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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1903
Page
2
In a cheerful note from the St Joseph Gazette, readers are urged to face troubles with resilience. The piece reminds that every comrade has burdens, advises keeping humor, and urges study of souls enduring hardship rather than dwelling on one own misfortune. It stresses solidarity and steady mood despite frowns.
The president of the Cake Trust, Jaynes Keyworth, leaves his Fifth Avenue office and uses a suspended animation couch to travel to Chicago then London. He continues via baroness Ochsenreiter in Thuringia to Johannesburg and Paris for a grand supper, meeting baroness and financiers at the Opera. He muses about proposing to the Baroness as their extravagant night ends with social whirl in Paris.
Jaynes complains about lack of a direct tube service to Arethusa and laments the difficulty of reaching people without modern conveniences. He grumbles about riding miles in a slow motor car and questions how the Baroness and Arethusa lack a tube.
After a Paris private cafe supper, Arethusa is wooed by Jaynes and Keyworth, with the latter declaring a wish to marry and share Cake Trust riches. The Baroness von Ochsenrelter remains poised, dismissing this bold bid as the rest of the party watches the spectacle.
A Boston woman, a New York widow, and two young daughters visit Bougereau's atelier in Paris with a French guide. They witness a model and smokers, are startled, retreat, then return to find the room empty and the artist serene.
A nineteenth century portrayal highlights Sadi as a widely admired Persian author. The account notes his travel and observational anecdotes. It cites Robinson’s Persian Poetry for English Readers with two fables: a pupil’s complaint about time and a farrier’s remedy that ends in a magistrate’s remark.
A Kentucky editor recalls a Hub visitor who mistakes chicken clusters for a roost. The young woman asks if the birds will lie there noting they are roost ere while the merchant jokes about grammar. The anecdote ends with pressure to improve schooling and language around her.
The writer laments the modern chase for money and status, urging a slower life with leisure. He notes households grow large and costly, with endless maintenance and taxes, and warns against perpetual striving. He praises Whitman for loafing and inviting the soul and calls to work to live, not live to work.
An international banker notes Wall Street facilities enable large banks to raise 5 to 6 million dollars quickly, with 25 million possible in 24 hours. He cites interconnected institutions providing ample resources for safe deals, contrasting with past slower large loans of 1 to 2 million.
English scientists report links between hair color and school aptitude. Auburn haired boys lead recitations, blond girls excel in learning and arithmetic, but struggle with composition. Dark haired children show stronger imagination and better style, while dark boys respond more to praise or blame. Flemish origin is suggested as a factor for phlegmatic tendencies.
A Mount Vernon preacher told his congregation a tale to argue against special discounts for clergy. The tale features a minister who enjoys leisure with companions and then tries to solicit a reduction at the bar, only to be told to pay like everyone else. The anecdote appeared in the New York Sun.
Mrs Isabella Bishop recalls a Chicago car incident where a thief picked her pocket but she spoke only when the conductor arrived. With calm wit she told the thief that the fare would be paid by the gentleman, claiming he had her purse.
An Eastern newspaper notes the rise of loomings in human display advertising. Lustra tors plan and perform as demonstrators in storefront windows, turning acts into sales. Miss Virginia Pope stands out as top demonstrator, while others earn five to fifteen dollars weekly, traveling to promote products such as bird and pet foods with live demonstrations.
A tale contrasts a dreamer who writes verses to woo a woman with a man of action who aims to corner the stock market. The verses print via a friend with a 10 cent magazine, while the other man becomes a millionaire. The woman marries a rich man and is happy. the dreamer remains proud, the action man uncaring, and the wife’s husband bears the cost.
Miss Ethel Folsom daughter of Geo Winthrop Folsom of New York plans a convalescent hospital in Lee near Lenox. She has leased a large hilltop house and adjacent land three miles from Lenox for a May to November program converting the residence into a home for discharged New York hospital patients.
Col Gates comments on a reported five million dollar race win in San Francisco noting the public’s lack of interest in a gentlemanly diversion. He adds that even vastly larger sums would not merit chronicle, calling the episode trivial and unworthy of notice.
A young aspiring writer visited a leading editor offering monthly stories. When asked what he wrote, he replied with a flippant reference to popular tales like Nice/The Lady of the Tiger, illustrating his pretension and the editor’s reaction.
A sub treasury employee asks why some women value dogs over men and remarks on mutilated bills reportedly chewed by pets. The New York Press notes the situation as a curious quote reflecting attitudes toward money and dogs.
Dennis Kearney once the bay area orator is featured in a California centric novel by Mrs. Fremont Older. The work centers on panithinese agitation and Kearney approves the portrayal. His daughter, an onstage performer, wishes to play the heroine in a dramatization of the book.
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