Foreign notions of the fair impress French exhibitors
Visitors, especially ladies, applaud French fashion and gowns at the fair. The French section draws broad interest as guests examine displays and remark on the beauty of creations.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1893
Page
5
Visitors, especially ladies, applaud French fashion and gowns at the fair. The French section draws broad interest as guests examine displays and remark on the beauty of creations.
Readers are asked to send briefs of forthcoming events. On Tuesday June 20 a wedding will be held for Miss Mary Alice Butler and Mr G Everett Giles at 75 Green Street Charlestown with a reception from 8 to 10. A second wedding is planned for Miss Mary Fuller Jordan and Mr Edward Blodgett Parker at St Marys Church Newton Lower Falls at 3.
Harriet Martineau would find 400 occupations open to women today, and notable women like Mrs Stannard and Lottie Collins are cited for their independence. Mrs Kendal seeks sun and flowers on holiday while Mme Parren joins the Chicago Congress in stylish France inspired gowns. Sarah H Cooper leads kindergarten promotion with earnest philanthropy in San Francisco.
The article advises packing minimal belongings for travel. It praises adaptable fashions like a serge travel skirt and jacket, a dark non-crushable skirt, silk waists, blouses, ties, and a few embroidered jackets. It suggests tagging the bag with Multum in parvo to avoid surprises from friends.
An ex Vassar student recounts a long standing practice among Vassar girls who prized a large glass beer mug as an indispensable yet stylish college property. She notes the tradition arose from an era when the mug symbolized a fashionable education accessory.
A poem frames a lover lament about timing and fidelity. The speaker contrasts imagined dawn noon and dawn arrivals with a real encounter when another man was present. She declares two were company and ends the relationship.
Special train for Epworth League meeting at Cleveland on June 28 via the Boston & Albany. Tickets at lowest rates to Chicago with stop in Cleveland. For details contact Merritt C. Beale, 36 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass.
Paris correspondent notes a full Francais as Frederic Febvre retires and plans fishing and shooting trips. Dumas, Sarcey, Magnier, and Rothschilds attend, with 38,000 francs earned in the farewell show proving Parisian appetite for stage star power.
Correspondence notes that the Temple of Arts presents an exterior resembling a necropolis while the interior is well arranged. The exhibit showcases art from several nations, illustrating progress in the past five or six years.
The Berliner Tageblatt notes there is clear suspicion that fair managers would auction prizes to the highest bidders to profit personally, reflecting a corrupt American practice.
The Courrier de Londres warns that a successful World’s Fair may cost many lives, noting more than a thousand deaths in the construction of the fair buildings alongside large money losses.
The Danziger Zeitung notes German merchants hope to widen trade by showing goods in Chicago. Yet few strangers visited Berlin this summer, and Americans have largely stayed home, reducing spending in Germany.
Paris Figaro notes that the Chicago World’s Fair faces quarrels over awards. An American committee seeks sole judging rights, drawing protests from other commissioners and from several hundred American exhibitors. International exhibitors threaten to boycott if the method remains unaltered.
The Boston Post reports a child health fund drive starting July with donations from Sympathizers and many named supporters. It notes yesterday’s receipts totaling 310.46 and urges continued dime and dollar contributions to aid sick babies and the needy.
The writer notes Americans should not overestimate a dollar value and warns that travel costs abroad mirror British prices. He would choose Switzerland France or Germany over a lengthy U.S. holiday, joking about gout and liking European options more than Stars and Stripes.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes the World’s Fair architecture impresses few fully, prices of living remain high, and crowd chaos may drive hundreds to ruin. It predicts supply outstrips demand and many hotels exist beyond visitor needs, with prices likely to fall later.
The Dundee Advertiser praises the World’s Fair for its architecture. It lauds the White City structures as beautiful and impressive amid a smoky urban backdrop and notes a remark that their grandeur resembles Parisian style more than Chicago.
In a Porter street basement two sick children and a sick baby strain a family. The father is out of work with rheumatism, the mother works daily and laundered to help, while the children attend a nursery until illness blocks work. The Post’s doctor is thanked for relief.
The Boston and Albany railroad reduces rates to Chicago and return effective June 18. Call at 232 Washington Street city ticket office or write to A. S. Hanson, G. P. A., for full information.
The Baker Opera Company began its third week at Bowdoin Square Theatre with Said Pasha led by Irene Murphy Maude Dickeson William Wolff and Arthur Miller. Bartholomew's equine paradox returns to the Boston Theatre with a schoolroom court room and fortress capture.
The Concord and Montreal railroad adds two new parlor cars to its equipment this year. The cars will run between Boston and Jefferson, placing the line's parlor car service in a condition second to none.
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