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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1883
Page
3
An essay urges a genius to preach against social and private life conventions that suppress women. It laments sham in dress codes and social expectations, calling for sincerity and freedom while noting how fashion and etiquette enforce repression. It then shifts to practical fashion guidance for dressy mourning bonnets and trimmings.
The Harper's Bazaar editor argues that domestic life could be cheaper and pleasanter with outdoor relief. A well placed first floor, hired cookery services, and simple labor sharing with a laundress and cleaner could reduce cost and worry, making housekeeping a freer, more comfortable pursuit.
The piece surveys bonnet styles, highlighting large small bonnets with deep brims and comfortable crowns, and notes milliners customizing frames. It describes trends in trim sizes, walking cloaks, and evening bonnets tied to wraps, with pink or pale blue velvet options and crystal beaded lace accents.
A guide to crafting affordable, charming gifts this season. It details embroidered pongee handkerchiefs and aprons with red and white clover forget‑me‑nots, blue and old gold motifs, silk fringe bordered porcelain shades, and dainty pigeon wing fal-sholders. It also covers decorative pockets from millinette and feather, plus practical tips on materials and colors.
A retrospective compare and contrast traces vast U S progress from 1830 to 1880. It notes growth in railroads totaling about 90,000 miles, telegraph lines around 300,000 miles, rise of steamship trade exceeding 1.5 billion dollars, population swelling from 13 million to 61 million, and the advent of devices like sewing machines and photography alongside major industrial advances.
Colonel John Murray recalls selling 6150 tickets in an hour in Chicago with no counterfeit losses and only one counterfeit bill in 22 years. He notes detecting fake money by weight, describes odd customers in the South, mentions scratches from knives, and recalls a 1880 Cleveland robbery attempt where a sling shot failed to steal over $3000, leading to a police arrest after the shooting incident.
A brief, dark domestic vignette features a dying boy who questions why God spares him and takes others. He suggests God reserves death for the bad, while a mother answers with gentleness as the boy oddly recovers. The piece pivots on a child's paradox and a mother's quiet response.
A displayed relic in the Boston Theatre foyer is a playbill from the Warren Theatre on Causeway street dated Friday November 29, 1833. It marks Joseph Proctor’s stage debut as Damon in Damon and Pythias, with the afterpiece Botheration or a Ten Years Blunder and an intermission performance by Miss Kerr.
Mr. Benjamin W. Paton a pharmacist in Globe Village Mass reports his sales of St Jacobs Oil have doubled in one month. He keeps a large supply on hand. Army and Navy officers praise St Jacobs Oil as the greatest pain cure of the age.
The passage lists dullness dizziness and yellow skin as torpid liver signs and promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medica Discovery as a universal cure. Itclaims radical cures and mentions Crug stereos.
A detailed Antique era guide explains procuring two large cigar boxes to form a wall cabinet. It covers aligning lids, attaching walnut strips for shelves and suspension, making doors from lids, and adding brass hinges, glass inserts, decorative incised work, and a top railing. It describes adding side troughs to increase capacity and finishing with oiling and polishing.
Instructions describe making a spread or afghan from six to seven inch fabric squares. Use silk satin velvet in varied colors with narrow borders, outline stitch in floss silk, ink faces on squares, and decorate with Virginia creeper swallow and blossoms motifs. Assemble with sage ribbon joining six strips and a mitered border.
A plain blanket can be refreshed by sending it to the dyer for a soft new blue shade and adding an old gold crewel border. Use wine and olive dyes carefully, as light colors resist staining. End sections may feature chrysanthemum or creeper motifs to prevent slipping and elevate room tone.
The article discusses choosing linen over newer fabrics for durability and ease of work, noting old linen can be used but is harder to outline designs upon. It outlines a method with fringed ends, drawn work disks, and a central apple blossom motif, plus blue or gold outlines and light backdrops. It also covers towel shams using damask or heavy linen and a medallion design with a child’s head motif in silk or ink.
A detailed description of decorating a sham with a medallion shape in lighter blue, surrounded by a large spray of wild rose, apple blossoms, or honeysuckle in pink and red. The floral background fills the end of the sham. only one end needs decoration while the other end drapes behind and stays concealed.
A detailed 13 row knitting sequence begins with twelve stitches cast on and a series of plain and knit rows. It specifies repeated actions like knit two, seam two together, over, knit three, and similar techniques across rows with increases and decreases to shape the fabric.
A decorative ruby colored plush set includes a square table cover mantel valance sofa pillow chair back and small divan. Water lilies and ferns motif appears across pieces with silk flower petals stuffed for dimension. Olive plush trims, ruby ribbons, and tassels decorate mantels and corners. A humming bird accent and corner appliques complete the design.
A decorative photograph holder project uses a 25 by 13 inch strip of fabric doubled into a booklike case. It is lined with satin or sak and stiff muslin, with sewn pockets to hold photos. Edges are finished with tiny satin folds and the sides feature embroidery or painting plus a contrasting satin ribbon diagonal bar.
Create a wall decoration by joining two similar fans at rivets to form a wheel. Leave black sticks as spokes, cover the center with a ribbon bow, and weave narrow ribbons through the sticks. Use black fans with red center bow and multicolor outer ribbons for a handsome look. Outer ribbons can be omitted and sticks fixed with a rack to display visiting cards or photos.
Ornamental embellishment tips describe decorating a large palim leaf fan with free hand floral painting on its uneven surface. A satin ribbon bow around the handle adds finish, with a decaleonavne design offered if colors are muted by vase line and burnt staveli powder.
A detailed craft guide describes making a cretonne center piece featuring a Watteau style scene with gayly dressed figures. It covers applying color tinsel cords along dress lines, adding bright silk highlights, and sewing borders from striped cretonne. It suggests lining with soft silesia, attaching velvet borders, and adding fringe or lace, plus decorating glass bottles with plush and satin to form neck frills and bows.
Instructions describe creating a square cushion with a diagonal seam that blends one half plush and one half satin. The underside uses silesia, fill with cork shavings, edge finished with a satin pleat, and a three inch wide satin border pleated in double box pleats. A ribbon bow or transferred design may be added to the satin corner before assembly.
An elegant mantel ornament in dark green velvet features a simple bottom edge with brass crescents on cords and tassels. A matching velvet wall panel enhances the display of mantel furniture, brasses, paintings, and china, framed by brass nailed or curtain pole attachments.
Instructions describe covering a large square cushion with satin or satine in light blue or pink or sea green, edging with heavy creamy lace, and hemming a fine linen border. A center square is divided into four by herring bone. four small panels feature overs-forget-me-nots, wistaria, harebell, and periwinkle or alternate pink design with sweet peas roses or apple blossoms. Corner bows of ribbon finish.
A neatly arranged basket of dried flowers and grasses serves as a dainty attraction in any home and stands as the best substitute for fresh cut flowers. The immortelies, with grasses, form decorative arrangements in domestic spaces.
The guide describes making a decorative basket filled with moss and delicate mosses grasses and flowers arranged to spill over the sides. It notes sewing moss to the basket bottom and blending colors with shells and coral fragments for artistic effect.
A decorative whisk brush rack mirrors a large palette covered in plush and silk with a satin ribbon loop for hanging. Two pasteboard palettes are joined, one face covered in plush blue and the other in silk, with a bow and ends. A strap sewn to the sides holds brushes, with a painted or embroidered design or pasted scrap-book flowers for decoration.
Instructions for a hood and cape using Germantown yarn and garnet Zephyr and satin ribbon. Includes chain counts, stitch types, scallop edging, double ruffles, shells, and finishing details with cords and a bow.
A readable notice describes the new book John Bull and His Island from Charles Scribners Sons. It highlights themes of determination obstinacy stubbornness and love of conquest as explored in the volume.
A clever gang of boys led by a bad boy stages an incendiary ruse to mock a grocer while aiding a kicked, needy mother. They raise funds, buy coal and baby supplies, and pose as guardians of the infant, delivering warmth and care in a backstreet room above a meat market. A running thread features the boy’s mock fire, the mother’s poverty, and the humane motive behind the stunt.
A series of patient anecdotes from the 1880s extolling Hop Bitters as life saving. Narratives claim bilious fever illness cured, weight gain, restored appetite, and renewed health after starting Hop Bitters. Included are names, places, and dates such as Dublin June 6 81 and Malden Feb 1 1880, plus statements of cures for liver kidney and neuralgia issues.
A long catalog of magazine titles with prices and subscription terms. The list includes Arthur's Home Magazine American Dairyman Art Interchange American Poultry Journal Atlantic Monthly and many more. It notes that only one magazine may be addressed per order and requests starting issue details.
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