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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1882
Page
3
A historic discourse on consistency in costume traces shifts from heavy trims to simpler lines in English women’s dress. It critiques past excesses, praises modern restraint, and offers practical crafts for trim removal and handmade decorative pieces.
Demorest's Monthly surveys shifting fashion in dress ornamentation. A move away from cheap braids and fringes toward embroidery, new bindings, and open work fabrics. Venetian influenced designs rise, with machine work rivaling handcraft in cost and effect.
Instructions describe white linen sheeting for many embroiders items such as dogleys, tidies, curtains and table spreads. It covers framing, tracing patterns, stitching techniques, shading with olive crewel, and finishing with Kensington stitch and drawn work borders. Also notes ironing, washing, and crape applique on satin.
A compendium of kitchen how tos and domestic tips including a method for self freezing ice cream with milk eggs and vanilla, instructions for soap and dress cleaning, washing flannel and colored fabrics, Irish stew, angel cake, frying calf brains, hard soap, and mince pies plus a simple chicken salad recipe.
The text compiles practical homemaking instructions including soaking navy beans, slow simmered bean soup with onions and pork, bread crusts fried in butter, and flavoring ideas with celery and cloves. It also covers duck dressing and cooking, squash pie with eggs, paste preservation with alum, and a traditional fruit and spice paste recipe with butter and raisins.
London correspondent describes General Booth opening a new Salvation Army meeting in a former tavern turned chapel. The scene blends solemn hymn singing with theatrical routines by Booth family members and Major Smith. The crowd erupts in cheers and a dramatic fundraising push ends the service with a hallelujah tea.
An illustrated guide to crafting vases, plaques, handbags, tidies, and screens from bottles, photographs, plush, cretonne, and wool, with step by step assembly, sewing, mounting, and finishing touches. It covers furniture covers, chair linings, sofa revamps, decorative mats, pincushions, and a decorative toilet stand using paints, laces, and embroidery threads for home adornment.
Thurlow Weed died at his New York residence last Wednesday morning. Born in Cairo New York in 1797 he rose from a Catskill printing office to editor of the Albany Journal and supporter of Seward Greeley and Lincoln. He mentored the Republican party helped win the war era and later managed the Tribune and Commercial Advertiser. His fortune ranged near a million dollars with a measured stock and bond portfolio and Croton estate. He traveled by night to multiply his days and served as a political educator to many.
The Independent discusses how heating and ventilation differ by season, noting open fireplaces historically regulated air and warmth, while modern furnaces and steam systems offer regulated heat but raise ventilation and moisture concerns. It cautions about moisture, filth, gas stoves, and uneven heat, and flags electricity as a future option for heating.
The Buffalo Courier reports a matrimonial association president who contracts with a boardinghouse landlady to provide three kinds of meat for three months. He claims liver was the only meat. The landlady replies she offered beef liver hog liver and sheep liver. The judge sides with the landlady and the president is cast. A quip about rats appears in the ad copy with a 15 cent price.
The article argues for individualized child governance based on common sense rather than harsh discipline. It cites era writers on education, warns against corporal punishment, and urges steady, patient, kind guidance to shape character, aiming for lasting moral and social improvement.
The text argues good health promotes cheerfulness and cheerfulness may follow health. It states healthy children are generally cheerful and happy, and that childhood is often seen as the most enjoyable period, though children have troubles, they remain more cheerful than adults.
An 1880s testimonial warns back pain signals illness and touts Brown's Snow Bitters as a foundation for blood purification along with Brown's Iron Bitters for stomach and kidney relief. The letter cites appetite restoration, urine retention relief, weight gain, and renewed health attributed to these tonics by users including O. B. Lancent.
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