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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1913
Page
2
Vorse writes in August Woman's Home Companion on the anguish of waiting for a lover. She declares waiting is the bitterest pain women endure, noting men know little of this persistent, still agony that follows a lifetime of folded hands.
The piece blends reflections on waiting for loved ones with a note from Fannie Merritt Farmer about late season fruitiness and a fruit fritter recipe. It also lists local travels as Rev and Mrs. Cobb and Mr. and Mrs. Sturgeon visit relatives in nearby towns, with brief notices of departure and return.
Marvin Farrar faced pressure from Peter Moore the lawyer over a note tied to Luke Darrell. A hungry boy named Tom Chubbe helps uncover the fraud, leading to Farrar securing the funds and exposing the con, enabling his engagement to Winnie Thearte to proceed with their wedding.
The article argues that intelligence largely arises from the sense of touch in hands and the erect posture of feet. It notes hands and feet shape thought and action, with subconscious control by neural paths from fingertips to the spine, while the brain acts mainly as an onlooker.
A strange incident at the London opera house during the Venetian lake scene in Come Over Here saw several Indies enter the lake and disappear. A bather dropped a valuable diamond ring which a duck swallowed, and since the duck could not be identified, all the ducks were sacrificed to recover the ring.
A classroom exchange shows a teacher asking if the earth is round and a student answering yes. The tease pivots on the quip that “everything comes to him who waits.”
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