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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1898
Page
3
Woman and Home notes highlight an ivory satin evening gown and pretty low necked children’s dresses amid recipes and a cooking school. A poem by L. A. Osborne reflects on lost love and a hoped for better day, with themes of memory and distance.
An English periodical surveys women and financial generosity. W Pett Ridge argues women show less unnecessary generosity than men in trivial spends yet empathize with real distress. Adeline Sergeant condemns wealthy women's stinginess toward maids and cheaper governesses, calling it meanness.
A London made ivory satin evening gown features a front skirt cut in curved lines trimmed with rose embroidery. An overskirt reveals a green chiffon petticoat veiled with tinted lace, while the bodice displays a gathered chiffon chemisette and a delicate chiffon sash.
Belgian authorities recognize the value of domestic order and announce plans to supplement home training with an official program for housewifery. The effort aims to formalize skills in cooking, cleaning, budgeting, and household management to support wives and families.
In Brussels families, extensive domestic economy instruction runs through primary and secondary schools. A large basement classroom teaches cooking with economy aims six servings under two shillings, laundry, dressmaking, and needlework. Other rooms cover nursing, child care, hygiene, and first aid, shaping brides likely to be successful wives.
A fashion note praises low necked dresses for children with no sleeves and shoulder ruffles, paired with socks to display bare legs and arms. The trend favors tinier tots as the prettier costume and vogue.
A compact old style recipe describes beating yolks with salt pepper and mustard, adding vinegar grated onion and butter then cooking slowly. Cool and fold in an equal amount of sweet cream or milk, mix well and pour over diced cold potatoes. An appetizing dish to try.
The article highlights deep flounce box plaits with waist trimming on skirts and arabesque lace patterns at the waist. Lace flounces, beaded headings, and various wraps, including gray silk capes with tiered edges, are described along with taffeta and organdie designs and dust-shedding black taffeta outer garments.
A description details a collarette lace adorned lawn with ribbon knots and a novelty spotted silk muslin dress. The front features four flounces forming deep points, side and back ruffles creating a cascading back, and a plain waist with full ruffles outlining a yoke. A bayadere striped silk gown showcases a long embroidered front from collar to hem with shoulder embroidery and lace accents.
The dragon fly outstrips the swallow and can fly in all directions including backward and sidelong. It changes course instantly without turning. With twenty eight wing beats per second it exceeds the bee at 190 and the horsefly at 300.
The Gardeners Chronicle of London reports Mr. Fetisoff, an amateur horticulturist from Voronezh, Russia, has produced jet black roses. No details of the method have been received.
Swiss papers report the Jungfrau railway will be completed to the Eiger glacier by July 1. Eighty men work year round and $300000 has already been spent. No serious accidents have occurred so far.
In a political exchange two agitators comment on Billikin’s remarks against the money power. The first calls the speech too tame, while the second labels it weak and notes he only mentions the deadly upas tree three times.
A dialogue features a boarder challenging belief in mermaids while the Cheerful Idiot dismisses mermaid stories as fishy tales. The exchange hints at skepticism and humor within a Greek cult context.
A brief dialogue notes a character claiming enlistment while another remarks on silence about war sounds since trouble began, reflecting civilian attitudes during wartime through concise exchanges.
A playful exchange notes marriage as more than a brief fling and hints at good behavior being rewarded with lasting commitment. The dialog contrasts fleeting pleasures with a steady union, underscoring matrimony as a durable partnership.
A quivering fable compares parasites to fleas on a fox. It describes the fox lowering itself into water to escape the fleas, who crawl upward and eventually drown when the fox sinks, leaving the parasites to perish.
Darwin asks a gaucho why he does not work and learns the answer I am too poor. A gaucho never works on foot and remains alive on horseback from youth to old age. The narrative frames the bond between gaucho survival and equestrian life along with a harsh paternal state.
Pennsylvania Experiment Station notes complaints from growers about winter losses and two insect pests. The strawberry root worm and crown-borer attack roots and crowns, especially in old or new beds on old ground. Prevention focuses on crop rotation, plowing old fields after harvest, and timely removal of old plants. sprays with Paris green may kill foliage feeders in late summer.
Mr C Johnson outlines methods to convert inferior orchard residues into merchantable products. Discussion covers cider storage in winter, freezing effects, and the challenge of profitable use because big firms flood markets with vinegar jams and frauds. Morrill argues side products lack profit due to high processing costs and competition.
The article notes apple trees suffer from July and August drought in many soils, while a warm wet autumn induces bud burst and cambial activity. In southern Illinois, buds often swell and shoots develop, but subsequent hard freezes can cause damage to the crop.
The passage notes methods to avoid summer drought effects. It highlights choosing proper site, deep drainage to keep roots moist, good surface cultivation in dry periods, extensive matching, and selecting drought resistant varieties as key strategies.
A Chicago Chronicle piece quotes a prominent naval officer advising young men to weigh personal fitness happiness and duty over money when considering enlistment. It notes promotion favors length of service, shore leave costs, and the allure of sea life versus lengthy absences from home.
A circus river bath leads to a surprising punishment as Beatrice the mother elephant uses Paddy Polan as a living wash rag. The crowd roars with laughter when the mischievous boy is drenched and scrubbed, becoming the town’s laughing tale.
A simple inexpensive burglar alarm uses a rubber bulb linked to a tube with a whistle at the end. The air is exhausted from the bulb and the tube is placed in a door crack. When the door opens the tube is released and the whistle sounds.
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