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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1893
Page
5
The Marquise de San Carlos analyzes how rigid French maternal guidance and social codes shape young women. She argues that perpetual parental oversight pushes girls into early marriage with strangers, leading to disillusionment and forbidden attachments. Young men face similar pressures and risk violence if courting without parental consent.
Miss M Merta Mitchell of Salem Ind became the first woman lawyer in Indiana after the state Supreme Court ruled women may practice law. Pennsylvania will hire five women as deputy inspectors at 1200 dollars yearly. Mrs Rosalie Miller of New York patented a preserve lifter for canning. Kentucky poet Josie Frazee Cappleman, now in Mississippi, has been twice elected poet of the Mississippi Press Association. In Italy Queen Margherita uses a phonograph on the piano. Mrs M T Van Rensselaer, writer on architecture, is described as tall and slender. Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren keeps Dolly Madison’s dining room mirror in her Washington home.
Richard Harding Davis observes Moorish women in Tangier with hidden faces under cloaks, noting how their appearance intrigues and contrasts with American women. He describes the fashion of cloaks, the momentary reveal of faces, and a local guide Isaac who witnesses reactions, including foot-based judgments of beauty by Tangier youths.
The Post announces its bathing costume contest will close tomorrow with the winner named on Wednesday August 16. The event has showcased hundreds of elegant designs, drawing broad reader support and wide artistic appreciation. Many sketches could not be printed due to limited space.
The article surveys historical beauties from Cleopatra to Catherine the Great, arguing that ultimate beauty lies between ages 26 and 40 rather than youth. It notes famed figures married young and long lasting passions, while character and cheerfulness preserve youth more than medicine.
Salem reports six year old Fanny Halloran found drowned in a water filled ledge hole formed by blasting on Glue Hill Peabody. Police and medical examiner notified.
A St Botolphs quip notes a tailor marks the month’s start rather than a calendar. The wry remark highlights practical timekeeping through clothing needs. A brief anecdote echoes local humor about reliance on craftspeople.
A fashion rumor from Paris to New York warns of pantalettes, short stays, chignon nets, and reticules reviving grandmother days. Pantalettes shown on Murray Hill cost two guineas as fashion models. chignons and short stays spark debate as hips are revealed and figure-hugging basques fade.
Miss Madeline Pollard of Louisville sues Kentucky Congressman W C P Breckinridge for 50000 claiming breach of promise and seduction. She alleges repeated relations from 1884 starting when she was 17, two children, a miscarriage, and a planned secret marriage that never occurred. Breckinridge, married to Louise Wing, arrived in Washington to face the suit and denied the charges, calling them vindictive and blackmail.
A collage of wry lines and brief sketches from Vogue and Texas Siftings features Uncle Mose on gender, a clubman on fads about short men, a chimpanzee tale about appetite, a writer's exchange with an editor about circulation, and a wife’s comment on gifts and a husband’s quip about a milliner bill.
Walter E. Pooler, 18, of 5 Savin Street, arrested by Inspector Leggett on a Maine court warrant for breaking and entering the house of C. S. Burleigh at Vassalboro and taking household goods valued at $46. He was turned over to Officer Ira M. True of Hallowell and will go to Maine without requisition.
The Bowdoin Square season opens with The Golden Wedding adding two new acts featuring James F. Hoey and Ethel Ormondy. The Palace Theatre debuts The Tremont Opera Company presenting Mme Favart with Pauline Hall, and Miss Dorothy Denning's Rainbow Dance continues with new features. The Grand Opera House stages The White Squadron with a stellar cast. A diverse bill at the Park Theatre, Howard, and Grand Museum rounds out a week of melodrama and vaudeville.
Miss Ida C Craddock argues in World that the Oriental danse du centre at the Cairo Theatre is misunderstood and should be seen as a moral religious memorial rather than demoralizing. The dance fuels protests led by Mr Masters and advocacy by Mr Comstoeck seeking suppression amid board disputes over the fair.
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