Waltz Quadrille Dream Ends In Silent Hall
A faded reminiscence of a waltz quadrille ends in ache as lovers drift apart. The music fades like a dirge for happiness, leaving the hall cold and empty after the final notes and parting words.
17 Jun 1884
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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1884
Page
1
A faded reminiscence of a waltz quadrille ends in ache as lovers drift apart. The music fades like a dirge for happiness, leaving the hall cold and empty after the final notes and parting words.
In a bustling household a maid-of-all-work nurses hope as she awaits her brother Jamie’s New York arrival. A runaway horse of memory and duty intertwines with a peril on the rails, where Nelly Moore saves Benny as Jamie nears, and a city map of kindness guides his path.
A 19th century column offers home remedies and health tips. Cures include tincture of iodine for styes, a milk and mint seed drink for dropsy, and a stammering method from Dr. Lewis’s Monthly. It muses on family life, marriage strain, and the pain of losing loved ones, urging tenderness.
The article summarises government restocking efforts and analyzes fish as food, comparing nutrients and water content of various meats. It explains albuminoids, fats, and carbohydrates, noting albuminoids provide nitrogen and tissue-building power, fats supply energy, and carbohydrates are least valuable without nitrogen-rich proteins.
A historic note explains methods to suppress chimney fires by throwing galt on the fire, stopping the draft with a board or wet hay to slow air flow and aid extinction.
Details from a Chicago reporter recount the unions and lives of circus side-show stars. Walter Stewart the legless man marries Kitty OBrien after she courts him, while siblings and partners like Hannah the fat woman, Chang the giant, and others marry diverse partners across continents. The piece traces marriages, travels, and fortunes tied to the era’s freak shows and bearded ladies.
A father rushes to a homeopathic doctor's office to report that his three year old swallowed every pill from a bottle given for his wife. The doctor fears danger but advises keeping pills out of the boy’s reach as the weakly condition could prove disastrous. The scene ends with the father seeking guidance on the child’s safety.
In a Sabbath school tale cited by Carl Preizel's Weekly, a little girl fears the back room dark until her father cites Dr. K's lesson that the Holy Ghost is everywhere. The exchange ends with the father admitting ghosts may exist, influenced by a religious explanation.
The saying warns against desiring speedy results or chasing minor advantages. It argues that rushing tasks undermines thoroughness and larger, more important affairs. The quip attributes the view to Consucira, a figure cited as the cause of all taffy lasses in this excerpt.
In Drake's Traveler Magazine comic scene a blind drummer confronts his New York employer. After a heated exchange about 200 dollars in expenses, misfired orders, and alleged misdeeds the drummer declares he resigns. The merchant refuses to reward loyalty and fires him, the drummer exits with a final sharp remark.
A dense medley of humor and opinion items from a late 19th or early 20th century page. It includes quips on law writs, farming versus Chicago markets, verses by Mr Heath, sharp wordplay about riding and driving, social banter, a punny witness exchange, and satire on politics and horse-trading laws. Notable voices: Doris Beacon, Newman Independent, Peck's Sun, New York Journal.
Washington correspondence recalls John Young Brown, once a brilliant Kentucky congressman, now living quietly in Evansville. Once quick tempered and famed for eloquence, he briefly drew his revolver after a dispute with a butcher, then a weight was thrown, and he later wandered the shop shouting before being subdued.
In Denison a young couple elopes with Mr Love to Quebec, the girl riding behind him on a single horse. When Love spots a rider behind them he shoves the girl off and flees, the man who spooked him sees the girl to the train and she returns to her parents. An old bachelor quips about a pair of children with a notable likeness to each other.
Prof. W W Vowler of the London Zoological Society argues whales did not originate in water but evolved from placental land mammals. He notes four fully developed limbs and hair, with teeth degraded from a perfect type, and discusses possible terrestrial ancestors among carnivores and otterlike tails as primitive Cetacean clues.
A fragmentary dialogue hints Betsy and Laro e leaving, with a gold haired maiden asking about the editor who selects poetry. The scene references a jail delivery and a vanished vision, noting a Brooklyn Eagle remark on resilience and forgery.
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