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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1883
Page
3
A critique of a San Francisco Wasp column joking about women and dining. The piece argues the punch is aimed at women’s cooking and judgment, shows how generalizing about half the world rests on faulty reasoning, and warns editors not to undermine women’s role in the kitchen.
Juliet Carson argues for free admission of air and sunlight to every room, noting dark, closed spaces harm health. She advises open sleeping rooms with plain furnishings, minimal drapery, air circulation, and simple bedding. She warns against in-room wells and drains that vent sewer gas, especially in seasonal country houses.
Dr Richardson warns that hermetically sealed houses trap poisonous emanations akin to epidemic agents. Free outdoor air and sunlight render these emanations harmless, reducing risks of diphtheria typhoid fever and other zymotic diseases when houses are opened and aired.
The article cites T. L. Higginson urging that women’s travel freedom marks a broader social shift toward female independence. Returning travelers reveal evolving norms as steamship decks fill with women’s fashion and anticipation, signaling growing visibility and altered habits in the Western world.
An article argues stage dressing shapes general women's fashion, valuing dress with artistic character and fitness. It highlights Ellen Terry as a prime example, and praises woven garments for freedom, health, and versatility across activities, predicting their enduring rise.
The autumn fashion report highlights Ottoman silks and velvets, gathered flounces with leaf and Vandyke edges, and gray dominate Paris hues. It notes gilt braid trims, demi-belts, postern shawl straps replaced by rubber bands, and velvet ribbons as key accents on cashmere and dresses.
The article extols tile painting as a venerable and decorative craft. It urges mastery through taste and love of nature, notes tile work adorns fireplaces and furniture, and advises beginners to study drawing and nature to grasp design and correct proportions before tracing onto tiles.
A detailed guide explains tracing, turpentine, and polishing techniques for tile and china painting, stressing careful firing. It covers portable kilns, color selection to resist firing changes, and step by step methods for monochrome and landscape work with suggested color palettes and brush directions.
A compact pocket card case is described using black satin and pale lilac silk, folded bristol board as a stiff outer layer, and neat edge joins. The design includes a satin and silk lining with card-slots and decorative flower motifs: lilies of the valley and forget-me-nots.
Create a solid bottom with evenly spaced holes for straw ends. Cut a larger top circle with a hollow center and matching holes. Fit straws through all holes, trim to one length, secure loose joints with gum, and weave two color ribbons over and under the straws to form the pattern. Add cardboard handles wrapped with ribbon and bows to conceal fastenings.
The article describes using artificial flowers on panels and doors to create decorative effects. It suggests attachments on plush velvet panels, Japanese fan handles, and clusters for lamp mats, baskets, and curtains. It notes that leftover stock is affordable after summer trade ends.
Wicker work baskets are prettily trimmed with inch wide cardinal satin ribbon woven around the bent rim. A cushion for pins is added on the opposite side, tied with ribbon. For a firm base, pasteboard covered with silesia matches the ribbon shade. Small baskets for thimbles thread and scissors become decorative.
A new tiny parlor table in pine can be made round square or octagon with round legs and a cross brace. Tops and legs may be plush velvet or ribbon and bows at corners. Ideal for a corner bay window to hold statuary or an easel.
Instructions describe making a slipper case from two large cardboard pieces covered with momie cloth. A smaller pocket piece is attached at center, finished with worsted cord, and the two large pieces are overhanded and sewn around the edge. Brass rings on the back attach to hang it.
Venison steaks cut from a leg with bone, seasoned with salt pepper and onion then browned in butter. Flip once, sear until rare, remove butter, add flour simmer, then add claret and mushroom juice and chopped mushrooms. Simmer ten minutes, serve hot on toast with sauce poured over.
A dated cooking brief describes mincing a cold squirrel and shredding onions and mushrooms then stewing with butter gravy and seasoning until tender. The instructions advise adding the mince and boiling briefly before serving on toast.
Pare and cut six quinces into pieces then combine with a gallon of water and two pounds of honey in a large saucepan. Set on a slow fire for thirty minutes then remove and wipe the quinces once cool.
Fry rabbit pieces to brown, then add very thin onions, flour, pepper, salt and stock with herbs, carrot and turnip. Cover tightly and simmer two hours, adding a splash of catsup near the end. Serve the onion portion with the dish.
The instruction describes cutting a cold rabbit into pieces and frying brown with bacon or ham. Add half the quantity of small onions or mushrooms, then stew in enough hot water to cover. Season well with pepper and salt, and serve on toast. Stew slowly for tenderness.
A recipe instructs to prepare cream trout by boiling, then simmering with mace nutmeg and cayenne, thickened with cream and lemon rind, and finished with arrowroot. The dish is served with a final cream stir in.
A pantry scale recipe lists eighteen large tomatoes two onions four green peppers chopped fine with four cups vinegar two tablespoons salt four cups sugar two teaspoons ginger two cinnamon sticks one clove one allspice one nutmeg bail for one hour yielding three quarts of relish.
Roast canvas-back ducks stuffed with port soaked bread, baked an hour. Just before serving, squeeze lemon or orange juice over each and serve hot with own gravy. Accompany with currant jelly. Also prepare giblet gravy from duck giblets, slowly stewed in butter and flour with minimal water, served separately.
Instructions describe browning birds in oil or butter, sprinkling with flour, then simmering in boiling water for fifteen minutes. Season with salt pepper cloves and mace, finishing with buttered toast as the serving base. A concise historic cooking method emphasizing toast as a serving surface.
A recipe describes combining one half bushel of green tomatoes one dozen green peppers two cabbages and one ripe cucumber with salt and letting stand overnight. Drain pack in a jar then mix two pounds brown sugar two tablespoons cinnamon one tablespoon allspice and pepper half cup mustard one pint grated horseradish and sufficient vinegar. Pour boiling vinegar over and seal.
Peel and slice cold boiled potatoes to fill a quart dish. Season with salt and pepper. Mix finely chopped onions. Heat half a cup vinegar with a teaspoon of butter. Beat two egg yolks with thick cream, warm and whisk into hot vinegar. Stir until boiling, then pour over potatoes and mix thoroughly.
Peel cucumbers and steam until soft then stand overnight in a weak brine. Drain in the morning and cover with vinegar then stand overnight again. For one pint vinegar use three pounds sugar and one ounce cassia buds. The recipe keeps two years with quality steady. avoid cloves or cinnamon.
A historic recipe instructs to tie a round of beef with twine, stud with cloves, rub with three tablespoons of powdered salt, cover with coarse salt, and brine in a tight wooden trough. Turn every other day. after ten days it will be ready to use.
A home canning note outlines making chow chow with green and ripe tomatoes onions cabbage peppers salt and sugar. It describes draining vegetables, boiling with horseradish and mustard seeds, and finishing with vinegar until clear, noting a variation omitting horseradish and celery seed yet preserving flavor.
A vintage Sunday menu outlines four person dinner with corn soup, baked turbot with tomato sauce, roast duck with sage dressing, sweet potatoes in sherry, fried eggplant, peach cobbler with cream, and coffee plus fruit. Each dish includes preparation steps and prices from twenty to thirty cents, with methods for corn soup, turbot, roast duck, sweet potatoes, and eggplant.
Letter from William Penn Nixon, Chicago Inter-Ocean editor, confirms a signature card endorsing Compound Oxygen by Starkey and Palen. Nixon praises the remedy for throat and lung troubles, notes its life saving impact, and urges readers to request the Treatise on Compound Oxygen with cures for consumption and other diseases.
A German man in Staten Island faced arraignment for letting a dog roam muzzled as he claimed the pup could not bite. To prove harmlessness he offered his hand, the dog bit him, he lurched, then clubbed the dog and fled to treat the wound.
Margery Sherman, an orphan raised in Heidelberg, marries American Dr Robert Brown after a string of events surrounding Uncle Jack, a circus incident, and a christening by Timothy Twycross. The tale, set in Heidelberg’s market square, blends romance with a hint of mystery about Margery’s past and her connection to the circus clown. Margery’s rose toss to the clown and the christening at St Paul’s anchor the story’s emotional core.
The text reveals that John Sherman a gymnastics professor in an English college was once Timothy Twycross world resource clown and tumbler of the Royal London circus. The passage notes he finished with his business as promised on Easter afternoon at St. Pauls, while Margery Fran Zip Sophia and Robert Brown remain unaware of his past.
A Pecks Sun vignette follows a boy in a grocery store recounting his father Chicago Bill a safe robber misidentified during a failed hens theft. A later social at the deacons sociable ends in chaos as a grab bag scheme backfires with a mouse trap turtle and a chaotic stampede.
A New York World report describes a titled woman in a Fifth Avenue car who recognizes a Murray Hill clergyman on a bench. He offers to call, presenting a pink card for H Bilfinger chiropodist. She reacts with embarrassment and exits swiftly, veil lowered and retreat complete.
Advertisement-style note urges women to use Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for ailments linked to sedentary living. Sold by druggists.
On the George Logan farm near Lebanon in Warren county Ohio a hen showed persistent efforts to hatch eggs all summer. The article notes the hen's ardent mothering instinct and the farm setting, highlighting the unusual behavior observed by local readers.
A farmer found fourteen snakes hatched from an egg placed in a barrel by his hen while he attended a camp meeting. The hen cared for the hatchlings with affection, showing constant demonstrations of devotion during his absence and upon his return.
Rev Garry Bradsted a New Jersey Methodist preacher stirred his congregation by claiming he would die naturally on September 8 and join his dead brother in heaven. A large crowd gathered at his residence as 10 oclock passed without event, leaving many to fear an error in the prophecy while others sought solace in the preacher’s calm. Meanwhile an old physician offers a free remedy for lung ailments by mail, claiming dramatic cures and urging readers to request the recipe in German, French or English.
A dense list of periodicals with prices for varied subscriptions from The Weekly Globe showing American and British magazines, journals, and monthlies. Prices range from modest to several dollars with numerous titles including Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Scientific American, Garden and Country Gentleman, Puck and Demorest's, among many others.
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