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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1883
Page
3
A New York Sun essay advocates practical training for women to boost decorative arts and industrial skill. It urges school programs, better art education, and community effort to create accessible design training, emphasizing public schools, teachers, and civic initiative led by capable American women.
The piece surveys fan varieties and dress-adjacent ornaments with notes on sizes from eleven inches to seven or eight inches for children. It catalogs materials such as gros grain, satin, kid, and lace, with decorations including embroidery, hand painting, and butterflies or peacocks. Ivory and tortoise shell sticks, Watteau landscapes, and various laces appear, plus pocket and travel fans, and Japanese paper options.
The article details simple morning dresses in Gulmer fabrics like plain French nainsock and Victoria lawn with embroidery. It highlights deep apron overskirt options, front boxes pleats, polka dot and scallop embroidery, back drapery edged in embroidery, and drape methods with buttons and loops for laundering.
Jennie June notes polonaise as the favored country costume with broad belts over contrasting skirts. Embroidery dominates, with needlework, founcing, and paniers, while checkered and plaid outfits fall out of favor. White lawns feature heavy embroidery, ruching, and narrow ribbons, with natural embroiderers shaping bespoke designs. The piece critiques wasteful dress habits and praises embroidery’s elevating role.
The article outlines bonnet and gown details from sleeves to collars, including organdy kerchiefs, Bulgarian linen scarfs, Irish point mull, Valenciennes lace, and lace collars. It notes marble tops being replaced by fine woods, satin vests for young ladies, painted fans with lace frames, washable walls, and tricycle inspired costumes, plus evolving summer fabrics and parasols with bold handles.
The article advises careful wear for delicate fabrics and cheap trims, notes linens are poor for traveling suits due to moisture and limpness, and criticizes flax color and dyeing. It urges keeping a bedroom paper basket to sort odds and ends, saving materials for money, and warns against wasting scraps by giving to servants or burning.
Pretty head rests shaped like bugs with plush designs and silk pompons. Details cover wild roses shading with arrasene, prices for silk and ready made flowers, and uses for mantel lambrequing and chair cushions. Also describes ecrupongee sewing aprons, pockets, ribbons, and chatelaine belts with sewing tools.
A detailed crochet and knitting pattern explains creating ear coverings for horses. It covers foundation chains, treble stitches, rows shaping, edging, joining around ears, and finishing with shells scallops and tassels including color options.
The guide explains saving worn mittens socks and stockings, washing and unraveling them into strips then sewing strips on a cotton foundation in striped patterns. It details laying out a block plan with gray and white yarns forming a central animal figure, borders with stars, and filling gaps with contrasting color to resemble Brussels carpet for a farmer's parlor cushion cover.
Crochet and cross stitched braid instructions describe a linen braid work pattern in covalent stitch terms. It outlines stitches along the lower edge including single crochet treble crochet chains and picots, with alternating loops and color options in red or blue marking cotton and fine white linen thread.
The text outlines crochet steps including rounds and loops. It mentions double crochet in various loops, alternation of stitches, and chains. It appears as an incomplete pattern with references to rounds and braid sides, lacking full sequence or starter instructions.
Instructions describe knitting a baby hood using Barbour cer Hnen thread No. 50 or finer. Cast on enough stitches for length, knit crosswise to reduce cast on, suggest a rose leaf pattern with side insertions, and use a multiple of three with two edge stitches. The hood finished with a silk halo, worn year round, and styled in soft blue, pink, or cream.
The guide suggests using narrow ribbons in chosen shades folded by hand into blossom shapes and tucked with silk. It recommends crafting stems leaves petals and stamens with arrasene and notes apple blossom cherry peach quince and dogwood branches are effective with proper ribbon color.
Directions for currant jelly making from a Globe receipt. Stem currants scald in hot water without boiling, mash and strain through linen and flannel. Sugar ratios given. heat sugar separately in oven, boil juice ten minutes, add hot sugar, test for setting. Use ripe currants, warm glasses, seal with brandy and paper, store cool.
A quirky historical recipe describes a tomato dish for six, using six ergs six eggs two yolks but with odd terms. It details boiling four eggs, mixing yolk with vinegar and mustard, adding two raw eggs, and stirring to thicken a sauce to cover tomatoes. The method notes chilling and serving for refined palates.
Four pigeons and ingredients including butter two table spoons of stock and spices. Roast pigeons ten minutes then split and cook in a pan with butter and peas for twenty minutes. Place pigeons on the platter and surround with the peas and sauce.
A recipe lists ingredients: milk, butter, sugar, flour, five eggs, lemon rind and juice. Heat milk and butter with sugar, cool, stir in flour and beaten eggs, add lemon, bake in small cups until half full for about thirty minutes. Serve with stewed fruit or custard.
Raspberry Jam recipe lists raspberries currant juice and sugar with exact weights. To make jam combine one pound sugar to one quart raspberries and for six pounds add one pint currant juice. Cook on the fire until thirty minutes after it begins.
Sour cherries and sugar are used to preserve fruit. Stone the cherries, using one pound of cherries to half a pound of sugar. Boil the mixture for twenty minutes and seal in jars.
Slice a large onion and brown with bacon in a skillet then peel and slice two quarts of tomatoes. Cut one quart of okra thin and add with parsley to a stew kettle. Add three quarts of water and season to taste. Stew slowly two or three hours.
Procedure describes peeling oranges and dicing pulp, removing seeds and tough parts, then sprinkling with sugar. Bake a short biscuit crust, split it, spread orange mixture like strawberry shortcake, and serve.
Fill the pail two thirds full of custard then chill it. Pack ice and salt around the container in a wooden bucket, stirring as it freezes and prevents sticking. When the mix is stiff, replace the cover, drain the melt, refreeze briefly, then wrap in a blanket and cool.
Raspberry vinegar described with three quarts fruit to one of vinegar steeped three days pressed and simmered with one pound sugar per pint of juice. When cold bottle cork tightly. A large spoonful in a glass of iced water makes a refreshing drink.
A simple white layer cake method using two cups powdered sugar, half cup butter, whites of four eggs, three cups flour, and baking powder sifted with flour. Cream sugar and butter, add milk and flour gradually, fold in egg whites, bake into three thick or four medium layers with any filling between.
Miss Hudson and her brother traveled toward home when the horse began a wild gallop after the bit pulled free. Mr. Tabb pursued on a fleet horse, urged her to stay in the buggy, and finally halted the animal after three miles of danger. Miss Hudson was unhurt and removed from the buggy by her rescuer. RovitaH on Rats ad ends with 16 cents, an ad line.
A Boston Advertiser piece extols summer luncheons using frozen fruit and milk desserts. It outlines a suggested menu from Melton veal to salmon salad and vanilla ice cream, with prep steps and a note on ice cream technique. It also provides a detailed mayo dressing recipe and a Park Street Cake description.
A winter law in Philadelphia prohibits pledge sale assignment or transfer of pension rights. Violators face misdemeanor charges with fines up to 100 dollars and costs. The act aims to keep certificates from pawnbrokers and saloonkeepers and is printed in red on newly issued certificates.
The London Daily News reports M Toselli’s steel bronze balloon observatory designed for depths of 120 metres at the International Exhibition of Nice. The eight metre structure has three compartments and a commander’s upper cabin to guide divers and explain descent depths to passengers.
Boston moves to complete a vast sewerage system begun four years ago with a tunnel under Massachusetts Bay and Moon Island outfall. Engines at Old Harbor Point pump 50 million gallons daily for a city of 1 million. Moon Island reservoirs hold 25 million gallons, with $3,665,086.59 spent by May 1.
A Boston clothier predicts knee breeches will return as leg sizes grow and overwork the hosiery market. The talk points to sturdier calves, longer legs, and the shift from ankle trousers, with tailors eager for a fresh fashion cycle and garter demand rising among wearers.
The Small Mall Gazette reports on M Trajan Ucodorescu's underwater boat for Roumanian service. It carries air for twelve hours under water, is electric lit, and could destroy ironclads. Colonel Beaumont pursues a similar underwater craft, with practical deployment not yet achieved.
A Harper's Weekly excerpt recalls a frontier sighting in Southern China a sixteen to eighteen year old girl described as graceful with an English face. Dressed in a turban short jacket and blue cotton petticoat she speaks with a bright cheery smile and a voice described as a superior gift in women. She boards a bamboo raft with another young woman crossing the river, leaving a memory likened to pure bell music from the hillside.
After Sunday’s heavy shower, a two mile west tract of Wray Brown’s land near Hannibal was covered with four to six inch catfish. Neighbors seized the chance to harvest fish and held a fry on an extended stage with Jack Seba and Joel A Maupin hosting friends and pooling a meal.
Mrs J C Henderson of Cleveland Ohio credits Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets with curing her chronic sick headache after using two daily for a few weeks. Busu & Co Worcester Mass reports Brown's Iron Bitters well spoken of by users.
Bertha Heyman known as the confidence queen waived examination at Tombs Police Court and was held in 1500 bail. She faced charges of obtaining 255 dollars by false pretences and was linked to a long history of swindles across New York, Milwaukee, and Staten Island.
In Baltimore the once destitute composer Professor F Nicholls Crouch of Kathleen Mavourneen fame received a life monthly stipend of 20 from James Marion Roche of Florida who traveled to attend a testimonial concert. Roche also sent 450 to Crouch’s son 100 to his wife and 850 to his household, adopted the professor as his father and changed his name to James Marion Roche Crouch. Crouch says he had never heard of Roche before this generosity.
Dr J H Ford of Hagerstown Indiana, famed for eccentric age, died after a life of simplicity. He left his wife twenty thousand dollars and provided for all the women who once courted him, a romantic bequest that required five thousand dollars. Two weeks before he died he and his party paid for a special funeral train.
The work on a new English dictionary advances at Millhill under Dr. Murray. Printing nears the article's end with over entries ready, exceeding Webster’s 5000. By June end the manuscript should be set in type unless delays arise, while notices mention pests like flies roaches bedbugs rats and more.
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