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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1895
Page
7
Reading the Future by the Pedal Extremities unfolds at a dove party where Kate Kensington and others seek fortunes from bare feet. The oracle analyzes toes ankles and nails to prophesy marriages, wealth, travel, health, and character, amid humorous and eerie foot-driven readings.
A detailed home routine to attain well kept hands and nails without manicures. It covers washing in hot or oatmeal water, benzoin rinse, almond meal rinse, glycerine lemon rosewater mix, a weekly varnish blend with pistachio oil salt rosin alum wax carmine, cucumbered method for nail care, cuticle work, and final polishing with diamond powder.
A sketch suggests an outside milk closet or a small door beside the entrance to protect milk from wind weather and animals, with a hinged cover. It also offers a balsam Peru method to deter ants by coating table legs and syrup bottles and applying a hot balsam Peru wash to floors and walls. France leads Europe in wheat production.
Three small but active crustaceans, driven ashore by a Gravesend bay gale, are thriving at Castle Garden aquarium. The biggest reaches about 24 inches. the smallest, roughly 14 inches, with a life size image shown. The lobsters dig, rearrange gravel, back into shelters, and defend with claws as fish hunt them. Visitors may observe their digging, hiding behavior, and backward swimming as a defensive tactic.
Glimpse of the pope in the Vatican Garden shows Leo XIII in pure white robes with his secretary on warm days. The article notes his benevolent face, exact nature, and clean appearance, contrasted with snuff-using Pio Nono, plus a brief science snippet on moisture in air at different temperatures and a medical ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Miss Minnie Lewis, a New York artist, has carved a niche furnishing bachelor rooms. Her suites feature green and ecru interiors with heavy net window treatments, sunburst transoms, green buckram walls, kokhara rugs, and colonial mahogany furnishings. A second den showcases bur lap walls, pipes, swords, armor, and exotic rugs.
A front window display in a prestigious boarding house shows white muslin squares with embroidered edges glued to panes. Passersby discuss this window laundry method where women supposedly wash and iron handkerchiefs by pressing them to wet panes, drying and smoothing as they come off, allowing boarders to be their own laundresses.
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