Humor ana Josophy by Duncan M Smith
A humorous column of quips and witticisms on professions, manners, and daily life. It blends playful proverbs with punchy one liners about amateurs, doctors, cooks, and social mishaps, ending with a lighthearted anecdote about horse thieves and a game of seven up.
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Duncan M. Smith
Man Up a Tree: A Portrait of Disorder and Strife
A fragmented poem critiques modern life as a chaotic scramble for gain. It contrasts aimless crowds with a few purposeful individuals, referencing political and social disorder and a census taker noting Haiti as a state of anarchy.
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Haiti
Touched His Pride and the Eagle’s Restless Rage
A fragmentary verse passage depicts a feathered emblem enraged by the deeds done in the name of freedom. Dialogue suggests a question of a wife’s knowledge of her husband’s actions and the impact on her sleep.
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Bird of Freedom
Freedom
Fragmented Verses From a Periodical Page Potpourri
A collage of humorous verses and quips on love, fashion, and daily life. Snippets ponder hair lengths, mysterious buttons, and a beguiling mix of reflections on love and gold. The piece plays with wit, social mores, and small absurd observations.
Tramp Roads Roam and Millionaires Face Appetite and Love
A mix of verses and quips on roamers shocks from electricity and class, a satire on wealth and appetite. Bits about a divorce threat, a millionaire uncle, and not losing a wife, plus poems on winter scenes, hay fever, jokes, and winter poems by Jack Frost portraits.
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Roberts
Quotations and quips on marriage and daily life
A collage of wry maxims and verse on love work and married life. Observations mock patience optimism and domestic duty while playful poems riff on silence cigars and social expectations. The piece blends proverbs humor and a light flirtation with marriage.
Love’s Triolet Glances and Love’s Wise Insight
A brief love lyric recalls a woman’s starlit gaze that pierces gloom. Love arrives to illuminate a man’s understanding of how one should act, transforming his outlook with a single perilous glance.
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Love
A Schoolroom Question Sparks Worldly Wisecrack
A teacher asks how many ounces in a pound and a boy replies with a line about avoirdupois or grocers weight reflecting his limited view of the wider world. The exchange captures curiosity and humor in a classroom moment.
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Troy
Rural mail carriers deserve higher pay in all weather
The piece notes rural mail carriers endure harsh conditions and poor pay. It contrasts their hardship with the perceived perks of the job and questions the lack of pay unless they have money. It includes reader remarks on weather, duties, and reading mail, highlighting economic struggle and skepticism about benefits.
Varied verse and quips on unions love and fashion
A collage of satirical quips and poems covers unions love and social pretensions with lines on a young man’s worth, a guardian’s caution, evolution view, marriage delays, and proverbs about adversity and taste. It blends lyrics with comic observations and moral musings.
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