31 Jan 1872
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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1872
Page
1
Two poems appear here. A Present Saviour expresses faith through patient devotion and daily prayer, noting Olivet and Galilee as guides and the healing found in faith amid pain. Snow Flares depicts falling snow shaping quiet inner scenes and a secret despair revealed through the white countenance of winter.
A lecture by Prof. Benneté argues women across classes should learn physiology to improve infant care domestic ventilation and hygiene. It links proper dress, food, and nursing to child and mother health, urges schooling and public lectures for women, and notes women as pivotal in housing, servants, and family welfare.
A nineteenth century reflection argues children often grasp more than adults expect. It notes how conversations hidden from young ears can imprint ideas and suggests speaking plainly only on matters suitable for their understanding. The piece recalls a mother who shielded daughters from grown-up topics, claiming restraint can prevent lasting harm.
The Gulf Stream flows from the Gulf of Moxico across the Caribbean and Atlantic, bending near Florida and Cuba, widening from 8 to 31 miles as it slows from four to two and a quarter feet per second, then heads northeast past New York and Newfoundland toward Europe before splitting near Bemini into southern Africa and northern Iceland branches.
A sweeping survey of Egypt's marvels from the labyrinth near Lake Mareotis to the pyramids and Thebes. It traces hieroglyph decipherment, Egyptian science, learning, funeral rites, and myths about ancestors, with notable biographical asides illustrating social origins.
A collection of maxims on honesty, frugality, self restraint, and virtue. It warns that truth travels straight like light, urges self reliance, warns against flattery and idleness, and notes fortune’s fickleness. The moral is to act with temperance, courage, and steadfastness.
A collage of humorous lines and anecdotes. Bizarre puns, racey quips, and social satire touch on debts of manners and frailty. The quotes range from marriage to mortality, with oddities about fashion, appetite, and human folly.
The text notes Elizabeth era writers like Inshua Sylvester and Puritan feai who penned poems opposing tobacco. It cites a work titled Tobacco battered and the pipes shattered about their ears that idolize so base and barbarous weed, invoked by a holy thunder from Mount Hebron, illustrating stern anti tobacco sentiment of the period.
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