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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1889
Page
7
A fragmented voice questions options for women amid hardship, suggesting kitchen tasks like baking, sewing, and small trades as ways to cope. The speaker contrasts limited pay and social constraints with improvised income ideas and care duties, hinting at broader gendered economic pressures.
A spring scene follows Neidhart and Mitheld as they mend a grim tale of poverty. Neidhart greedily pursues a gold ring while Mitheld, gentle and loyal, endures his cruelty. The rising tension foreshadows their fates as the forest witnesses their strife.
A young girl Mitleid hides from robbers under a linden tree and miraculously regains sight by dew. She guides a blind king to the linden, receives a royal boon, and distributes wealth to the needy, urging charity and mercy as lessons in envy and compassion.
A long advertisement extols Pearline as a cure for the backbreaking rub of old wash methods and poisonous steam. The piece contrasts clumsy rubbing with the product’s ease, urging five cent trials at grocers and warning against imitations. It then shifts to a travelogue of guides, Kanawha to salmon rivers, praising Indians for canoe handling and safe passage over rapids, while noting the patience and skill required.
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