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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1883
Page
3
A discussion on bringing up girls, cooperation, and courtesy intersects with views on fashion, decorative arts, and the value of taste. The piece argues taste can flourish without wealth, favoring originality of form, harmonious surroundings, and simple elegance over luxe bric a brac.
The Chicago Herald weighs in on women’s duties and marriage, criticizing young women for neglecting household responsibility and financial accountability, urging better respect for parental guidance and practical skills before matrimony.
A Lewiston Journal excerpt argues for widespread co operation in household work to ease drudgery and free time for moral and intellectual growth. It envisions centralized kitchens and laundries serving neighborhoods to advance women's education and influence in domestic life.
The New York World notes that men increasingly fail to give up seats on crowded railcars to ladies. It cites attitudes shifting as some women gain perception of a right to sit, while others display disdainful scrutiny and occupy seats swiftly with little gratitude.
A New York World writer notes Russian grenadine fabrics create vivid color under gas or electric light, with plush borders and embossed borders. Jute velours with tinsel embroidery gains popularity, while black white and red woods form slim furniture with brass rails and silver urns. Old Dutch embroidery revival ties in with linen and hemp fibers for lambrequins and busy halls brighten with color schemes and Japanese ceramics.
A discussion on the market decline of work felt and cloth, praising needlework quality and plush for concealing flaws. Describes a floral counter scroll in shaded brown and white arresene, blue arresene flowers, and tinsel outlines. Notes a Paris brought table cover in old gold with blue and crimson decoration.
Harper's Bazar highlights autumn winter fabrics with rough cheviot and big color-stripe contrasts. New offerings include Ascot and Epsom cloths with Venetian effects, jersey pitations, corded ottoman weaves, and Pailiasson loops for trims in blue grays and chic shades.
A fashion overview outlines autumn dress styles with cashmere colors gray sage green brown and pilot blue. Descriptions cover velvet ribbon trimmings, velvet cuttings, high shoulder bouffant sleeves, basques with velvet collars and Marie Antoinette vests, and varied drapery including kilts and complex pleats.
Varieties and suggestions cover sweet peas corsages wet straw hats remedies for stiff hats half square lace kerchiefs with Pompadour embroidery tucks on jerseys and skirts Canton flannel table spreads striped patterns and new colors for autumn. Ammonia as toilet aid and headaches linked to diet are discussed. Jackets cloaks and visites in velvet astrakhan wool and silk fabrics round out the fall wardrobe.
The piece explains Queen Anne work as a planned decorative craft. It notes sewing methods such as parallel darning stitches over outlined patterns, using diaper and damask motifs on thin India silks and mull or linen cambric. The description frames the technique as both decorative and washable.
Describes Suk flossing with filoselle for outlining in Wereing designs on reech silk panels. Gulliard flower with pale pink floselle, Kensingtop style embroidery, and close needlework resembling fine cord. Pink roses for patterns, olive foliage, and pale lavender background. Ludia silk scarfs in Queen Anne style used for draperies and sets with lace edges.
The article details an expensive Queen Anne door screen with carved mahogany, gendarme blue satin, and ecru India silk embroidered with Mies butterflies and foliage. It notes a shelf for bric a brac, adjustable draperies, and brass rod suspension. It also describes door pockets as decorative room features using yellow white pongee, embroidery, and brass rods with rings.
A detailed needlework guide describes making a scrimp and plain striped fabric mat with pinks and foliage, using crewel shades from light to dark and quarter-diameter stitches. It covers leaf work in olive greens, finishing with lace edges, then tracing brown Holland to embroider daisies with white Swiss muslin petals, French knot stamens, rick rack edging, and matching mats and pincushion covers.
A guide for making a folding screen uses seven yards of firm unbleached cotton, three and a half yards each of olive cretonne and silesia, brass hinges and tacks, and two pine frames five feet by two and a quarter. Frames are joined neatly for flat panels and covered on both sides with fabric. The cretonne is stretched on one side and the silesia on the other, with edges overlapped and tacked. final ends are sewn.
Reader follows a sequence for No 30 cotton with a fifteen stitch cast on and a series of knit and over joins. Rows include row one with seventeen stitches and row two finishing at eighteen, progressing through rows three to six with increases and decreases and a cast off to fourteen or fifteen stitches as described.
Old three cornered book shelves once stiff now covered in antique style plush. A narrow valance embroidered in Turkish mode with tinsel stars crescents and ornaments hangs before each shelf. Shelves serve as containers for attractive pottery pieces.
Extremely pretty catchalls are made of paper fans with a withdrawn rivet and a cord substituted. The sticks are lapped and fastened into a cone shaped receptacle. A strong paper cornucopia is fitted inside and ribbon passes between sticks to create bows in front. A ribbon loop suspends the catchall.
Young ladies create chamois watch-pockets as trifling presents for their gentlemen friends. Each pocket fits the timepiece to prevent scratches, with forget-me-not embroidery on one side and the recipient’s monogram on the other. The top features floss or floselie in matching color.
A stylish toilet cushion and mat design blends blue silk with crimson velvet. Cushions are squared across the top, diagonal velvet trim is sewn with blind stitches, and silk is embroidered with a floral spray featuring carnations and greens for a refined effect.
Cast on five stitches. Row one: knit two, yarn over twice, knit one, yarn over twice, two together. Row two: yarn over twice, two together, knit two, two together, knit two. Row three: knit five, yarn over twice, two together. Row four: yarn over twice, two together, knit three.
Cast on thirteen stitches. Row one knit five then knit remaining stitches with a thread over three tines per stitch. Row two slip off eight stitches, manipulate first and last four, knit the middle four, knit the rest plain. Rows three and four knit plain. Repeat from the first row.
Cast on nineteen stitches. First row knit three then knit remaining stitches, wrap thread over three times on each stitch. Second row slip eight stitches, with left needle move first four over last four, knit them by holding between thumb and finger, knit next four, slip off eight, cross and halt as before, knit three plain.
Describes felt mats with borders of daisies golden-rud or poppies and green leaves in crewels. Mentions stamping patterns yourself with pre casings and notes a blue felt mat with scroll border in yellow. Colors scarlet canary olive and old gold used together for elegant effect.
A humorous old piece warns of the carpet bug Anthrenus scrophulariae, a wool favorite pest thriving under parlor carpets. It describes its stealth, effects on woolen fabrics, and ineffective remedies, then shifts to a sensational tale of a prodigal husband in Cupid's court whose life collapses into debt, jail, and ruin.
Robert J. Burdette writes from Nantucket about declining a Chau t Chau lecture invitation to care for his ailing wife. He describes her serene patience and devotion, noting her inability to walk and daily suffering, which keeps him from leaving her side. Her life is praised as a fountain of strength guiding his work and faith.
Police arrested Ansley Gray a young man described as a suspicious character and lodged him in the city jail. The report recalls his lineage Judge Gray of Mineral Point Wis and notes he graduated from Wisconsin State University in 1879 and entered law and politics as a Democrat with a noted speech in a contested legislative race. He later moved to Milwaukee and Kansas to practice.
A historical excerpt presents a Sunday dinner plan for four with white soup boiled halibut eel sauce roast goose and Welsh rarebit with detailed preparation and prices. It includes coffee jelly floating islands and a budget note from New Bedford 1883 offering an inexpensive menu for twenty for sixteen cents.
The New York Sun reports Gould pursues a government telegraph, aiming to acquire Western Union by offering to transfer the system in exchange for twenty years of surplus earnings payments. The plan would place the state on a fixed revenue basis, drawing on estimated annual net earnings of seven and a half million dollars, with a potential fifty million plus invested nationwide.
Pioneer activist Phebe Couzins travels to Rochester after a severe cyclone, detailing extensive ruin across farms and the destroyed northern city with hundreds of homes wiped out and graphic injuries among survivors. The report notes the death of Hon. John McCall of Winona near the disaster scene.
Eyewitness sketches a devastating storm that flung cars from 116 track into a river, toppled trees and church towers, and left a hall filled with the homeless and wounded. A baby lost, twenty bodies buried, and the town in shock as relief and cemetery work begin. The writer recalls broken bodies, uprooted trees, and ruined factories, with many saved only by shelter in cellars.
A Harper’s Bazaar writer details Burmese women's beauty and bathing customs before motherhood. He notes small figures, elaborate hair, ear adornments, and vibrant dress, then recounts a Burman river bath with women and children smoking cheroots and undressing, the bundle-on-head dress, and playful river-side scenes.
Josh Billings recounts a tale of a NY meeting with a man who saved him $6000 by steering clear of a faulty deal. A druggist then uses a drawing of a man clinging to a bull’s tail as a trademark concept for canned beef, paying $400 on the spot.
A Paris suburb builds a highly automated bread plant where wheat enters in sacks and exits as loaves. The system uses underground tanks, elevators, duster and ventilator dust removal, dampening screw, Hungarian cylinders, bolting cloths, Delby mixer, roliers, and a long two-chamber oven. It claims 133 pounds bread per 100 pounds flour and notes San Francisco Chronicle style observations on the process.
The item chronicles Kittie Watts also known as Mia Vowlalee wife of Voullaire in St Louis history. It details her magnetism and danger, his jealous surveillance, marriage in 1868, and a string of passionate affairs culminating in a fatal New York tragedy and legal battles including divorce and custody. The narrative names Hallowell Ruth Ruth and others in a tense portrait of a 19th century scandal.
Certified copy of Edward Clark's will, valued at about 50 million, filed in Otsego County Surrogate Court proceedings. Bequests include 50 000 to Williams College, 4 grandsons at 2 560 000 each, other relatives 10 000 to 60 000, plus large land tracts for heirs.
A historical self-help tract attributed to Dr. R V Pierce discusses female ailments and their remedies. The text promotes self-treatment advice and dismisses depictions of medical professionals in favor of home methods.
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