My Wife Poem by Leander Thompson
A narrator recalls a winter night with his wife in a cozy room. Across forty years since marriage, memories of trials, joy, and enduring love unfold. The poem compares love to leaves and fruit, revealing a revelation from heaven and the birth of their son, with the wife as guiding beacon toward a shared future.
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Misfortune and a Happy Union in Bolton Bank Tale
Ellen Neal loses fortune when Bolton Bank fails yet finds true love with Charles Hayden. Frederick Wells abandons plans to wed her. Guardian Mr Thornly approves as Ellen and Hayden marry, while Wells faces consequences. Thornly notes he withdrew wealth before the failure, enabling a brighter future for the couple.
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Pith and Point jokes from Our Exchanges
A collection of quick wits and quips showing humor about deserts, ice cream, newspapers, and social foibles. It sketches playful banter among travelers, editors, lawyers, and museum visitors with puns, misunderstandings, and light satire.
The Rush of Spinsters in Literature
A New York Truth column laments a flood of young women entering writing and publishing satire on their literary pretensions. It critiques spinsters aspiring to philosophy and fiction, noting income struggles and editors defending against the influx. The piece mocks flashy literary pretensions and notes overconfidence in divorce plots.
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Woman's club dinner sparks silent speeches for men
A Boston Transcript correspondent recalls an annual women’s club dinner where men guests remained quiet while women praised female achievement. A man recalls visiting his daughter’s home and finding his wife and daughter in tears over the birth of a girl, highlighting gender expectations.
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To Keep Your Head Above Water
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The Cape Town trickster who kept his hat
An Africander gentleman arrives from England and fools Cape Town customs officers. After two failed searches for contraband, he asks to be searched again, keeps his hat on, and ends by discreetly transferring an item from his hat to a carpet bag, then smiles as he walks away.
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Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters Seen as Cure for Indigestion
If refractory, mild discipline is the thing to set it right. Not all nauseous draughts can match three daily wine glassfuls of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for speedy relief and banishing dyspeptic symptoms. Immediate abandonment of random dosing and adoption of this standard tonic alterative is urged as the first step toward a cure.
It and His and Language Notes In This Item
An assorted clipping discusses pronoun usage from Shakespeare to modern English, noting the history of it and its possessive form, the shift from poetic to prosaic use of numerous, and examples of archaic phrasing. It also mentions misused prepositions, a free novel offer, Civil War era discoveries, Hall's Catarrh Cure, a Japanese editor sentenced for remarks about Emperor Tenno, and a jovial line about Dr Bull's Worm Destroyers.
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Promises and court risk in a playful banter scene
In a Toledo Blade fragment, Miss Parkwood questions breach of promise claims while Finlay Place denies promising marriage. The exchange hinges on who proposed first and whether a civil question risks legal action, reflecting humor in a domestic dispute vignette.
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