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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1884
Page
3
A progressive column argues women gain mental strength through social contact and business interaction more than passive study. It cites men’s broader exposure, notes women’s rising clubs and effort in education, and predicts a lasting, historical movement paralleling great causes.
A color study notes the shift toward brown, gray, and yellow with French plum and prune accents. Whistler’s display uses white and yellow motifs in etchings and surroundings, highlighting clean tones, canary velvet, and a bright, sunlit mood that enhances the artworks.
Fashion notes describe a resurgence of high coiffures at evening events, with French twist backs and curled crown loops. Front hair features a shingled bang or smooth styles, while accessories include jeweled pins and diamonds. Dermatologists advise gentle care and brushing for healthy hair.
Small jeweled pins are stuck about in the lace on the corsage. They need not match in design or color. Rubies, pearls, rhinestones and any little pin can be thrust in some.
A fashion note from an era guide covers Ellen Terry bonnets and polonaises, striped Turkish towels in day rooms, bouquets of one color roses for evening wear, and tighter gloves with light suede tones. It also warns against novelty borders, recommends delicate handkerchiefs, and advises on lamps and white shades for harmony. The piece notes summer holiday goods, plentifully purchased presents, and the role of lamps in refined rooms.
An instructional feature on making paper flowers with tissue paper wire and mucilage. It covers roses lilies daisies and more with step by step hints for shaping petals leaves and stems. Directions emphasize inexpensive materials and craft practice for beginners to create natural looking blooms suitable for bouquets.
The article describes decorative napkins for fish and corn with linen sizes and embroidery patterns. It notes using Pearsall silk colors, outlines designs like coral seaweed fish and corn motifs, and suggests color tones for corn napkins. It also mentions long narrow dinner napkins and upcoming afternoon tea gatherings for young women with embroidered tray cloths and tea napins.
Instructions describe a macrame project using coarse cord and a crochet hook to create a decorative piece. It specifies a twenty three stitch foundation chain, treble clusters across several chains with intentional skips, then progressive rows that adjust chain counts and stitch types to form a textured motif. The pattern outlines three rows with variations in treble group placement, chain length, and a final joining technique.
The text provides step by step crochet directions for a decorative bag. It covers forming four chain rows, folding to create three patterns per side, eight trebles per group, and closures. It instructs on fringes, knots, chains, handles, lining with merino or cashmere, satin ribbon, invisible stitches, finishing touches, and possible variations such as bites and multiple ribbons.
A reader offers step by step ideas for decorative crafts at home. Create crystallized glass screens with salts, paper figures, and wax flowers. Make plush panels, pillow shams with lace and rick rack, broomstick tables, and gyp y-ketlie style tents. Include aprons, hanging baskets, and wire and alum decorations for shelves and brackets.
Rev J H Richards of South Haven Mich reports on June 14 1882 that Compound Oxygen cured a 70 year old woman after a deadly pulmonary attack. She improved after treatment and soon lived actively, countering dire physician forecasts. The note urges reading the Treatise on Compound Oxygen and lists Starkey Palen addresses in Philadelphia.
A Savannah letter recounts Mrs. Flood, California wealth, visiting Tiffanys in New York seeking the finest necklace. Tiffanys offered to ship to Paris the grandest piece, but Mrs Flood returned to California before it arrived and declined the gift. Mrs Stanford bought the necklace for breakfast wear, deeming it not formal enough, with the price stated as over $100,000.
An old physician, retired from practice, claims a vegetable remedy can cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and all throat and lung afflictions plus nervous debility. He will mail this proven recipe free of charge in German French or English to any inquiring reader who sends a stamped request and mentions the paper to W. A. Noyes 149 Powers Block Rochester NY.
A Detroit Free Press item notes a man awakens intent to die for his country but changes his mind when realizing he is stuck with a trade dollar. The text then shifts to promote Buebu-Paiba as a cure for kidney and primary complaints through stinging irritation and inflammation relief.
A horticulture writer describes growing flowers entirely in water inside a warm room. He uses cork supports in glass basins and tumblers to hold roots from polyanthus, narcissus, hyacinths, tulips, crocuses, and more. Roots thrive, buds form, and blooms appear before Christmas, with plants staying vibrant through winter and requiring minimal care.
A detailed account of building a long ash table with a walnut lattice trellis for winter window gardening. The author describes construction, finishing, watering, and lighting strategies, plus plant selections like Pilogyne suavis Madeira vine dracaena and ivy. The design aims for even light, moisture control, and mobility on castors for seasonal use.
A British gardening piece lists foliage plants ideal for window boxes and furnace heated rooms. It describes Anthericum varieties, coleus, Abutilon Mesopotamicum, Dracaena terminalis, Rex begonias, and several peperomias, Fittonia, Acalypha, and Eranthes Lindenii, with care tips, pot sizes, and a suggested mixed focal arrangement for a window box featuring Cyperus alternifolius, Abutilon, and Dracaena among others.
A 60-year-old man in the Flint county jail corridor is described as a living arsenal with bullets embedded under his skin. He recounts a 40-year military career, brutal Civil War era injuries, attempted escapes in Texas and along the Rio Grande, and a plan to locate his parents near Port Huron before seeking admission to the Soldiers’ Home in Washington.
Local tale of Johnny Jones a shore resident famed for quick rhymes and lumber thefts on Merrymeeting Bay. A judge offered bail in exchange for a rhyme. Jones promised a verse from his boat and delivered a boastful claim of forty stolen logs and another forty, amid tales of Hogreeves and a Bowdoin professor. The quirky anecdotes include canoe thefts, threats, and clamming knowhow with rustic humor.
Not a take on Dr. R V Pierce's remedies, the product claims to help bilious conditions and impure blood. It asserts usefulness against fears of consumption and scrofulous lung disease, with sales through druggists widely.
A health note extols lemons as a universal medicine for rheumatism fever and liver trouble. It describes growing regions, uses in lemonade juice for daily intake to ward off illness, warding off scurvy, aiding gums and skin, and cautions on peel oil irritation.
The text argues that repeated physical use strengthens nerves and muscles, shaping habits and character. Destructive appetites degrade through physical change, while repeated acts of kindness enlarge powers and foster benevolence. It compares misers and philanthropists, stressing mind brain unity and inevitable character formation.
A brief 19th century reflection argues moderate smoking harms none who lead industrious lives and notes the family as the main objection. It cites Dr. G Decaisne’s report on 38 youths aged 9 to 15, showing effects like palpitations, poor digestion, nightmares, and nasal bleeding, with 11 boys quitting within a year.
Rules for dental care urge rinsing after meals brushing twice daily with a camphorated chalk powder and a medium brush using cool water. Cautionary tale warns against overly hot baths for infants noting a caregiver tested bath temperature by elbow before bathing and the risk of scalding.
A collection of folk cures including linen bag therapy with bran water for skin feel, borax on the tongue to ease throat moisture, stale bread poultices for inflamed eyelids, malar cures with lime water and yolk mixtures, black tea on eyelids, hot water foot soak for headaches, sulfur inhalation for sore throat, and borax washes for canker sores. These remedies show period approaches to common ailments and self care practices.
A reader recalls illness and back pain in Malden Massachusetts on February 1 1880. She attributes her husband s twenty year invalid status to kidney liver and urinary problems and credits seven bottles of a bitter remedy with saving eight neighbors and many others.
A dense bibliographic list of magazine titles and pricing including American Dairyman American Poultry Journal Atlantic Monthly and many others. The page mentions subscription costs and a note about mail order limitations with address 228.
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