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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1880
Page
2
A lyrical sketch brims with March imagery as crocuses hyacinths and green pale light fill the scene. The speaker marvels at the season’s magic and questions common sayings while praising March as beauty that awakens from winter, turning the ground rainbow. Celia’s lines frame spring’s hopeful tone.
In Schloss Egmont a glittering group plans a private theatre to lift the party’s mood. Jeanne Dempster, spurred by longing and rivalry, secretly dons Dolores von Egmont’s old costume to join a ballroom transformation, while Vivian Vivash probes Wolfgang’s step and status amid Mlle Ange and a gossiping circle.
A sudden revulsion grips a girl who feels a burning urge to shed her headgear shoes and plaits to appear equal to Vivian in Wolfgang's sigh. Her awakening marks a dramatic shift in her simple heart and social self.
The aged critic recalls by gone days and Boston audiences. He praises Adelina Patti and European fame while contrasting Boston concert life with New York and Philadelphia. The interview covers hair locks requests, famed baritones like Formes and Amodio, and backstage anecdotes.
The article extols selecting a few hardy, showy flowers for small spaces and lists practical choices from morning glory to alyssum, mignonette, and portulaca. It offers seed sourcing tips, notes on self sowing, and guidance on ornamental foliage, climbers, and hardy perennials, plus cautions on watering and bed preparation.
A long instructional piece on home crafts describes making patchwork cushions, sofa cushions, pennants, and fern holders from Bristol-board, silk and elastic textures. It details embroidery methods with silks, tassels, and tarletan, plus plant and moss arrangements for a decorative epergne dish and fans with butterflies and monograms. It also notes a cure claim for indigestion using Elminons Liver Regulator.
A period piece on health practices discusses airing bedding to purify air, frequent clothing changes, and sun exposure to reduce illness. It covers nervousness causes, risks of colds, arsenic wallpaper poisoning, guidelines on coughing, and a home remedy for chronic bronchitis with tincture benzoin and tragacanth.
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