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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1885
Page
3
A Woman's Hour warning denounces a male impostor who befriends women to pressure admissions and plant deceit. The notice advises vigilance, describes his methods, and urges sisters to expose and resist him to protect others from fraud. It includes crochet patterns and baby care notes amid domestic advice.
The article discusses infant eye sensitivity to bright light and the harm of sun exposure to babies in carriages. It also provides a sewing guide for a pink flannel wrap with lace and ribbon to cover arms, enabling gentle patient handling while keeping the sleeves secure.
Crochet patterns requested by correspondents describe Lady's Cloud pattern from Fancy Work Recreations by Lis Niles. Materials include twelve ounces Shetland floss and No 8 needle. Work uses shell pattern with 60 shells from an 861 stitch chain. Each shell consists of 6 trebles, with fine wool to ensure shells appear full.
Communications to the Woman's Hour column urge printing cooking school reports in both morning and evening editions on Thursday. Readers request space for patterns and sewing help, including a whisk broom holder and lamp mat in worsted. Replies to correspondents will come in a future issue.
Article notes coats of mail still used by Soudanese Arab tribes with hauberk fastened by baltan and a two handed sword. The armor, 310 years in one lineage, is linked to crusader era. Similar chain armor once common among Caucasian tribes including Chechenzes of Dagestan.
A Bowdoin Square bird dealer explains that canaries differ by nationality and purpose. German birds excel in song, English for color, and Belgian for shape. The French and Belgian varieties fetch the highest prices, with Campanini canaries seen at ten dollars a pair and up to twenty-five dollars for individual birds.
In a Pittsburg Chronicle fragment set abroad, Akoulina and Alexander Petrovitch share a tender farewell as war looms. Akoulina contemplates loss while Filka Orjetf interrupts with humor and a test of devotion, leading to a cryptic command to reveal Orloff.
A noted Austin art amateur seeks a place to settle and board. In Kyle he asks a farmer for lodging and explains he is an animal painter. The farmer expresses wonder and offers board, remarking that the artist could paint the farmer's roan horse black to match others.
Reading comfort tips and care for spectacles. glass roofing praised for durability and cost. Amber alternatives, tobacco smoke dangers, and sea life buoy oil device described. practical household remedies, paper making recipe, and new luminous materials noted. Includes eucalyptus for pertussis and early motion photography advances.
A long list of home remedies and how to preserve foods and aid upkeep. Topics include lemon storage in buttermilk, disinfecting with cleanliness, preserving eggs with lime and salt, harness draping with oils and wax, wrinkle care and hair growth, salt uses on paths, Javelle water, hair cleansing with borax, restoring cane chair elasticity, permanganate for chilblains, morocco leather care, rust prevention for tools, ink stain removal from books, varnish cleanup with camphor, and crape renovation by pressing and drying.
A New London resident owns a pug that drinks beer at a saloon and naps under a card table. The dog gulps beer from a faucet vessel, eats sandwiches, and returns home after binges. He seeks water in the morning and naps, then resumes socializing with friends at Gambrinus shrine.
A humorous boarding house scene from Drake's Travelers Magazine features Dumley asking for a steak not well done and Jane reporting a missing steak smell from the boarding house next door. The landlady urges Jane to close the window as the room grows chill.
A Philadelphia man has broken 250 looking glasses in the last year and paid damages in full. The New York Graphic notes there is little encouragement for a Philadelphia man to look into a mirror.
An in depth survey describes Afghanistan’s geography from the Hindu Kush to Herat and Kandahar, its rugged climate, mineral wealth, pastoral riches, and trade routes. It notes Afghan sirdars’ power, historic British wars, and the Afghan tribes including the Kafars, with long reflections on Afghan rulers and Russian interest. It closes with a long interview on stamp collecting and its history in the United States and Britain.
A survey of the U S consular service notes salaries duties and duties of ministers consuls and agents. It highlights Lazzaro at Macedonia reports tiny US imports aside from petroleum and remarks on advertising in foreign ports. It covers nitrate in Chile labor wages in Chile and Argentina and references Volcan de Fuego and slavery emancipation in Brazil.
A renowned florist discusses this season’s popular hybrids led by Jacqueminots and souvenirs, with Catharine Mermets and Ween Neils in demand. Violets and rose buds flourish for buttonholes while tulips and gourds decorate tables. camellias azaleas and orchids wane then return. Baron Rothschild calceolaris lead house plants. Mayflowers bloom in two weeks as cultivated blossoms pause.
A short aphorism from the iGrimes County Herald notes that men succeed when they mind their own business, attributing the idea to low competition and private focus. The colorful saying reflects local humor on ambition and effort in a Texas context.
Boston born Charles F Barker announces Barker's American Checker Player, a 179 page cloth bound volume with 22 openings, 684 variations and 35 critical positions. The work credits Wardwell and Lyman for 22 positions and lists price one dollar postpaid. Orders to Charles F Barker Cambridgeport Mass.
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