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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1883
Page
3
A review of Watts article argues fashion should reflect natural beauty and fitness. It condemns extreme corsetry, tiny waists, and high heels that deform feet and hinder movement, urging varied yet balanced dress within nature’s lines, with attention to hair, fabric, and comfort.
The article outlines ladies and gentlemen sleighing fashions including seal-skin borders, Persian lamb, sable fur borders, and high or low turbans. It notes cloaks, lace scarfs, crocheted Zephyr wraps, and fur-lined coats. Skating outfits feature cloth and felt suits, green and terracotta color schemes, pelisses, hoods, veils, and varied fur trimmings with new vogue gauze veils and beaded accents.
Spring outfits described in ribbai wool or light net in dark stylish hues, trimmed along the front with a wide black braid in hussar stripes. The piece emphasizes fabric quality and decorative trim for a bold, period-appropriate look.
Seasonable suggestions highlight velveteen as a favored winter fabric with gray and black velveteen dresses trimmed in plush, fur, or satin. Outdoor outfits pair silk and velvet with plush coats, beaver hats, and beaded lace bonnets. Jewelry trends favor bracelets in India designs, delicate diamonds, cultured pearls, and canary diamonds, with engagement rings in understated settings.
A sewing pattern and project roundup describes clover leaf lace knitting with an eight stitch cast on and multiple over and purl steps, then moves to glove bags. It details satin bags with embroidered motifs, sachets for perfumery, and a decorative pen-wiper shaped like a spray of flowers as easy home crafts.
Captain McCool, conductor on the Air Line train, collected fares after leaving Atlanta. He found Judge Owens asleep in a seat, upright with head resting on his breast, and could not wake him. The incident occurred shortly before the train reached its destination.
A Naples reader testimonials that Compound Oxygen helps him sleep quickly at night, claiming prior insomnia left him restless for hours. The note advertises a Treatise on Compound Oxygen detailing its nature and results, with reports of cases and full information from Parrey & Paley in Philadelphia.
A guide to winter home styling with velvet and plush centerpieces, ivy latticework, and natural greens, plus tips on artificial arrangements, pampas grass, and room decoration balance. Also features ham roasting, buckwheat cakes, corned beef, carpet dusting, corn pone, cough medicine, and oatmeal soap for chapped hands.
A splash curtain offers a beginner a chance to learn taste and invention. Start with simple designs like tall rushes or a stork in water, drawing and planning to avoid blindly following lines. Use self drawn designs or trusted artists, study what lines mean, and keep outlines simple and true to form.
An ornamental table accessory of coarse butcher's linen seven-eighths by a half yard, fringed edge, with corner devices showing chickens pheasants ducks and quail outlined in colored stitching. A vine border of holly leaves berries or flowers completes the design.
A simple toilet cushion made of fine dotted muslin over blue or pink silk measures a quarter yard square. Four corners feature two-inch satin ribbon pieces meeting at the center with a bow. Trim includes lace and owl edges. Toilet mats use muslin with silk and lace edges and ribbon bows at the corners.
A pretty bed quilt is described made of coarse linen cut into quarter yard squares. Each square is embroidered in crewel with a design. Squares are sewn together with lace insertions about four inches wide between them, bordered with insertion and lace, and lined to match room furniture.
A mantle drapery is described using gen darme blue plush with ends longer than the center. Embroidered flower and leaf clusters appear at the ends with tiny beads, while the center features an oblong beadwork motif. A silk fringe edges the piece and a vine embroidered in gold sits above it.
A lamp shade made of colored tissue paper in flutings with a large artificial flower trim is described as decorative when lit by gas or lamplight but must be used only with a glass shade to avoid burning hazards.
A historic home remedy outlines scrubbing a dingy pine floor using hot water soap and sand. It advises removing furniture except the stove, scrubbing with two brooms, applying more hot water, rinsing with cold water until clear, and drying thoroughly. Substitutes include yellow soap and hardwood ashes with extra rinses.
In a peculiarly comic Milwaukee style tale a boy recalls his father’s failed fire escape plan and a near bare leg escape from a rope ladder. The stubborn Pa argues for caution while the boy’s mischief triggers chaos and a church scandal over a hidden music box.
Captain F M Howes of the William Crane steamship, Boston Bellimore line, suffered severe rheumatism from exposure in his work. He was cured by St Jacobs Oil, in the wake of a noted age of suspicion.
A columnist outlines spring planting for window boxes with chrysanthemums, petunias, primroses, cyclamen, and geraniums. It covers potting, repotting, seed sowing in boxes, and seasonal care to ensure blooms from autumn through winter, highlighting specific varieties and cultivation tips.
Lantanas offer upright vigorous growth with new dwarf varieties in colors and blooms. They thrive as bedding plants, tolerate drought, and respond to careful potting and seasonal watering. Propagation through cuttings or seeds yields thriving flowering specimens with proper repotting and trimming.
The mealy bug harms coleus plants over years and threatens culture. Propagators suffer first. treatment uses weak carbolic soap and paris green or sulfur. Dip cuttings before planting, shade briefly, then transplant. repeat weekly with the solution. Brush off white down to remove eggs and keep plants in frames to improve control.
A detailed description explains an indoor frame built from a stout wooden box about twenty inches square and eighteen inches deep, raised on four legs with a bottom hole boxed and coconut refuse lining. Water is poured into a perforated zinc tray mounted above a tin baking dish, supported by wood strips, with a vertical draining pipe leading to a layered setup of broken pottery and sand, filled to within six inches of the top, plus a square garden hand-light.
Detailed season by season advice for fuchsias and camellias including soil mix, drainage, and watering to avoid root sourness. Guidance on repotting timing, pot sizes, pruning, and insect control with syringing for thrips and red spider. Later sections advise early seed sowing for annuals perennials climbers and biennials, and starting delphiniums nasturtiums cobaea and others for extended bloom through summer.
In Parsonfield Missouri Hodgsdon, not pious, wished God would rain on him for life. A rubber joker tube concealed in a grandson’s jacket kept a constant spray as water fell on him. He feared life’s end, but the prank exposed the cause. The man may abandon church claims while the grandson endures meals with the joke.
In Concord New Hampshire a recently commissioned justice of the peace botched a wedding delivering moralizing line as he proclaimed the couple man and woman. Onlookers say the ceremony fell into farce with muttered remarks and fainting rumors, leaving town dreading the next visit to the parsonage for nuptials.
A San Leandro doctor testifies his four year use of Pleasant Purgative Pellets in practice, stating they replace other alteratives and medicines for stomach relief and cleanse the stomach glixer and need that equal taee.
A testimonial from Decker of Baltimore claims Brown's Iron Bitters restored energy and health after wartime stomach injury and years of indigestion. He credits two bottles with enabling him to rise, move, and improve rapidly.
An advertisement extols Brown's Iron Bitters as a complete non alcoholic tonic for indigestion dyspepsia malaria weakness and all diseases needing a reliable supplement. It claims to enrich the blood strengthen muscles and restore nerve tone.
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