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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1892
Page
5
The column advises wives to accept their husbands’ individuality, avoid nagging, and seek unity. It highlights a New York fashion photographer’s emergence and a shift toward live fashion illustrations, then remarks on American women abroad, noting diplomacy, patriotism, and social duties with brief notes on notable women and scholars.
The text argues that training girls benefits life and character through work. It stresses society’s need for women in education, industry, art, philanthropy, and reform for full execution of tasks and development. It notes idleness waning and highlights wealthy women contributing to philanthropy and reform.
The piece notes how great writers treat fictional characters as real. Balzac, Dickens, Thackeray and Balzac’s anecdotes show authors drawing on life for their works. A discussion on Balzac’s reaction to Captain de Jordy and Eugenie Grandet illustrates immersion in imagined lives.
A Pall Mall Budget correspondent recalls a rain soaked meeting in Grunewald with a German forester who speaks perfect English. They discuss German schools vs English ones, the Emperor’s reforms, and his perceived faults and strengths. The forester praises the Emperor's energy, duty, and potential, while noting criticism and the need for humility. The piece ends with the observer's salute to the Emperor.
A Youth's Companion feature recalls a tiny race once said to inhabit Peru's Pacific coast. Discoveries on a Peruvian summit reveal a fifteen thousand foot high city with stone clad houses, a central citadel, and round dungeon rooms. A twenty seven inch tall mummy suggests a ruled class, while questions linger about their era and disappearance.
Builder Thornycroft reports experiments on a hydromechanical stabilizer using a shifting eight ton weight and pendulum control to reduce ship roll. Tested on a 230 ton steam yacht, roll dropped from 18 to 9 degrees. He presented a paper to the English Institution of Naval Architects.
A historical note recalls Queen Elizabeth I’s legendary fondness for fans. Her treasury reportedly grew with jeweled, painted, and needlework fans from around the world, reflecting her appreciation for the delicate tributes laid at her feet and the royal desire to possess such items.
The passage argues that perfect thought needs fitting language and that lack of words masks incomplete ideas. It cites De Retz on monosyllabic speech for strong emotions and notes grief’s earnest simplicity. It urges writing national songs to define a people, regardless of critics of the singers.
In a satirical domestic sketch, Goggins brags of easy chores but ends up overwhelmed by his wife’s endless tasks. He suffers a sequence of mishaps from attempt to trim vines to yard work, culminating in injuries before returning home defeated.
A woman recalls a hair slide made of tortoiseshell catching fire near a candle with flames rising over a foot. Similar fire risks are noted for dress buttons, some made from camphor and gun cotton, which can ignite or smolder in bright heat. Wearers should avoid horn or tortoiseshell likenesses that smell of camphor when rubbed.
A reflection on the value of charitable church labor over mere preaching. The piece argues that saving souls with deeds, helping the poor and degraded, is a stronger witness to faith than sermons. It asserts churches regularly perform tangible good, proving religious feeling is warming and strengthening.
Codling tailgates two Gorham girls to make a good impression but steps on an old gentleman's toe. The man misinterprets and calls Peggy starving Miss Underwood, prompting a humorous exchange, a roar of laughter, and the crowd's continued tittering as Codling exits.
A drummer in a dining car tells two listeners a joke about a couple trying to run a business as a limited partnership in Ohio. The wife suggests her husband is enough, while the wife insists on five incorporators. They continue their venture as before, leaving the legal point unsettled.
The Philadelphia Record reports the steam whistle echo from the Montana warned the ship in heavy fog while crossing the Atlantic from Swansea to Philadelphia. Captain Forsythe heard the distant echo and maneuvered to avoid bergs, believed to be near a huge floating ice island.
About fifty years ago a senior English official died in a fortress near a Brahmanic center. On the news reaching the sepoy guard at the main gate a black cat fled out. The guard saluted the cat with arms, a gesture that became a local custom. For years Hindu sentries would salute any cat passing the gate at night.
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