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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1883
Page
4
A Wichita Kansas Times essay argues against bangs and front hair styles, claiming they reveal temptation and threaten moral virtue. It links hair fashion to male distraction, church behavior, and household atmosphere, urging simple, cheerful homes to curb social scrutiny.
A country garden feature described last summer shows a circular four foot bed edged with bricks and quartz, rising six inches with an inner elevated chamber. A central large stone bed grows Happy Thought craniums and various blooms, with white pe tanias and roses around the outside, maintained by a bottomless earthen pot filled with chip dirt and manure, keeping color to November.
A home notes the best room as family gathering space around an evening lamp. It urges practical, affordable decorating and shared effort to create a pleasant, functional room for all ages, including shelves and a mantel display.
The piece argues outdoor living and vitiated overheated air as disease factors but not primary causes. It recommends airy rooms, open windows, and a mild phlegm loosing diet with warm milk and honey-water, citing Native practices and critiquing hot stoves and closed rooms as harmful.
The excerpt urges giving apartments expression and character by studying light shade and the arrangement of drapery furniture and pictures. It stresses avoiding isolated elements and preserving sociability, noting how a room feels after occupants depart and how minimal disturbance preserves the room’s relative arrangement.
An article by Mrs. C. G. Herbert in Plural Cabinet outlines practical uses for stale bread. It covers soaked bread for griddle cakes, variations with sour milk, French toast, and turning bread into turkey dressing substitutes. It also suggests crusts baked dry for croutons and new crumb-based snacks. The piece connects to Washington Evening Critic reporting on Mrs. Fremont and her son, noting the public interest in Master Fremont and his mother Jessie Benton Fremont.
The piece mocks a nautical string of Sunday school questions and notes a Housekeeper column on greeting etiquette in New York society. It also recounts a Smoky Stove tale about a stubborn oven soot buildup solved by simple cleaning to restore proper heat and cooking.
A short anecdote recalls Lily a five year old who after evening prayers amended them with a personal petition. She declared she would be made a good girl and added a motto if at first you don’t succeed try again.
The piece contrasts romance fiction with real life responses to serenades. It notes framed lines where a rose is tossed and curtains flutter, and asserts the heroine often sleeps or remains passive in real life settings.
A damp cloth over the broom lifts dust from a carpet and brightens it after sweeping. Useful in sick rooms and rooms with many small items that collect dust. The method gathers dust more effectively than sweeping alone.
A Chicago Tribune account describes a Thursday Lyric Hall exhibition of forty eight microscopes. The writer records vivid miniatures of bacteria, infusoria, and dentine, and quotes Dr. Clark advocating the germ theory of tooth decay and antiseptic remedies.
Murat Halstead argues about Yellowstone Park ownership amid rumors of hotel leases by Uncle Rufus Hatch and a Northern Pacific branch. He warns against vandalism and praises orderly development while condemning reckless acts against geysers and forests and contrasts them with how visitors and officials should proceed.
A humorous tale shows a father-swart mincing mishap over hot maple syrup easing a man’s worries about mining stock. The piece leads into Sarah Bernhardt’s bankruptcy fight over 87,000 dollars from jewel sales and costume claims, then a breach of promise case in Philadelphia ending with a double twist.
A report to the Melbourne hospital committee shows a majority in favor of stimulant use in sickness over abstinence, based on non alcoholic opposed treatments by hospital surgeons whose names are given only as letters. Death rates were higher among patients with meagre stimulant allowances.
A tramp in Malvern Iowa throws a brick through a church window to gain entry on a cold day. The magistrate sentences fourteen days labor on the streets. A experienced woman notes patience as a clue to a husband while a husband comments on punctual dinner as a wife test.
An interview with a New York theatrical insider discusses the gatekeepers of American drama, the economics of playwriting, and the failures of managers to support native works. It profiles Mrs. Burnett Bronson Howard Bartley Campbell and Lester W Lack amid critiques of London pieces and the press.
The article explains that stage peril feats are typically done by dummies, not actors, with examples from past theater lore. It cites a Boston Post tale of a Maveppa performance illustrating this practice in old days.
A Fortnight Review essay notes growing American interest in Mexico, its rail links, and the potential for a continental market. It compares Mexican expansion to English imperial reach, detailing railroad plans, trade routes, and the push to integrate Mexico’s three zones with American industry. It also profiles George Alfred Townsend, a prominent interviewer known as Gath, detailing his methods and success.
Mrs Davis won 7500 dollars against saloon keeper John Doyle after her husband was cut by a locomotive while drunk at Doyle s bar. The verdict was affirmed by the Supreme Court. The report notes civil damage laws prompt similar cases nationwide. Oscar Wilde entertained at the Pen and Pencil Club in New York and Paris recounting American experiences.
A man rummages a fourth closet and finds a straw hat with sentimental writing from last July by a blue eyed darling in the mountains. The scene suggests a personal memory triggered by a quaint keepsake.
M de Lesseps is at present engaged in abolishing the plans for the promoted canal across the isthmus of Malacca, a work which, when carried out, will abridge by four days the voyage for ships traveling between Europe and the East via the Suez canal.
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