02 Jul 1891
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1891
Page
1
Country towns need practical education just as cities do with manual training cooking sewing and hygiene. Neighborhood groups start carpentry clay modeling and band practice. girls study cooking and dressmaking while boys learn carpentry. Schools add gymnasiums Swedish movements and outdoor study to harness interest and brighten homes.
Montana to California, via Great Northern lines, offering round trips and agency ticketing. The ad touts Park Region resorts in Minnesota and Lake Superior areas as easy access points, highlighting Minnesota and North Dakota coverage, Lake Minnetonka, and Hotel Lafayette.
Kate Upson Clark analyzes a rich household claiming simple living while exposing harmful habits. The piece contrasts fried foods late hours and corsets with calls for regular meals, fresh air, and plain dress to define true simplicity and health.
Jenny Lind and Otto Goldschmidt spent their honeymoon incognito at a quiet Northampton inn. They entered a daguerreotype gallery during a walk and posed for a rare portrait in a joyous moment. The plate revealed their identities only after they left.
Century Dr. C. B. recalls a Sunday in Coloma California 1849 with six Indians sharing one suit of clothes. The group paraded in mismatched garments with hats boots pantaloons a white shirt and a blue coat among them, each displaying odd accoutrements while the rest of the outfit was taken by another.
The article describes Paris styles for children with simple forms for home and outdoor wear. Growing girls favor plain gowns of soft India silk, with plain or figured patterns and sash ribbons. An illustration shows a brick dust red original gown with ribbon trim and a grass green striped silk version.
The piece details hats of rice straw with wreaths of binets and wheat ears for a tall girl and Milan braid with pink roses for a younger girl. Mothers wear India silk in vieux rose with Spanish lace and velvet. A Milan braid hat tops a rose trimmed ensemble with a rose parasol. It notes women in Britain taking up gardening, piano tuning, and sanitary engineering, with a May opening of a gardening school.
A historical piece contrasts Sweden's women movement with global trends, noting universities and professions opened to women without resistance, then women petitioned for full civil and commercial roles. It cites worldwide growth, US and Canada medical colleges admitting women, and sketches daily scenes of affluent women in midtown and working women commuting home in New York.
The passage notes several age-difference marriages: Shakespeare was ten years younger than Ann Hathaway. Bishop Pinkney’s wife is sixteen years younger than him. John Stuart Mill wed Henrietta Taylor, older and cultivated. Miss Thackeray married a man nine years younger. Disraeli later Lord Beaconsfield married widow Mrs Lewin, nineteen years his senior.
George William Curtis criticizes lavish funeral customs in Christian communities. He argues the faithful should focus on the soul and demise the showy rites, noting burial reform groups in the U S and England aim to relieve the poor from costly displays.
The Berkeley school plans desks of hardwood with leather chairs. Top pupils will have their names carved on desk lids, a Rugby custom echoed by Dr. White who notes strong student stock. The idea echoes Rugby where notable desks once bore Robert Peel and William E. Gladstone signatures.
A Maltese cat valued highly, equal to a horse and buggy, led Mrs. Kimball to a barn where a colt was bound to a horse by a rope. The securely tied horse could have been badly injured if left longer, but the cat’s actions prompted intervention.
A patchwork of gossip and industry notes: Toma Hanlon to wed Gerard Warriner. Marie Stone and W H Macdonald tied to The Bostonians. Stone retires from the stage. Metropolitan Opera shows a $54,419 deficit borne by stockholders. Electricity replaces gas in theater lighting. Mrs Potter captivates inmates of Hyderabad’s zenana during a tour.
The Washington Star outlines the largest national cemeteries detailing their death tolls and known/unknown interments. Andersonville 18 702 Arlington 16 350 Chalmette 12 620 Chat Tenn 13 023 Fredericksburg 15 273 Jefferson Barracks 11 647 Antietam 12 139 Marietta 13 982 Nashville 16 537 Salisbury 12 132 Vicksburg 16 620. Of 327 179 interred, 178 225 known and 148 954 unidentified. About 9 300 are Confederates.
A short dialogue depicts a playful exchange where one character laments missing a letter while the other jokes about sending a kiss. The scene hints at a caring, businesslike tone about registered letters and valuables.
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