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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1883
Page
3
Poem praising a plain described girl from the Abilene Reflector, quoting Josephine Pollard riding in the New Ledger. It extols modest beauty, steadiness, kindness, nursing skill, and practical virtue over fashion or display. The piece presents a domestic ideal of womanhood with patient, honest, and reliable traits.
Two twin sisters Priscilla and Mary Brown live a hard New England life in a sunlit cottage corner toiling as seamstresses. Priscilla’s talk of dying and heavenly music unsettles Mary, who later hears a distant melody as she grieves. After Priscilla’s death Mary clings to the belief and waits to hear the music herself, dying soon after.
The London Times reports on Chinese led factions in Tonquin, detailing the Black Flag and Yellow Flag rebels. It traces origins to Taiping era exile, leadership changes, and shifting loyalties under Annamese and Chinese authorities. The piece notes Black Flags as fiercest and Yellow Flags as more numerous, with routes through Laokai and Haglang and involvement in Hanoi campaigns.
A Central Market peanut stand seeks a 12 year old boy to help. A Calhoun Street colored man questions reading and honesty. The scene shifts to Jeptha Jones who fancies himself a cook, with comedic mishaps as his wife Maria mocks his breakfast attempts and a fire scare prompts a quick rescue. Bridget’s absence and a tallygram add to the chaotic family comedy.
A 19th century advocacy argues that girls should be educated for wife and mother roles, covering cooking, cleaning, and household management to prevent family discord and safeguard future children. It asserts corsetry harms health, digestion, and parental capacity, urging wholesome physiques for motherhood and household harmony.
Dr. Hannaford argues that women must be educated to be healthy, capable wives and mothers. He links maternal vigor to offspring well being and urges equal training for girls in general skills, trades, and self respect to avoid dependence and social inferiority.
A Boston misprint caused a Sunday sermon notice to mislead readers. Rev Brooke Herford was advertised to preach at Arlington Street Church on September 9 but did not arrive from Europe for two weeks. The Herald later printed a half column summary of the sermon based on a Commercial Bulletin copy and cable-like timing.
An elderly couple on a mountain excursion dined in a hotel and exhibited old fashioned frugality. The man asked for flapjacks called flippers and the woman quietly saved leftovers. Both seemed unfamiliar with hotel dining as they navigated the bill and table manners. The London Atheneum notes Lincoln's grandfather once lived in Norwich, England.
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