from the French minister of war. Mme de Freycinet, superintendent at Orleans auxiliary hospital, was mentioned in dispatches for devoted wartime work. Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson left her French hospital to organize a 500 bed hospital near London and received the rank of major.
The Olathe Register notes a spring parade Monday led by Frank Hodges in a Milan straw hat. The procession started at Elm and Water, moved to Hodges lumber yard, then dissolved as Hodges resumed work. Residents welcomed the moment amid hat fashion pressure from agents pushing a 1916 model.
Johnny Poe a former Princeton football star who has fought in South American revolutions and in France tries to return to the United States from Santo Domingo. He asks an English freighter captain for passage home with fifty four pieces of baggage a pack of cards and a pair of socks. The captain refuses passage.
A five year old with a critical mind is left at home. While awaiting dinner he answers a phone call and declares he does not know who he loves, but asks where he will eat, interrupting the inquires with his hunger driven remark.
A quotation exchanges views on judging people by looks and notes that a man with lean arms and legs might still excel in sports. The dialogue explores prejudice against physical form in athletic merit.
Dags argues Skinner is his own worst enemy and Jaggs agrees. Skinner mocks himself and refuses alcohol, choosing water at his own expense whenever he drinks.
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