Practical Guides for Home Decoration and Personal Care
A Demorest column offers advice on interior decoration stressing quiet backgrounds to let features stand out, warning against overworked ornaments. It praises crewel work and simple dados, critiques ornate mirrors and furniture, and urges balanced taste. It also covers toilet care with cold baths, gentle cleansers, benzoin tincture, olive oil, and quick grooming routines for everyday beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Kensington
Diana
Poictiers
France
The Flower Garden and Fernery Notes
A detailed garden piece describes building and maintaining a rockery fernery, selecting native and exotic ferns, bulbs for spring and summer blooms, and practical tips on care, planting, storage, and simple home crafts like tidies and knitted rugs for winter cheer.
Fancy-W ork Ring Tidy Crochet Pattern
Instructions describe making linked crochet rings using shades of gray red and yellow, starting with a twenty five chain and double crochet stitches, linking rings by passing ends through prior rings, to form a tidy rug ornament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yeilow
Eoen
Bevin
Dark not to me bond maidens rare
The speaker praises a maiden with blue eyes and hazel hair, describing her features in affectionate terms. He imagines sharing a future life and bringing happiness, dreaming of a rare, shining gaze.
List of Content Pseudonyms Across English American Authors
A Demorest monthly feature catalogs a long roster of pseudonyms used by writers in the United States and Britain. It names numerous pen names and the authors behind them, highlighting the range of admired contributors and collaborators from the period.
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Demorest’s Monthly
England
Arthur Sketchley
George Rose
A. LO. E
Charlotte Tucker
Mary
Mia
Mary A. Lathbury
Vetera
E. D. Mansfield
Currer Bell
Charlotte Bronte
Capricbert Bede
Edward Bradley
A. K. H. Boyd
Dunn Brown
Samuel Fiske
Oldham
Graystones
Caleb 8
Henry
Dr. Syntax
William Coombe
Elizabeth, Wetherell
Susan Warner
Elizabeth Berger
Elizabeth
George Sand
Amantine
Lucile Aurore Dudevant
Gail Hamilton
Mary Abigail Dodge
Grace Greenwood
Sarah Jane Clarke Lipincott
George Eliot
Marian Vans Lewes Cross
Gath
George Alfred Townsend
Howard Glyndon
Laura C. Redden
Gilman
Mr. Batleu
Marion Harland
M. W. Terhune
Nimrod
Charles J. Apperley
Oliver Optic
William T. Adams
Old Humphrey
George Maghaze
Owen Meredith
Edward R. Bulwery
Kerr
Orpheus C. Kerr
R. H. Newell
Paul Creighton
J. T. Trowbridge
Vead
Vee
Sophie M.y
Clarke
le de Kay
Charles D. Kirke
Sam Slick
Thomas C. Haliburton
Stonyhenge
Joan H. Walsh
Shirley Dare
Susan Dunning
Talvi
Teresa A. L. Yoe Jakob
Timothy Titcomb
Josiah Gilbert Holand
Trusta
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Uncle Wil
William Weiss
Zadkiel
Richard J. Morrison
Governor as useful official keeps State machinery running
The piece praises governors as essential to state administration. It cites Henry A. Knight of Charles Waters & Co. Boston noting Mt Jacobs Oil used by workers as a cure for bruises burns cuts and sprains and that it delights the men with its effects.
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New Albany
Ind
Henry A. Knight
Charles Waters & Co
Boston
Mass
Mt. Jacobs
Jury, public verdict on rheumatism cures in St Jacobs OK
The St Louis Chronicle notes that even trials may harbor bias yet the public has tried the case of Rheumatism cures in St Jacobs OK and deemed them infallible. Also a classified line seeks girls for general housework for the Y B A office at 21 West Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
West Street
Hints on Catarrh and Related Health Measures Across Cities
A mid-Atlantic periodical essay reviews the prevalence of nasal, pharyngeal, and bronchial catarrh, challenging the belief that Brooklyn suffers more than New York. It details climate, housing, ventilation, and personal hygiene factors, and cites a committee’s finding that location changes can relieve symptoms. It also covers whooping cough remedies, bed airing, fever-breeding houses, and nasal catarrh causes, with practical health tips and cautions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meareal Society
Unty
Kinge
N. Y
Committee On Hygiene
Brooklyn
New York
Atlantic Coast
Hirt
Central Park
Seaboard
Scientific American
Biergner
Lebert
Jie
Switzerland
Heller
Vienna
Modes and Methods in Scenic Painting and Lighting
An overview of scenic painting techniques for theater production. It covers opaque versus transparent paints, layering practices, lighting effects, and the use of gold leaf, pigments, and lacquer washes to achieve realistic metal and gem surfaces. It notes the role of the cas man, stage manager, and lighting in final presentation.
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Aske
Cain
New York
Persia
Turkey
Te Yas Man
Mmanager
Cold bath revived dogs. electricity and telephones traced
German physiologists report that warming methods affect revived animals, noting warm baths restored life faster than gradual heat. The article traces early telephone patents and invention history, then ponders whether fish sleep and the role of light. It covers boiler explosions, geysers in Yellowstone, screw improvements, shaft safety sleeves, lime preservation of timber, celluloid, and other mechanical advances.
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England
M. Boursa
Manaetti
John Camack
Heller
Vienna
van der Weyde
Elisha Gray
Chicago
Charles KE
Huellet New Haven
Bell
Brighton Aquarium
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
United States
Iceland
Yellowstone
Montana
Missouri River
Northern Pacific
Great National Park
London
M. Svostal
Germany
Fish Commissioners
Maine
Penobscot
Hawkeye newsroom by midnight glow recalls old craft
In a Burlington Hawkeye scene the news staff gathers after midnight as editors debate how to anchor a paragraph with honesty and responsibility. An allusion to stove polish symbolizes the paper’s weight and insistence on accountability within the newsroom.
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Burlington Hawkeye
Hawkeye
The Editor Defends Bible Quotation Mixup in Sermon Report
A comic newsroom argument over a sermon quote ends unresolved. The baseball editor and editor clash over whether the line should read flourish like a green bay tree. They debate scripture, betting on the correct quotation, then abandon the wager.
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Ayremium
Eli
Gabriel
Booler
Fabriel
Republican Party
Beecher
Central
Echoes of a Sir Philip Sidney Meditation
A fragmentary verse excerpt urges renouncing earthly dust and fading pleasure as it pleads for inward growth. It exhorts the mind to seek lasting freedom through humble strength and a divine light guiding life and death, invoking eternal love.
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Sir Philip Sidney
Tropic-Fruit Laxative Promises Health and Vitality
An advertisement extols Tropic-Fruit Laxative as renovating the system and improving mental clarity and heart health. It claims relief from nervous, mental, and physical suffering due to stoppages and bilious conditions, improving complexions to a healthy rosy hue. Sold in bronzed tin boxes by multiple Boston area agents.
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Berlin
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John
Demorest
China Waters
Aberuood
Agriculturiss
Japan
China
Wuo
Theo
Dot Waid
Eas
D& M
Amone
Seanie
Paris
Drop Lack
Frankfort
Turky Uimvers
Sienny
Cologne Earth
Schwein Further
Schneider
Ulbania
Bremen
Munich
Florentine
Bine
Cars Mine
Munteh Lakes
Yellow Lakes
Fairy Grotto
Walt Whitman
Bavaria
Patrie
Memorial Des Pyrenees
James Gordon Bennett
Mau
Johann Strauss
Pau
Dennett
Strauss
Warner
Vytanids
Meypt
Phares
Alexandria
Baylor
Disna
Tyhesus
Jomer
Psidus
Olvioria
Halicarnasens
Colossus
Thodes
The
Cutler Bros. & Co
Weeks & Potter
Geo
C. Goodwin & Co
Doolittle & Smith
Gilman Dros. & Go
Carter, Harris & Hawley
Rush Bros. & Tird
Whyse Sale Agents
Bostuds
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