Autumn of Life and a Lively House Party
An ornate poem on aging contrasts with a London social set at Whiteways where Lady Feo and her husband Dick navigate flirtations and forgiveness. Amid gossip, Magnac and Mrs Massingham pursue each other, while Feo discovers renewed devotion after a tense week of temptation and reconciliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rusty
Madge
Spoony
Charles
Westoby
Whiteways
Marquis
Feo
Magnac
Will
Cavaliere
Servente
Silas B. Massingham
Anil
de Sales
Mrs. Melville
Magnus
Chicago
Lady Feo
Feo i
Magnne
Experiment in Ethics at a duchess’ doorway
Gerald Biss writes of Lady Feo de Sales seeking new flirtations to relieve dull married life. She plans playful public pretense to feign boredom with husband Dick, and considers flirting with Magnac at Whiteways, recalling past triumphs and youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madge Westphy
Whiteways
Feo
Madge
Mrs. Westoby
Sam
Feo de Sales
Storrington
Magnac
Madge Westeby
Art in Architecture by a New House Plan Detail
Describes a complex eight room house design with stone foundation brick underpinning and total cost about 1800 dollars. Specifies room sizes including parlor sitting room pantry and bedrooms, veranda reception hall stairway, and bay windows. Details framing, roofing, siding, insulation, plastering, floors, fireplaces, and fixtures in maple red oak pine and pressed brick with ivory white trim and chocolate body. Signed GEO. A. W. KINTZ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GEO. A. W. Kintz
Humorous Quip Collection Echoes Old Paper Jests
A collage of jokes and witticisms from various papers including Chicago Daily News Detroit Journal Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and Cleveland Plain Dealer. Snappy quips cover domestic life gossip misprints and light banter with characters like Henpeck Polonius and landlords.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Daily, News
Eny
Tetroit
Hennypeck
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Hamaktes
China
Fittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph
Toston Tratscript
Engraving Freak Watches Pin Head Show Craft
A Philadelphia man wears a tile pin with a hidden artistry. Under magnification the pin head reveals the English alphabet in old English lettering surrounding the year 1900. The engraving took a full year to complete, created by Fred Swarts Brink, a Philadelphia penman.
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Philadelphia
How Human Skin Is Described In Skin Renewal
The excerpt explains that humans shed and renew skin similarly to lower life forms but at a slower, subtler pace. It notes that epidermal cells continually renew and move upward, requiring constant removal of the outer layer through desquamation to maintain health and beauty.
Spiders in Art and Language Sparks Curious Observations
A quirky column notes how artists misread spiders and how real spiders differ in form and silk. It contrasts artistic depiction with natural anatomy, mentions spinnerets and silk formation, and parodies English word coinage and usage in a broader language critique from Ainslee's.
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the Doltineau Courant Mus
M. Berrron
Tbottineau
Darran
Lfe
Princeton
Jai
Bot
Scott
Mrs. Massingham
Gerald Biss
ART IN Architecture
Ogre
Giarier Mekse
Sor Pia
N.Y. Sun
Harvey Sutherland
Ainslee
Spiier
Peoce
Art
Spider of Art
England
Brody
Dover
London
Chronicle
Maian Kilyer
Atchison Globe
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