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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1882
Page
3
The Century Bric a Brac column laments aging and changing beauty as a youthful girl becomes a woman. It reflects on memories of playful youth and the ache of lost chances, concluding with a wistful line about youth's awareness.
Poem recalls a winter scene of a snow filled nest on a leafless tree. The speaker contrasts past life love and peace with current loneliness as birds depart. It reflects themes of loss, winter hardship, and longing for former home. The verse echoes St Nicholas for March publication.
The tale portrays Jenny as a loving harbor for her husband Ben Lomond town life, whose sweetness and thrift turn hardship into fortune. A storm reveals honey and honeycomb in the house, credited to Jenny’s temper and generosity. Some say bees or honey saved the couple, elevating Jenny to the Laird’s wife.
A poem by Mrs. W. H. Powers urges patience during hardship. It encourages waiting for tomorrow, trusting in God, and serving His will with patient endurance. Refrains emphasize keeping bright hope and not growing weary despite troubles.
Her china cup is white and thin with a pink dragon at the bottom. A manikin handle spies foes as she lifts the cup to her lips and drinks the Oolong draught. The verse questions whether it is sin and frames the scene as a playful bric a brac vignette in The Century.
A stylistic catalog assigns each letter a symbol or theme from aesthetic culture. Entries include A for Aesthetic, B for Blue tea and cup, C for Cry Consummate sound, D for Dado rooms, E for elevate tastes, F for Fleshly art, G for Green tones, H for High Art, I for Intense youth, J for Japanese umbrella, K for Kyrlites art craze, L for Lily, M for mandle priest, N for Narrow-minded, O for oracle, P for Peacock, Q for Queen Anne styles, R for Red houses, S for Sunflower, T implicit, U for Utter grand words, V for Verses hard to understand, W missing, X for Xmas cards and Y for Too Too, and Z for Zealous novelty.
Poem fragment extols a brief, bright day and urges cherishing present joys. It contrasts fleeting light with decay, urging gratitude for the pause before impermanence, while stressing faith and hope as steady foundations.
The readable lines describe a kingly figure in a parlor with bread and wine, a maid in the kitchen, and a small bird at the nose. Other elements are garbled, including references to an garden and clothing, suggesting a domestic vignette with ambiguous Latin phrases.
A former United States consul from an English port, now a private New York resident, narrates a striking voyage memory. He declines public naming but allows verification by requesters, presenting his account in nearly his own words. The submitter, Co. M. FARMER of 1690 Third avenue, New York, notes the voyage home from England and the details that follow.
A traveler recalls a rheumatic young man aboard a Cunard liner hobbling on crutches, pale and emaciated, who refused help insisting his prayers and desire for sunshine keep him going as he crosses the sea.
An essay argues etiquette rests on reason, covering calls and cards, arm offerings, precedence for brides, mourning rules, and the use of crape. It notes proper napkin placement and evolving dinner card fashions, including decorative cards with ribbons and floral accents.
A Victorian health column cites M Vidal on topical tartaric acid to dissolve false membranes in diphtheria and aid expulsion. Dr J R Page promotes fresh lemon juice as a throat membrane remover with repeated applications. Other notes claim hot lemonade with gum arabic cures for scarlet fever and Revillout endorses lemon juice gargles against diphtheria for eighteen years.
A husband reports his wife’s marked improvement since starting oxygen therapy. He notes better digestion appetite strength and daily activity including stairs to meals and a brighter mood. Free treatise on Compound Oxygen offered by Drs. Starkey and Palen at 1109 and 1111 Girard Street Philadelphia.
An unpublished Thomas Carlyle work titled A Tour in Ireland in 1840 has been discovered and excites attention for its stern moral and political observations. The manuscript, unknown to Froude, impressed him enough to offer an introduction when published. Edmund Gosse has secured it for Century Magazine, where it will appear as a serial in London and New York.
Harper's Bazaar surveys the era’s lingerie trends with the princesse garment and chemises, French handmade underclothes, trims like Hamburg embroidery, and box-pleated gowns. It also details crochet shawls, rag carpets, screen crafts, and new silks and Canton fabrics shaping spring and summer styles.
A fashion writer notes lace durability versus crepelisse and offers laundry tips. a science column discusses Professor Adams on sun magnetism, atmospheric tides, and aurora origins. it also includes simple gilding methods with gold powder and notes on zero from Arabic.
A detailed discussion contrasting juvenile and children parties within the Lenten season context. It covers party timing, dancing and dress codes, fancy dress ideas, character quadrilles, nursery rhymes, theatre games, and parent attitudes toward children’s theatricals and staged performances.
Instructions describe several miniature tricks for a social gathering. The Walking Egg trick uses a blown egg and silk thread to create the illusion of moving eggs. The Magic Ring hides a wire ring and a borrowed ring with a taped handkerchief maneuver. The Candies Bewitched transfers flame between candles using concealed crumpled paper. Guidance for directing a coordinated play sequence is included.
The article guides readers to revive old furniture with do it yourself coverings and simple steps. It explains making patterns from chair cushions, applying new fabric, tacks and trimming, and methods for buttoned seats. It also suggests building a small drawing room work table and transforming chairs with plaited or velvet coverings.
A collection of kitchen instructions including split pea soup with pork and vegetables, rice meringue with milk and eggs, beef pudding with gravy, mince with veal and parsley, Bread and Butter Fritters, and cinnamon fried bread squares. Contains steps, measurements, and serving notes.
Two players, a coach and a quiz, lead a party game where the coach proclaims learning and prepares answers from current slang phrases. The quiz asks questions matched to those phrases, producing humorous absurd replies. It is described as a school exercise turned social pastime for adults and children alike.
The article describes wall pockets for whisk brushes and hats with silk paintings, rose satin accents, and boffin silk embroidery. It highlights globes of ostrich-terrine rugs, screens with sepia etchings, white canvas motifs, and a gossamer spider web weave. It notes a Canton woven screen with sunflowers and dogwood blooms, plus various momie clot and plush screens in ebonized frames.
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