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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1891
Page
7
A housewife decorates rooms using carved wooden masks and bold frieze schemes. Describes blue wall backgrounds with buttercup yellow plaques, red shelves, and arrangements of long brown clay pipes and tobacco jars as removable, striking accents.
Practical advice on avoiding small room crowding with proportion rules. notes on avoiding overdecorated windows, matching colors to a key shade, and the shift in decorative fabrics from past decades to affordable today. mentions chenille curtains and Brussels lace price shifts.
A narrator discusses interior fashion from Turkish influenced rug designs to adaptable room schemes. The piece describes neutral walls with white framed etchings, artificial roses used as accents, and movable floral focal points to refresh color schemes. It notes bed drapery trends, brass bedsteads, practical wardrobe hardware, rainbow curtains, updated stair ensembles, and corner decor as key modern moves.
A simple wall table with white scrim, lace, pink rose adornments, and a round mirror forms an elegant dressing table. The piece suggests alternatives using cretonnes muslin or bolting cloth, with embroidery to form floral clusters.
Paris fashion notes trace the demi-train street costume back to carriage wear in parks. Paris dressmakers say the look spread as women strolled after drives, dirt on long skirts shocking observers. The piece praises passementerie and new mannish styles, detailing jackets, waistcoats, and cloaks, with emphasis on practicality and period tone.
April 25 report presents an illustration and description of a crepon dress in hyacinth blue. The skirt features darker velvet borders with square patterns and steel rings. The bodice uses an invisible fastening, a Cleopatra belt, and sleeves of silver gray silk with hyacinth blue embroidery.
The text describes the forthcoming June wedding of Princess Helena’s younger daughter. It notes the queen’s popular motherly role, a Rift Spore trouser? The Windsor preparations are under way with Spitalfield workers and brocade fabrics. It highlights a tea gown ordered by the bride in white satin with seed pearl embroidery, a Louis XII influence, and details of lace, sleeves, and gold trimming.
Mrs Letitia Tyler Semple, daughter of John Tyler and widow of Purser Semple, lives at the Louisa Home. She recalls White House life under her father and Dame Webster, Dolly Madison, and Lincoln as she defends Virginia loyalty, notes social changes, and explains Confederate sympathies, with anecdotes on manners, romance, and war.
On Cooney Island Mickey Finn decodes a print puzzle by interpreting punctuation as time pauses. The boy, helped by his coal-heaver father and patient mother, writes a solution: If the grate is empty, put coal on, but if the grate is full, stop. He later uncovers a second riddle about where to put coal, aided by dream imagery of letters forming words.
A mosaic of brief notes and anecdotes covers science marvels, ancient customs, and oddities. From moon theory and the Sahara oasis to fish teeth and camel travel, the clippings mix geography, history, and curiosities with scattered local tales and small wonders.
The article cites the New York Herald on French and American sorrel use highlighting its medicinal and culinary value. It mentions trefoil sorrel as a spring salad addition, its acid flavor, and its inclusion in old pharmacopeias, with recipes like a camp soup using sorrel, bouillon, sassafras, salt, and pepper.
A Beauharnois resident was telegrammed to St Jerome for a dying relative. In Montreal they drank and missed a train, deciding to “make a night of it.” The next telegram said the relative died intestate with about 12 000 dollars to be divided among about 50 relatives, the Beauharnois man to get a share if timing had allowed.
A brief note highlights Syrup of Figs as a gentle stimulant laxative for children and adults when costive or bilious. It emphasizes pleasant flavor, mild action, and soothing effects, presenting it as a trusted fall remedy with favorable outcomes for families.
The gumbo fele powder praised by the New York Herald is Sassafras buds dried and ground. Prepared by Choctaw Indians selling it at the old French market in New Orleans. The writer gathers buds when flowers appear, dries them, sieves, and bottles the powder, claiming it enhances many dishes.
The Sun notes that twelve signers of the Declaration of Independence were born in Ireland or had Irish ancestry. James Smith George Taylor and Matthew Thornton were born in Ireland, while the ancestors of Charles Carroll Thomas McKean and Edward Rutledge were Irish. George Read’s father was born in Dublin from an English family, and Thomas Lynch Jr. was likely of Irish descent.
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt, a young accordion girl performs as a younger brother moves through the car with a tin cup. The scene highlights a lively street cast and the playful, observational tone of the era surrounding the Annie Rooney narrative.
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