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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1881
Page
2
The Ladies' Department urges gardeners to raise annuals from seed to diversify summer plantings. It lists many suitable species and offers seed sowing techniques using hotbeds, cold frames, and window boxes, stressing stocky growth, shading, and careful watering for both tender and hardy varieties.
Detailed, arcane knitting pattern notes describe multiple cage stitches, edge purled rounds, and alternating knit and purl sequences. The text specifies casting on, forming stitches, and numerous row-by-row actions, including purl two together, crossed stitches, and fringe options, ending with matting guidance.
British authority explains brief method for pen and ink on linen with gum prep, light strokes, indelible ink, and careful shading. Transfer guides, sun exposure, and drying steps outlined to avoid dampness and preserve depth of color on satin and similar textures.
Brown and gray papers in England are in high demand for painting on screens dados panels and book covers. The article advises using stout brown paper backing, oil or watercolors with Chinese white, broad simple designs, and careful edging with embroidery paste. It suggests specific panel designs featuring water plants butterflies and flowers, and notes that water color on such materials can be removed with water, requiring fixed placement.
The article describes using Payne's gray and brown or gray paper for studies of flowers and design work. It explains copying casts in white to create deep shadows, using thin white for highlights and thick white for the highest lights. Borders can be painted white shaded with brown or gray, and brown paper can be gilt with liquid gold. Gold tones improve when vermilion is applied first and outlines are added in black. Lettering is easy and effective for mottos and inscriptions.
A how-to on inexpensive perforated cardboard projects and crochet work. It covers making corner shelves with zephyr decorations, tin-backed wall pockets, easels, a hairpin holder, cornucopia hooks, button hooks, lamp mats, and crocheted accessories for the toilet and sewing.
In Charles H. Thayer's verse a woman in an easy chair reads an open letter. She smiles with coy confidence as a suitor praises her beauty and promises reparation. She muses on forgiveness, noting that to err is human and to forgive divine, illustrating a playful moral about pride and pardon.
Miss Annie Pauline Scott of Mononganela Curry Pennsylvan ia has been chosen by Forepaugh from thousands of photographs as the nearest ideal in form and feature. The niece of coal miner John Ryan she lives in a dilapidated house with her uncle. The article praises her figure face and features, comparing her to Grecian ideals and noting an Eastern artist sketched her recently.
The article urges rising early for mental clarity and work, warns against night air superstition, discusses eye exercise and nutrition, and summarizes medical notes on arsenic, charcoal, and bee sting remedies with salicylic acid. It blends health reform, practical tips, and brief medical facts with historical tone.
A Boston based puzzle column called The Grist Mill invites solutions and communications to W. H. Todd at 14 Violence Street. It lists No. 151 through No. 208 puzzles, announces prize winners for The Weekly Globe, and directs readers to send future submissions to 14 Florence Street with contributors named.
In Madison County Ohio man Smith died and on his deathbed requested $40 and a deck of cards be placed in his coffin though details remain unclear. An exchange reports a Hudson River train-boy tricked a countryside victim and was rewarded with a quip about buying two corks to block being talked to death.
An old parish roadman at Lecle rechan recalls the Carlyles in a regional accent. An American traveler asks about the local family, and the roadman muses while leaning on his shovel, offering a fragmentary memory of “the whole o’ them.”
An inquirer recalls several local men including Jock a doctorly but kind figure who has died Tam a writer based in London and Jamie the major swine farmer in Ecclefechan market, noted as the leading producer in the parish with other brief remarks about their roles.
A traveling sleight-of-hand performer in an eastern town boasted of making a silver dollar vanish into a spectator’s pocket. A darky helper then produced eighty cents, explaining he spent twenty cents of the dollar for a cigar and two drinks. The trick failed as the helper pilfered part of the currency beforehand.
John Moses wed Mrs. Coulter at Maxey with Apache county justice Charles Schneider officiating. Schneider then deputized Moles to marry his own niece, creating a jumble as weeks later his mother became Mrs. Schneider after marrying a man killed near Tombstone. The affair blends kinship, law, and misfortune in a single family event.
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