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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1908
Page
3
The Mere Man muses on marriage while the Bachelor Girl quizzes him about commitment. He evasively admits knowing the woman for years and keeping her guessing, prompting playful scolding about masculine hesitation.
A witty dialogue between the Bachelor Girl and the Mere Man critiques the old habit of men keeping women waiting. They compare courtship to fading piety, discuss illusions of romance, and note women shifting to social roles as freedom grows. The piece ends noting the attitude is fading but shaped early beliefs about marriage.
Readers learn two varieties of salsify black and white and how to select the white. Methods include boiling with salt, sauteing in butter with parsley and lemon juice, frying in batter, making fritters, and scalloping with cream and breadcrumbs.
The article recalls birthday jingles by weekday with meanings for each day. Monday's bairn is fair o' face, Tuesday's bairn is full o' grace, Wednesday's bairn is the child o' woe, Thursday's bairn has far to go, Friday's bairn is loving and giving, Saturday's bairn works hard for a living. The Sabbath birthday is bonny and lucky, wise and gay.
In a tangled New York tale, Tremaine plans a Martinique visit while Cecily prepares to sail, as Lester exposes a web of deceit linking the Edgemere tragedy to Tremaine. A dreamlike confrontation reveals Cecily’s danger and Tremaine’s charm, ending with a perilous sail and looming next chapter.
A famed British journalist in Berlin, barred by the Kaiser after exposing sensitive gossip about a racer, evades police by placing a life sized dummy in a window. Hidden daily in blue goggles and a slouch hat, he slips out unseen. On departure, the dummy faces the street with a placard reading Thanks, I am off.
A tale from Wellington at a mansion house dinner recalls him toasting the mayor and describing her as the model of her sex. Lord Ellenborough questioned the line, and the duke replied that he had never seen her, noting some models are blamed ugly.
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