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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1925
Page
17
A fragmented script sketches Junior and family arguing over a bedtime tale about Horace Mouse. Horace seeks wild escapades with cheese, then pursues Esmerelda, who demands reform before marriage as the scene unsettles the bedtime audience.
A brief exchange between Junior and Bile features a playful tease about pants. Junior denies seeing such attire at home as Bile claims they do. The dialogue centers on a humorous, informal conflict and ends with Junior shaken.
In a humorous yet oddball fable Horace Mouse reforms after viewing Esmerelda with Red Mouse. He shuns wild cheese parties and hides in a church, even eating hymn books until he declares he will never eat another hymn. Esmerelda then marries Red Mouse, while Horace remains the “church mouse,” and the moral is debated among the characters.
Read as a poetic fragment, the text shifts between dreamlike imagery and turbulent, surreal questions. It evokes a sense of longing and fading certainties, with faint references to morning, deserts, and a distant, altered future. The stream of lines suggests a meditation on memory, creativity, and the struggle to find meaning.
The piece foresees a future where domestic life and personal servants vanish as a communal, outnife style system expands. It laments loss of romance and fireside moments while noting fogs and social shifts will accompany wars and rural changes over time.
Fragmentary account discusses the Texas history study efforts by the Southwestern Historical Association, its origins as the Texas State Historical Association, and the role of Dr. Charles W. Bronedell. It notes the association’s publication of articles reconstructing Texas history from Spanish contact to U.S. annexation and mentions diaries and letters as key sources. The text also contains unrelated promotional and speculative passages about health and home life.
A 1921 outlook argues that education will rise, sex knowledge will spread, and women will gain economic and political influence. The piece predicts shifts in marriage power, stronger female independence, and ongoing parenthood duties, cautioning that male supremacy will wane amid eventual societal change.
The Nutrition Bureau, aided by the University of Lexna Division of Extension, rolls out a teacher pamphlet program and student reading lists for 17 500 pupils. Aimed at parents, the effort includes weight health guides and a bibliography, with two field workers, Miss Beanna Heboemayor and Max Edich May Williams, distributing materials across the state.
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