Looking Back at the Dead Past
S E Kiser urges leaving regrets behind in the Chicago Record Herald piece. He exhorts readers to face the future with fresh hope, noting the past cannot be rekindled like a withered rose.
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1903
Page
6
S E Kiser urges leaving regrets behind in the Chicago Record Herald piece. He exhorts readers to face the future with fresh hope, noting the past cannot be rekindled like a withered rose.
Miss Merton and Miss Densmore coax Rossiter to attend a hop-dance at the Merton farm. He, once a famed dancer, joins in with Miss Densmore and Miss Merton while the night unfolds with music, lanterns, and a growing quiet bond between Rossiter and the cousins. The event shifts his reserved nature as the trio shares a tense yet tender evening under the orchard lights.
A Baltimore News quip notes a fooling conceit in man and the need for experience to ripen judgment. It comments on the brain as machinery needing oiling to avoid squeaks and ends with commendation for a girl who can both play piano well and cook steak effectively.
A historic urging that the state regulate marriage to prevent hereditary disease. The author argues licenses should be limited to healthy couples, with penalties for forbidden conceptions, and promotes population planning based on wealth and social good. He condemns large families among the poor and supports larger families among the rich.
A survey cites state textile schools in North Carolina and Mississippi, poverty among Fez University students who copy the Koran, and a London Presbyterian minister’s plan for a modern third order. It also covers YMCA education, Princeton ethics lecture humor about peanuts, and a professor’s plea for restraint during a 5 o'clock tea.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer gag centers on a waiter recalling a vanished woman who whispered Keep the change as she left. In another scene from the Cleveland Leader, Jenkins contemplates breaking an alliance with Miss Croesus despite her family opposition.
A collage of light anecdotes and wry quips from several papers. Jests on riches and beauty, poets and editors, ministers salaries, and a suspenders sale provoke quick, dry laughs. The pieces showcase witty exchanges and social observations from the era.
A man on the rear platform jokes that French scientists found a secret to long life while another passenger hushes him, claiming the man on the back seat is his wealthy father in law.
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