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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1889
Page
7
An overview of American citizens living in Japan and Korea and the diplomats serving in Asia. The article profiles the citizens, their roles, earnings, and the nature of American influence in the region, highlighting the diplomatic apparatus and its reach.
A vivid survey from Bangkok to Seoul notes U S ministers in Siam Korea and China, with details on salaries, residences, and guard details. Judge Denny and Li Hung Chang clash over Korea policy while Japan hosts influential Americans in education art and industry.
A. Howard recalls an 1860s telegraphers adventure in the St Louis Globe Democrat. While confronting robbers in a hotel room, he used an electric bell to signal his partner Jim Bigney. The bell relayed a warning, enabling a dramatic escape and the capture of the thieves. The tale details gunplay, a floor transom, and the eventual outcomes for both robbers and guards.
A science rooted toy tale unfolds from Marienfeldt’s tactile experiments under Helmholtz. Reaction time and circle diameter determined the puzzle’s effect on perception. Meyers and Crandell swiftly patented and marketed the simplified plate, turning theory into a popular game.
Friends of John O Nelson played a hoax before his wedding by flooding him with advertising mail. During the two weeks prior to the ceremony he received bushels of circulars about infant products, furniture, life insurance, rent plans, private schools and boarding houses helping him learn married duties.
A hazy San Francisco scene centers on a man who claims a familiar figure Goosie, but a bartender and bystander doubt the name. The story unfolds around a cigar lit at the counter as a quirky exchange ends with a quick exit before goodbyes.
Miriam pleads with George to delay marriage until a Chicago letter arrives bearing results about divorce law. A cautious confidant warns that a single misstep could end their plans as they discuss the impediment to uniting their lives.
A satirical reminiscence by Edgar W. Nye about Nebraska, Omaha, and the Platte and Missouri rivers. The piece parodies geography, politics, and local lore, describing Omaha founder Nye and early expeditions, with facial humor about Indian relations, pioneers, and loquacious letters from the West.
A fragmented reminiscence describes a woman who trapped muskrats with a complex phrase, her husband dying in 1840 amid delirium tremens and heavy whiskey use in Omaha. The tale recalls Fontenelle’s boozy cures for warts and bunions, lavish entertainments, and a patriarch who expired after battles with drink, leaving four sons and a daughter, with Logan and Albert named among the family.
The article surveys historical examples of fighting women, from Dame Nichola de Camville and the countess of Salisbury to Queen Philippa and Miss Jennie Cameron. It highlights their courage in war, noting Naworth skirmish heroines of 1570 and Jacobite era women who fought as privates, with Cameron nicknamed Colonel Cameron by Bonnie Prince Charlie.
Courtesy to women should be in every boy's home training. The article warns that lacking it yields boorish behavior, selfishness, and a domineering husband. It contrasts a selfish son who demands services, keeps meals for himself, and laments delays with how early home life shapes respect and equal rights in public spaces.
Spring fashion guidance notes suggest changes and continuities in dress for the season. Advice covers coats, hats, trousers, and fabrics, with references to notable figures and social dining expectations, reflecting a fanciful, period wardrobe outlook.
A long exchange outlines etiquette for social dress and manners. It covers white evening shoes, wedding greetings, fan use at the opera, how a wife refers to her husband, sealing wax, note paper, and appropriate dining conduct. It includes guidance on announcing engagements, laundering lingerie, and how to address letters and cards, with extensive examples from 19th century social norms.
A Y W C A speaker outlines affordable nutrition, giving sample daily rations for one person costing 12 cents and a meat-included option. She notes the roles of bread, oatmeal, milk, potatoes, beans, and lard in providing protein, starch, and fat, and urges mothers to cook nutritious, economical meals for children, stressing cheese as nutritious but often too concentrated.
A poem notes a painted face that moves hearts with beauty and color. The speaker praises the artful makeup as a dainty, deft creation, yet jokes that too much paint conceals age and keeps the subject forever young on stage.
Washington briefs recount a tale of a young woman who obsesses over her newly acquired engagement ring. She admires it secretly, hides it at meals, dreams of loss, and gradually reveals its significance through shy displays before accepting the symbol as part of herself.
The New York Sun contrasts a painted ideal of womanhood with a harsh home scene. A living model’s pose inspired a painter while a ragged tenement woman frets over coal, rent, and medicine as she endures her partner’s illness and poverty.
The closing lesson of the Boston Cooking School course showcases cake and frosting methods with detailed recipes. Instruction covers fondant, cream sponge cake, glaze and icing progressions, and示 guidance from Miss Maynard with Mrs Dearborn absent in Detroit.
A humorous exchange notes wives reducing gas usage to cut costs when daughters’ beaux visit, illustrating frugal domestic wit and shorthand dialogue from the period.
A Weeping Water physician occupied his house all winter by a widow who failed to pay rent. He offered to donate past due rents if she would move out. She declined, thanking him and choosing to remain in the home.
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