A Clever Woman Seeks Military Counsel From Colonel Punter
Mrs Verner appeals to Colonel Punter for advice about her son in the Sixtieth Lancers. She recounts a long widow’s life abroad, her pride in her son's school triumphs, and a sudden coldness in his manner since his commission. The elderly officer, renowned as a scientific soldier, offers sympathy and attention as she explains her plight.
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Colonel Ponter
Punter
Panter
Arcaly
Bre
Perasion
Maud Mervyn
Dover
Colonel Punter
Iit
Sixtieth Lancers
Weill
Fron
Amindes
Aldershot
Verner
Captain Jones
Mrs. Verner
Jones
Hari Moss
Tex
Cornhill Magazine
Verner's son in lawless rumor tested by Colonel Punter
Mrs Verner seeks help as rumors erupt about her son Verner a merchant's heir in Singapore and intent on wealth. Colonel Punter agrees to investigate at Aldershot to confirm the youth's reputation, while Verner denies wrongdoing to his face amid tense exchanges and comic misreadings.
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Regimentus
Aldershot
Thompson
Punter
Shaw
Colonel Thompson
Verner
Singapore
England
Colonel Punter
Mess
Panter
Coronel
London
Slagapors
la Verner
On Being Pleasant and Its Simple Joyful Influence
A short essay from Christian at Work extols pleasantness as contagious and transformative. It cites a sunlit morning scene where a cheerful helper named Jack lifts the mood of family members during a rainy breakfast, arguing that cultivating a pleasant disposition is a duty akin to honesty or generosity and can turn gloom into cheer.
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Mr. Thackeray
Clive Newcome
Clive
Papa
Mamma
Polly
Bridget
Jack
Mark Tapley
Christian
Lemberman
Character studies at hotel supper room reveal varied dispositions
A thin woman with four children, aged seven to thirteen, dines in a city hotel. The meal scene shows hungry youngsters debating orders from strawberries to canvas back duck. The waiter serves ice water as the family requests light fare and the children gaze longingly at pies and turkey. A French lawyer leaves a peculiar will giving an annuity to the servant who closes his eyes, but the heir’s reminder of the master’s one eye spoils the bequest.
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Willie
N. ¥. Tribune
Peking Winter Charities Open For Dispensations Of Food
Reporters tour Peking charities in the south city as imperial bounty supports almshouses where granary rice and millet porridge are distributed. Thousands are fed, housed, and clothed in departments of the Hundred Goodness charity, with free schools and Warm Quarters aiding women and children.
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Peking
Ch'ien Men
Perfection in Female Form by Measurement System
A Philadelphia Press excerpt discusses precise body measurements for an ideal woman, detailing height, limb lengths, chest diameter, waist and bust circumferences, arm and leg girths, and proportional relationships, comparing sculptor standards to other systems.
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Philadelphia Press
A Japanese Genesis of the Mundane Sphere
An Overland Monthly excerpt recounts a Japanese creation myth where heaven and earth separate from chaos, a divine pair births islands and a continent, and the first spoken words spark gendered exchange and the origins of love. A Grant County, Va woman, seventy, recently had measles but was cured.
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Heaven
Earth
Japan
Overland Monthly
Grant County
Farm and Fireside Food and Farm Remedies
Growing animals need more food than mature stock. Spinach is an early green. fine manure speeds growth and increases yield. Milk from frightened cows is unsafe. Chilblain relief. vinegar and turpentine bath. Parsnips fried with pepper, salt, sugar, and flour. Golden Pudding with meat, orange malade, and egg. steam two and a half hours. Boiling onions and turnips in cold water improves flavor. Black knot on plums: cut and burn, painting with linseed oil as preventive. Hot water therapy for sprains. silicate of sodium dressing. Sausage Rolls wrapped and baked. white of egg glaze. Compost heap built with alternating muck and manure. Ham and potato dish with eggs, butter, cream, and baked layers.
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New Yorker
WATCH THE PIGS How to Raise Healthy and Profitable Porkers
A farming note by Stephen Powers urges clean, dust-free pig floors. Earth floors are best if not overly dusty, with clay and cement options to cut dampness and deter rats. Regular bedding renovation and thorough straw management protect hog health and prevent disease.
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Stephen Powers
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