Maud writes for "The Daily Echo"

  

For a period of time during Maud's stay in Halifax she was employed as a newspaper woman by the Halifax Daily Echo.  The assignment was to write a sassy column for the Echo which was titled  "Around the Table" by Cynthia.   

In Cynthia's column Maud has fabricated (?) some characters who maintain daily interactions and conversations about some pretty mundane subjects.  One of the mundane subjects that tickled my funny bone was the day that Polly "straightened out her top bureau drawer." 

I think it would be a splendid idea to have top bureau drawers fitted out out with handy sets of pigeon-holes which would keep the little trifles in place and prevent laces from getting mixed up with ribbons ad belts and ties from becoming interfaced.  Things keep fresh and smart so much longer when they are kept neatly folded among their own kind.  The Halifax Daily Echo - date unknown

Maud uses her column to give advice to amateur photographers on how to acheive an image using trick photography:  

If you want to make a "winter moonlight scene" here is how you go about it.  Take an ordinary negative of some landscape.  Don't have leafiness in it.  Evergreen trees and an old farm house or so make the best picture for this. The Halifax Daily Echo, May 12, 1902 

I wonder if the people of Nova Scotia looked forward to reading the next installment of "Around the Table"?

Synchronicity

Last week (around the time that I received the Halifax packet)  a full Harvest moon appeared in the night sky over North Carolina. Thereby,  my camera and I headed down to the river in an attempt to capture the beauty of the moment.  However, I know nothing about night photography and the flash of the camera got in the way.  The result was not good.  The flash just overtakes the image when it bounces off of the leafiness of the trees  The moon recedes in importance.  I wonder what Maud is saying about leafiness.  She isn't very clear with her point.


Harvest Moon over the Neuse River in New Bern, NC

Below are photographs of some LMM spots of interest that were pointed out to me by my trusty tour guide (and Kindred Spirit) in Halifax.  These locations are the places where Maud would have boarded during her time in Nova Scotia.   2 of the boarding homes-- sadly enough- have been torn down and replaced by uglier edifices.