A Word of Encouragement in the Dark Hour
A short essay urges giving a smile to burden-bearers and treating others with kindness. Encouragement lifts souls, reveals new visions, and heals discouraged hearts. It asks readers to offer cheerful words instead of censure and to treat others as they wish to be treated.
A Daunting Call for Encouragement and Kindness
A reflection urges offering real kindness to the sorrowing and weary. Simple acts of friendly intimacy benevolence and small words of encouragement can lift troubled souls, brighten the world, and bring life closer to a better course.
Origins of the Warren surname and the Mayflower link
The article traces the Warren name to a keeper of a game preserve and various origins from Guarin to Guerin. It highlights Richard Warren, a Mayflower passenger who joined the colonists off England and earned a reputation for integrity and piety, marrying Elizabeth who later immigrated to the colony.
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Mistress Warren Keeps Widowhood in New England Traditions
School days referenced to Mistress Warren as a mark of respect after her husband’s death she did not remarry. This is noted as a rare instance of continued widowhood in the New England colonies. Richard Warren had seven children five daughters and two sons to carry on the Warren name.
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McClure
Success or Failure Poem Reflects True Victory
A 1925 verse questions true success beyond wealth and fame. It praises acts of kindness that ease others’ burdens and warns that winning riches while ignoring need is hollow without compassion. The poem frames luck and personal gain against moral integrity and public good.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Four Leaves of Luck and Frugal Feasts for Families
A column offers practical home cooking ideas from roast beef serving to croquettes and pepper stuffed bake, plus buttered turnips and an emergency fruit dessert with soaked cake and custard. It notes a nickname for a surgeon and closes with a syndicated quip about health and vitality.
Ben Jonson Life of Laughter and Debt and Fame
Ben Jonson known for humor and poetry endured poverty despite fame. A contemporary of Shakespeare, he wrote Every Man in His Humor and the song lyric Drink to me only with thine eyes. Appointed poet laureate in 1619, he received a city pension and royal canary wine, yet debts persisted until his death in 1637 at sixty four, buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Laughter not for Moltke and Kingsley says Herald
The Family Herald notes Moltke laughed only twice after long discretion and endorses Lord Chesterfield's view that laughter is a low unbecoming noise. It adds Charles Sumner could boast a similar restraint while John Martineau recalls Charles Kingsley never laughing.
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Fall Coats in Review Show Tailored Style and Fuller Silhouettes
Julia Bottomley reports on the new fall coat and dress silhouettes. Tailored street and afternoon frocks dominate, with fuller coats and flaring skirts replacing previous lines. Fur borders, smooth faced fabrics, and plaits shape the modernist, elegant look for both formal and semi dress wear.
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