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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1882
Page
3
A Harper's Bazar editorial urges American women to slow and balance daily tasks. It contrasts brisk bursts with careful pacing, warns of nervous strain, and promotes the tortoise’s steady discipline over harelike overexertion. Also includes crochet stitching instructions and knitting tips.
Feathered trimmings return in greater numbers for fall hats with birds of all sizes and colors used across small bonnets medium pokes and large round hats. Velvet plush and gilded lace dominate while ostrich tips, rhinestone beads and Spanish lace enhance crowns brims and ribbons.
Plush used in wraps for children and striped silk goods gain favor. Dame Fashion favors dark colors including black for school dresses and Jersey suits for young ladies. Turkish caps and red red cashmere hats appeal to little girls, while fish wife poke hats and ragged edge paper borders show latest trends. Jersey waist garments require no dressmaker fitting and feature cadet collars or Byron collars. Fringe trims and attached sashes remain common, while jet fringe decorates black jerseys.
Chain stitch draws the thread through a loop. Single crochet inserts the needle, draws through the loop and a stitch at once. Double crochet forms two loops and completes two extra passes for taller stitches.
The article extols Compound Oxygen as a universal remedy after twelve years of effort, claiming thousands regained health from long standing diseases. It argues the treatment acts on nervous system and vital organs via inhalation, avoids drugging, and strengthens life forces, with testimonials and free mailed treatise offered by Drs. Starkey & Palen in Philadelphia.
A 19th century article argues damp houses cause disease and typhus, stressing complete site drainage over cosmetic “well drained” framing. It explains proper drainage types, level work with rods, and guidance for masons to build uniform slopes to protect family health and property values.
Dr Dio Lewis argues that health is true wealth and that a vigorous, healthy life yields far greater happiness and success than wealth alone. He contrasts two men decade apart, praising the robust, red faced figure and condemning the pale, nervous merchant, urging readers to value vigor over riches. He cites Boston figures to illustrate the point.
A Victorian era admonition urges women singers to avoid poor habits including irregular meals tight clothing and candy eating. It argues voices suffer from undernourished bodies and tight lacing and stresses singers should follow simple hygiene rules, fresh air and healthy living to prevent throat troubles and ease practice and performance.
The text discusses biliousness as a common ailment with unclear cause and origin. It suggests a mild jaundice from liver disturbance, notes the liver’s blood filtering role, and cites Sir Lionel Beale on inherited susceptibility and a sensitive stomach. Attacks disrupt digestion, requiring rest of digestive organs.
The text notes that patients may feel very well for a long period, while high authorities condemn rich foods and alcohol for those far from biliousness. It advises eating vegetables, fruit juices, bread, and using medicines when the liver requires it, highlighting dietary caution and liver treatment.
A guide extols installing a bathroom with hot and cold water in country homes. It argues a bath tub is inexpensive, improves health and comfort, lowers doctor bills, and even raises moral tone, with options for attic tanks or stove-back piping and proper water temperature.
The text urges preserving children from wasting diseases by ensuring ample rest. It recommends eight hours of quiet sleep for teens, advocates no fixed bedtimes, and suggests a midsummer siesta and cool sleeping spaces. It warns against sleeping in stifling rooms and praises night air after sunset for better rest and dreams.
The paper by Dr. G. Felizer claims a remedy for saccharine diabetes. It describes artificial glycosuria in animals and says a medicine that suppresses it will cure diabetes in weeks or months. The proposed mechanism links glycosuria, intermittent diabetes, and established diabetes to irritation of the rachidian bulb. Bromide of potassium is said to sedate the bulb and, in large doses, rapidly suppress irritation and cure diabetes.
A stage sketch presents an open general intelligence office for employment seekers. The manager invites applicants to write the desired helper’s style and to perform silent demonstrations of their trades. The first who accurately mimics the occupation becomes the next employer in this reforming, dumb show performance.
The article describes a lighting fast outdoor game where any even number forms couples in a ring facing upward with space between pairs. One outside couple starts. the leader claps thrice and runs toward the ring chased by his partner. The pursuer aims to tag before the runner reaches safety. The caught player becomes the runner, transferring danger to outside players.
Describes the traditional game commonly called high spy where the counter, called It, faces away and counts to a chosen number. On completion he opens eyes and hunts hidden players who race to a base. The last to reach base becomes the new leader.
An old playful chase game now bears a newer, gentler name while retaining its rules. In this single foot-race, the pursued gain safety by leaping onto any object that lifts their feet, from branches to swings to a stray paper. The toucher exchanges places with the jumper, and the hunter may be called the old Drid under the term peeenenge.
Children form a circle sing ring around a rosy and shout one two three squat to the unfailing hilarity. The old nursery jingle resists progress and remains dear to the heart of fancy as a timeless play activity.
City youths bemoan limited street play but improvise a field day. They choose a distant landmark and race there on command, the first to arrive earning the title Arthur while the rest are ranked by merit as his knights in a playful event.
Comrade George H. Patch, commander of the Massachusetts Grand Army department, received an elegant Grand Army dress sword from A. C. Woodworth, president of Ames Sword Company. The regulation blade features nickel-plated scabbard, gold-plated bands, fish-skin grip, and a guard with G A R monogram and order emblems. The etched blade bears Patch’s name and 1882 with inscriptions on the reverse.
A described guide to making decorative household items using felt satin and crewel work. It covers wine colored felt table covers with embroidered floral borders, crewel filled designs, scarves with plush end strips, and multiple patterns including birds butterflies and children from stories. It notes borders, edges, lacing, and fringe techniques.
Do it yourself guide for home sewing leather working and embroidery. Describes making lambrequins with cheesecloth and lace, and proposes a tab lecover project in cretonne with patchwork squares, braid cross stitch and border trim. Provides approximate costs and technique notes for hem and edging.
A guide to making lasting dried grass bouquets using dyed pale blue yellow and red hues. Describes dyeing with aniline liquids, air drying, arranging while petals cling less when dry, and quick preparation methods with washing soda lime and boiling water. Cautions about handling lime and avoiding burns.
Perambulator covers come in crimson or blue Turkish toweling with plush or satin bindings. A white linen creation features the word bahy embroidered center and antique lace edging. A blue satin spread showcases a pansy cluster, with velvet leaves and shaded silk borders and Kensington stems.
A simple, adaptable closet solution using a three-leaf clothes-horse folded into a triangle. Place in a room corner with one side open for a door. Cover the panel with turkey red calico or cretonne, or wallpaper border. Add hooks on the inner leaves and a shelf to rest boxes across the lower rod.
A DIY guide describes creating a pale blue satin sofa pillow with wheat and briar rose embroidery, terra-cotta and old gold trims, and feather fringe, plus a ticking cushion. It covers brown holland children at play panels, terra-cotta satin linen jointing, and fashion plate inspired screen panels with silk and filoselle work.
Instructions describe knitting with coarse steel needles and No 12 Dexter's cotton to cast on thirty stitches. Knit plain strips, crochet a cardinal zephyr edge, make three strips, sew them into a panel with the center strip two inches longer, finish with a cotton lace shell edge edged in zephyr. An ornament for a sitting room and inexpensive.
A noon Saturday incident in the Grand Trunk station Lewiston involves a tired older woman in the ladies room and a mysterious man who searches pockets and coats claiming to locate a key. The fragment hints at a possible attempted theft or unsettling presence, with no clear outcome recorded in the readable text.
A man forced entry to a ticket window, prying open the door and entering the office. He left with $45 after the baggage master noted the break in while the ticket seller was at dinner. The elderly witness could offer no description, and police have little information.
A collection of word games and cryptograms from multiple papers. Items include a Reversed Double Half-Square, Cryptogramic Multiplication, Rhomboid, Anagram, Pyramid, Compound Double Acrostic, Cross-Word and Half-Square puzzles with attributions to New Haven and other cities. Names like A. Epoon Myrtle Mystique Trojan and others appear alongside place marks and puzzle numbers.
A dense historical word puzzle listing across and down clues from a page, citing titles such as Maud Lynn, Gladstone, Nestor, Comus, Odoacer, and Miss Tox, with many entries including a final tag BLACKBIRD. The column reads as a large, multi-column puzzle grid with numerous cryptic clues and source references within a 19th to early 20th century newspaper puzzle page.
A compact note lists prizes and subscription offers from The Weekly Globe and The Sentinel for completing lists and puzzles. It mentions six months for first full list and three months for the next best list, plus references to a Trojan Boy and a Sevier enigma.
A Mansfield Ohio notice from November 26 1882 promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as a tonic to cure fatigue pain and digestive weakness. It narrates a testimonial of relief from side pain back pain loss of appetite and general weakness after taking the remedy, claiming renewed appetite flesh gain and recovery.
Natick Massachusetts hosts a cross word contest titled MABEL with no merital clues. Mystery solvers Nat, Mystique, and a list of named participants respond to the Grist Mil prompt but the judges deem many endings too short to form a crew and decline the submissions.
A New York Mail account recounts Abyssinia’s siege of Massawa, a devastating battle where 7000 Egyptians were slain and 4000 horses and vast arms captured. Abyssinians exacted ransom of 5 million thalers, released the Khedive’s son after barter, and the Described “Sitzan yemish” or mouse-bitten soldiers became a feared label in Egypt.
The New Orleans Picayune describes a June experiment in cooling a printer’s room. A vertical wooden shaft with a water spray and drain circulated air from top to bottom, cooling it from 96 degrees to 74. The evaporation absorbed heat, yielding a cheap, effective cooling method worth repeating.
A London society supper art fad draws attention from London to arms with a blue vein painted torso fresco by a middle aged woman painter of sheep fences and clotheslines. The mock spectacle is noted by a Chicago correspondent praising the outré trend and contrasting it with other nations.
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