Withered Roses In a Quiet Old Room
Poems describe withered roses in an urn and memory as time reveals old graves. The speaker laments vanishing youth and lost joy, recalling perfumed notes and fond days as fragrance and memory linger. The piece contrasts warmth and chill, beauty faded, and a life story no longer bright.
Fleeing Fortune Sparks Victorian Family Plot
In a tale of wedding and scheming, Mrs De Bruse Bellingham frets as a telegram invites her long-suffering cousin Peter to visit. They flee to Long Branch while a romance with Percy Bellingham develops, only to return when the truth of a fortune and a marriage emerges, reshaping love and hierarchy.
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de Bruse
Adelaide
Bessie
Mamma
Mrs. Bellingham
Peter
Augusta
Peter Bellingham
Papa
Long Branch
Fanchon
Bessie Bellingham
Central Park
Pier
Aunt Helena
Anti Crinoline Society Forms in London Protest
An anti crinoline society is established in London. It issues a pledge by signatories stating they will never wear the artificial dress support known as crinoline or hoop, resisting milliners attempts to impose the fashion on English ladies.
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London
England
Queer Chinese Roads and the Great Overland Route
The narrator describes Nankow on the overland route to Mongolia and Russia, where camel trains laden with tea and silk traverse a harsh landscape. He notes the need for wagon roads over rails in Onina, contrasts Japan’s jin rikshas with palanquins, and explains how China’s road system has eroded into deep gulleys with travelers moving along their beds.
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Nankow
Mongolia
Siberia
Russia
Europe
Onina
Japan
Commodore Perry
America
China
Decorative bed coverings and a celebrity obituary dash
Silk colors and brocade drapery describe fashionable bedding with antique laces, white muslin, and tapestry designs. A border of red plush finishes lace spreads used over down comfortables with rose, blue, or red silk. Mrs. Sothern, widow of E A Sothern the actor, is dead. The text notes more Hebrews in Philadelphia than in New England and poses a riddle about a man with four hands when he doubles his fists.
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Jessie Howard
Seth
Harry
Lydia
Auitie
Jessie
Mr. Eldridge
Seth Morris
Mr. Eldred
Eldridge
John Howard
Dumas&s
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