Wellesley Costs and Choices for the Modern Student
A 19th century piece outlines how a girl can attend Wellesley on modest funds. It details scholarships, cottage living at reduced rates, and the Eliot and Farm House options, plus incidentals like washing, books, and matches. It emphasizes thrift, the value of an earnest education, and the social rule of intellectual aristocracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandscvecess Sociale
Tennis Association
Christian Association
University of Life
Wellesley College
Wellesley
Allesley
Carlyle
Pthere
Boston
Nu Pistons
Eve Deen
Deaf man repays barber’s taunts with bold escape
A Philadelphia Ledger humorous piece recounts a deaf customer’s third visit to a barber shop where he is mocked for his condition. After a severed shave and repeated gibes from the proprietor and an assistant, the man finally confronts them and leaves, revealing that he feigned deafness to end the abuse and vowing to be more considerate of the hearing impaired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Ledger
Riis
Razor
Harrison
Ashe
Cale Ae
Felix the Parisian Mantle Designer Delights New York Readers
ARIS Sept 5 Felix the popular mantilla designer draws American shoppers with light airy gowns in blue and purple, white silk foams, and bold red oriental gowns. The article lauds his color theory and patient fitting for American complexions and notes patrons from the United States flocking to his rue de la Paix atelier for winter gowns, silks, lace, and dramatic accessories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aris
Felix
Worth
America
Rue de la Paix
Tenny
Toses
Fragmentary Portraits of Dreamers and Officials
A fragmentary dialogue contrasts a poet and an alderman, noting credulity and a cashier of a bank or life insurance agent. One speaker proclaims living in a starry dream while another claims remorse and indifference. The exchange hints at identity and moral tension within a surreal frame.
Weekly Globe Announces New Private Circular Offer
The Weekly Globe promotes a private circular that quotes a rate to enable forming large clubs. Readers are urged to send to the Weekly Globe for the new circular and free sample copies.
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GLOBE
Weekly Globe
Color Combinations for Upholstery Colors and Palettes
A guide listing harmonious color groupings for fabric work. It catalogs warm and cool tints and provides trinads and complex combinations drawn from historic chromatic arrangements. Includes numerous named colors and ground interactions.
Fair Lola Montez In Old Boston Travel Piece
A Boston reader recalls Lola Montez on a Grass Valley to San Francisco journey by coach. The dancer lectured on The Art of Beauty, toured with a tame lion and bear, and kept a trio of parrots and several attendants aboard.
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Boston
Grass Valley
San Francisco
Lola Montez
Bavaria
Lola
America
Australia
the Bernhardt
Irish Heritage Laced Compliment Sparks Banter
Dunley compliments Miss Constantina on her beauty and asks about Irish blood. Constantina affirms her Erin Go Bragh lineage. Dunley concludes that Mr and Mrs Go Bragh should be proud of her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Constantina
Dunley
Erin Go Bragh
Mrs. Go Bragh
Married 359 Times Stage Matrimony of Miss Jennie Yeamans
A lively portrait of Jennie Yeamans known as June the bright comedienne who supposedly married 359 times and mothered 359 children, with reflections on her youth in Australia and her stage charm and tears on stage. The piece also sketches her colleagues and connections at the Museum and theater world, including Miss Burress, Miss Waterman, and Denman Thompson.
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Jennie Yeamans
Juno
June
Miss Yeamans
Jennie
Chicago
Marie Burress
Pittsburg
West Chester Pic
Miss Burress
Frank Mayo
New York
Um School
DeMille
Sargent
Museum
London
Deviot
United States
Ida Waterman
Boston
Rhea
Sydney Rosenfeld
Pisamo Toiss Marlowe
Imogen
Providence
Talleyrand
Sally
Sally Williams
Frit Williams
Fred Williams
Boston Museum
Miss Williams
Miss Waterman
Peice
Lavinia Shan
Denman
Thompson
Beary Perkins
Kilpatrick
Miss Thompson
Mrs. Kilpatrick
Fanny Rice
Tremont
Massachusetts
Franklin Falls
Purdy
Carl
Jolly Surprise
Miss Rice
Tages
Annie Clancke
Trailing Skirts or Short The Latest Fashion Debate
New York fashion commentary notes that despite summer ridicule trailing skirts remain in vogue. Designers benefit while many women find the demi train stylish yet costly untidy and bothersome.
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New York
Senseless Fashion Modified Street Gown Described
Description of a stylish street gown featuring a suede color faced cloth skirt with side slashes and iridescent pearl buttons, a hunter green velvet petticoat, square jacket fronts, long coat tails, velvet trim, a rolled velvet collar, and a matching swede felt hat with green velvet facing and ostrich tip accents.
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Felix
Verot
Mitigated grief fashion and deceptive sewing agents
A sketch shows a mourning gown of Henrietta cloth with eared vest worn over a white lawn with rolled collar and deep cuffs. In a later scene a woman confronts a sewing machine office arguing agents misrepresented machine claims, ending with her realization that rival agents deceived her.
Potatoes A Guide To Dry Golden Baked And Boiled Varieties
Old column extols the virtues of properly cooked potatoes and offers detailed methods for boiling mashed baked soufflé and creamier dishes. It stresses fully dry starch, evenness of size, correct doughy texture, and careful timing to avoid underdone or scorched results. It includes steps for boiled mashed baked stewed creamed fried and potato egg preparations with practical tips on onions and seasonings.
Great Author Recounts Spelling Blunder in Ink
A humorous exchange features a great author and his wife as they discuss writing and language. The wife questions progress on a piece, and the author admits a struggle to spell embarrass, highlighting a light moment about the English language.
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Charles
How He Kept Down Expenses
A clerk tries to trim waste with a large sheet of paper but the manager objects, insisting to reduce the sheet. The clerk then folds the sheet to fit the required size, aiming to cut excess and control costs.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wellesley Girt
Him
Benjamin Constant
Arin Jonreau
Pakistan
Pluribus
Henley
Ricketty Ann
Yeamans
Isle of Man
Denman Thompson
Carleton
Merrimac
Black Rock
Vou
Tim
Jamaica Plain
Taggs
Miss Blanche
Epicure
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