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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1883
Page
3
A column on feminine topics questions close living and public exposure of private life while offering fashion tips. It lists hair coiffures, accessories, summer gowns, parasols, and hats, including chameleon silks, striped gowns, and velvet trimmings with rose aigrettes and small straw bonnets.
Mrs Emma C Bascom urges women to prepare for new responsibilities as they gain power and culture arguing public duties and private life can coexist with refined manners and purity The piece questions whether women must be flawless and notes that humanity includes both sexes and imperfections.
The article presents Mrs. D. H. R. Goodale’s view that God designed men and women differently for distinct roles in life and work. She argues women must chart their own standards and methods, guided by a power that governs all, to pursue their unique tasks with clarity, firmness, and fervor, beyond male influence.
Colonel T W Higginson recalls earlier alarm among Cambridge ladies over Harvard annex plans now advancing toward a 100000 endowment. He cites Dr Dix as a living witness to resisting old prejudices and notes women’s push for higher education reflects esthetic trends and socialist leanings.
An expert notes that fashion repeats old forms with slight seasonal variation, producing a deceptive sense of new styles. He observes mailliners and dressmakers continually retreading familiar designs in hats, bonnets, dresses, wraps, and ornaments.
A fashion note lauds reducing corset use as health and style improves. It cites actresses and educated women who reject V shaped waists, praises jerseys for a snug elastic fit, and highlights new soft India cashmere as easy to tailor.
A New York writer discusses imported versus native American hair, attributing differences to lifestyle and climate. The piece notes European hair often kept smooth by regular cap wear, compares Indian and European hair textures, and describes evolving styles such as short hair and antique curls. It cites French ideas of beauty and suggests forehead shaping affects perceived attractiveness.
A detailed survey of late nineteenth century fashion emphasizes ruched silk lace mitts, brocades, satin foulards, and velvet trimmings for overdresses and mantles. It notes bold colors like electric blue, garnet, crushed strawberry, and raspberry, plus varied ribbons, Egyptian borders, and new parasol styles for street and carriage use.
The text explains how floral notes and seeds of balsam or aster sown directly in a garden tend to grow tall with few branches and high flowers, while cabbage or cauliflower left to themselves produce long stems, widely spaced leaves, and smaller heads. it notes that these outcomes appear more clearly in subsequent years when seeds are saved from the same plants.
The excerpt discusses maximizing edible tissue and blossoms by rich soil, repeated transplanting, and pruning for cabbage and balsam. It details rose bud ants in peach houses, Harris' lily, and the white lily origin, plus monthly rose care, cestrums, and pansies, outlining soil mixes, potting, and wintering tips for various plants.
An article describes delicate needlework methods including etching embroidery with silk on frames, Arasene raised work using wool or silk on canvas or serge, Au passe satin stitches for linen and church work, Pombed-out methods for hairlike textures in mats and flowers, pansies formed from combed wool, and process details for shaping petals and securing wool with mucilage and wire. The piece outlines tools, materials, and stepwise techniques for decorative textile arts.
An old-fashioned lightstand was shortened by sawing off part of each leg and mounted on a board the table top size. Casters were attached, and the table secured by nails. Thin four inch high boards were added as cleats, the drawer removed, and a new bottom fitted. Two heavy coats of finish were applied.
Bright Carynine paint dries and is varnished, then cotton batting and flannel shield the base. Striped cretonne covers the boxes, edges tucked with tiny tacks, lambrequin of black flannel with moss rose embroidery. A cantoned mouse ornament and a scarlet drapery cat motif decorate the chest tops.
The cushion features two broad and two narrow stripes. Broad sections Crochet in blue and dark clay Victoria stitch with blue embroidery. narrow sections crochet in brown double crochet with raised bars and point russe embroidery in blue yellow and brown chenille and filoseile. Instructions detail stitch counts and color orders, ending with a blue silk cord tassel and rosette assembly for suspension.
Knit edging instructions run through ten rows with stitches and yarn tricks. Then a cheap floor covering method uses flour paste, alum, Manila paper, wallpaper, sizing glue, and varnish to create a durable washable floor surface.
Pattern notes describe rows for a serpentine braid and crochet edge. Details include double crochets into braid points, treble clusters, chain steps, and turning sequences for left and right sides, with edge repeats and treble work into chains and trebles from prior rows.
Brown paper of the darkest shade and thick texture is desirable for panels and cornices. Gray coal-tinted paper serves as a background to relieve light and shade. Best is stout builders' paper with oil tubes or well-ground water colors. Apply Chinese white then color. avoid minute finish. keep broad effects and clear design.
The instructions describe separating a paper print from its background by steaming, drying, applying a negative varnish or clean bals to the warmed glass, smoothing the print onto the varnished surface, and then rubbing with a gum-rubber to leave the photographic image on the varnished glass as the varnish hardens.
A square of dark crimson cloth is hemmed or fringed and trimmed with multiple bands of old-gold plush. Two-inch strips are recommended to be placed three inches apart for a pleasing effect. Earthen plant-jars bronzed with bronze powder and varnish look pretty indoors but will fade in outdoor conditions.
Wash and cut tripe, simmer in water with salt and pepper until tender. Boil white onions, mash and return with butter cream and nutmeg. Thicken with a bit of flour, boil once, then serve over buttered toast slices.
A home recipe instructs to chop five large onions and one quart of potatoes with a half-pound of bacon, season with salt and pepper, and simmer in a kettle with three quarts of water for an hour and a half.
Instructions describe frying bluefish pieces dusted with pepper salt and flour then rolled in corn meal and fried in rendered lard until crisp and cooked through.
A recipe combines mashed sweet potatoes with sugar butter eggs soda lemon extract and Watinee flavoring. Bake a crusted shallow pudding dish at slow heat for about forty five minutes until set.
Beat to a cream one cup of butter and two cups of sugar, add half a cup of sweet milk, mix two teaspoonfuls of baking powder with three cups of flour, beat the whites of six eggs to a froth, stir all together with lemon. Filling uses whites beaten with sugar, reserve top, add one cup of seeded raisins and two teaspoonfuls lemon extract, spread between cake sheets.
A recipe instructs to beat eggs, add sugar and butter, stir in milk and Babine Pare, form a stiff dough, roll to half an inch, dust with cinnamon and powdered sugar, roll jelly-roll style, cut into inch slices, dip in sugar, and bake in a greased tin.
Boil until tender drain well then chop finely. Fry in butter with salt and pepper about five minutes. Slice several hard boiled eggs add to the dish and finish with mace. Drizzle vinegar over the top and serve immediately.
A basic dough method lists one quart flour one half teaspoon salt three teaspoons baking powder one tablespoon lard one pint milk mixed into a soft dough. Shape into five inch strips, brush with sweet milk, and bake in a hot oven.
A simple method uses shredded cold roast chicken mixed with cracker crumbs and two eggs. Season with salt and pepper, form a thin sheet, place a spoonful of filling, seal edges, and fry in hot lard until browned on both sides.
Pour two teacupfuls of milk over two and a half teacups of sifted Indian meal. Stir until cool then add two cups of wheat flour one cup of butter one and a half cups of sugar three eggs two and a half teaspoons of baking powder one teaspoon of cinnamon. Roll out cut in squares and fry in hot lard.
A simple soft gingerbread method uses a half pound of sugar and three ounces of butter creamed together then blended with two beaten eggs. Dissolve soda in warm water, add two teaspoons of ginger, half a cup of milk, and enough flour to form a soft batter before baking in a hot oven.
Chop the mutton already cooked and place in a stewpan with a cup of gravy. Season with pepper and salt and stir in a teaspoonful of flour. When boiling hot, break in half a dozen eggs and serve hot.
The passage describes cutting meat into large squares, dipping in raw egg and flour, seasoning with salt and pepper, frying in butter, then serving with gravy. The gravy is made from one pint of water, two tablespoons browned flour mixed with cold water, a small piece of butter, pepper, and salt.
A simple batter for corn bread uses one quart sour milk five cups corn meal two cups flour two thirds cup molasses two eggs and one teaspoon saleratus.
Cut stale bread into thin slices. Dip in well beaten eggs. Thicken with flour and fry in hot butter.
A boastful passenger questions a Tremont street car schedule at Roxbury crossing. The conductor confirms twelve thirty as the departure time. The rider mocks the fare recorder and compares his clock to a sun dial, while the car proceeds after fare collection.
A Sierra County paper recounts numerous large gold nuggets from the 1850s to 1880s. Notable finds include 1596 ounce nugget from Monumental quartz mine valued at $21,000 to $30,000 and sold for $21,636.51, a 632 ounce nugget at French Ravine worth $10,000, and 426 ounce nugget valued at $8,000. Other sites include Rainbow mine at Chip’s Flat, Smith’s Flat, and Little Grizzly Diggings with varied weights and prices.
Mrs Alfred Maddick appears as Lady Clancarty in a London Truth note that she resembles the late Miss Neilson in looks though with fairer hair. The reviewer finds the debutante lacking in cultivated voice and suited to lighter roles, yet notes grace and potential for future light comedy success.
Remarkable improvement in a Walworth New York patient after a three month supply of Oxygen. She reports no cough or hoarseness, regained energy, can walk long distances, and does more work than in two years. Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen with case reports and information sent free by D S Starkey & Palen Philadelphia.
The Army of the Potomac marched through Washington with guards from Federal soldiers and Grand Army posts, reviewed by President Arthur from a grandstand near the White House. An evening program featured George Alfred Townsend’s poem and Martin Maginnis delivering an oration praising the Army of the Potomac, its losses, and its impact on postwar America.
The Modesto circus performed last night but the press time prevented any verdict on its merits. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is praised as a female tonic that relieves stomach and heart reflex pains, backache, and dragging sensations, advertised as a restorative by druggists.
A testimonial claims Brown's Iron Bitters cures weakness and wasting, improves appetite and digestion, and restores energy. A Baltimore resident recounts shell injury in the war, ensuing paralysis, and lifelong indigestion, saying two bottles led to recovery and daily activity.
An advertisement proclaims Brown's Iron Bitters as a complete non alcoholic tonic remedy for indigestion dyspepsia malaria and general weakness. It claims to enrich the blood strengthen muscles and tone the nerves with a dependable healing effect.
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