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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 08, 1899
Page
2
A vivid scene unfolds in a bright den where Mrs Tree and the interviewer meet Mr Tree, a theater actor, who juggles a secretary and a flurry of letters. The manager hints at further plans while Mrs Tree guides the interview toward topics of Shakespeare and theatre.
A surgeon Dr Knighton in Lucknow races a frightened mare through a nearly empty city as a famed killer known as the man eater closes in. A baby is grabbed, the horse is driven to a yard, gates are closed, and the fierce rider circles the entrance before riding away.
In France the Napoleonism revival grows as English actors respond. About 20,000 actors remain abroad while only 1264 joined the Actors Association founded five years ago. Secretary Cruikshanks notes the society’s financial strain and warns on prospects.
A British schoolboy contest offered a prize for the best blunder by a pupil. The submitted items include quips about Adam's knowledge, Jerusalem's walls for milk and honey, and last words of Charles I. The entries feature jokes on Mules of Refuge, Bombay’s hills, and tribal sayings, with several schoolroom misstatements.
A humorous list presents ten commandments for husbands. It mocks household rules about wives, temperance, and duty with archaic language. The piece riffs on social norms and family roles, including admonitions about modest behavior and obedience within marriage.
A mother shares thoughts on how daughters are treated at home and how lack of affection from parents can drive desires for elopement or unhappy runaway matches. She advocates giving daughters praise and affection to prevent seeking happiness elsewhere.
A reader reports from a London station a cabman who asked only the legal fare and thanked the traveler for paying exact money. The letter muses on money, time, and life’s burdens, noting hot-water cans’ metal waste and streets in Japan with comfortable buildings and compulsory education.
The article recalls Rosa Columba, a 19th century presideress from Tazeia, who predicted Louis Philippe’s exile, Napoleon’s rise, Austria's defeats, and Italy’s unification. It cites a later prophecy of another revolution in Italy and a European war with Russian forces using Taggia as a stable, noting French papers link it to a Franco Russian alliance and potential victors in a future conflict.
The article highlights women using summer hotel time to teach whist and card games for income and social pleasure. It notes Miss Kate I. Wheelock of Milwaukee as a leading teacher called the Queen of American Whist Players, teaching for ten years and playing fifteen, and claims women are diligent, evolving into more scientific players.
A garbled snapshot notes how a worn flannel petticoat can last longer if turned inside out, and coins new terms like cycling fictionary cycletiiste for a female cyclist. It mentions the Princess of Wales offered £1000 for an article and reflects on merit, struggle, medicine over theology, and women in ministry and science. It also reports plans by a British company to kill 200 head of cattle daily in Argentina using electricity for meat preservation.
The damaged text sketches discomforts of early Crimean War days through a corrupt correspondent’s view. It recalls a surreal scene with uniforms and a horse, a Geneva meeting, and a startled exchange about identity and purpose, hinting at a larger narrative voice.
Atalanta Magazine notes in antiquated Greek lore that travelling blind minstrels, or biladere, roam Greece from end to end. They perform songs tailored to local tastes, live by charity, and are split into those who remember others’ tales and those who compose their own ballads. They are described as modern Greece’s novelists and historians.
A Harper's Bazaar style guide advises hot water soaking for five minutes, bran washing to soften skin, careful thorough cleaning with orangewood and jeweller’s cement, trimming and shaping nails, removing cuticle, and light polish. Regular Monday maintenance keeps hands neat. Care and routine improve even unattractive fingers.
A compact column of wry aphorisms and observations. It touches on propriety, news value, and moral quips with satirical asides about newspapers and social habits, recalling a fragmentary, opinionated humor style from an older era.
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