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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1884
Page
3
A discussion on women's journalism contrasts hard-edged ambition with traditional roles. Scribbler No2 cites Elizabeth Mallet and Mrs Hale as pioneers while noting press bias toward lighter topics and praising serious work. Mrs Herberts to report on Women of Journalism congress.
A survey of accomplished women highlights varied achievements across fields. Mrs Merrill and Mrs Rees gain milestones in pharmacy and journalism. Ida Cutter earns Spanish proficiency prize. Miss Wurm wins Mendelssohn scholarship. Dutch sisters Van Gelderen qualify as dentists. Miss Roberts’s historical thesis heads to Johns Hopkins. Modjeska advances lace and wood carving education and Polish language schooling. Mrs Longitecy facing criticism, yet her family benefits from her advocacy. Mrs Erminie A Smith named Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences for storied scientific and linguistic work.
The article notes growing Jersey waist fashions depart from original design while preserving the glove-fit comfort. It highlights elastic jersey construction, darts, back seams, and postillon backs trimmed with ribbons. Novel features include waistcoats under jackets, varied colors, passementerie fabrics, and flat weighted corners to keep jackets in place.
Prominent houses in New York and Boston price silk jerseys from 45 to 75 dollars, aiming for a light, fashionable look with velvet-trimmed vests. Styles feature dark blue or red shades, beaded designs, and novel circular woven webbing for seamfree skirts. Prices span 8 to 75 dollars.
A humorous interview describes a floral hospital for delicate house plants traveling people and seasonal neglect. The florist explains boarding tropicals rubbers camelias and other specimens-backyard patients during winter and tending them with soil changes fertilizer pruning to revive them for spring.
A tall awkward youth in a dress suit too large for him is halted at the Sixth Avenue corner by his irascible uncle who seizes the coat and drags him away. The young woman, pale and crying, reveals they planned to marry, but the thwarted elopement leaves her in tears as a bystander helps calm her.
A young girl Mary, taught to say grace before meals, asks her mother about going out to a Grace meeting. The exchange twists language as Mary repeats Grace meeting, reflecting a child’s playful mishearing and everyday domestic humor from Merchant Traveler.
A parade of curiosities and brief items includes a Fort Smith walnut tree to be felled for the New Orleans exposition, a large Jeffersonville glass plate built for 156 square feet, and a New York optician lodging six spectacles for different uses. Also notes a San Francisco barber miscropping hair, a London Spectator crime death table, and a garbled medical ad fragment.
A practical guide to hammering ornamental designs on metal using brass copper zinc and silver. It covers materials tools setup on boards wooden buttons cement backing back relief methods annealing and finishing for plaques panels faces and many home decorative items.
A Victorian era guide describes making a multifunction box from a soap box to hold newspapers, with hinged halves, satin paper lining, and brass nails. It also details a display bust with Gaspard's Preparation finish and a decorative pedestal, plus a plush oval board trimmed in brass for ornament, and millinery birds used as decorative accents.
Step by step guide to crafting a two large balls style Afghan using varied colors tied in short lengths. Create a half yard wide center stripe with star or spider stitch, surround with dark afghan stripes in afghan stitch, and finish with a deep fringe. Include shell crochet border atop center stripe and prevent curl with a color crochet row.
The directions describe forming scallops by nine double crochets with edge stitches skipped and the last stitch fastened, then creating multiple rows of scallops joined at the center. The fringe should hang four inches below the scallops on both sides and be very heavy, with the stripe joining by sewing or crocheting or crocheting Wem together.
A short guide explains crafting a decorative panel using pressed flowers and dried grasses. It suggests daisies, buttercups, pansies, and similar blooms, either real or imitated in silk or paper, arranged on a thin wooden panel covered with olive-green fabric.
In a rain battered valley saloon the miner crew bands together to help Jim whose mother is ill and funds are low It ends in a pledge to aid Jim and his mother with dust gathered from the group Their mood lifts as Bricktop leads relief and Jim returns to the bar with a quiet resolve
Scientific American notes Austrian glassmaking yields fabrics spun from glass threads used for ladies wear. Burgeoning items include collars, tassels, fringes, belts and watch chairs as well as glass flowers. At the 1878 Paris exhibition, items such as a bonnet of spun glass with silk lining were shown, rivaling Chinese glass flowers in variety.
The district railway hosts many cats, dubbed Stumpy by workers, with short tails from near misses with trains. Most are adult, and one kitten was seen on rails after traffic ceased. At a signal-box over the line, two tabby cats rest behind bells on a platform edge, indifferent to rushing trains below.
A varied fashion summary notes lobster motif decorations, pale gray satin with pearl embroidery, and designs in rich silks with half yard measurements from stem to petal edge. Harlequin costumes in several materials feature harmonious patterns, while a Grecian bridal dress impresses with fit and draping quality.
A clergyman long afflicted with catarrh finally found a remedy that cured him after years of failure. He credits the prescription with saving his life and offers to share it to any sufferer who sends a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr. J. A. Lawrence at 250 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn.
An article extols women to pursue beauty through balanced living. It links complexion to habits, warns against late hours, fatty foods, and overheated rooms, and advises exercise, fresh air, and regular bathing. It discusses wrinkles from expressions and powder use, and examines alcohol’s damaging effects on the blood and heart.
Sir Henry Thompson’s paper at the International Fisheries Exhibition argues fish offers substantial nutritive elements, with nitrogenous matter and gelatine, less fat than land meat, and a higher relative solid content in many species. A mixed diet is essential, and fish should supplement not replace beef, pork, or other meats.
A science focused note explains how blood sustains life by feeding tissues with oxygen from the lungs to every part of the body, aligning modern science with the aged saying that blood is life.
The New York Sun reports Boz the collie trained by RK Williams to pick colored blocks and spell letters. He identifies colors, names letters, counts, adds and subtracts, and responds to questions by signaling with blocks. The dog faces his trainer during tasks, and demonstrates arithmetic and spelling abilities in a Newark office setting.
An elderly Maine fisherman at the Eastern station recounts lobsters as sensitive, humorous creatures that respond to kindness. He shares an anecdote of Boston men seeing a “chestout” story causing lobsters to curl up in the boat, then demonstrates a lobster seemingly under a spell, calm and still as he controls its movement.
In John Swinton's Paper a vivid description portrays Vanderbilt's iron fortress on Forty-second Street. The 56 by 42 foot vault, built with thick walls and reinforced iron, houses vast securities guarded by electric clocks and armed watchmen. By 1890 experts estimate his fortune may reach three billion, with much of it stored behind heavy doors and a private skyjeton key.
The advertisement touts Hop Bitters as harmless for overeating or drinking, claims it arouses a refined appetite and enjoyment before meals, removes dullness after, and leaves the head clear and nerves steady. It argues dinners, whether Christian or sumptuous, continue effects for days with buoyant feelings.
An analysis under oath tests Hop Hitters as containing hops and medicinal roots beyond pure spirits. The court notes each wineglassful’s medicinal properties equal a full adult dose, subjecting the product to internal revenue tax as a medicinal bitter.
J W Money of Buffalo describes a long illness with kidney and liver complaints and rheumatism. He reports the liver hardened like wood and limbs swollen with water. After using seven bottles of Haale Bitters the hard liver and swelling disappeared. He claims the product saved his life though it did not work as a miracle. Dated Oct 1, 1881.
A workingman testifies that years of debt and sickness ended after using Iron Bitters. He credits his pastor for guidance and says one month brought full recovery for his family, claiming they have not seen a sick day since. He urges poor men to try the remedy as a cheaper alternative to doctors.
A compiled listing of periodicals with subscription prices and titles including American Dairyman Atlantic Monthly Century Magazine Garden Crosstown titles and various journals. It notes that specimen copies are not furnished and provides an address directive.
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