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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1891
Page
6
Poetic reflection contrasts a gleaming white foam-wreath at flood with a shapeless dark mass at ebb, illustrating how beauty appears with hope and decays when passion wanes. Oscar Fay Adams quotes Youth's Companion to frame the moral.
Dorothy Dempsey eludes a London like mistaken encounter when Bertie Carey lures her on a Fifth Avenue promenade. A Yale educated doctor, his nephew Neil Sawtelle, and a misidentified patient named Albert Van Twiller drive a web of mistaken identity and social scandal until Dr Robinson’s correction clears the tale, ending with an engagement to Sawtelle.
A compilation of humorous snippets from various sources including the Somerville Journal New York Sun Irrigation Age and Chicago Tribune. It features quips about spelling Shakespearean wit travelers in Italy childlike misunderstandings and light social vignettes.
The anecdote recalls Major Barttelot of Rugby famed for a humorous reply to the master during a lesson on adages. When asked for the meaning of adage, he quipped that it was a place to put cats, provoking laughter and a puzzled master.
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