Break the Engagement Prompts Modern Constancy Debate
A discussion on constancy in love contrasts virtuous loyalty with practical sense, noting many women justify breaking engagements when affection wanes. The piece warns against blindly idealizing steadfastness and urges breaking promises to prevent ruined lives. It cites The Home Monthly and explores fashion notes for spring wear.
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Charming
Itome Monthly
Swell hats and violet rosettes in charming fashion
A vivid description of hat styles with coarse straw masses in blue shades and violet accents. The piece notes delicate drapery of indiamousseline and lilac tipped plumes, and mentions a humorous line about Japanese women’s fashion hatred. It also cites PT Funabushi from Boston University Theological School discussing patriotism of Japanese women and attitudes toward Russia.
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Cooy
Funabushi
Boston University Theological School
Work-a-Day Clothes and Dainty Blouse Trends
A fashion brief notes that for business women nothing is smarter than white China silk blouses. The piece observes these garments wash well and suit practical office wear.
Beauty and Amiability in Women and Diet Advice
A period piece encourages self control and amiability as true power. It argues a calm temperament outvalues beauty in marriage and social life. It offers a diet plan for slender figures and tips for early rising and cold baths to achieve a willowy form.
Fashion notes on lace para sol hats and cold cham fashion
Two rows of tiny buttons frame a scalloped frilled example, while plain lace parasol remains a fine occasion style. Japanese sick blouses are thin and cool, long oak leaf trims adorn a large hat, and Pavement gray from London tops gowns as Mode hints at a cold cham fashion trend.
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London
Cleveland critiques women clubs and home duties
Former President Grover Cleveland writes in May Ladies Home Journal that he questions the rapid rise of women s clubs. He says a good wife loves her husband and country and should not neglect home, though women may join charities and religious groups in moderation.
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Mr. Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
May Ladies’ Home Journal
Woman's Mission
Woman's Clubs
Cleveland
Chicago Tribune
Girls Should Not Neglect Polite Society at Home
The text admonishes girls to maintain decorum at home, avoid unapproved trips, impress men with cash and dress, refrain from rough play, respect youth’s limits, keep a friend’s home tidy, avoid public attention seeking, assist in not making brothers selfish, and refrain from frowning at their mother when spoken to.
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Brother
Waist of Irish linen blouse with Gibson effect
A description of a waist length Irish linen garment featuring a Gibson effect over the shoulder, gathered front below a shaped band, forming an oval neck opening. Narrow linen straps cross a broderie anglaise chemisette, with deep cuffs finished by small pearl buttons.
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Gibson
Broderie Anglaise
Mounted Army Nurses in India Receive Horse Upkeep Aid
The Indian government provides mounted army nurses with 80 rupees monthly for their horses upkeep and free conveyance for horses to and from active service. The corps consists of women from good social standing and requires three years of training in a general hospital before qualification.
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Mounted Army
India
Indian Nursing Service
Corps of Nurses
Anyhow She Says So A Woman Finds Comfort In Love
A married woman finds consolation in knowing her husband is the best in the world. The item suggests advertising in the paper as a means of sharing or promoting happiness.
Captain Isaac Hull and the Constitution Defeat of Guerriere
A historical portrait of Captain Isaac Hull and the 1812 duel between the Constitution and the Guerriere off the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Hull delays until pistol range before delivering a full broadside, turning the battle and boosting American naval confidence.
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Isaac Hull
Hull
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Constitution
Color of eye a factor in choosing a mate study finds unconscious matching
Professor Karl Pearson argues mate selection follows unconscious preferences for matched eye color height and limb proportions. Data from 1000 men show blue eyes pair more often with blue eyed partners and tall men with tall wives. Findings rely on tables and diagrams from London University.
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Darwin
Karl Pearson
University College, London
Royal Institution
London Mail
From Japan’s Imitations to a British Navy Chief
The article notes Japan copied German military, English navy, and American legal and monetary systems including United States paper money printed in 1870. It also mentions British political figure Harl Cawdor and links Roosevelt’s Navy Secretary choice, Paul Morton, to British endorsement.
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France
New York
Admiralty
Harl Cawdor
Mr. Roosevelt
Paul Morton
Remarkable Woman Runs German Boarding House Untied to Hochb
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer remark the woman is praised for keeping a German boarding house and never marrying Hochb. The note adds minor local color about townsfolk and social habits, including a quip on men who refuse to hear new ideas after forty years in town and on nightlife followed by morning consequences.
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Hochb
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dolly's Troubles in Little Stories and Incidents
A child narrates a playful verse about Dolly the doll and her pretend misfortunes. The verses mix domestic doll play with mild illness and vaccination echoes and end with children reacting to an intruding reader.
Four Thousand Dollars for a Boy and Other Tales
A Victorian schoolboy piece considers the cost of raising a son, estimating four thousand dollars by adulthood including food, clothing, schooling, and medical care. It reflects on parental investment, duties, and the call for boys to become good citizens. The page also lists flower emblems, conundrains, quick jokes, and a humor vignette about a child mispronouncing words.
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London
Busy Mexican matador kills seven bulls in Sunday corrida
Tarrao, aided by wounded assistants Antonio Montes and Falco, dispatched five of seven bulls with a single stroke each after Montes and Falco were kept from finishing their first bulls by sword hand injuries. The event drew praise for Tarrao's skill as the standout performance.
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Tarrao
Antonio Montes
Falco
Montes
Parrao
Mms
Sol
Sombra
Corral
Disputed point settles as witness mocks chin whiskers
A Boston witness clashes with lawyers over recognition of the defendant. The exchange spirals into a legal wrangle as he notes whiskers grow on cheeks, not chins, sparking further courtroom contention.
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Boston
Miss Wiggins Questioned On Real Bargains
The Washington Star notes a quip about Miss Wiggins being well informed on topics like Huxley and Darwin but lacking in knowledge of real bargains. The exchange features Miss Cayenne remarking on her sister’s priorities and shopping savvy.
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Miss Cayenne
Huxley
Darwin
Washington Star
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