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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1891
Page
7
The Aug. 29 column extols the Bon Marche in Parisian style as a dazzling emporium of the coming season with bright displays, chic gowns, hats, and silken petticoats. The writer revels in the shop’s allure and urges readers to dream of new fashions.
The descriptive piece portrays Bon Marche gowns gloves cravats and accessories in pale pink mauve buff gray and white with crepe de chine robes greenish blue gowns and elaborate hats. It catalogs Parisian fashion items from gloves to theater toques noting color embroidery lace and perfumed leather while marveling at floor walkers and the bustling sales floor.
The piece follows Emma Sheridan and other visitors at Cresson as they observe and flirt amid hillside villas and a country fair. It narrates a trainload of millionaires, impressions of Cresson girls, and a lively stint at slot machines, tintypes, and games, with social commentary on propriety and temptation.
A fragment from a memoranda page lists romantic entanglements dating from 1881 through 1889. Entries name a boarding-house landlady’s daughter Bessie, Miss G of San Francisco, a landlady, a telegraph operator, a governess at Sarat, chorus girls, Marian and her chum, and a rival suitor. The note hints at a forthcoming "Confessions of a Society Man" and advertises a book priced at 60 cents.
The Weekly Globe advertises a new private circular quoting a rate that enables forming large clubs. Readers are urged to send to Wheely Globe for the circular and free sample copies.
A spare moments verse follows a bluebottle as it plans mischief in a dawn walk through a house. It imagines pranks on a sleeping baby, a nurse, a grandpa, and dining crumbs. Fate twists as a hanging spider drops and devours the bluebottle before its merry schemes unfold.
A Buffalo girl decorates a room with envelopes saved from two years of letters. She pastes them in order on the walls to create a serial story, using paper from New York to San Francisco. The room features varied sizes and tints, with a black bordered envelope hinting at a family tale.
Fragmentary Detroit Free Press item references Walter Besant and a question about poets. Mentions an annual report and a reference to writing verses, but details are unclear and garbled.
Mrs. Fredericks the grandmamma arranges a marriage between Lena Fredericks and Capt. Charter to avoid her granddaughter’s love for Henri Bowen. The match hinges on a test of patience, class, and wit as the two families convene in the manor and a quiet plan unfolds.
A glamorous actress condemns daytime use of rouge and crayon saying it spoils beauty and makes women, especially actresses, appear vulgar in daylight. She recalls friends who rely on cosmetics, laments worn skin from rouge, and admits rare powder touch ups to reduce shine.
Fragmentary line argues women must avoid wrinkled stockings as a key virtue. tone mocks a societal rulebook with a strong emphasis on appearance and etiquette.
The passage notes a great lady, Catharine de Medici, as originator of a test of womanly virtue in her court. It laments the cards cheat trope and recalls how stockings were worn wrinkled at the ankle in her time. The text reflects courtly fashion pressures on thin ladies and the insistence on smooth stockings.
New York discusses travel plans as summer fades with cooling weather and shifting temperaments. It notes the best travel period is late spring and early fall and highlights women travelers seeking practical yet stylish outfits for rainy days and fair weather.
A descriptive fashion note details a traveling costume with a ground touching bell shaped cheviot skirt and a blouse with a Swiss belt. It features a medium wool cape lined in plaid silk and blue velvet accents, with a gray felt hat adorned with electric blue and dark velvet beads and a red side embellishment.
Redfern presents an early fall hat in brown straw with a brown velvet bridge and wreath of velvet wall flowers above a coronet brim. A deep golden brown ostrich plume curls over the front, with a curled ostrich tip collarette in bronze brown as an adornment.
The article recounts historical bridesmaids roles such as dressing the bride, drill coordination in large processions, and bearing symbolic items like rosemary and myrtle wreaths. It notes German and English beliefs about wreaths and pins predicting marriage outcomes, with playful anecdotes about bridesmaids and wedding superstitions.
White silk ties distinguish new dress bon nets and white mull or chiffon strings are worn with fete hats in a recent fashion note.
A collage of recipe notes and editor’s tips from The Globe includes apple sauces and merinque desserts, tomato dressings, pickles, and baked apples. The items cite various contributors such as J.C. Boston and B. J. Salem, with instructions and quantities for multiple fruit and pickle preparations.
A collection of fragmented kitchen directions detailing pie fillings with one and two crusts, apple puddings, tapioca, and fried apples. Recipes specify apples, eggs, butter, sugar, spices, and methods like meringue topping and steaming or baking, with some garbled phrases and measurements.
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