Beauty Brains and Books Highlight Miss Pitkin
New Orleans editor and writer Miss Helon Pitkin, a noted beauty and musician, leads a prominent literary circle and is related to Margaret Fuller and the Gordon family. Her Paris residence hosts visiting artists as she advances in journalism and poetry while praising women’s education and Cambridge and Oxford traditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helon ‘Pitkin
Miss Pitkin
Woman's Department
The
Times-Democrat
Margaret Fuller
New England
Gordon
Lord Byron
John R. Pitkin
Argen
Migs
Helen
New Orleans
James Durne
E. M. Gilmer
the Picayune
Cor
Chicago Times-Herald
Queen Wilhelmine Under Guardianship As Doubts Rise
The queen regent Emma seeks a guardianship council for Wilhelmine who reaches majority next August. Eight members include three Roman Catholics, reflecting historic church ties. the young queen proves impulsive and resistant to governess control while growing toward constitutional independence.
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Emma
Wilhelmine
Opg
Royal House of Orange
Cambridge vote rejects women degree proposal
The Cambridge poll outcome was foregone with the plan to confer university degrees on women defeated by 1 718 to 662. If any surprise remained, it was only in the final tally.
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England
Cambridge
Oxford
Goldwin Smith
New York Tribune
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton Praised By Frances Burr
Miss Frances Ellen Burr of Hartford visits 81 year old Elizabeth Cady Stanton and writes that Stanton remains vigorous, optimistic, and mentally sharp. Burr notes Stanton welcomes aging, hopes to live to 100 with retained faculties, and says a contented mind makes old age cheerful and livable.
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Frances Ellen Burr
Hartford
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Miss Burr
Hartford Times
Mrs. Stanton
London society turns Americanized in tone
The London World asserts recent London society has become like Americans with restless, energetic women no longer content to stay at home. The article notes a shift from embroidery and domestic life to a generation that loves action and “getting through things” in a single day.
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London
Square Mile
Women of this caliber and the season’s social whirl
The excerpt describes women of high social standing moving through a packed week of skating, visits, and a succession of parties. What earlier generations deemed dissipation now appears as a routine, daily round that fills the season and prevents dull days, with women ready to do more in the social period.
White Frocks For Summer Wear in 1920s Vogue
The article notes a strong white dress trend for summer with fabrics such as organdie dotted swiss muslin and dimity. It describes a fashionable costume featuring a curved skirt with white braid edging, a white silk shirt waist with a high stock, small sleeves, a white leather belt with a gold buckle, and a white chiffon hat embellished with large roses.
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Isabel A. Mallon
Ladies’ Home Journal
Marseilles
Fashioning a Woman’s Neckline to Suit Her Figure
A New York Post note advises women to adapt fashion to personal needs rather than chase every trend. It contrasts large ruches and full collarettes with more flattering cuts like deep point shapes on shoulders and staggered front and back elements to flatter various figures.
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New York Post
Fires ruin Amherst writers manuscripts and belongings
Mrs. D. H. R. Goodale and her daughter Miss Dora Read Goodale lost nearly all their manuscripts books and personal effects in a recent Amherst fire. The note urges broad sympathy for the loss and recalls the poets of Sky Farm.
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D. H. R. Goodale
Dora Read Goodale
Amherst
Mass
Goodales
Sky Farm
Woman’s Journal
Translation of Homer by Bryant Reflects Personal Comfort and Limitations
The 1866 death of Mrs. Bryant prompted Henry D Sedgwick Jr to translate Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for The Atlantic before 1871 at age 77. The piece praises poetry's value, notes Bryant's fidelity to the original, and discusses how Greek spirit and English blank verse clash, with varied views on translations by Pope Cowper Derby Lang Palmer and others.
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Bryant
Henry D. Sedgwick, Jr
Atlantic
Pope
Cowper
Lord Derby
Lang
Palmer
Ilium
Odysseus
Press club gift turns out to bell for visiting journalist
A Washington Press club scene recounts Karl Decker presenting a ring to a British journalist. The guest, bemused, pockets the bell when the prank is revealed. The next day the man recounts the kindness and the mistaken gift with good humor.
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Press Club
Washington
Karl Decker
Mr. Soundso
Presa
Washington Post
The Great Ventilation Lesson for Invalids
The Philadelphia Ledger argues that indoor air worsens health while outdoor air is purer, noting that proper dwelling ventilation and time outdoors yield greater health benefits than travel to other climates. It warns against fear of outdoor air and suggests a garden as salvation for invalids.
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Florida
Nice
Philadelphia Ledger
Massage the Scalp to Prevent Hair Loss Advice
An article from the Chicago Tribune advocates scalp massage as a remedy for hair loss. It describes simple steps to massage the scalp, with hands placed behind the ears and at the eyebrow area, moving to loosen the scalp and stimulate circulation.
Queen Victoria’s Favorite Daughter Princess Henry of Battenberg
The London Figaro notes Princess Henry of Battenberg, Queen Victoria’s favored daughter, aged forty, as a loving companion to the queen and a figure of tender widowhood closeness. The dialogue fragment touches on mortality and a joke about Philadelphia.
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Queen Victoria
Henry of Battenberg
London Figaro
Time Table Curve Trains West From Boston and Nearby
A fragmented rail timetable lists trains westward from Boston with numerous times across multiple towns including Belmont, Altham, Weston, East Sudbury, South Sudbury, Wayside Inn, Rockbottom, Reon, and Jefferson. Sunday services appear for several routes, with specific hourly or half hour departures and arrivals.
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BoSton
BelmOnt
Altham
East Sudbury
South Sudbury
Wayside Inn
P. Rockbottom
Aha West Boylston
Sunda P
Jefferson
Sun- Northampton
Renee Th
Ware
Barre
Oia
Madina Boylston
Sungouth
Clinton
Bestia
Booth
A.m. East Sudbury
M. Sunay
A.m. Ayland
A. m
A.m. Weston
A.m
A.m. Waltham
A. m. Belmont
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Ar. Stanton
Godey’s Magazine
Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania
Chicago Tribune
Philadelphia
J.rufus Wales
Shawmut Ave
Marlboro, Mass
Grover Graham
C. D. Hunter
DrvuGaist
Robert W. Carters
Charles H. Persons
Maynard
Assabet
the Peoples Dry Goods Company
Boston & Maine Railroad
Southern Division
Central
Massachusetts
Union Passenger Station
Causeway Street
Ted
Hudson
Oakdale
Northampton
Tole Naccanewara
Dana J. Flanders
Daniel W. Sanborn
W. G. Bean
Bure
Kiey
OM P.M. Ae
Marlboro
J. G.pla
A.M. AM
South Acton
Whitman's Crossing
Rockbottom
Whitman’s Crossing
Marlboro Acton
Whitman Crossing
Maine
A.M. P
America
Clement.c. Gaines
Pouerneersie
New York
New Haven
Hartford Railroad
OLD Colony System
Northboro
P.m. Sun
Leominster
M. Sun
Sun
T.lla.m
P.m. Fitch
Southboro
P.m. Sin, 9.38 A.m., 5.53, 7.48 On P.m. : So. Framingham
Acton
Lowell
A.m. Sudbury
Mansfield
E. G. Allen
A.C. Kendall
Pas
Fitchburgh Railroad
Hoosac Tunnel
Troy
Saratoga
Lake George
Adirondack
Catskill Mountains
Syracuse
Rochester
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Hamilton
Toronto
Cleveland
Detroit
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
Boston and
Vermont
Canada
Rutland
Brandon
Middlebury
Vergennes
Burlington
St Albans
St. Johns
Ogdensburg
Ottawa
Montreal
Quebec
Fitchburg
Washington Street
J. R. Watson
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