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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1880
Page
4
A satirical contrast describing old maids as useful, amiable cooks and caregivers who travel lightly and drink weak tea, versus old bachelors as useless, ill tempered drinkers who rely on doctors and servants. It mocks gender roles with humorous generalizations about lifestyle, illness, travel, and domestic prowess.
Practical guidance on preserving books: avoid heat and damp, handle pages from the top, keep cards out, read away from meals, mark pages with paper, lay books flat to open, don’t pull from headbands, open gently, use a paper knife for uncut edges, and treat books as steadfast friends.
The passage laments inflated diction replacing plain terms, noting crinoline, elastics, equestrian exercise, dentifrice and other elevated phrases. It ridicules metropolitan journalists and phlebotomy talk while urging return to sturdy Saxon words and straightforward speech, ending with a fragment about Mississippi legislation.
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