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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1896
Page
11
A discussion on the appealing traits of comfortable people who know what to say and do at the right time. The piece highlights their gentleness, restraint, and self effacing manner, noting they avoid nagging and harsh judgments while maintaining harmony and kindness.
A guide from Carper's Round Table on a daughter's duties at home. It urges gracious greetings to visitors, hands-on help with serving tea and snacks, and active support of parents. It stresses warm, personal attention to both guests and parents as essential to a pleasant home life.
A Ladies' Pictorial note cites a curious sleep remedy suggesting a pet cat in the room to induce sleep through a soothing influence. The author warns the cat must be cared for and befriended for the hypnotic effect to work, and adds that not all will tolerate the feline role.
Nine Times Out of Ten the commercial traveler would find the Buckeye mileage ticket better adapted to his wants than any other ticket. It covers more than one hundred transportation lines across Illinois Indiana Michigan Ohio New York and Pennsylvania. Sold at twenty dollars it is valid one year from sale and on many railroads covers excess baggage seat fares in parlor cars and meals in dining cars. For details write agentes in Columbus Ohio for full information.
The article urges girls to cultivate repose, keep calm, avoid nervousness, and manage diet to prevent indigestion. It shares a debut of homemade candies as a thoughtful gift, stresses timely thanks, and touches on travel tickets, household decor ideas, and tips for clothing care and furs.
The Interchangeable Mileage Ticket from Ohio Central Lines covers major railways in Central traffic association regions and priced at $20 for one year. It promises wide mileage, savings, and broad coverage including B O, C H D and Big Four systems. Also notes Athens schedules linking to Marion and Chicago with extended travel times.
A miscellany notes Miss Helen M Winslow of Boston as guest at a New York Professional Woman's league meeting praising her impromptu speech. It highlights Mrs John Ward Dunsmore and Corrinna Buffinton, Empress Eugenie, Princess Beatrice, and the duchess of Albany as an inventor with a schoolroom desk awarded a gold medal in London. Also includes brief dental and animal notes on star fish teeth squirrels and apes with pouches and a dental surgery reference from 1825.
A cut gloss inkstand with silver mounts is in demand this season. Men’s rings are richly carved Indian style with stones. The silver skirt grip secures skirts to belts for tidy women. Zone shaped belt clasps with enamel add distinction to evening gowns. Silver pen extractors aid writing desks and satisfy a long felt need. Louis XV inspired pieces enrich modern jewel cases with copies of court jewelry.
The piece delivers a wry maxim about vice and honesty, urging avoidance of persistent error after discovery and noting the ease of achieving immortality by speaking what is self evident. It suggests a humorous test: tell the hard truth first and mockery follows. It closes with a quote from Truth about calling others bad.
Temple Bar cites three cases of humans living beyond 300 years. Arizona Cliff Dwellers feared a deluge. The first 1862 greenback counterfeit was made in Lawrence Indiana by Peter McCartney and the Johnson brothers. An Australian aerolite bore a copper spot nearly twelve inches wide. A Brookville Maine woman received a lamp set thirty seven years ago and its parts remain unbroken. In New York many ride elevated cars overnight to save hotel costs. Four Battery-Harlem round trips take eight hours and cost twenty cents. A Danbury Connecticut baggageman employee named Johnson stands six feet seven inches, growing nearly a foot in a year.
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