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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1883
Page
4
A collection of excerpts from The Household and Weekly Magazine discusses fit furnishings reflecting a family’s daily life, gentle parenting avoiding harsh discipline, and practical tips like using a yard of gossamer waterproof for weather, travel, and domestic chores. It includes humor about poultry column readers and a note on decor and budget.
A reflection on beauty and taste arguing that understanding real value frees judgment from fashion glamour. It claims knowledge of true beauty helps a woman identify bargains and succeed in acquiring desirable, timeless items.
The Louisville market shows women are well suited as drug clerks with many already employed in top shops. An employer notes they learn by intuition and a single look of a word suffices where men need extensive instruction. He adds that orders handled by a woman clerk are reliably carried out.
A remembered friend recalls Gustave Doré as a powerful, generous, and solitary figure who loved France and distrusted Germany. The essayist describes their Milan meeting, Doré’s London walks, and his quiet strength, ending with reflections on his death and legacy. It also includes a vivid scene aboard a Wagner car and a later iceboat sighting on Hudson.
Spinners at the ropewalk in Bath Maine wind manila or hemp skeins around spindles. They walk backward along a nearly mile long dim walkway while spinning, reappearing after twenty minutes. Thirty or more wands are made daily with each spinner covering seven miles of hemp strands.
The London Standard describes Prime Minister Gladstone as "made of pin wire" with extraordinary fitness for his age. It notes his habit of seven and a half hours sleep, his careful medical oversight by Dr. Andrew Clark, and his lifelong endurance in walking and outdoor activity despite past injuries and eye troubles.
A humorous sketch notes burglars now risk identification by an electric light triggered on touching a safe door, showing a burglar’s face for record. It cites a woman who made a burglar lunch with a lecture and an editor who forced a game of seven up to recover tools as deterrents.
The Detroit Free Press recounts a Kansas youth who wished to teach but mistook horizontal for perpendicular and called circular a fur-lined cloak. His missteps echo a quip about a cocktail being a bird that flaps its wings yet lays no eggs, highlighting naive misconceptions.
An Irish barrister delivering a fervent plea declares that when judging the past we see footprints of an Almighty hand guiding events. The courtroom tone rises as the argument frames history as providential, with emphasis on fate and guidance.
Five year old Leon H. accompanied by his mother visits a Chicago dry goods store. He chats with salesman Mr. Brown calling him by the same colored name and mentions knowing a man on twenty second street who shares it.
A 23 year old vagrant tells how six weeks in Chicago after arriving from Vincennes led to bankruptcy and failure to find work. He describes sleeping in cheap rooms then free lunches, wandering streets from Madison to Wabash, contemplating suicide, and finally securing minimal shelter and a small job while warning of confidence tricks and the cold city.
A damaged fragment reports a deceitful speaker planning to surrender within two weeks and bring $100 cash, clothes, a gold watch, and a diamond cluster as part of a scheme. The text suggests the con artist intends to remain in the area over the winter.
A reflective essay argues that domestic workers are part of the same human family and share air, food, and labor with employers. It warns that wealth and privilege do not shield against social disease, and that ignorance, poverty, and overwork create mutual vulnerability within households and society.
A Knickerbocker anecdote reports a New York corner lot bought for 35000, resold for 415000, then 135000 later, with taxes and upkeep pushing annual costs high. The tale argues New York’s plutocracy outpaces other cities, where even vast fortunes yield little real privilege.
Readable excerpts discuss bright sun and ventilation, furniture choices, and cleanliness for the sickroom. It covers bed placement, view, plants, temperature around 63 F, and the need for a thermometer. It advises against cooking in the room, emphasizes order, and details how to position pillows and serve meals.
In a remarks about female appeal, Lady Wilde states that a chattering flip woman with a sharp manner and mocking retort offends cultured men, while a coquette though vain can be charming because she possesses the wish to please, the fundamental idea of feminine fascination.
A Boston Commercial Bulletin item offers frugal craft ideas for home decor and dress up. It suggests transforming an old hat into a sash ornament, repurposing shirts into curtains, reusing a dish cloth as a tidy with ribbon trim, and decorating a turnip with lace and trim as a playful toilet accessory.
Harriet E B Paine in Phren Journal discusses twenty to twenty five year olds, noting they juggle parties, theatre, walks, music, art, languages, and duties. She argues intense self cultivation leads to deterioration by thirty but belief that most women reach “fine condition” by thirty five with perfect health.
A newsboy falls under a city car while jumping a trolley segment and dies. He asks for his mother as a messenger brings her to the scene. He whispers that he holds four newspapers and the money is in his pocket. The dying child pleads for his mother and her burdens in grief.
A Sunday school boy asks why a coat has many collars as he slowly spells Qo-l-o-r-8, joking that the collars exist so rescuers can lift him from a well. The remark reflects a child’s playful mispronunciation and curiosity.
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