A Fool for Love Continues in a Denver Sleeper
On a train through the Golden Belt Virginia Carteret introduces Mr. Adams to John Winton and the group. Winton and Virginia spar over perception and pride as Adams plans a scheme to bring them together while contemplating a growing, unspoken attraction that may alter future actions.
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Bessie
Boston
Virginia
Somerville
Golden Belt
Adams
Uncle Somerville
Mr. Somerville Darrah
Miss Virginia
Carteret
Mr. Adams
Rome
America
Winton
Kansas City
Jack
John Winton
New York
Jack W
Denver
Denver Sleeper
Morton P. Adams
Chance
Somerville Darrah
van Dyck
Wilton
Christmas Presents A Simple Baby Ribbon Case
A gifted sewing aid for grandmothers eases needle threading. Craft a nine inch by one and three quarters inch wood base with a peg for a thread spool, finish in dark stain, add a cushioned pasteboard box with bran fill and a cotton cover, and arrange needles in a row eyes crosswise for easy access.
Grandma’s Needle Device Aids Quick Sewing Aid
A homemade contraption helps thread needles easily. Spools of white and black thread sit on pegs with needles fixed in a cushion. The user pulls a long thread from the far needle, breaks it, and the used needle is tucked back, ready for the next threading. This design benefits blind sewers and speeds up stitching.
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Grandma
Christmas Gift for Girls Keeps Ribbon Case
A simple handmade ribbon case to organize baby ribbon as a thoughtful Christmas gift. The guide describes folding an 11 by 7.5 inch fabric, hemming, creating pockets, and adding a bodkin pocket plus ribbons and scissors for a neat, compact organizer.
Pretty Little Match Box Pattern Craft
A compact cardboard match box craft guide describes cutting to pattern, assembling plain or decorated fronts, and pasting pieces with emery paper on the bottom to strike matches. A wall hanging hole finishes the design.
Made of Monkey Nuts Ornamental Chinese Figures Sold
The article describes figures made entirely of monkey nuts threaded on wire, with a single walnut for a head. Mongolian features and richly dressed mandarins in oriental fabrics are crafted for sale, enhanced by embroidery and beads for appeal.
Italian King Grants Cab Fare Favor in Holiday Jest
A Christmas Day tale from the period recounts a cab ride where the Italian king, in a light mood, urged payment to a cabman who then learned his fare was the monarch. The king later repaid the driver with a new cab, a horse, and money to start a business.
Pretty Photograph Frame for Christmas Gifts
Instructions describe making a decorative photograph frame by covering a cardboard front with cretonne and attaching a cretonne covered back, leaving a picture slit. Add ribbon hangers to the back, optionally cover the back with colored paper to reduce glare, and cut frames in oval, round, or rectangular shapes with a 2.5 to 3 inch margin.
Vagrant Verse Fool's Wisdom and Merlin's Caution
A dialogue between the Fool and Merlin explores life’s meaning. Merlin cautions that suffering and toil shape wisdom, while the Fool questions whether joy exists. Motley remains a fool, accepting uncertainty as the world’s nature, per William F. McCormick in the New York Herald.
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Motley
William F. McCormick
N. Y. Herald
Lord of Life and Death Touches a Land
A poem fragment describes a woman bearing a load on a hilltop meeting a stranger who reveals himself as Death and speaks of a life and a land he controls. The exchange blends awakening maidenhood with fateful revelation as the speaker contemplates identity. The piece reflects themes of fate and mortality.
A Ballad of Fast Meridian by George Meredith
A twilight walk brings Death and Life in a ballad tone. Death offers bitter nosegays while Life reflects on carved meaning. Memory and sightless hope weave through the night as the poem contemplates mortality and existence.
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Death
Celi
George Meredith
A Rose's Kiss in Morning Verse by Sherirain
A fragmentary poem from the Sun newspaper depicts a vine and morning breeze as a speaker speaks to a poet bird. The speaker seeks love and a single kiss to set the heart free, with imagery of a dancing rose and crimson bloom.
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Bird
Frank Dempster Sherirain
Sun
Fragmentary verse fragment touches on fate and loss
A fragmented quotation from George Meredith reflects on doomed love, betrayal, and moral conflict. The speaker references wind and sea as symbols of fate, noting a grave avoided yet a severed promise, with gravitas about tragic life and inner deception.
Mosquito Music Under the War’s Quiet Veil
A lyric in the Times-Democrat laments the constant hum of a mosquito beneath the calm of daily life, framing a small, persistent annoyance as a metaphor for discord within comfort during hard times.
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N. O. Times-Democrat
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J. P. Lippincott Co
Billy
Virginia Carteret
Mr. Winton
Miss Carteret
Prithee
Merlin
Charles B. Going
the Independent
Love
Laye
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