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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1883
Page
3
An excerpt argues truthfulness in home design, noting that rooms should fit the inmates' means. Luxury may signal extravagance or honesty depending on owners' circumstances, while too fine a setting or austere simplicity can mislead guests about a household’s character and values.
The piece urges cautious parenting to avoid harsh punishment for infants. It argues against endless obedience the direct suppression of a child's will and warns parents to avoid temptations, strict iron rules, and public scolding. It emphasizes gentle, patient guidance and thoughtful reflection before enforcing discipline.
A reader extols a yard of waterproof fabric as a versatile aid for weather and travel. The writer recalls using a personal waterproof square to shield from rain on a horse-car ride and to cover a dress in showers, praising its utility for warmth, protection, and carrying small items.
A reader mocks a housekeepers column criticizing editor content and domestic advice. The piece laments impractical guidance for rural life and jokes about hens eggs and cooking through a satirical lens.
An essay argues that knowing beauty frees perception from fashion glamour and helps judge novelty. It asserts that understanding true value empowers women, guiding choices in decoration and bric-a-brac without regard to age or price.
The New York Sun notes Louisville has found women especially fit for drug clerks with several already employed in top stores. It quotes an observer who argues women learn quickly and will carry out orders accurately when serving as clerks.
A commentary by Hester M. Poole in The Continent argues against harsh treatment of domestic workers. It notes alienation from freedom fuels disrespect and outlines the moral need to recognize shared humanity within households and the wage earners who serve them.
The passage warns that disease can spread through common encounters in streets, homes, and kitchens. It emphasizes how filth, bad air, and careless acts connect everyone in a chain that touches even the throne of Eternal Law, threatening public health and life.
The essay argues against filling walls with pictures or decorative objects that lack genuine merit. It urges selective hanging only for items one truly loves or needs, suggesting rooms be weeded of superfluous art to improve aesthetics and honesty. It cites preferences for purposeful displays over empty spaces and fads.
Dr Hanaford argues that natural foods suit all in normal condition and that tobacco and spices distort taste. He notes mammals drink milk, children like apples, and salted butter is preferred by some while tobacco users dislike certain foods, showing appetite can be altered by unhealthy habits.
Hell's Journal of Health touts a rapid home remedy for poisoning or convulsions. A heaping teaspoonful salt and equal mustard stirred in a cup of water is swallowed to induce vomiting, followed by egg white or strong coffee to neutralize remaining poisons.
A buxom widow who has buried three husbands tours the graves with a younger man who once courted her. After a quiet reflection she whispers that James could be braver if he dared more.
Lady Wilde compares a chattering pert woman to a coquette in a culture critique. She notes the insufferable nature of a witty retort but acknowledges a coquette can remain charming due to the desire to please within feminine fascination.
A reflective verse passage contrasts English poise with a sterner spirit, describing softer looks, revived self control, and a life and beauty shaped by the Columbian air. It celebrates fearless innocence and a freer, cheerful charm in contrast to rigid decorum.
Advice for setting up a sunny quiet sick room with ample ventilation and open fire, avoiding noises, dust, and damp towels. It covers beds, mattresses, drainage, basins, cleanliness, temperature around 60 to 65 degrees, and safe storage of medicines, with emphasis on light, air, and orderly arrangement.
A satirical Boston item offers frugal, improvised decor and household hacks. It suggests repurposing old hats into window sash ornaments, shirts into curtains, old dishcloths into tidies, and turnips into a toilet cushion, with humorous notes on thrift and social customs.
Harriet E. Paine quotes Amanda on girls twenty to twenty five seeking every pursuit and discipline. She argues that intense social life and constant study lead to deterioration, but hopes women reach a refined state by age thirty with balanced talents and routines.
A newsboy fell beneath a city car while trying to jump aboard a passing car. He cried for his mother as a messenger fetched her. On arrival the dying boy whispered that he had sold four newspapers and his money was in his pocket, honoring his mother.
A Sunday school boy asks why a coat has many collars and jokes they help lift a person from a well, prompting teacher commentary about clothing design and safety.
A disheveled wanderer tells a reporter of his descent from Vincennes to Chicago, detailing wasted money at the Palmer, failed job prospects with merchants and bankers, and a plunge from comfort to hunger. He describes nights on the street, cold apartments, and sneaking into free lunch counters while seeking relief.
The article profiles a renowned confidence man known across major cities. He is described as brilliant yet poverty stricken, with a habit of boozing and rapid changes in fortune. Reportedly planning to remain in the area over winter after fitting up with fine clothes, watch, and jewelry.
An old New Yorker recalls a sensational real estate tale on Fifth Avenue. A 25 by 100 foot corner lot rose from $35,000 to $135,000 in valuation, with taxes and upkeep driving annual costs to around $45,000 to $50,000. The narrative mocks wealth in New York, noting that fortunes lose distinction amid lavish urban living.
A Kansas farm wife converts her shut up parlor into a silk worm operation. She farms mulberry leaves, sells cocoons to factories, and hopes to boost family income with a $10 start, inspired by Mennonite refugees.
Isaac W. Sprague, famed living skeleton, was exhibited at a Chicago medical college clinic to illustrate progressive muscular atrophy. Once a strong swimmer, he collapsed after retirement and now weighs forty pounds with minimal muscle, able to stand and lift a forearm.
A Norristown Herald note reports Mons Patean’s claim that bees could lift twenty times their weight, while horses pull only six sevenths of theirs. It warns of the danger of oversized bees and javelin-like stings, suggesting it is best not to enlarge bees beyond the current crop.
Mad. Nilsson and her troupe depart Cincinnati by train to sing in St Louis this week. The Enquirer reporter tours her ornate Mohogany dining and parlor car, noting a Steinway piano, a canary, and luxurious sleeping berths. She jokes about poker losses, saying she plays for a fifty cent limit and loses two dollars daily.
A southern overland express delayed by a fierce Mojave sandstorm reached Sumner after 8 10 p m Tuesday. The storm raged from dawn, veiling the desert, lifting sand, and trapping the train in heavy drifting. Passengers remained onboard for hours as relief crews cleared the track and towed the train back to Sumner, with Chinamen workers clearing the drift overnight.
The article cites Buchner and English naturalists like Jesse and Hayne on ants using feelers to converse. It notes ants tap heads and share information about food and danger, with examples of calling for help to drag prey and persuade nestmates to retreat from threats.
A reminiscence recalls Gustave Doré’s London years with Joaquin Miller and a European artist’s blunt charm. The piece moves through cross cultural scenes in London and Central America, noting German tensions and a courtship ethic where guards and bars shape marriage.
The narrator recalls a Broadway saloon above Madison Square where a constant hickory wood fire blazes on a broad hearth. He reflects on memories of family, old times, and the comfort of the fire, contrasting it with years of stuffy stoves and modern heat.
The article describes freight traffic between Kelton Utah and Boise City with long wagon caravans pulled by mules or horses and oxen. Drivers ride the near wheelers, use lines and brakes on downhill slopes, and caravans carry water casks and various goods across deserts. Some owners travel with poetry volumes, illustrating western spirit amid harsh travel conditions.
A crowd aboard the Wagner car near Hudson gawks at iceboats on the river. A stout white haired man bets twenty to see one, while a passenger points out a sail and others marvel at the velocity and wonder if they touch the ice. A traveler from Alabama jokes about Eighty Days Around the World and muses on staying a month to watch.
The Chicago Times recalls a prelate admired for wartime patriotism and alliance with Lincoln's administration. It notes his work with Seward to hinder European recognition of the Confederacy, efforts to curb violence in New York, and his balanced, earnest nature. The piece highlights his fishing, music, and preaching talents.
A Parisian drama features a balloon ascent and a heroine who falls into a water sheet and is saved. A second upcoming play aims for stark realism with a stage modeled after Paris and marble slabs showing dead bodies laid out.
Ida A. Harper argues writing outlives speaking as a noble craft. She glaubt the eloquent voice fades while pen work preserves ideas for future generations, linking writerly fame to enduring print rather than spoken oration.
A visitor named Mr. McNab viewed Dubufe’s Adam and Eve paintings and offered a puzzled reply about their novelty stating the scene seemed to show something never known twenty years ago.
A passenger on a Chicago cable car tried to stop the juggernaut by grabbing the bell strap and ringing both ends of the car. The man, identified only by peculiar phrasing, refused to dignify the moment in front of others.
A rugged frontier tale recounts two old prospectors who rescue a young girl named Nellie after a massacre. They raise her, teach her to work in the mine, and she helps reform their manners and lives as they save for Nellie. The piece preserves dialect and frontier imagery.
A city fireman recalls a frugal weekly budget of six dollars for a family, with coal coffee and stale bread as staples. He details meager meals, thrift for rent, and savings after a child’s death, highlighting widespread hardship among the laboring poor.
Beef tea using Liebig's extract becomes a popular winter beverage. A half teaspoon of extract with hot water and optional Worcestershire sauce creates a rich non alcoholic tonic. Doctors use it as a fortifier and some mix in whisky for flavor on cold nights.
The Salt Lake Tribune argues that brain weight does not determine intelligence after contrasting Gambetta and Guiteau. It notes Gambetta’s brain reportedly weighed thirty ounces while others weigh more, suggesting mind power lies in texture and form, not mass.
A Memphis Appeal column mockingly argues Southerners love Yankees, cataloging daily items from Yankee buttons to Yankee bed coverings to show how deeply Yankee influence pervades life. The piece highlights wealth spent on Yankee industry and calls the attitude comic and egregious.
Willis, a poet, spots a ragged girl outside an eating house peering through an iron railing as a man prepares a beefsteak dinner. The child lingers on the meal, her hunger starkly on display, highlighting deprivation in the urban street.
A colorful portrait of a prominent citizen as a bright and shining social light and energetic businessman, noted for his habit of pausing on the sidewalk with a glassy stare as he recalls a needed errand.
The piece defends romance against analytic novelists and cites critiques from The London Daily News and Pall Mall Gazette. It contrasts The Modern Instance with pure romance and notes English opinions on American literature and modern writing trends. It mentions Marcia as a literary foil and laments current tastes.
In New Orleans a story from Mr. F. J. Chanfrau recalls a Southern train scene where a gentle, tall man in a cast is revealed as Thackeray. English promoter Jack Hunold recognises him, bows in reverence, and Thackeray shares a gracious half hour with the rough prompter Huntley.
A classical student questions what supports Atlas if he bears the world. We have long believed Atlas gained support by marrying a wealthy wife and receiving backing from her father.
The Minneapolis Tribune recalls a Washington dinner remark by a politician who praised a meal but said nothing of food, claiming only drinking. Tom Murphy questions the idea of a good dinner in Washington and hints at tariff reform as revenge.
Adolphus, in tight breeches, wears roller skates to impress at the rink. His first run proves disastrous as he kicks the roof and falls hard. Dolphy helps him up, and the crowd laughs as he backs against the wall seeking a quick exit.
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