Health and Beauty Clash in Female Virtue Discourse
In Sargeant's New Monthly Mrs Edith Austin argues that health and beauty are twin sisters and condemns magazine fallacies on cold baths. She cites Dr Combe and Dr Wilson to praise cold-water ablutions, links health to beauty, and warns that beauty without virtue is fleeting.
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Sargeant
New Monthly
Edith Austin
Combe
Campbell
Beauty
Pope
D&c
Wilson
Dow, JR
Hoboken
Perdition
Paradise
Hearere
No clear headline in readable text
Fragmentary text suggests a reflective passage on women's health beauty and virtue. The readable portion emphasizes tranquility, providence, and a moral tone about physical and spiritual adornment without specific events or names.
The Body Responds To News With Strong Emotion
Plato linked bodily disease to the soul and Wield notes that strong emotion alters heart rate appetite digestion and respiration. News of defeat and sudden triumph are cited as causing dramatic physiological and even mortal reactions in leaders and speakers.
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Wield
Philip V
Muley Moloch
Batle
Congress
U. S
Cornwallis
Precocious Geniuses and Filial Affection
A cartoonish exchange shows a clever child boasting about mastery at home. The dialogue frames pride in mental advancement and growing independence from parental routines.
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Jim
John Quincy Adamses Domestic Habits Described
A historical profile portrays John Quincy Adams as a disciplined early riser, active in town affairs, and devoted to family and public service. The account notes his daily writing, modest lifestyle, church attendance, and occasional seaside walks, describing him as temperate, healthy, and morally upright at over seventy.
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John Quincy Adams
Adams
Quincy
Acricultural Antepote Story Of Hogs And Siege Tricks
A tale from James in the Black Prince history describes the Duke of Lancaster besieging Rennes in Brittany. He feigned retreat and released hogs to force a garrison sortie, but the pigs aided the defenders by driving a sow kept as a distraction back into the town. The ambush failed to threaten surrender. Louisville Jour.
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James
Rennes
Brittany
Duke of Lancaster
Louisville
Wash for young trees using ashes potash July spray
Instructions from Vaine Cultivater describe a wash of ashes and one pound potash per gallon water to coat tree bodies in July. The mixture, a vegetable alternative to lime wash, is said to kill moss lice and eggs without harming apple trees and is applied with a brush.
Braggarts Exposed in Witty Historical Quip
A sharp aphorism catalogs the perils of boastful men and how society judges courage wealth temper and vanity. It cautions that true merit is measured by others opinion not self praise.
Denuded fool that I excused her
A spruce young buck boasted of success with the fair and of sparking a lady. His friend asked why he did not pursue her, and he replied she begged to be excused, calling herself a denuded fool.
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