My Wife Winters Abroad and the Riviera Rival
A London merchant narrator despises the continent and the French language while guarding his daughter Sylvia’s marriage prospects. On a Riviera visit with his wife Maria, he suspects a handsome suitor Mr Hampton of fortune seeking and watches him closely, mispronunciations and aspirates igniting a clash over language and class. The chapter ends with the narrator’s resolve to scrutinize Hampton, foreshadowing confrontation.
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Sylvia
Cannes
Nice
Mentone
Maria
Mediterranean
England
Hampton
Mr. Hampton
Golfe Jouan
Riviera
Jowles
Ludgate
Victoria
London
Antibes
Amon
France
Norman
Worthiston & Co
High Street
Philadelphia
Christ
God
The Birth of Jesus in Sunday School Lesson
A reflective Sunday school lesson for July 1 centers on The Birth of Jesus. It links the Christmas narrative to a six month course on the Savior’s life, urging personal application of Luke 2 11 and 1 16, with shepherds and angels illustrating praise and swift faith. The piece ends by prompting readers to prepare for the next lesson Presentation in the Temple.
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Jesus
Christ
Moses
Joseph
David
Christ the Lord
Casar Augustus
Cyrenius
Syria
Galilee
Nazareth
Judea
Bethlehem
Mary
God
Earth
Grains of Gold Folly and the Poverty of Mind
The excerpt offers aphoristic reflections on learning, reason, death, virtue, wealth, and character. It contrasts intellect with humility and cautions that money worship invites ruin while timid minds harbor hidden vengefulness.
Ram's Horn Blasts Declares Warnings and Witty Reflections
A collection of moral maxims and quips on faith, greed, integrity, and daily virtue. Observations touch on humility, generosity, diligence, and the duties of Christians toward the poor, with admonitions about sincerity, talent, and the dangers of flattery and worldly wealth.
Old Uncle Johnnie Irish Tries Mail Run on Foot
Schley County Georgia villager Uncle Johnnie Irish, over seventy, says he can walk the Buena Vista to Oglethorpe mail route, a thirty six mile trek each trip, three times weekly. He claims a steady trot at six to seven miles per hour and the ability to cover five miles in half an hour, aiming to carry the mail on foot.
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Johnnie Irish
Schley County
Buena Vista
Oglethorpe
Johnnie
Eliaville
Ostrich Breeding Habits Revealed In Odd Details
The article notes three breeding seasons annually. Males dig four sand nests and females lay eggs every other day, totaling ten to twenty. Males guard nests from 3 PM to 8 AM, while females cover from midday. Nests measure seven by three feet. Males are black at night and carry chicks, while daytime gray females aid incubation. Occasionally battles arise when males steal chicks from rivals.
Aspiring writer seeks cause to write in Hier Needs era
A young hopeful pleads with an elder author about ink color and paper type. After settling those points she expresses cautious optimism, claiming she can write well once she finds something to say. The dialogue centers on motivation and the difficulty of finding topics to write about.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hier
Norway
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Bjornson
Wergeland
Ibsen
Brandes
Confederate Generals and Civil War Deaths Noted
Memphis Appeal-Avalanche discusses the fate of Confederate leaders with a list of nineteen lieutenant generals, four surviving, and eight full generals with several killed or died after the war. It also quotes a Chicago restaurant visitor about a French bill of fare and a humorous exchange about language and a mosquito joke.
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Wade Hampton
Joseph Wheeler
James Longstreet
John B Gordon
Albert Lindey Johnson
Leonidas Polk
Stonewall Jackson
Robert E Lee
Braxton Bragg
E. Kirby Smith
Beauregard
Samuel Cooper
Memphis
Avalanche
Chicago
Walter
New York Society Women Campaign Against Fairy Tales
A Sorosis initiative in New York aims to uproot fairy tales from children’s reading. They argue tales like Santa Claus and Robinson Crusoe mislead kids, wasting hours that could fuel math or moral philosophy, and predict a future where only statistics and political blue books thrive.
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New York Society
New York
Sorosis
Fairy Land
Robinson Crusoe
Masterman Ready
Santa Claus
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Grant
Ludgate Hill
Kent
Howard Fitzgibbon
Scoeping
Beaulieu
Admiral Townsend Jones
Lord Horsham
Sussex
Normandy
William the Conqueraxy
Ighfield
Highfield
Hants
Ampton
Society of Gentlemen
Silvia
Papa
Ram
Wafmhing
Nantanes
Down With Fairy Tales
Herr Bjornson
Heredity
Kongsberg
Ckles
Jericho
W. 5. W. Vaux
Walter Besant
Topsey
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