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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1896
Page
3
Harriet Beecher Stowe mentions and items about Mrs Edmund L Baylies as the social anchor of New York's elite. The Baylies couple, seen as a modern power pair, draw admiration for style, wit, and influence in salons and society duties.
A fragmentary column explores women's dress colored by a portrait from Domestic Monthly praising vibrant garments, colors, and skirt shapes, contrasting with older styles. It includes quotes about Harriet Beecher Stowe and literary figures and ends with a Fruithurst Alabama note on a Hartford line of debtlessly productive farming women.
An English paper notes mothers seeking governesses may require instructors to cycle. The discussion shifts to cycling dress, favoring a skirt with a concealed wide trouser for freedom. The article describes a serge or tweed cycling outfit with silk lining and a blouse and short jacket, allowing women to wheel to events and change into evening attire upon arrival.
Conversation centers on Maria Mitchell as the sole American woman named on the public library external honor roll. Participants debate whether Appleton’s Cyclopedia omits her while Maggie Mitchell the actress is listed, with mentions of Mrs Stone and questions about genuine original work and a Nantucket woman achieving a notable comet discovery.
Mrs Sidney Webb, noted England author of The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain, has spurred German debate with translations and articles. Her Nottingham Conference paper on Factory Legislation drew German translation offers, and History of Trades Unionism has appeared in Germany. Webb advocates a four hour daily work limit for women, deeming 9:30 to 1:30 the best morning span, a view questioned by many literary figures.
In Germany a widow in a long estate dispute over a cabinet maker's running account with a lumber dealer had to take 1 200 oaths during her testimony. The trial consumed 12 hours of affidavit reading and three tribunal sittings before she won the suit against the estate.
The New York Times notes demand for fashion pictures using real women with pretty faces. Models earn income posing in cultivated actions to heighten gowns, replacing stiff traditional fashion plates as advertising advances.
In Salem Mississippi a Americanized Japanese dwelling hosts a mixed American Japanese husband and wife. In Chicago a second household led by Mr Tetsupa and Mrs Tetsupa features a drawing room with Japanese and American decor including centuries old silk portieres from a Japanese temple. The article notes Mrs Tetsupa’s comfort with chopsticks and her status as the first Chicago girl to marry a Japanese.
Fashion notes advise sash ribbons as stylish additions to plain skirts. Sashes sized 4 4 to 14 inches offer versatile wearing options at front back or left side. Dresden ribbons enhance dark house dresses with trims, belts and bows, creating tasteful focal points on the gown.
In Nashville Frances Willard reports meeting Miss Jane Thomas a self supporting nonble woman in her ninety six year who rides streetcars alone for miles crafts bridal pincushions and rag dolls and is famed for intelligence and devotion to white ribbon activism attributing health to selflessness.
Pauline Lucca, retired seven years, lives in Vienna and pursues teaching operatic craft. A Chicago News correspondent notes she has no plans to return to the stage, guiding 12 pupils yearly for three hours daily, aiming to shape each into a notable singer and actress.
Designers worldwide alter sleeve contours without breaking the overall silhouette. Puffs persist in smaller, drooping pear forms while the balloon sleeve appears deflated. The so called mutton leg sleeve has normalized in size, noted by New York Post.
The Armenian Princess Beglarian, 26, practiced in Russia’s cholera hospitals after studying in Bern and now runs a large home clinic in New York. She treats up to 70 patients daily and plans to build a hospital on her father’s estate.
Miss Lillian Gordon Pym daughter of James Pym from the Boston Herald composing room receives the L R A M from the Royal Academy of Music after a recent examination. At about 15 she is one of the academy’s youngest honorees and was noted as a child prodigy in piano performances in Boston years ago.
Miss Virginia Pope of Buffalo holds the head window dresser role at a large dry goods store. Her notable taste and talent attract attention, and she earns the second highest salary in the establishment.
Bishop Cyrus D. Foss of the Methodist Church has been elected president of the board of the Baltimore Woman's College. His leadership adds influence to the institution as it plans governance and programs.
The lesson closes Luke chapter six with warnings about judging others, urging self examination before correcting others. It stresses inner renewal, being born again, and living by faith that manifests in deeds. The speaker treats tree and fruit imagery to urge a life rooted in Christ and obedience to his words.
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