Circus Equestrian Life Shows Risks and Rewards
In a humane view of circus riding, the article details years of training and high risks for riders, noting salaries rise with skill yet riders face possible crippling injuries from falls or missteps. It describes apprentice paths, legal limits on child performers, and winter training locations including Barnum's Bridgeport facilities.
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New York Sun
Bnt
T. C
New York
Stone
Jersey
Stokes
Wardham
Carroll
Westchester
Barnum
Bridgeport
Women Who Aid Poor Pupils and Journalism Pioneers
Susan N. Carter lauds Peter Cooper's charity helping struggling art students at Cooper Union. He funds food and support for women, aiming to keep them independent and virtuous amid tough marriages. The piece also lists women editors and journalists shaping coverage across the United States.
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Susan N. Carter
Cooper
Cooper Union
Mr. Cooper
Charming Women and Women in Earnest
A reflection on women described as earnest or with a purpose. The narrator contrasts worldly, agreeable women with women of earnest resolve, arguing earnestness narrows charm and dulls social ease. The speaker recalls a friend's view and questions if earnestness explains the lack of charm.
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Atlantic Monthly
A Lack of Balance in Living Principles and Gymnasium
A critic argues that while young minds may be well cultured, there is a deficit in body culture shaping home life. The piece suggests that the gymnasium is insufficient to harmonize mind and body and questions the overall balance in education and daily living.
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M. St. Perry
The Correct Thing for Men in Dress and Fashion
A discussion on refined male attire urges men to follow fashion trends and proper style. It contrasts modern masculine dress with past fashions, notes changing beard styles and accessories, and references Ruskin and nursery philosophy on child education and exposure to nature.
A Cure for Sore Throat The Household
In these days throat diseases are prevalent and often fatal we urge a highly effective cure. The authors describe forty years of personal cough struggle and recommend a remedy as a positive relief.
Salt Gargle Cited As Cure For Throat Ailments
A reader endorses a salt gargle regimen claiming three daily rinses with a tablespoon of salt in water prevented winter colds and dry coughs. The note urges others to try the method, noting initial unpleasantness fades after a few days.
Side-Saddle Revisited in A Distant Past
A New York Evening Post excerpt notes side-saddles fading from daily use as roads and vehicles improve. It recalls how women rode from necessity or leisure in earlier times, with doctors endorsing health benefits and double riding becoming common before declining in modern practice.
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New York Evening Post
Servants and Masters in Eliot’s Logic Reprinted
The Pall Mall Gazette reproduces George Eliot’s eighteenth year old essay on servants authority and education. It argues that calm firm command without explanation fosters order and respect while consulting servants leads to anarchy and irresolution in the house.
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The
Pall Mall Gazette
George Eliot
Emma Abbotts Secret Revealed by Detroit Reporter
Miss Abbott explains her skin care routine to stay fresh and smooth. She cites rice powder to reduce shine from soap and a pre show bath with cold water followed by glycerine and a brush. After the performance she uses vaseline to remove makeup and repeats the cleansing ritual. She avoids lead in any preparations to protect her skin.
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Emma Abbott
Miss Abbott
Detroit
Margaret Fuller in London Echo Views on Her Place
The London Echo notes that Fuller’s reputation may be overrated by close acquaintances. It contrasts her diligence and friendships with Emerson and Channing against a meager worldly legacy and flawed judgments of American literature. The piece questions why American women of eminence lag behind Browning, Eliot, and Sand.
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Margaret Fuller
London Echo
Andrew Marvel
Dr. Johnson
Channing
Emerson
Lowell
Longfellow
America
Mrs. Browning
George Eliot
Madame Sand
Pretty table markers use tin alphabet and floral initials
Guests at Your Table describes decorative place markers crafted by housewives. One method uses three inch high tin letters filled with sand or moss for tiny flowers. Another option shapes a card with a green background and a guest initial formed by small blooms.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Teach Daughters to Be Easily Pleased Say Irving
A Boston Transcript excerpt cites Washington Irving quoted by Orville Dewey advising mothers not to overload daughters with schooling but to teach them one key rule. Irving reportedly said to focus on making daughters easily pleased, a line recounted in a biographical anecdote.
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Boston Transcript
Washington Irving
Orville Dewey
Irving
Mr. Irving
Another Short Hail Era In New York Letter
Croffut describes a fad among young women who cut their hair short and curl it close to the scalp. He notes bonnets in a milliner’s window decorated with frizzed hair at the neck. The piece ends with a curious tip about preventing mould on jelly by melting paraffin and pouring it over.
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Mary E. Hageart
Chicago
Lever and Liberator
L. M. Lathiain
Cedar Rapids Times
Iowa
Woman's Bureau
Fannie Fowler
Manistee Standard
Michigan
Laura Schofield
Cts
Kokomo Tribune
Indiana
Florence M. Adkinson
Woman's World
Indianapolis
Sunday Sentinel
Mary Wright Central
Helen Wilmans
Chicago Express
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert
Woman's Kingdom
Boston Traveler
Mary Clemmer Ames
Louise Chandler Moulton
New York Tribune
Gertrude Garrison
New York
Middy Morgan
Emily B. Charles
Citizen and Soldier
Washington City
Duniway
The
New Northwest
Portland
Oregon
Winslow
Alpha
Quinby
Agis
Cincinnati
Ohio
Croffut
New York Letter
Truth and Trade and the Limits of Honest Business
A New York Times excerpt presents a philosopher arguing shopkeepers hide unpleasant facts to avoid losing customers. He compares ethics in trade to market tactics, noting customers’ ignorance, tailored deception, and the temptation to inflate profits.
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New York Times
Inquirer
Board of Trade
Dr Wagner offers cure for seminal weakness in Denver clinic
Dr Henry Wagner 343 Larimer Street Denver advertises treatments for chronic male and female diseases and surgeries. He guarantees a cure for seminal weakness and private diseases with a five hundred dollar forfeit if unsuccessful. Consultation is free with $5 exam, address box 2580. His Young Man’s Pocket Companion priced at $1.25 and mailed to any address.
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Wagner
R. Wagner
Medical and Surgical Institute
Dr. Spinney & Co
Larimer Street
Denver
Colorado
DR. Wagner & CO
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P. Berdersen
Winchester
Remington
Eddy Street
Dyer's
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Masonic Hall
Masonic Temple
Loutaville
Kentucky
Henry County
Pri
Secerreseereee OH
IBM
Prince
Express
J. J. Douglas
Louisville
T D.M. Perry & CO
United States
D. J
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Thursl
Sullivan
Bath
Moore
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