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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1884
Page
3
The piece surveys women seeking work in Boston society, praising Mary Riching from George W. Cable's Dr Sevier and noting the lively, witty tone of Boston Women's Club discussions. It contrasts women's labor needs with male attitudes and highlights club observations on women’s leisure.
A St Paul Pioneer Press account describes Miss Modjeska sending a superb satin bed spread pillow covers and dressing table ornaments to a young French girl in Paris. The pieces feature an angel head Correggio wreaths maidenhair fern and illuminated names with extensive floral embroidery and duchess point lace. The gift reflects Modjeskas generous regal style.
The piece argues fashion shifts back toward mixed fabrics like poplin as dealers seek durable, easily spoiled materials. It notes Irish poplin improvements, critiques stiff satin silks, and reflects on home economies and tasteful living as a counterpoint to luxury fabrics.
The article notes the Princess of Wales will not wear the Windsor Castle gown for the next ten years, indicating a long-term decision about the garment’s use or display. No other details are provided in readable text.
The Harpers weekly importations highlight new spring costumes for Easter Week. Fine wool ensembles in beige brown gray drab and mushroom shades feature rich embroidery on net and satin accents, with varied trimmings and hats.
The piece notes cap head-dresses rising in popularity for married and single women, with Clover red as a bright dress color. It describes new flower motifs and embroidery trends, including raised satin petals and Kensington stitch leaves, and cites Mme Mudieska ordering a dress in this style.
The article suggests repurposing Christmas New Year and Easter cards into decorative albums screens and crafts. It highlights an album with yearly gilted dates and plush covers and notes card-covered screens made from wooden racks with wool padding and painted edges for artistic effect.
A Victorian interior note describes using pasted cards and satin plush for table decoration, including circular and diamond card patterns, gilded edges, and back boards of cretonne. It also covers crafting with knitting arrasene and detailed knitting insertions and honeycomb patterns for edging and inserts.
A practical home carpentry plan describes a backless wooden frame and shelves built against a wall. Cover the top with fabric and border with ball fringe to create a handsome storage unit for books and china. Three corner cords secure the structure and a top tie stabilizes it for a bedroom bookshelf.
A London Truth tale recounts a late return home met by a constable who suspects misdeeds by the household staff. He discovers the cook, housemaid, and nurse dancing at a nearby saloon, with the nurse revealing the child hidden away to avoid distraction.
The handsomest girl in Sylvania county Georgia kept a vow of waiting forty years for John Gross son of a wealthy planter. He left for New Orleans and Texas returned on his sixtieth birthday to marry her. Three men she refused later became a congressman a senator and a governor.
A collage of historical notes mentions Persians shaving heads with gray side tufts, salaries for Grecian court officials, Japanese murder punishments, London's death toll and burial space, Japanese theatre customs, cloth washing goods, and land ownership among British elites. It also recalls chimneys in medieval England, Henry VIII era student warmth, Elizabethan fire limits, a 1680 chimney tax, and Czarist railroad schemes tying Siberia to Persia and India with twenty years of work.
A feature on varied meals and tea table manners offers 19th century home cookery ideas. It lists breakfast and dinner menus with recipes for croquettes beans and puddings, and provides guidance on elegant tea table display and serving etiquette.
April notes list garden chores from transplanting radish and thinning beds to repotting roses and sowing seeds in grapery and greenhouse. It describes pruning, hardening off chrysanthemums and carnations, planting azaleas and beech trees, and preparing borders, with May guidance on advised plantings, soil, and care for flowers and bulbs.
The article lists duck species with flight speeds from 30 to 120 miles per hour, noting mallard and black duck at 45 to 50 mph and canvas back up to 120 mph. Author D W Cross is cited, and the piece emphasizes accuracy in estimating speed and the skill needed in shooting ducks.
The island Niwe in the Pacific west of the Society Islands was once called Savage Island. About 5000 inhabitants were feared as fierce. Fifty years ago fist converts from the Society Islands tried to spread the gospel there, ending fatally for the explorers.
A native convert was brought to shore near the island by a missionary ship, swam ashore with his Bible, and after explaining the cross to islanders, inspired a conversion. The islanders spared him, he taught them, and years later the island embraced Christianity with a white missionary joining the community.
The guide explains sowing in March to May, preparing a mold box, watering and air, using a warm box and kitchen stove reservoir for bottom heat, covering with glass, and transplanting seedlings into mellow soil. It warns against overwatering and notes glazing affects drainage and plant health.
AFrench gardener in Journal des Roses claims salt water destroys rose mildew. He describes trials using 6.5 pounds of salt in 26 gallons of water, then 3.25 pounds in 26 gallons, noting his roses became free of mildew for a month with continued syringing despite some cost.
Detroit April 16 William D Fuller asks General Butler about views on public questions and Terre Haute speech Butler replies he never writes letters he is ashamed of He defends his record in the Civil War and politics citing equality of rights and burdens and criticizes capitalists and banking during the war era He endorses greenbacks as constitutional money and urges reforms to curb monopolies and high prices, leaving presidential prospects to voters.
The steward describes White House life under Hayes and Garfield. He notes dinner hours, favorite dishes like beefsteak, oats, coffee, and candy, and explains the high cost of entertaining. He recalls strict room and table oversight and incidents of damage by visitors.
Lewiston report recounts Mark Sampson’s lost dog Shep found alive after four days in a dry well. Spot the other dog kept Shep fed by Bennett’s boy, as the rescue team lowered George Russell to retrieve the weary canine.
Sixty years ago in Spring Gardens a Mr Black man ran an agency to recruit conversationalists for fashionable circles. It listed 60d starting pays and a pool of Irish peers, Scottish peers, ruined baronets, and eloquent storytellers for any place in the British Empire. The roster included 187 maidens of uncertain means and age. The advertisement promised four meals a day and favorable terms for partners.
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