New Year's Gift Lesson From Miss Croker Inspires Kindness
Estelle Maude and May Robbins share New Year joy in a Victorian tale. Miss Croker quietly overhears their chatter about money for gifts, offers wool and three mats, then hides coins in the wool to surprise them. She escorts the girls to shops where they buy presents for parents, learning generosity and gratitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estelle
Maude
May Robbins
Rotelle
Rosy
Ray
Mise Croker
Katelle
Miss Croker
May
Wil
Oe Otti'tain
Hetelle
Hazelle
Mamma
Estelly
Mande
Amy
Fateh
Misa Croker
Salh
Unhappy New Year s Day in Domestic Quarrel
A dated exchange shows Mr F chiding Mrs F over kissing and age. He jokes she was 18 once, she retorts about girls of 16. The skit reflects a tense domestic quarrel and social mores.
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Desroy
Diane
Mr. F
Mrs. F
Old and New Joy With Thove Who Hail The New Year
A troubled verse contrasts the old and new year, mourning the departed while praising the past blessings. The speaker recalls health, abundance, and love as gifts from a higher power, yet laments winter and the passing of the old year, torn between sorrow and gratitude.
Loneliness and Letters Darken a City Night
In a London ruined by time and memory, Alter Carson broods in his rooms on Big Duke Street as Big Ben tolls the year’s end. He pores over faded letters and a photograph of a child, recalling a lost love and a daughter’s existence, while the city’s revelry echoes his isolation and regret.
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Alter Carson
Big Duke Street
Lone =aton
Big Ben
Green Park
Piecadilly
Dixey
Carson
Tam Marcied
London
Candy
Bloomebury
Minale
Atong
Hoo
Ani
Evarilan
Gret
Careco
A New Year Love Rekindled in London Tale
Walter Carson, a desolate suitor, discovers love again when a veiled visitor unveils her identity as Leila. She reveals Herbert Wilton is his true name, and after a year of separation they marry quietly. The piece closes with reflections on hope, work, and the year ahead.
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Cargon
Carson
Anne
Old
Kentucky
Leila
Evangeline
Walter Carson
Herbert Wilton
Caren
Mr. Wilton
Mr. Caren
Misfortunes Replaced By New Year Spirit Hope
The message speaks of welcoming the new year with spirits of renewal and forgiveness. It urges leaving behind past misdeeds and misfortunes to start anew, aiming for better conduct worthy of record in life's ledger.
Heston Happiness and the Pleasure Book Legend
A fragment recalls a bright Indiana woman named Indy who kept a "pleasure book" in which she noted daily happiness over the years. The reminiscence mentions a yearly habit of carrying hopeful entries and tying them to enduring joy from the past to the present in the Louis Republic era.
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Riik
John Hall
Heston
Indy
Louis Republie
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