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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1885
Page
3
An 19th century column discusses gender virtues, urging equal cultivation of courage and fortitude in girls and boys. It argues against narrow stereotypes, noting how praise and neglect shape bravery, self-control, and presence of danger differently by sex, and calls for parents to foster a balanced, humane character in children.
The piece notes yellow as the season's fashionable color at Newport, praising bright shades as relief from reds and blues. It describes next season's trends, including damage browned fabrics and nut motif trimmings, with artistic embroidery and devices such as acorns and hazelnuts.
A knitted lace and ribbon bed linen curtain dazzled in the women’s department of the New Orleans exhibition. The elegant piece, suitable for home crafters, featured stripes with heavy cream linen and brown spatter-work depicting scattered terns.
Practical instructions describe making delicate elastic bands from two silk spools and two No. 18 knitting needles. Start with 200 stitches, increase to 212, then form eight buttonholes across successive rows. The pattern ends with a final plain row and a round of double crochet around the elastic.
A correspondent asks how to transfer woodcuts or engravings to wood using plate paper. Damp the back, press onto a varnished surface, rub to adhere, then wash away paper. The image remains reversed on wood and can be finished with varnish or coloring. Colored prints require salt in the wash to protect hues.
Create a six by four inch bag from waste silk sateen or serge lined with light material a dark contrasting body and hem. Ornament with cross stitch or silk embroidery featuring the word Keys. Add a runner and narrow silk ribbon to draw up bag below the light lining.
A portfolio shaped holder for cabinet sized pictures is crafted from birch bark and adorned with hand painting or India ink etchings. The lining folds to form two pockets like a card case, using colored satin quilted over wadding. Edge finishing may be ribbon or chenille. corner satin patches imitate half calf book binding.
A simple method describes making light warm comforters by covering wadding with cheese-cloth four breadths wide. Tie with ten pink or blue Germantown wool threads at each tie, and finish edges with a shell border crocheted to join the cloth edges above the shells.
The excerpt describes a knitting edging pattern beginning with fifteen stitches cast on and worked across plain. It lists six rows with sequences of knit stitches, yarn overs, narrow sections, and occasional increases and decreases, ending with a repeat from the first row to form the edging.
Satirical list from eight years’ experience instructs riders how to impede the conductor. It urges delaying payment with small coins, delaying exit to keep others waiting, resisting seat changes, kicking if given coins, flagging and reporting conductors, smoking against requests, and opposing directions shown to other passengers.
A Chicago Rambler feature praises autograph collecting, noting Mrs Startu Ataws lauds preserves of famed figures. Miranda hosts a notable collection, though some signatures require care, as best fits the tricky Eber look.
Townsend reflects at Long Branch on railroad schemes and fortunes, detailing Jersey Central history, Asa Packer clashes, and Long Branch property booms. He profiles Hoey, Garrison households, and Pullman estates, notes wine currents, and surveys contemporary politics with mentions of Evarts, Conkling, Kisselburgh, and figures like Maxim and Depew.
Five boys play in a brown punt along Cape Cod canal while residents hunt for berries. A ghostly woman, calling herself Baroness of Bourne and Countess of Cape Cod, circulates among Bourne and Wareham lodging in woods and seeking money for ribbons. Neighbors report sightings, but no harm, with locals doubting any real threat.
A historical note on soap making reveals common ingredients and processes from kettles to frames. It describes adulterants such as marble dust glucose and starch and explains that rosin and water increase cost while fatty substances and ash matter most. It warns that much adulteration benefits manufacturers but harms consumers.
The article outlines using ammonia to neutralize acids that damaged fabric color and stresses immediate application. It notes that chloroform can restore colors to their original brightness, especially on plush goods and aniline dyed items faded by light, with commercial chloroform recommended as a cheaper option.
A varnish prepared by pounding ten ounces of gum sandalwood? and mastic four ounces plus camphor half an ounce and three quarts of strong alcohol is recommended. The mixture is shaken often and warmed to settle. Plants coated with it are said to be protected from insects and keep colors fresh and unchanged. It does not peel and can be applied very thin.
Melt borax in hot water mix with cold white starch. Dry before starching then starch once. Roll shirts in a towel with folds between rows. Iron quickly with box iron over red hot heater. Place finished items near fire to stiffen. Borax glaze gives shine.
Instructions describe making a brilliant lime stucco whitewash from lime, hot water, whiting or burnt alum, sugar, rice flour paste, and glue. The mix is sieved to a fluid flour of lime, applied warm with a paint brush, and touted to outlast plaster of Paris by about fifty years.
A vintage preparation details a wash for dandruff using borax one drachm rose water half a pint tincture of cantharides half a drachm and cologne water half a pint. Mix and apply night and morning as directed.
A historical hair care preparation combines five ounces bay rum one ounce carbonate of ammonia one ounce borax and one quart rose water. Instructions call for mixing and filtering to produce a cosmetic solution.
A remedy mix calls for one pint of good cologne water and one half ounce of strong acetic acid. Used commonly in France to ease nervous headaches and similar ailments.
A historic formula lists lupuline one drachm Scotch snuff two ounces camphor gum one ounce black pepper one ounce cedar sawdust four ounces. Mix thoroughly and strew among furs or woollens to be protected.
To remove wine fruit or iron stains wet the spot with a solution of hyposulphite of soda and scatter pulverized tartaric acid on it, then wash out as usual. Strong vinegar can substitute for the tartaric acid if needed.
Recipe for cleaning silver and Britannia ware using soap spirits turpentine water and hartshorn. Dissolve soap boil ten minutes add hartshorn make suds and wash items with the preparation.
At Togus Soldiers Home a Virginia tale of 34 years apart is told. A mother in Lowell Mass raised four children after her husband vanished. The elder son died early, three boys and a girl grew up, the war began, a son joined in 1861, returned broken, searched for his father, learned of a fortune at discharge, and faded. June 26 Thomas a disabled veteran at the home, ill, was admitted to hospital. A nurse noted his surname matched a former patient George S Thomas, and after brief questions the two men, father and son, reunited after thirty four years, with the mother still living, promising another chapter.
A new railroad president declares the first task is to determine the debt. The secretary provides figures showing about 1500 dollars debt. The plan is to issue stock to cover it, signaling a decisive start to stabilizing the company.
Hendersonville July 6 report details a western North Carolina journey by a diverse delegation. The piece lampoons local poverty and indolence, contrasts educated physicians with mountain lore, and notes forded rivers, wild timber tracts, pink laurel groves, and crude log cabins. The voyage ends with a railroad arrival.
The article lists approximate prices for a wide range of animals sold to menageries, zoos, and private collectors. It covers elephants up to $10,000, hippos and rhinos from $4,000 to $12,000, big cats from $1,000 to $2,000, bears from $100 to $2,000, deer and antelopes up to $2,500, giraffes from $2,600 to $25,000, camels and zebras affordable, and snakes and birds priced in lower ranges. It notes rarity and size drive value, with Siam elephants, baby hippos, and large giraffes among top figures.
The Philadelphia Press reports a survey of state methods on liquor control. It groups states by prohibition, local option, stringent licensing, and lack of laws, noting 46 total responses and detailing varied approaches including Ohio's unique stance, Nebraska treatment laws, and compulsory temperance education in Minnesota.
A Boston girl found a fully developed canary bird inside the center of a boiled potato at a dinner. The Minneapolis Tribune notes the oddity amid calls for a sequel to the Mother Goose pie tale. The report adds a quip about Yankees.
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