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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1903
Page
3
Noel C Clayton's tale unfolds on a Christmas Eve as he sits writing and recalls a past marriage. A visiting friend prompts memories of love, loss, and a sudden vision of a son entering with a rosebud. The scene shifts to a silent family moment as the husband and wife kiss amid Christmas bells.
The Ledger Monthly notes the pinata as a festive Mexican Christmas figure dressed in bloomers stuffed with treats. A blindfolded child swings a pole, misses, and centripetal force seems to thwart the strike. A new hitter then aims again as a sandal drops, prompting laughter from the crowd.
A weary writer recalls past loves and a failed marriage as he labors on a Christmas Eve. He muses on a childless, fragile Pearl Clayton and the toll of spoiling two lives, while his own career as a novelist steadies his mind.
A reflective scene blends bells and a quiet street as a man faces a cold night. A child’s tearful return, Pearl’s soft voice, and the church bells frame a moment of memory and longing. The mood mixes Christmas imagery with a somber, intimate encounter at home.
A New York Journal parody describes a holiday scene where children attempt to read a pinata and adults swing wildly, bursting clothes and showering sweets as a chaotic, humorous payback. The piece ends with quips about Christmas and birthdays.
The article highlights bordered curtains as a flexible decorative choice suitable for many treatments. It describes hand methods like stencil and appliqué and notes a linen silk self color base with a wide brocade border featuring subdued floral tones and gold galon edging a library curtain in a local home.
Fruit salad with tart apples and walnuts topped with whipped cream, lettuce prepared in ribbons on buttered bread with mayonnaise, and rice drop cakes using steamed rice, saleratus, flour, butter, milk and eggs. The note adds women about to be admitted to graduate study at Dublin University.
To remove grime from light clothes brush thoroughly then rub with cornmeal using a light cloth. For grease spots use solvents or absorbents, blot with white paper and apply a hot iron, or cover with French chalk or fuller's earth and benzine for twenty four hours then brush. Ammonia diluted serves as a cleanser for greasy coat collars and velvet collars when pile is raised with a hot iron after cleansing.
Describes the nightly tasks of a chambermaid including lighting gas, preparing the bed with a triangular turn, removing the heavy spread, and placing water and dressing items. Emphasizes loosening bed clothes to avoid making an invalid feel imprisoned and to improve comfort for the sleeper.
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