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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1884
Page
3
A columnist critiques nervous traveling women who fret over train connections and schedules. It contrasts English drawing room manners with American parlors and mocks excessive nervousness while urging self control to avoid public ridicule.
A Harper's Bazar writer praises English drawing-room principles over American parlors, stressing usefulness, comfort, and restraint. The piece notes multiple tables for function, ample writing materials, and purposeful bric a brac, creating a hospitable, refined home free of parlor pretension.
Fashion notes describe summer bathing-suits with a Fedora inspired over-dress, puffed harlequin sleeves, and side-opening trousers. Variants include black serge with red cashmere, white flannel with pale blue cashmere, and Jersey shapes for full figures. Polonaise and Mother Hubbard styles are noted with mixed fabrics and decorative belts. White flannel suits accessorize with red braid and sailor knits for a nautical look.
The text describes evolving seaside dress including a red woollen cap with tassel, short sleeves for bathing, and knee length trousers replacing long Lurkisu styles. It notes gauze under-vests for sun protection, long stockings with shorts, or bathing shoes with trimmed stocking tops, and sleeve changes to coat style with braid or fringe.
The article notes an oilsilk mow cap for hat protection during bathing with a textured front and braided trim. New waxed rubber hats match the suit, feature a large soft crown, a wide brim, and ear coverage. French white duck shoes with eyelets, Manila soles, and three bathing shoe types are described: low sandals, ankle-length half-shoes, and knee-high combined shoe and stocking, using unbleached or bleached duck, cork soles, and oil-cloth with canvas interiors.
Fashion notes describe red suits declining in popularity while red grounded stamped goods rise. Seaside dresses favor light fabrics woodens and mobhairs and summer silks. short sleeves and lace are common. white dominates this season with many outfits in white including Newport picks. Belts, buckles, baby waists, and white woolens trimmed with velvet appear as key trends.
House cleaning guidance details a simple chair tidy knit in strips with two needles using number 10 cotton. Directions cover cast on thirty-one stitches and alternating knit and purl rows to create ribbed strips that can be varied in length and number and sewn or crocheted together with fringe finishes.
A detailed set of knitting rows using nine stitches with multiple increases and decreases. The sequence includes knit two, make one, knit two, knit two together, purled sections, and occasional narrow and repeat from the third row.
Mrs. F. H. Severance seeks crochet guidance for a boy cap using Germantown wool or double zephyr and a coarse needle. Instructions cover chaining five joined in a circle, escalating stitches across twenty-four rows, turning adjustments to fit the head, plus finishing with eight plain rows. A request for clover leaf edging directions follows.
Directions for making foot rests using seven quart tin cans wrapped in muslin arranged in a circle with a center can, bound by cloth, padded with wadding, and topped with a sewn six-piece cover. Finish with a central embellishment such as a worsted ball or button.
Cut four cardboard pieces four by three inches and one three inch square. Border each piece and add a central star. Sew to form a square, line with pasteboard, cover with coarse horse hair, cast on thirty stitches, knit two rows, form loops for stitches, knit until a square is complete, bind off, and sew to the base. Finish with ribbon, cord, and tassels. Silver cardboard with blue thread and ribbon is suggested.
The formulation of Eno's Fruit Salt is given as two parts sulphate of magnesia two parts citrate of magnesia two parts bitartrate of potash two parts bicarbonate of soda two parts tartaric acid two parts powdered sugar four parts. The mixture should be thoroughly dried and stored in well stopped bottles.
A historical remedy suggests placing five drops of chloroform on cotton in a clay pipe, then blowing the vapor through the stem into the ear for near instant relief. The description reflects period medical practice using accessible materials.
A chair tidy for a music stool is described, forming a pretty cover by using half a yard of bull Java canvas and working it into decorative fabric.
Pattern notes describe red stitching and fastening on a stool with patent tidy fasteners. Instructions outline cast on eight stitches and several rows with slips, thread over, and knit sequences, including Joop and jam seam loops, ending with two knit stitches.
The text describes a detailed Angels' Food Cake recipe including precise measurements for liquids and dry ingredients. It specifies two and one quarter gills or eighteen tablespoonfuls for the liquid, eight tablespoonfuls per gill, sugar and flour quantities, one teaspoon of cream of tartar, eleven egg whites, vanilla extract, and a method using a greased platter, forty minutes bake time, and cooling on goblets before icing.
A vintage two-recipe excerpt: a butter sugar cake batter followed by a frosting, salt emphasis, and a spiced fruit loaf. It lists ingredients like eggs sugar flour coffee molasses butter and spices, notes baking in a moderate oven and two loaves yield.
A historical kitchen instruction lists ingredients: one and a half cups Indian meal, one and a half cups rye meal, two cups sour milk, one cup sweet milk, salt, molasses, and two teaspoons saleratus. Steam three hours and bake thirty minutes.
A reader proposes shading a cake with red using cochineal coloring instead of spices. Any cake recipe may be used, with half the quantity reserved and a few teaspoonfuls of cochineal added to achieve the color. Cochineal is available from a drugstore and is described as harmless.
A recipe outlines three equal layers using one and a half cups sugar and flour, half cup butter corn starch and milk, four egg whites, half teaspoon cream of tartar and quarter teaspoon soda. Color one third with cochineal extract and arrange in pan with red center.
The recipe outlines a two part mixture with white and red components. White part uses sugar butter milk flour egg whites cream of tartar and soda while the red part adds Raisins blanched almonds and similar leavening. The instructions describe combining, layering around a central tube and baking to produce a decorative cake.
A simple cake instruction from an old clipping describes mixing one egg with sugar, filling a cup with sweet cream, beating, then adding two and a half cups flour two teaspoons baking powder a pinch of salt and one teaspoon flavoring. Bake in a loaf.
A historical recipe outlines making custard from one cup milk one egg one tablespoon sifted flour and one tablespoon sugar. Heat milk beat egg yolk with flour in cold milk then reheat stir to thicken add lemon flavor pour into baked crust and top with stiffly beaten egg white sugar then brown briefly.
A preparation involves baking a lemon or sour orange for twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Open one end and remove the inside then sweeten with sugar or molasses. Used to ease hoarseness and pressure on the lungs.
Mix salt and soda with cream to form a stiff paste, add flour, roll, fold, and roll with butter pieces. Prepare a corn meal dough, shape into a cake, place on a hearth spot, cover with ashes, and bake thirty to forty five minutes. Alkaline ashes in the crust aid digestion for acid stomachs.
A recipe fragment advises finely slicing raw beef and seasoning with salt and pepper to form small squares for patient-tempting sandwiches, sometimes toasted. It also outlines making quince jelly by washing fruit, using good parts for canning, boiling to pulp, pressing, and using juice with sugar to gel.
Select grapes when not fully ripe wash and drain and put them in a preserving kettle Mash wet and heat till skins break and juice flows freely Strain and use the juice only with an equal weight of sugar.
A simple historical recipe lists one cup molasses one teaspoon soda one tablespoon ginger half teaspoon salt one third to one half cup softened butter or drippings one cup milk and three cups pastry flour. Bake in shallow pans in a moderate oven about thirty minutes.
Three pints of washed cranberries are placed in a granite stewpan with three cups of sugar and three gills of water. Bring to boil, then simmer ten minutes with the lid tightly on and do not stir. Skim off the scum. When cooled the mixture jellies and the skins become soft and tender.
A partial recipe lists butter brown sugar egg yolks and whites milk molasses baking soda raisins. The passage ends mid step with raisins prepared for a cake batter. The text reflects a traditional home baking style.
A fragment outlines a fruit jam method with currants raspberries and blackberries. It details sugar ratios, spices, optional chocolate, and stepwise boiling with gradual sugar additions. It also mentions prepared apples pears peaches and quinces and notes to paring and gentle cooking to keep fruit from hardening. History hints at domestic kitchen practices.
Prepared fruit is placed in a jar and covered with boiling syrup sweetened to taste. Over three mornings drain and boil again, then pour over fruit. On the last morning bring to boiling point without boiling, seal immediately. Tested as perfect and fruit keeps shape without fermenting.
Combine eight pounds fruit with four pounds brown sugar one quart vinegar and one cup mixed whole spices tied in a bag. Simmer ten minutes skimming. Add fruit return toton jars, boil syrup five minutes then pour over fruit. Next day repeat boiling each morning for three mornings keeping the spice bag submerged.
Equal quantities of small cucumbers and other vegetables are salted and brined for 24 hours. The brine is heated with alum, then poured over the vegetables. A vinegar sugar mustard sauce is prepared and heated, then poured over the pickles once smooth.
Slice and pare orange quinces, remove cores, weigh sugar equally. Submerge in cold water, heat slowly to a boil. Top with a quarter of sugar, do not stir, then add the rest in stages until the jam reaches desired color. Continue simmering gently for a soft finish.
Wash and peel rhubarb cut into pieces then steam in a double boiler with one cup sugar per pint until soft. Do not stir. When very sour steam without sugar till juice flows, drain add sugar and steam again until dissolved. Alternatively pour boiling water, stand five minutes, drain and steam.
Secretary Teller submits correspondence to Congress alleging mismanagement at Yellowstone National Park. The documents cite alleged exclusive privileges for hotel interests, illegal slaughter of game, and improprieties by Superintendent Conger and the Hobart family. Calls grow for federal authority and penalties for park violators.
Meriden Connecticut July 16 Miss Emily J Leonard authoress botanist linguist and woman suffragist dies at about fifty She belonged to the National Liberal League and was liberal in her views She translated Blanquis History of Political Economy and contributed to Lators Encyclopaedia of Political Economy She spoke French and German read Italian Latin and other languages A founder of the Meriden Scientific Association and a prominent advocate of Woman suffrage She was the daughter of a noted abolitionist and inventor of the first blast furnace
Official figures show Minneapolis flour production last week at 89 900 barrels, 14 816 daily over six days, down from 91 630 barrels the prior week. Nineteen of twenty two mills operated Tuesday as idle mills restarted, with improved demand but no price rises yet, signaling possible market uptick soon.
In a London Truth column a grave pastor questions a prominent minister about humor in church life. Spurgeon replies he stores many jokes for private use, sparing the congregation while confessing a larger stash exists.
A Burlington Free Press item jokes about a lightning strike turning a red headed Western woman’s hair black prompting many red headed women to appear as thunder roars. It then shifts to a quick blurb advertising remedies for colic cramps diarrhea aches pains sprains and headaches.
A florid guide celebrates verbenas zinnias asters and balsams with lilies and peonies. It urges careful weeding pruning and steady watering, favors evening irrigation and watering through individual pots, and touts liquid fertilizers and garden staples to support vigorous growth.
The piece extols rapid climbers for hiding unsightly areas and decorating spaces. It highlights Virginia creeper as a top choice, detailing its fast growth, clingy tendrils, seasonal color changes, and ornamental berries. It also notes Kebia quinata, clematis, virginia nuns bower, bitter-sweet, wisturis, aristolochia, honeysuckle varieties, and guidance on selecting vines for porches and latticework.
The double-pointed tack is hailed as the best device for securing rosebushes and climbing plants to weather-boarding, posts, fences, and borders. It outperforms leather, cotton, twine, tape, soaps, and cloth residues, with neat appearance and minimal seepage when in place.
In 1868 Cadtans raided Douglas and El Paso counties but Deer creek Canyon proved too narrow for concealment. The tale centers on Blazing Star an Arapaho war chief and Laugin Eyes his daughter as a white scout from Kit Carson era perishes atop Glen Plym. Local lore says the ghostly cries of the chief and maiden linger in the canyon tonight.
Squire Timothy Borge of Bangors boasted of catching fifteen trout on a fishing trip and had a large one photographed with a caption claiming Linus pond as the source. He later asked where Linus pond was and learned it was a market sign in Hancock county, revealing the hoax.
In a Chestnut Street toy store a kind woman noticed an eight year old boy gazing at a velocipede. She asked if he would like it, paid the price, and prompted him to claim the gift. The child embraced the gift and fled the store in joy with his new prize.
A couple banters about hypothetical emergencies in the house. George claims he would prioritize his partner and move her to safety before acting to extinguish a fire while a tire incident prompts him to reconsider his seating. The dialogue showcases wit and concern in a domestic moment.
Rumor describes a two and a half year old child in the old region who crawls on hands to move and retrieve objects, placing them between its feet and repeating the motion. Mother recalls circus acrobat acts from a dream-like memory linked to men walking on bands.
A temperance town at Olivet hides a beer spring that wells up a stream fifteen inches in diameter in a nearby valley. Since discovery a portion of the population has moved to the site to establish summer camps.
A description notes Allen G. Thurman of Ohio taught in Colchester Connecticut in his boyhood. The piece also mentions a Connecticut governor named Cleveland living at Putnam, and various local items from Pawtucket to Nantucket.
Philadelphia engineer General Russell Thayer has invented the Aerial Ship a new travel contrivance. He plans to test material strength for the balloon and outlines a self contained propulsion method rejecting external propellers. His theory relies on internal forces within the craft to move forward and a diagram is promised to illustrate it.
The article describes an aerial ship with a buoyant rubber hydrogen-filled hull and a deck mounted air compressor. A valve and nozzle discharge control steerage while a silksack buoyancy system adjusts elevation by exchanging hydrogen and air. The ship, 147 feet by 40, would rise or descend without ballast and travel up to 35 mph to aid exploration and military observation.
A Georgia senator visiting New York slept through a journey that never left the station. He woke expecting the Trinity spire and Hudson sights to greet him, only to discover the train had not moved and Jersey City crossings never occurred.
Four year old Maud on a Milton farm asks if God made skunks and whether God would change His clothes before finishing creation. Her question follows a skunk killed by her father and a wife sending him upstairs to change.
An advertisement from Drs. Starkey and Palen at 1109 Girard Street Philadelphia promotes a vitalizing treatment for consumption. It claims rapid appetite increase and improved body and life sense, with steady improvement and possible cure if not deeply seated. Readers are asked to request case reports and documents for verification.
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