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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1883
Page
3
A detailed survey of decorative bronze works and jewelry trends. Brass, silver, and gold tones appear in frames, vases, clocks, and filigree pieces. Intricate designs include animals, heraldic motifs, cameos, and enameled caps. Emphasis on bracelets, cufflinks, and ornamental miniatures.
The article surveys latest cloak importations noted by Harper s, describing large upper dresses with bouffant backs, high shoulder sleeves, and two color material combinations such as green brocaded velvet with bear brown velvet. Prune and golden browns are favored, velvet or brocaded fabrics dominate, trimming with passementerie, fur, feathers, or chenille. Lining favors quilted satin for warmth.
The article describes fulness in back designs for ulsters and redingotes with postilion backs box pleats and Moliere vests. It notes shifts to dark warm colors green blue and striped cloths, with fur collars and trim. It advises black for a single wrap and details youth and older ladies preferred styles and linings.
Describes ornate jewelry designs including enamel flowers like wild rose and Marguerite, a three-leaved clover of tourmaline, diamond accents, insect motifs with ruby eyes, beetles and butterflies in jewel settings, and varied bracelets and Grecian patterns. Contains vivid color descriptions and gem combinations.
Detailed sketch of 19th century dress fabrics and accessories. Describes Fedora puff crepe lisse neck and sleeves, fur trims on trains, embroidered flowers and lingerie accents, silk scarves, lace cravats, lambrequins with Chinese motifs, linerusta painting on screens, and a Japanese styled room screen with a jewel-toned peacock motif in gold.
In New York Morning Journal fashion, a humorous yet pointed sketch portrays heathen Chinese mission Sunday schools taught by young women for English learning. A flirtatious pupil named Quong Lung misuses lessons to court a teacher, exchanging silk handkerchiefs and gold rings while plotting marriage. The scene mixes piety with satire as dialect, manners, and mischief collide in a Bowery classroom.
Mrs Langtry offered 50 dollars for her St Charles spaniel missing in Louisville. Gaunt Botto traced 47 dogs in a bid to match its likeness while locals sent in dogs from a colored man to a nine ward girl and a Life-Saving Service man with ten stray dogs. Theories arise that the Langtry pup was eaten by an Irish bulldog.
An actress arriving from Canada to the United States carried a bottle of brandy in her valise. A customs officer joked that it was part of her wearing apparel. She replied that the bottle was her husband’s night cap, prompting the officer to return it and depart.
An 19th century notice advertises a treatise titled Woman and Her Diseases. The work is offered through Word's Dispensary Medical Association. Addressed to a list of 96 recipients, with postage prepaid, it promotes medical guidance in a periodical format.
Instructions describe making a white zephyr wool scarf in lengthwise rows starting with 145 foundation stitches, plus a decorative crochet pen-wiper with a circular cardboard base, black silk edge, and multi colored cloth embellishments. Detailed stitches cover loops, chains, and fringe finishing.
Use car riage leather or enamelled cloth for a sturdy bag and stiff light brown paper as lining. Cut the outside ten by eighteen inches and lining an inch narrower by two inches shorter, with side strips, top, and button slits, then assemble with steel stud-buttons or ringed shank buttons and ribbon handles.
Instructions describe making a silk cushion cover with a decorative cretonne applique, edged in gold thread and cord, and a simple child’s hood from colored cashmere. The hood uses 1 yard of fabric to yield two pieces 30 by 17 inches, with two drawstrings and optional bow or lace trim, offered in pale pink gray and blue.
Aprons described include navy blue twill and cream unbleached linen versions with Russian cross stitch embroidery and lace details. Navy apron measures about 30 by 23 inches with red bands and interchangeable sides, plus a large embroidered square. Cream linen apron showcases red and blue lace and a central motif of crossed racquets and a ball. additional black and cream lace variants are trimmed with satin ribbons.
Describes olive green and cardinal plush table covers with embroidery and fringe finishes for various shapes. Includes crochet knit instructions, a method to construct a faux inlaid fern box from a cigar box, and finishing steps with varnish and pressed ferns for decorative projects.
A brief guide instructs trimming engravings and wood-cuts evenly, preparing Bristol board in two sizes, and mounting pictures with starch paste. The method uses a hot iron to transfer the image onto the board, followed by pressing and drying under a cloth.
Instructions describe making scent cases from Madeira nuts or English walnuts. Steps include halving nuts, cleaning interior, heating a hairpin to bore holes, and dissolving a substance in alcohol to fill the shell.
Instructions describe making a half square bag with a hem on one end and a draw string. Lew marks nuts evenly above the hem, threads the edge, tightens, and adds a small bow. The opposite end forms a bag with narrow ribbon for drawing, finishing with tiny bows on each shell and a cotton wool sachet bag inside.
Made for children to craft for relatives, the shells become sailboats by attaching a slender mast and gilt or silver paper sails. Spectacle Wipers describe a simple project using soft chamois leather circles bound with ribbon and tied at the side with a bow.
The article explains crocheting strong white cotton covers for trays, wall-pockets, boxes, and more, using a stretched tight fit, mesogram ornaments, thick starch coatings, and shellac varnish to imitate cane. If needed, darker tones can be achieved by boiling starch with coffee. Baskets last longer than straw and can be repaired and revarnished.
Instructions describe creating raised white-on-black motto letters using pasteboard, white wadding, and thread stitches. The method involves folding edges, fluffing the wadding, and mounting on a black background. A decorative frame with evergreen sprays is optional for display.
Bright colored maps and pictures pasted on pasteboard offer a cheap craft for children. Follow engraving mounting directions, then cut the boards into varied shapes with a sharp knife to create a playful set of dissected visuals.
The note instructs to prepare matting around tea chests by scrubbing with soapsuds then rinsing and washing again with soda water to turn it yellow, ending with shaping and binding in scarlet. A concise, period style recipe step intended for finishing decorative matting.
A detailed description of a black canvas lamp screen with red worsted ornament, lined in white silk, and finished with a heavy white fringe. The frame uses averspring wire in two pieces joined at the cross, secured to a ribbon spool stand, and the eight by ten inch screen features tassels and small red worsted balls over silk spools.
Take half a yard of two contrasting satin ribbons or two shades of one color in satin. Cut each piece in two and fringe the ends. Join the four pieces with a small seam on the wrong side, alternating colors. Fold into triangles, stitch edges, insert cotton or wood wadding and sachet powder for fragrance.
An old fashioned palm leaf fan is enhanced with oil or water color flowers such as tulips, poppies, sunflowers, or pansies. A double bow of satin ribbons in sultan, gold, violet, and purple harmonizes with the design. The fan serves as both a decorative piece and a sun screen for outdoor use.
The smaller tambourines are prettier and inexpensive artworks for walls. The face is decorated with landscapes of birds and flowers, such as wrens on a branch, with a clouded sky. They hang by light ribbon loops and bows, stand as pictures on walls, and cost about sixty-five cents for a medium size.
A penwiper described as using the bottom of a box covered in scarlet cloth with flannel layers, pinked edges for wiping, a double box-plaited ruche around the side, and a top piece embroidered in colored silks featuring a butterfly center.
To craft a perfume sachet use blue satin eight by six and a quarter inches, fringe edges, stitch a plain piece, turn right side out. Place perfumed wadding inside, form a long strip, tie pale blue ribbon at ends, and finish with bows. Edges may be decorated with painting or embroidery.
A pale blue lamp shade gains esthetic touch by threading fine wire through lace and bending it around its bottom to form a delicate flounce. The lace should be about three inches deep with minimal fullness for graceful hang.
A simple guide to making a satin tidy from pale blue satin one yard long and a quarter yard wide. Sew pale pink satin six inches wide on both sides, decorate blue ends with morning glory motifs, trim edges with lace, form a central scarf style, and spread the ends when tied to a chair.
A craft description proposes making a waste paper receptacle from a peach basket by weaving blue silesia through the slats and creating a deep, decorative bin. The design features black and navy bands, a pendth cover, and a blue silesia bow for finishing.
A retired East India missionary presents a simple vegetable cure for bronchitis catarrh asthma and lung ailments and nervous debility. He claims widespread testing and offers the recipe free by mail in German French or loaded script with full directions. Prices for the paper and booklets are listed.
A detailed Christmas party game outlines selecting an editor from among players, creating illustrated prompts, and crafting stories within a set hour. Players vote on fragment status, judge merit by ballots, and rank pieces 1 to n, using editor as tiebreaker.
The passage explains a two row word guessing game around a fireplace. Opponents face each other and the right side leader starts by naming a noun. The word is whispered along the line and the opposite player must guess by forming comparisons like It is like X because Y. Correct guesses promote players to leaders, wrong or out of turn moves place players at the line foot, and leaders rotate as each side takes a turn until all have acted as leader.
Players sit in a circle and guess items by asking what the merchant sells. The correct answer comes only when the named article is touched with the left hand of the namer, a detail learned as the trick is uncovered through trial and cautious play.
A fragmented account outlines several childhood pastimes aimed at provoking laughter. Games include solemn dialogue next to a lighted candle with forfeits, a Swiss ear pinch gag, and a staff standing ritual culminating in a quiet armed dialogue about keeping a straight face.
The piece describes a simple party pastime where players receive blank sheets and pencils, mark dots in any arrangement, and pass the paper to the left. The process continues as each participant adds to a dot pattern and passes it along for a new round.
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