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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1884
Page
3
A Parisian art feature covers new plastrons and styling for evening wear. Hassan the Cynic mocks feminine use of adjectives and argues for stricter linguistic rules before discussing veils with dotted patterns and tied veil trends. The column blends social critique with fashion guidance and facial protection notes.
A Louisiana voice challenges male dominated roles and urges women not to be confined to traditional spheres. The letter responds to a sermon by a Rev. Morgan Dix aligned minister, arguing that public work is vital for women and condemning the notion ofpeaceful submission as false. The author cites Southern progress in women’s sentiment and action and warns that limiting female labor harms societal advancement.
A Westminster Review essay argues that voluntary bachelorhood can elevate women beyond private life. It envisions a future femme libre wielding official power to aid women and children, balancing happiness with social duty and reform.
A fashion note describes spring and summer bonnet trends with massed top trimmings replacing side placements, highlighting velvet clusters, marabout feathers, butterflies, and beaded ornaments. Matching colors, varied materials, and new crown shapes enable easy customization, including DIY looser ribbon ties and mushroom hues with bright accents.
Detailed crochet style directions describe using red and white cords to create six red chain sections, form half diamonds, and weave alternating white and red rows with double chains and trebles. The pattern specifies many rounds, color changes, shell edging, and finishing touches with muslin bag, bone or wire in top, and careful stitch work on the wrong side.
A brief text urges readers that a few tasteful touches by top upholsterers can transform an apartment. It argues that city residents gain advantages over country sisters through careful furnishing, previews novel ideas, and promotes viewing sample work to inspire capital decisions for home decor.
The article details transforming a lacquered tea-chest into a decorative ebony cabinet with careful reshaping, repapering, and shelving. It outlines adjusting dimensions, adding a shallow brackets and brass rod, and finishing with a curtain or fringe to suit a room, noting versatility for bric-a-brac or books.
Old wash stands found in garrets or cellars are repurposed into stylish tables. Remove uprights, fit wood to center holes, cover with plush or velveteen robes, and sew neatly around legs. Two shelves are padded, edged with fringe and brass nails, yielding a handsome table about a quarter the cost of a ready made piece.
Instructions describe making a decorative wrapper case from two half-yard squares of pink or blue silesia with dotted Swiss, detailing ruffles, lace tidy, and ribbon bows. It explains assembling top and folding the wrapper to fit the box, with careful bending of the case for insertion.
Bead Watch Case described using Bristol board perforated with nine by nine squares. Start saddler s silk across pattern, leave nine gaps between rows, alternate, fill with beads in stages three to five per square, diagonally fasten, stiffen with cardboard, line with merino, bind edges with ribbon, net bead fringe, slipper shaped, bow on top and instep.
The article notes that highly ornamental panels can be produced by several methods and highlights an inexpensive technique. It emphasizes achieving a smooth fret step in the manufacturing process and suggests that good pictures may not be necessary for quality decorative results.
A thin wood panel is covered with wine colored velveteen and edged with turned edges and back tacks. A red cambric backing finishes the back. Two brass rings at the top allow hanging. An unmounted photo of statuary is pasted on the front to create a bas relief effect, transforming a simple image into art.
Instructions describe decorating baskets with cretonne, silk embroidery, velvet edges, festoons of worsted, ribbon accents, and braided handles. Frames for cards built from cardboard and velvet or satin coverings, plus a Japanese umbrella hinge method to mount and display cards as a bright novelty.
A historical home craft description outlines two piece sponge holders from white enameled cloth bound with bright braid, forming a hanging washstand basket. It also details rag rugs made from cloth scraps or old felt skirts shaped like geranium leaves, embroidered with buttonhole and herringbone stitches, layered on heavy carpeting with central velvet, and finished with bright tapestry fringe.
A vintage guide offers three days of breakfasts, dinners, and suppers with approximate costs and practical recipes. Includes plain breakfast dishes, oyster and Hampstead chicken preparations, soups from leftovers, mock turtle, and varied suppers with items like Yarmouth bloaters and Excal loped oysters. Also provides notes on making stock and economical meals for households.
In Philadelphia a young inventor James Rodney Barlow secretly built a motor modeled after Keely's design and tested it on a West Jersey hand-car near Camden. The device achieved about seventy five miles per hour on a night run, proving rival power claims and leaving Keely's efforts in doubt. The Keely office reported dismissals as investors sour on his work. The article notes regional mill activity and layoffs in Rhode Island and New Hampshire as the textile sector stagnates/recovers.
In the South and District of Columbia there are 64 034 manufacturing establishments with capital over 343 million dollars and annual material use 407 million dollars, yielding 641 million dollars of goods. About 304 551 men 62 089 women and 31 740 children are paid 121 million dollars. Ex Governor William Sprague reportedly earned 100 000 dollars from Quidnick and Arctic. Howe Sewing Machine Works at Bridgeport, burned last July, is back to 145 workers rising to 360 soon. Dover New Hampshire reports bright business with four large shoe factories running full blast and two more to start. two sash and blind factories also in operation. A New York law bans further convict labor contracts. Fortunes of Meriden and Britannia shops noted in a confidence scheme exposé.
A New York Times style quote portrays the rise of sensational weekly papers for boys and girls, noting circulation swings from thrilling tales to everyday life, with millions of copies sold weekly for girls literature. A publisher confirms the growth and high pay for two or three writers at about 5000 dollars annually.
A Globe reporter questions whether men wear corsets in New York and Boston. A leather medal story quotes manufacturers retailers and tailors noting rare regular wear among men, mainly for spinal relief or stage theatrics with negligible demand in Boston.
Mr. T H Wheeler from Clinton market discusses rumors of foot and mouth disease reaching Kansas cattle. He recalls a recent report from a Toronto breeder and notes the disease’s high contagion, its distinction from black leg, and the potential national impact if it spreads. Officials may need government action and compensation similar to Europe to control an outbreak.
A Wyoming style reminiscence tells of a man who dismissed education yet inspired by his son Dan who became a geologist. He recalls coal prospects on land, taters in the hills, and a long misread bet that left him selling land and now doing mule work. He fears future indications may land him in a lunatic asylum.
A patient with severe ankle sores and inflammatory rheumatism describes dramatic improvement after using Compound Oxygen. The treatment allegedly strengthens nervous centers and life forces, leading to healing. doctors Starkey and Palen promote its broad curative claims, citing extensive prior cases.
New York report details how Mrs Frank Leslie, renowned businesswoman and head of the Frank Leslie publishing house, plans marriage to Marquis de Leuville after a lengthy courtship. The couple met in America, he aided her business rise, and she will balance publishing duties with married life, remaining active in her firm.
A fashionable tailor reveals how some female customers order complete male riding outfits and pantaloons. He notes women seek tailored fit, often with discretion, and jokes about their evolving “trouser habit.” Styles shift to simpler lines and modern jackets, while shop staff caution on fittings and deposits.
A six year old asks why Washington cut down the cherry tree and a parent replies with a counter question about a broken pane of glass. The exchange highlights a playful moral about honesty and accountability as recounted in a New York Morning Journal feature.
An advertisement extols hop bitters as a universal family remedy. Claims include curing fever and biliousness, strengthening kidneys, aiding rheumatism and paralysis, improving digestion and sleep, and benefiting mothers and children. It cites testimonials and urges timely use to prevent sickness.
A dense catalog page listing major magazines and periodicals with subscription prices. Highlights include Arthur's Home Magazine, American Agriculturist, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Garden and Field items, and multiple medical journals with varying premiums and prices. The list notes offer limitations on sending more than one magazine to a single address and advises specifying issue start dates.
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