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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1883
Page
3
A long social essay contrasts views on women solidarity with a tale of an Indian guest praising female unity. A white observer notes the global reach of the women movement while a Lusson Indian speaker embodies its spirit, inspiring admiration for women’s work and cooperation. The piece transitions into fashion notes and a 1883 spring outlook from A Raymond & Co.
A survey of women's dress trends and hair styling in the Pretty Pegay style, detailing muslin bows, futzed sleeves, and varying hair arrangements for different ages. It also cites Mrs. Lucinda B. Chandler on Dr. Dix’s lectures, arguing for home science training to strengthen family life and social harmony.
The piece previews spring and summer fashion trends with Genoa silk, Cachemire Marguerite, and durable luxury for women. It notes novelties in parasols, bonnets, hats, lace, and jewelry including spider pins, dragonflies in gold, and diamond settings. It highlights wide-brimmed Watteau hats, trimmed bonnets, and bold accessories for the season.
Shorter overskirts gain fullness for bouffant drape with varied side drapery. Styles range from tight to loose, with double puffs and panier alternatives. Bodices show tight linings, cross fronts, and Greek-inspired shapes, in velvet, satin, and nun’s veiling. Crepe and silk combinations dominate spring and summer dresses.
Step by step instructions describe crafting a handkerchief case with a puffed blue satin outer and white quilted lining. Materials include blue and white satin, blue silk cord, blue ribbon, and helio tropes for perfume. The top forms four curved flaps that open and close with a double cover design.
The article describes trimming a box and lid edges with blue silk cord, adding a small bow on an upper cover, and decorating the four cover spaces with water color or embroidery. Appliques cut from white Spanish hices are fastened with light buttonholes for tasteful decoration, suggesting gifts as beautiful sachets even when not filled.
A simple guide to crafting a sewing bag from blue silesia and satin ribbon. Four pasteboard circles become the bag shells with blue silk seams. A sixty inch pull fits around the edge, with a top opening. Embroidered decorations, leaves, and a satin ribbon bow adorn the top. A pocket, elastic casing, and internal holders keep darning tools, thimble, and cotton organized. Satin lining options and monograms offered for prettiness.
Pattern notes show a lace chart with fifteen stitches cast on and eleven-row sequence. Repeats include knit and purl combinations with multiple decreases such as purl two together and knit two together, forming a repeating lace motif. The guidance ends with recommencing from the first row after completing the twelfth row.
A simple yearend craft guides using twelve inch black walnut splints and silver picture wire to create a panel frame. Align greeting cards by sliding corners under splints to form a decorative, interwoven display that showcases each card while recalling festive memories.
A detailed pattern for a knitted counterpane using Dexter No 10 cotton and steel needles. It covers stitch setup, repeat rows from various counts, narrowing, binding off, and assembly. Describes material options including pongee and silk, embroidery using brown, pink, and green threads, fringe finishing, and trimming effects.
The text lists a knitting pattern titled Gypsy Lace with ten stitches and rows detailing knit and make one actions, slip and pass slipped stitch over, bind off, then repeating. It also mentions a product or remedy RouGh on RATS advertised to clear out rats mice flies roaches bedbugs ants vermin chipmunks priced at 165c.
In mixed borders the coming month will see a mass of bloom from early bulbs like crocuses snowdrops and tulips. Emphasis on soil prep feeding roses pruning and planning for annuals and gladioli with notes on plant selections and the value of continuous care.
A traveler guides through early spring blooms from Epigaea to trilliums, violets and gold-thread. It highlights Hepaticas, Blood-root, dog’s tooth violet, Anemones, Cypripediums, irises, rhododendron and azaleas, with notes on habitat, leaf forms, color, and seasonal spread across northern woods, bogs, and meadows.
The mignonette is a hardy fragrant favorite suited to window boxes pots and borders and can endure rough treatment. It originates from North Africa or Egypt and today many new varieties exceed the common kind, with sowing timing in March July and September providing year round bloom. Care includes rich compost light soil coarse sand and careful seed selection, with training into tree cushion or spiral forms and staged pruning for bushy growth and prolonged flowering.
A homemaker guides rose growing with many varieties suited to different climates. The piece lists perpetuals, hybrid teas, bourbons, China roses, and tender teas, with care tips for soil, sun, watering, and pest control. It notes not all are hardy in New England and offers wintering methods and preventive measures against insects.
Advice on sowing in boxes in May and transplanting to beds, keeping soil moist and using glass covers briefly. Details on choosing flower varieties for wreaths and bouquets, including helichrysum, amobium, Rodanthes, Helipterum sanfordii, corymbiflorum, and oxalis types. Recommends pot culture and winter storage, with emphasis on light, rich soil, and daily watering until growth starts.
Advice for preserving cut flowers: wrap in damp blotting paper then place stems in a camphor mixture, three to four drops of camphor in an ounce of water, for half a day in darkness to revive them after long travel in heat.
A Wakefield Rattan Company bed chamber set of five pieces in lightwood is fully wrapped in woven rattan with braids for ornaments, conveying a cool summer feel. Also shown are fine rattan window shades suitable for summer, plus Turkish Gauze silk fabric with blue red and gold motifs and Burese sik and worsted damask patterns in old red on gold or ecru ground, forty four inches wide.
The selection features Mysore silks and Indian pongees in plain or grass pattern for sash curtains. A novelty item is flax velours with a changing lustrous surface in lola pink old blue old gold and sage green. It resists moths and is highly durable.
The article surveys evolving home decor trends with gilded plaster ornaments waning in favor of intricate framing. It describes Watson Co. mirror frames in tapestry and dull gold, oak frames with gold bands, and modern English chairs with carved backs. It details embroidery designs, appliques, Moorish patterns, and elaborate lamp improvements featuring silver inlay, brass, and porcelain shades, highlighting ornate, period-tinged craft and interior styling.
A four foot high candelabrum is displayed at Ovingtons. It features a single Hungarian steel horn polished to a high sheen and mounted on a brass stand with oak leaf and acorn braiding. The horn spans about three feet and displays amber to pale green and black colors, with three candlestick branches from the rim and crystal prisms that catch rainbow hues.
In Gorham Manufacturing Company rooms two loving cups are displayed. One features a low relief fruit and grain design in colored coppers and silvers on satin silver. The other shows frosted silver banded by repousse fretwork with burnished silver handles. Both are prepared for presentation in gold brocade enclosures with cord tassels and satin linings.
Two large screens shown to Union League and Lotus clubs feature matching five and a half by four foot black kiachi frames. One side at Union League depicts a daimio with a pros trate follower and a flock of blackbirds, while the opposite side shows a bold bullion fringe bird beneath a tree. Lotus Club screen presents cranes and bamboo in gilt on black, and a silk painting of a Japanese lotus on the reverse. Both emphasize rich decoration and heavy hardware, unlike typical older screens.
An advertisement asserts iron as the key to life and health, criticizing prior iron tonics for staining teeth and causing headaches. It touts Brown's Iron Bitters as a safe, purifying, and strengthening remedy that assimilates with the blood and drives disease from the system without undesirable side effects.
A Baltimore letter from February 19, 1880 reports that Brown's Iron Bitters improved a daughter with consumption after one bottle, with a claim that a fifth daughter showed signs of consumption and a physician endorsed the tonic as a remedy for dyspepsia indigestion and general weakness, aiding wasting diseases.
A fragmented OCR list shows prices for numerous periodicals and journals across arts science farming and literature. Titles include Arthur's Home Magazine American Agriculturist The Atlantic Monthly American Poultry Journal and more with varied subscription costs noted alongside.
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