The Little People And Tiny Tales From Turbulent Days
A collage of short humorous sketches and child centered anecdotes from various papers. Bobby and his dreary Sunday. a boy names Dave misquotes bread. Mollie steals apples and learns preserves. a mischievous child claims Satan likes the naughty. Jessie’s party tale ends with a choke joke. a Rocklander recalls a market pepper bluff with a bee in it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Johnson
Fisher Farm
Dave
Oil City
Little Mollie
Adam
Evs
Texas
A Profound Reflection and Two Light Readings
A Detroit Free Press excerpt ponders mortality with a child’s question about burying the last man. Burlington Free Press notes a teacher’s demand for a point in student work. The New York Evening Sun offers whimsical barber anecdotes about misadventures with hair cutting and whisky.
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Johnny Elisa
Detroit Free Press
St. Louis City Quip About Stopping Point
A Chicago man asks a fellow passenger if he can advise when to stop in St. Louis. The other passenger proudly replies that he lives there, prompting a humorous exchange about the traveler's wish to be warned when the train reaches the city.
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St. Louis
Chicago
German Figure Leftover Lead to Unexpected Pleasure
In a scene described, the leader claps and each man takes a girl while one man is left out. Miss D remarks to Mr. C that this is an unexpected pleasure, and Mr. C acknowledges the leader’s instruction to “take what I could get, Life.”
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Mr. C
Art of Self Defense in Hawthorne's Cosmopolitan Tone
Foulian Basethorne argues self-defense is an innate art from infancy, noting fists form early and boys instinctively fight when insulted. He contrasts modern dulled youth with historical Rome and Dante era Italy, recalling how aggression shaped Anglo-Saxon character and laments peacefulness as a sign of decline.
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Foulian Basethorne
Divine Watts
Beys
Dante
Raphael
Numa Pompilius
Italy
Julian Hawthorne
Italian Love Charms and Folk Love Rites
The article describes various charms used to win a lover in Italy. A hair knot tied to a suitor’s suggests enduring love. Betrothed pilgrims tie broom twigs with rag along Monte Vergine paths until the twigs part. Lovers mix blood and wine, prick a name on a fig leaf, and let the wind carry it away.
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Carpri
Monte Vergine
Naples
English Plus
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Santa Claus
Holiday Goods
A. A. Davis & CO
Warren, PA
Bobby
Satan
San Francisco Chronicle
Jessie
Rocklander
Burlington
Burlington Free Press
Wenty
New York Evening Sun
Holiday Presents
P. Creenlund
Furniture Emporium
Front Street
Episcopal Church
Peter Greenland
Front St
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