07 Dec 1892
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1892
Page
1
A collection of pithy sayings and reflections on virtue infidelity time and character. Observations cover honesty, ambition, vanity, charity, and social behavior with moralist tones and humorous asides.
The author argues love of country stems from home, not glory or freedom. It cites Zulu courage, Spartan valor, Dutch dikes, and Roman conquest to frame the Confederate dead as fighting for home. Twin sentiments of love of State and home sustained four years of war and the faded Confederate standard.
A reflective discourse on human endurance, contrasting disease and marriage hardship. It portrays illness as a shadow that reveals faith and hope beyond, while unhappy marriage is described as a daily bondage that extinguishes love, joy, and the promise of a shared, fresh home.
In this guidance from a domestic counsel, enduring marriage rests on daily kindness and mutual affection. The piece argues that genuine love requires reciprocation, eager compliments, and shared duties to keep warmth and happiness alive in the home.
A meditation on the soul’s priceless, deathless nature contrasted with mortal bodies. The piece laments worldly preoccupation with physical form and wealth, urging recognition of the soul’s destiny in heavenly or hellish realms. It contrasts Jesus sacrifice with how people barter away their souls for trivial gains.
A meditation on change and mutability as life moves through joys, friendships, and aging. The piece reflects on fleeting pleasures, shifting future dreams, broken hearts, and the lasting impact of time on the face and home, noting that only the past remains secure.
A reflective piece traces how love cools after marriage as belief falters and passion wanes. It compares the indifferent will and the numb appetite for affection and hints at domestic strain and shared irritations.
A fervent plea urges not to shut out the warmth of devoted love. The speaker emphasizes continual tides of endearment from a strong heart, threatening to cause heartbreak if ignored.
The admonition rejects marrying for wealth or status and warns against pressuring daughters for advantageous matches. It cautions that wealth cannot buy joy and that marrying poorly leads to lasting misery and a bleak old age without true companionship or affection.
A reflective passage laments the spread of rank weeds of bitter estrangement choking confidence and happiness once vibrant, comparing the situation to flowers and a refreshing breeze from blessed hill tops. The tone mournful, urging gentle reconciliation amid sorrow.
A rousing plea to readers across the Commonwealth to donate to the poor during a bitter Korean winter. The author invokes shared faith and community, urging generosity as a moral duty to comfort the needy and ease their privations amid cold storms.
The speaker reflects on pure motives often misread in life. He notes that efforts for others' happiness can become sources of torment when admiration turns to dislike. A rejection from a cherished figure halts joy and chills the spirit, turning hope into pain.
A young lady asks what is the most common type of men at a scientific turn. The photographer Marion Winstead answers with a joke: tin types, four for twenty five.
George reacts to a girl out West rumored to have three arms. He would like her for hugs and pancake turning, while Eddie quips that such bliss would be useless since no one would want to eat under those conditions.
A husband criticizes his wife's rouge, she retorts that it matches his own painted nose, claiming harmony is what makes their marriage ideal. The witty exchange turns on vanity and mutual flattery.
A hotel proprietor asks a waiter if the gentlemen in parlor A have finished their dinner conversation. The response notes they are eating but still cussing about the matter.
A dialogue between Augustus and Julia ends with her declaring she is no gas meeter, dismissing his request to meet by gaslight. The exchange hints at misunderstandings and romantic tension in a vignette.
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