Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Simpsonian.JUST as Simpson was going to his place of business on Maumee Street, the other morning, his wife received a telegram stating that her mother was dead, when this dialogue took place...
...Simpson, you cannot go to work this morning, your mother-in-law is dead...
...almost say superstition, that a gentleman should never soil his hands with work. There was perhaps a time in America, when even those dignified personages in white wigs, knee-breeches, and gilt frames, of whom we are all so proud, - even if they be only distant cousins on the mother's side, - played a part almost manual in laying the foundation of the great country in which we live; but those days are past. The state has successively passed through the ordeals of creation and salvation, in the true old orthodox way; fortunes have accumulated; and there are hundreds...
...Letter-Writing II. the following text-books should be used: Bell's "General Methods of Letter-Writing," containing letters from the collegian to his mother, from the collegian to his brothers and sisters, from the collegian to his grandfather and grandmother; and "Thompson's Complete Letter-Writer," containing letters from the collegian to the world in general...
...dear foster-mother, good...