A Twilight Fancy By Dera Read Goodale
The speaker recalls summer evenings with cows at pasture and gentle winds among flowers. He music of crickets and birds fades as twilight yields to winter’s pale lights and barren fields.
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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1907
Page
7
The speaker recalls summer evenings with cows at pasture and gentle winds among flowers. He music of crickets and birds fades as twilight yields to winter’s pale lights and barren fields.
Mabel Greenwood, a poor aspiring young woman in New York, faces an impossible choice between a hoped for future with Archibald Cayley and the limits of her own sacrifice. After losing her job at Blackley’s, she encounters Cayley’s proposal of marriage while wrestling with poverty, love, and duty.
A naturalist describes experiments showing bats navigate with a delicate wing membrane sense. Even with waxed eyes the bat avoids obstacles and follows air currents, suggesting atmospheric and tactile guidance. Historical notes from 1703 claim bats cross threads and avoid walls, indicating refined sensory ability aided by ear and nose skin folds.
A Cuban export survey shows Britain importing more Havana cigars than the United States, with US purchases around 70 million cigars and England around 92 million. The report notes wide global distribution to 75 countries and large US consumption, despite lower leaf shipments.
Fragments show Miss Sharpe and another speaker discussing a bill payment. The dialogue includes remarks about recollecting the bill and not thrusting greatness upon mates. The excerpt captures a clipped, informal exchange with rebukes and assurances.
The item lists medical cures and quack claims for piles with a bold money back promise, mentions a political note about Transvaal as a self governing colony, and references a Truth editorial warning on universal languages. It also notes gifts of pink woolen petticoats made by the Princess of Wales for Essex Need Work Guild recipients in Havering.
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