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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1895
Page
3
A long discussion from New York Times and Scribner's traces how the bicycle changes fashion and transport. It notes women increasingly ride in modest skirts or bloomers, the push toward safer streamlined costumes, and the social shift as all classes ride. It cites Japanese views and Gottingen's student barriers, highlighting evolving public opinion and education limits for women.
The article argues to keep youngsters comfortable and absolutely clean. It favors plain cotton frocks from the wash over elaborate outfits and suggests having ample clothes to change four to five times daily, noting one mother found thrift in cheap options.
Jenness Miller's Monthly advises a secret spa routine for sunburned skin. Before tea, bathe face neck and hands with cold cream, then enjoy a lukewarm sponge bath and face immersion while holding breath. A soft towel dab, light alcohol, rest, and baby powder restore color and suppress shine. Nightly again repeat cream treatment.
The bicycle has spread across Japan becoming common among Europeans and locals alike. Government postmen in suburbs and rural areas now ride roadsters, with bicycle corps formed in each brigade trained in military style. Japanese people view the wheel as a curiosity yet begin mastering and making it, including girls learning to ride.
The Temple of Chicago stands as a women’s clubhouse and the headquarters of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. It cost about 1,000,000 with 600,000 raised by the union, an 18 story office building on a prime site. Other clubs include a Decatur Illinois club house costing about 10,000, Kalama Zoo Michigan Ladies’ club home, and a New Orleans women’s clubhouse renting upper floors to members.
The Equal Suffrage association of Topeka urges women in Kansas to withhold support from religious charitable moral reform or political groups until the word male is removed from the suffrage clause. It calls for respecting and counting women's opinions at the ballot box alike to men.
Miss Abigail Dodge living in Hamilton Mass shows slow but steady health improvement. She remains in excellent spirits and receives constant medical care and devoted nursing. Her home sits on a bluff along the main road offering a varied view of forest hills and valley.
The southern novelist Will Allen Dromgoole, often mistaken for a man, received a humorous yet revealing reply from a legislator applying for an engrossing clerk post. The legislator claims preferring a deserving young woman pool and cannot vote for any man while candidates abound.
Miss Vesta Gray is admitted to the bar in Fremont Nebraska becoming the first woman in the county to gain admission. A two year law student, she will practice with her father and is noted for music and contributions to The Woman's Weekly of Omaha and other home newspapers.
A dermatologist argues that sun exposure can be beneficial. He claims sunburn is temporary and that once it fades the skin becomes finer, smoother, and more elastic than before.
Mrs. A. S. Benjamin of Portland Michigan is chosen to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, called the White Ribbon Daniel Webster, and will lead the state organization of the W C T U.
Minnesota has established a new women’s school of agriculture focusing on cooking, dairying, sewing, gardening, and the chemistry of foods to provide practical instruction for homemakers and farmers.
Practical tips cover fragrant floating leaves in water to scent a room and keep ice water cold for longer. Methods to remove marks from tables, preserve fire irons with lime paste, clean a sponge in milk, cut warm bread with a hot knife, and prevent kettle fur. For dishwashing, use a large pan of hot water with soaking utensils to save time and keep many plates clean.
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