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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1925
Page
3
A McClure Newspaper Syndicate essay urges readers to follow the golden rule and practice self-control. It contrasts hopeful, cheerful people with the self-centered, fault-finding, and asks readers to acknowledge debts of delinquencies to the Book of Life, promising relief and happiness to those who keep faith.
Irvin S. Cobb recounts a tale where a weary New York businessman disciplines his eight year old son and the boy rebukes his mother for marrying the stiff father. The child claims the mother shares blame for his father's behavior. The narrator asserts the story's truth from his own knowledge.
The article traces the Herrick surname from Herreric origins to Henry Herrick of Leicester who settled in Salem in 1620. It notes English lines including Sir William Herrick, Richard Herrick, and poet Sir Robert Herrick, with references to Golden Smiths and ties to Shakespeare era expressions such as Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
Poem laments a Latin teacher who devoted fifty years to shaping boys rather than teaching Latin alone. The speaker praises a educator whose influence creates future leaders, noting the teacher’s quiet joy and steadfast mission to awaken souls and forge tomorrow's men.
The text extols kind words as small costs that fortify the weary and aid in struggle. It questions whether words are trifles and proclaims that no kind word is wasted or spoken in vain.
A food feature offers vibrant fruit salads and desserts with garnishes and syrups, including pineapple banana orange grape mixtures, baked pears with almonds, stewed apples with meringue, jelly topped desserts, and canned peaches on sponge cake. It also suggests orange juice as a daily tonic for the elderly and babies, plus a supper option of oysters wrapped in bacon with a pepper sauce on toast.
In a garden a dew drop seeks shelter in a vain red rose to stay all day. The rose hides the dew drop to flaunt her beauty for the nightingale. At moonrise the dew drop falls to the ground and begs for aid. The nightingale relocates the dew drop to a gentler rose, exposing the rose’s vanity. The tale ends with the vain rose losing her jewel and her pride.
The piece discusses wren omens and death rites in Europe, noting beliefs in luck and disaster tied to killing a wren, Frazer's view on ancient pagan origins, and the Isle of Man Stephen’s Day practice. It ends with a salty regional aside about yard aesthetics.
Thelma is a Norse name linked to Valkyries and Norse myth. Marie Corelli popularized it in London society, boosting use in England America and among Scandinavian migrants. Amber is its talismanic stone and Monday and a lucky number are noted.
The Mythic figure Morpheus pictured as an old winged man holding a sleep vial. Son of Somnus the sleep god, he forms dream images from various shapes invoked before the dreamer. The name Morpheus derives from a form and reflects dream shapes.
A reflective poem extols a garden rose as a symbol of worth beauty and fragrance. The speaker urges lingering to enjoy the rare flower and its gentle wit bringing pause and joy to passersby.
The article explains herpes zoster or shingles as an acute nerve related infection. It describes symptoms including fever general discomfort and blistering along affected nerves with potential scarring. Treatment emphasizes bed rest simple diet careful dressing of eruptions and antiseptic protection with medical guidance advised to minimize scarring.
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