07 Aug 1841
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1841
Page
1
A fragment from Blackwood's Magazine contemplates life without hope through personified Hope and its impact on Love, Life, Youth, and Beauty. The poem contrasts a lifeless voyage at sea with despair, describing aging, beauty waning, and a world emptied of color when hope departs.
In Bourdonnois a veiled sorceress is accused by a mob of sorcery after rumors claim she is a Saracen bride. She denounces the charges, pleads for a week to prove her truth, and faces possible burning as the crowd demands blood. A noble count arrives, rescues her from the stake, and her innocence is vindicated through his intervention.
Washington Temperance Society missionaries visit Boljanepe and aid a new reform group of former drinkers. The effort banishes ills of intemperance, improves families, and aims to redeem every drunkard under King Alcohol. The New York Journal of Commerce notes the shift from hopeless reform to organized temperance movement.
The piece extols simple plain food for infants and children, cautioning mothers against overindulgence in tea coffee rich foods as cruelty. It emphasizes kindness via milk and water and reflects on time scales from minutes to ages in human life.
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