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...Women's Christian Temperance Union last week held its Syth annual convention, and the ladies addressed themselves in the name of God to "returning the nation to sobriety." That task is harder now than it was even in "those terrible days of wild drink" in the 1870s, when the WCTU gained momentum in Chicago under the embattled leadership of Frances E. Willard. Then the crusade against strong drink was part of the war between men and women; now the women seem to bend their pink elbows as much...
Gamblers & Colonizers. In half a dozen books (Old Jules, Slogum House} about settlers, cowmen and sheepherders of the 1870s, Nebraska's Mari Sandoz, 61, has tilled her own neat field well enough to become one of the better sod sisters. Her latest novel, despite its gamblin' title, is no card party. Her hero, John Jackson Cozad. was indeed a wily gentleman jackleg, but a green baize tabletop never confined his instinct for conquest. In 1872, when every faro den east of the Mississippi had barred its doors to his talent for bank breaking, Cozad made a down...
...after the Civil War. His mother, a strong but withdrawn woman, could not make up the loss. When Millhouser leaves for college he is starved for love, and he finds a substitute in an absorbing friendship with a brilliant young man a few years his senior. Innocence in the 1870s is hardly more surprising than blue eyes, and it is not until they have traveled through Europe together for several months that Millhouser discovers his friend to be a homosexual. He returns in dismay to Pennsylvania and takes up a quiet life in his mother's house...
Advantages of the system, with reduction of physical restraints, were widely recognized and discussed in the 1870s by the American Psychiatric Association. But in North America, as in much of Europe, this was the twilight of a new Dark Age for the mentally ill. More and more of the mentally ill were herded into gigantic barracks, usually out in the country, to be out of sight and out of mind...
...skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned to haul a friendly Indian to a peace parley. Time: the early 1870s. The villains are Apaches, but Corporal Davis outfoxes them in the end by sacrificing his own life in a ruse to deliver the good Indian to the summit. Upshot: the bad Indians lose...