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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1896
Page
2
Instructional note describes making a toilet tidy from four cardboard panels covered in satin and embroidered with black crewel stars. Variations include orange silk with black satin stripes and star embroidery, cherry satin with similar trim, and pale eau de nil with matching accents. Corner ribbon bows complete each design.
Mrs. Sarah Grand proposes replacing the house of lords with a chamber of women qualified to watch legislation affecting their sex. She suggests such a women’s chamber could discuss reforms, influence morality questions, and purify the political atmosphere while remaining separate from a mixed assembly.
In support of Havelock Ellis and the idea that women lead in cultural realms, the piece argues that literature and music appeal mainly to women and that male attendance at daytime entertainments is minimal. It cites a New York Supreme Court opinion suggesting wives should run the home and manage household details, while men remain focused on business and public life.
Mrs Elizabeth Charles, author of Chronicles of the Schonberg Cotta Family, was one of the English advocates of women’s suffrage. She argued that a public spirit and interest in national or social questions is essential to true womanhood and that women should not be exempt from the duty of voting.
A Boston Herald excerpt argues farming as independence first, urging fruit and main crops to sustain a family, with home study in geology botany and entomology. It promotes small beginnings, careful accounting, hands-on labs, and a roomy home to nurture children, with schools as supplements.
A science note explains a common house fly can reach 160 feet per second when alarmed, covering a mile in 83 seconds if continued. It also recounts Bill Lange defeating five kings with four aces in a historic San Francisco poker game featuring King Kalakaua as a social rival.
A Saturday Review writer critiques Andrew Lang as a master of allusion with broad reading yet un digested knowledge noting a lawyerly grasp of literary precedent. The piece also portrays B R Crockett as a creature of Stevenson in academic minds, signaling literary comparisons.
The text cites Baudelaire on life as a hospital of changing beds and Shaftesbury on beauty and virtue. It mentions the Tyrian era beginning October 19, B.GC, commemorating Tyre's independence from Syrian rule, and discusses the ideal character of the gentleman and philosopher.
A party of officers from the Old Sixth Militia led by Colonel Parsons traveled from Boston to Hull for revolver and target shooting with planned contests. Sweetser won first prize with scores 26 and 25, Parsons claimed second with 20 and 25, and Tucker took third with 17 and 20 as other officers observed or competed. The trip ended with returning to their residences amid chatter of more outings.
Ruth Ashmore writes in Ladies' Home Journal advising men to look clean and wholesome whether at work or visiting. She urges modest dress, clean linen, proper knot on ties, plain gold buttons, and avoiding loud scarves or flashy jewelry. If possible, wear dress clothes after dark and self-tie a lawn or black satin bow.
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