Women on the Sea and the Rayner Opinion
A Washington treasury solicitor Rayner weighs the woman question. A New Orleans woman seeks a steamboat captain license, prompting debate on whether gender defines vocation. The piece mocks Rayner while arguing individual choice and nature as guides for life. It also observes social talk and conversational wit in polite society.
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Washington
K. Rayner
the Treasury
New Orleans
Rayner
Treasury Department
Mr. Rayner
Rayher
The
Present Fancy of Fashion in Cloths for Dinner Tables
Description of damask cloths for dining settings detailing French damask versus Irish cloths. Notes on patterns, borders, and center designs with damask flowers and vines. Discusses square cloths sizes, napkins, fringe doglegs, colored borders, and import trends in luncheon and breakfast sets.
SMALL TALK A Conversation Art For Dinner Parties
A discussion on avoiding dull conversation, suggesting how to keep small talk engaging without arrogance or scandal. It notes that even bright people can fail at light talk and offers tips to discuss artists or literary topics sensibly, prompting pleasant exchanges at gatherings.
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New York
Newport
Lear
Glimpses of Fashion Lace and Ribbons at the Neck
Fashion notes discuss lace and crewel lisser finishes around necks and sleeves, collar details on dark cloth and velvet, and the lingering appeal of fine lace next to the skin. It notes crimped lace with gold braid, gold embroidery, and beading as standout collars, with ribbon trends toward soft crinkles and bow ties in shades of red amber and old gold.
Glove fashions shift shorten economy versus quality
The article critiques cheap gloves as a poor purchase amid fashion shifts from short to long gloves. It notes vast surplus of low quality stock, hidden defects, and risks buyers face, while describing evolving styles, fabrics, and colors including cashmere longs, undressed gloves, tan shades, and black kid or silk varieties for evenings.
Indications From Paris Fashion Letter
A Paris fashion letter predicts ongoing freedom in dress and a future of freer styles. It notes that past fashion cycles were abrupt and singular while now versatility reigns, yet warns that combining many elements requires refined taste to avoid chaos.
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Paris
Fancy and Decorative Drapery for Mantels and Tables
The article details making a bright blue plush drapery with Silesia accents for mantels and shelves. It covers scallop patterns, bouquet flowers in white pink orange red and green satin, using yellow seed centers, beadwork, gathered edges, and silver fringe. It notes matching lambrequins for brackets and suggests table spreads in the same style.
Pretty little crocheted baskets for a lady's toilet
These baskets are crochetted in coarse brown thread with a small up shape, wider at the top, finished with a scallop. They stiffen over a form to dry, painted and varnished, then filled with curled hair and fringed worsted. Crochet handle rings, tied with red ribbon bows.
Christmas craft for kids from scraps and imagination
A busy woman at a Christmas work table crafts simple gifts for children. She describes making a snow woman from paper and wadding with red stitched edges and a cotton head, and a snow man with a cloth body and wooden legs. The toys are cheap, charming, and aimed at easing holiday needs.
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Harry
Willie
Ella
A Horse for a Very Little Boy Crafts Guide
A fragment describes making a toy horse from a broom handle with a painted head and leather ears. It instructs shaping a 2 inch wood block, filing edges smooth, drilling a neck hole, inserting the handle, and adding a brassy thimble to protect the carpet. The head is painted black or brown and ears attached before painting.
Horse with glass eyes and gold silk trim shown
A description of a decorative horse figure featuring shallow eye holes for glass eyes, painted finish, possible collar and trappings, a small bell, and feathyrstitching with gold silk to enhance its appearance, noting careful detailing for a pretty result.
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Wien
A Hangin Pincushion Craft Note
Instructions describe sewing two brown velvet circles with emery filling and orange satin ribbon loops edged with steel beads. A long ribbon loop and bow suspend the cushion for wall display, noting it is pretty for a sewing room.
Transforming a Peach Basket Into Crocheted Beauty
An old peach basket becomes a decorative piece with white paint, scarlet opera flannel, and black cashmere drapery. It describes crocheted borders and berry motifs, detailing stitches and assembly to create a decorative tidy.
Parlor chairs fade with use and care needed
The text instructs renewing worn hair-cloth chairs by varnishing frames and correcting alignment. It advises heating Carter's black ink in a cup, washing haleloth with a sponge, drying, then washing again in cold water.
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Carter
Cushion design with nine square panels and tasselled edge
The plan describes a sofa cushion divided into nine squares with a centre 7 inch panel in dark cloth. Squares use canvas for even stitches and thread drawing, featuring various motifs including animals and Chinese figures. The centre features a large animal scene, finished with feather stitching in old gold silk and a final corded tasselled edge.
Silk Sofa Cushion Materials and Tips
The silk piece bag is opened and sorted for odds and ends in satin silks and velvets. Pieces may be cut in any form, with plain fabric possibly showing birds butterflies or Chinese fan outlines. Finish edges with a braided ribbon plait and add corner bows.
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Sik
How to Make a Cheap Book Shelf Guide
This quick DIY notes a simple shelf project for home use. It describes cutting sides with decorative edges, adding two shelves, covering with dark crimson plush, and trimming edges with bright fringe secured by brass-headed nails for a finished look.
Old Parlor Craft: Restoring Tables and Odds
A reflective note on reviving old parlor furnishings by cleaning, varnishing, and gilding. The author imagines refurbishing clocks, shelves, a turning tea-table, and spinning wheels to display grandfatherly elegance in a grand parlor.
Nightdress Case and Embroidered Sofa Cushion Craft
Detailed vintage craft directions describe assembling a nightdress case with blue satin and lace, including wadding, silk cord, and pearl buttons. It also covers crocheted sofa cushion stripes in white and scarlet with embroidery patterns and decorative edging, noting an ornate, giftworthy result.
Embroidered Table and Shelf Decor by a Skilled Lady
A Knobbed description praises a woman with expert embroidery skills to beautify garments and home spaces. It highlights a live green with a Roman border in gold silk thread, daisies, pansies, buttercups with butterflies, and cat-tail flags, noting that careful work yields very pretty results.
Transforming Old Closets Into Modern Cabinets of Style
The article describes remodeling old closets with blue interior paint two inch wooden strips pinked on the edge and gilt tacks to form shelves and busts. Bronze imitation brackets with Roman heads support curtain rods while unbleached cotton curtains add color. A plaster antique pitcher and spangling adornments finish the mantel area.
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Garret
Inante shelves and decorative parlor details described
The passage outlines furnishing ideas for a parlor with dark blue plush brequin fringe shelves high on a wall. It covers arranging shallow shelves, trickets supports, china displays, wooden wall tiles, a firedale of ferns in the chimney, a blue wainscot with gold highlights, decalcomale rose designs, and a ceiling of roses and birds. It also details a Nightdress Case for a Bride with satin panels, silk cords, blue or pink satin plaiting, Venetian embroidery, and ribbon bows for tying together sections.
How to pickle pork for long keeping in brine
Instructions from Globe Receipts detail preparing a salt brine and pickle for pork. After cutting and draining, pork is packed in a tub with cold pickle for six weeks, then reboiled with sugar and saltpetre and reapplied. The method aims to preserve pork for months, with yearly renewal and thorough tub sanitizing.
How to Cure Bacon and Hams with Salt and Pickle
Instructional guide for curing bacon and hams using salt blends bay salt pepper allspice and saltpetre. Soak rub for days then apply treacle and continue rubbing weekly for a month. Finish by draining and optional tar essence for smoky flavor.
Curing Beef with Salt and Spices Method
A historical recipe describes curing 100 pounds of beef in a mortar with four pounds of common salt, six ounces of salprunello, six ounces of saltpetre, and a pound and a half of coarse sugar. After pounding, heat the mixture and rub the meat, then pack in an airtight cask without water. It becomes cookable in twelve days. Tongues can be cured the same way using the pork pickle.
Hambro Pickle for Beef Preservation Method
Instructions describe a salt and sugar brine for beef preservation. Five pounds of salt four ounces of saltetre and a pound of brown sugar per four gallons of water are boiled two hours. Meat is packed in Uns pickle, weighted, left six weeks, then pickle reused. Reboil and reseal monthly for four to five months. Beet meat from this pickle is said to taste better than cured or hung.
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Wren
Devilled Meats Method From An Old Recipe Card
Cut thin slices of cold meat fowl or kidneys lay in a shallow dish and pour dressing over it. Dressings include mustard Worcester sauce mushroom catsup chili wine vinegar cayenne oil or butter lemon juice and claret. Bake in oven a quarter hour, stirring once.
Beaten beef cakes with mashed potatoes and gravy
A recipe describes shaping lean raw meat with salt pepper onion and bread crumbs into flat cakes. Fry in butter and lard until cooked, drain, and serve atop nicely mashed potatoes with the beef cakes.
English style pig head jelly dish with legs and heels
Instructions describe washing a pig head with ears and two cow heels, brining with saltpetre for a day, boiling until tender, pressing into a mould with bay and pepper, baking briefly, then cooling to a jelly. Mentions devilled dishes and compares to English fare.
Swiss Cream Dessert from Victorian Recipe
A concise preparation for Swiss cream combines cream lemon peel and sugar boiled then cooled, with lemon juice added after, and macaroons soaked in sherry before pouring the mixture over them for serving.
Mince Pudding Recipe From Old Cookbook
A traditional mince pudding method uses flour suet mince meat egg sugar and brandy. Mix flour suet egg salt and water to form a dough, roll thinly, spread mince meat, roll and seal in a cloth, boil two hours, then baste with brandy syrup made from sugar water and brandy.
Potted Chicken Relish Recipe From Historic Menu
A recipe describes roasting and deboning a chicken then mixing meat with cooked ham and butter. For each pound of meat add a quarter pound ham and butter, with salt cayenne mace and nutmeg. Pound together, jar, and top with melted butter for a lunch relish or sandwich filling.
Vintage bread recipe steps for sponge and batter
A historic kitchen instruction lists ingredients for bread and cake dough. It specifies: flour, yeast, milk, butter, sugar, eggs, salt, lemon rind, cinnamon, and currants. It directs preparing a sponge with lukewarm milk and initial flour, then beating butter and sugar, adding eggs, and mixing with salt to a smooth batter.
Home Baked Currant Cakes Explained In Old Recipe
A historical recipe describes mixing lemon and sponge with flour and milk to form a dough softer than bread. Roll into a 12 by 6 inch sheet, brush with melted butter, egg wash margins, fill with currants, dust with cinnamon sugar, roll, slice, and bake as bread cakes.
The Window Garden Opens A Home To Spring Color
A compact feature describes turning windows into year round gardens. A French window hosts geraniums, passion vines, and trailing greenery. A decorative stand, lambrequins, a calla bloom, herbs, a century print, bird hooks, and a songbird complete the cozy display.
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Tem
Indoor Flower Forcing From Common Evergreen Shrubs and Vines
Those without greenhouses can enjoy flowers in winter by forcing branches in water in a sunny window. Leatherleaf Cassandra calyculata, featherleaf, and ganderbush bloom well in water. Forsythia viridissima and pussy willow offer early color. Epigaea repens and Mitchella may succeed with warm-room treatment.
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Wisconsin
Japan
Europe
How to Build a Home Fernery for North Window Light
A north window can host a fernery with shade-loving plants to create a pleasant view. Build a deep pan foundation with a deep box and frame to support glass and a roof, using grooved joints and glaziers’ tins. The design includes rafters, sash-style glass openings, and careful joinery for a sturdy, attractive fernery.
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Tluss
Greenhouse Care For Window Plants In Summer
As sun intensifies, bloom will be abundant and plants demand more water. Ventilation should increase, especially for window plants, to curb early insect attacks. Tobacco smoke or tobacco tea can control pests. moisture and gentle cleaning help, while faded flowers should be trimmed and stems pruned to encourage new growth.
General Grant Seen For Last Time In Public
Special correspondence describes a visit to General Grant at his home as he remains unable to see visitors. The account savors the grand hall with exotic furnishings and notes his fragile health and minimal sleep. The writer fears the distinguished citizen may have appeared in public for the final time.
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Sunday Globe
New York
General Grant
Vienna
Constantinople
Yokohata
Grant
Teller and the Bunco Steerer Nominates Teller for President
An enthusiastic town paper backs H. M. Teller for president though Colorado is too far west for nomination. On the President’s train he was duped by a bunco steerer who pretended to be Breckenridge, quickly vanishing after the harmless misdirection. Teller said he considered impaling the swindler with an umbrella, but saw no glory in it.
Northern Pacific Turn Signals Recovery After Bear Move
The Senate committee formation to aid Northern Pacific began two months ago with key players present. And in a strategic shift, Sage and Field waited for a bottom before entering to win, pushing prices up as Gould, Drexel, Morgan & Co. joined the effort. Cyrus W. Field called the panic over, predicting steady price advances into the coming year while noting Northern Pacific remains crucial.
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Northern Pacific
Synateate
Frank Work
D. O. Mills
Jay Gould
Drexel, Morgan & Co
Sage and Field
Villard
Cyrus W. Field
Nast’s trip to Florida aided by southern climate
Mrs Nast informs that Thomas Nast plans a Florida trip to aid his ailing nervous system. He will travel with companions including the Earl of Huntingdon Lord Hastings Captain Gambier and others. Corrut notes the voyage aims for pleasant travel and hoped for his improved return.
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Thomas Nast
Morristown
New Jersey
Earl of Huntingdon
Lord Hastings
Gambier
W. A. Corrut
Grand Army Convention Elects Officers and Delegates
At Tremont Temple the Grand Army convention elected John D. Billings department commander and J. W. Hersey senior vice commander. Richard F. Tubin won junior vice commander. Rev. Richard H. Eddy became department chaplain. Dr. James Oliver Jr. medical director. Delegates to Minneapolis were chosen, with Alfred C. Munroe named assistant adjutant-general for the year. The body adjourned sine die.
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Comrades of the
G. A KR
Tremont Temple
Committee On
John D. Billings
Post 94
Canton
J. W. Hersey
Post 16
Springfield
Benjamin F. Pitman
Marblehead
Horace A. Sawyer
Post
Lynn
D. H. L. Gleason
Post 63
Natick
Pitman
Sawyer
Minneapolis
Mino
James R. Meech
H. E. Hall
J. A. G. Richardson
George A. Fletcher
J. E. Killion
Andrew ©.Stone
John McFarlin
W. H. Exty
G. G. Bailey
Charles C. Welch
T. H. Hill
Charles S. Anthony
R. Greeley
E. B. Sullings
J. L. Otis
F. C. Barnes
J. H. Abbott
FP. Keyes
E. 5. Horton
C. Frank Lainer
W. H. Warren
Thomas E. Barker
J. W. Sawyer
H. Colburn
E. H. Er
E. P. Davis
J. L. Cappell
H. M. Phillips
Vitalizing Treatment Offered by Philadelphia Doctors
It will cost you nothing to obtain a medical opinion in your chronic condition from Drs. Starkey and Palen at 1109 Girard Street, Philadelphia. They advertise a new Vitalizing Treatment that is attracting wide attention and claim remarkable cures in desperate cases, inviting inquiries for information and an intelligent idea of its nature and action.
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Drs. Starkey & Palen
Girard Street
Philadelphia
Hunter's Story of a Rheumatic Cure in a Swamp
A Brockmere New York correspondent recounts meeting a hunter in a harsh swamp who reveals a decades lasting rheumatic decline cured by Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure. The tale ends with the writer experiencing similar relief within a day, urging readers to try the remedy and contact A. A. Coates in Brookmere for verification.
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A. A. Coates
Brookmere
N. Y
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