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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1897
Page
2
The gifted young artist Lucy Kemp-Welch known as the English Rosa Bonheur paints horses. She sketches them in many poses and moves, using a stable studio with a skylight as a workshop. Her Foam Horses are famous and she has been invited to send a picture to the Boston exhibition.
A Paris benefactress launches a private social refuge called Le Cenacle des Femmes in a large Rue Notre Dame des Champs drawing room. It opens to single women with liberal professions or students, inviting them for daily cheerful company. Members pay a small monthly fee for ward lights and warmth. workwomen are excluded from regular membership, but invited guests and male friends may attend on two evenings weekly.
A New York Ledger note recalls how in Australia a marriage was declared void after the husband proved his wife deceived him about her age, claiming to be 15 years younger. The piece also mentions a ninety ninth birthday celebration where women celebrated growing older with pride.
A fashion note highlights muslin frocks as stylish and affordable this season. An afternoon dress in spotted maize silk grace with cream lace sleeves and bodice inserts captures the trend, with a crush belt of green glace silk.
The London Chronicle notes the death of Emma Sewell at Bonchurch, sister of Elizabeth Sewell. Her novels Amy Herbert Ursula and others influenced a generation of young girls alongside Miss Yonge. The Sewell family long resided at Bonchurch and once owned Farringford before it passed to Lord Tennyson.
Fashion columns praise tucks as essential detailing. Designers use quarter inch tucks in bodices sleeves and skirts often pairing with tucked boleros and draperies. Tucks run horizontal or encircle the figure even on low cut evening bodices.
The Li Digest cites The Lancet on the platypus or porcupine duckbill storied as an egg-layer. It notes a sting on its hind leg capable of killing, with cases in dogs and two in humans, no human deaths but four canine fatalities.
The article credits John Wesley with founding the world’s first Sunday school in Savannah in 1736. Wesley catechized and taught local children before evening services, with about 60 to 75 scholars in his early class and strong affection from the children. Sir Charles Reed supports the claim, noting it predates Raikes in Gloucester and early New York schools in America.
A Philadelphia Inquirer tale recounts a Japanese servant guiding Ulysses S. Grant’s headgear during travels. To suit each town college or soldier town the hat changed, from silk to slouch to military, so Grant appeared in a new hat at every stop, unaware of the scheme.
A Harlem Life feature recalls a witty exchange about marrying into a large hearted, generous family. The piece notes a London home of sandwich men housing graduates, doctors, and a Scotchman who spent £50,000 in three years, illustrating varied fortunes.
Archaeologists report preserved fruits retrieved from the Herculaneum ruins show state fit to be eaten. The find highlights ancient food preservation methods and offers insight into daily life in the ancient city.
An eyewitness account critiques New York City dispensaries for lavish charity and social vanity. It describes a west side institution dubbed the diamond dispensary where well dressed visitors seek free care, expose billing, and claim urban privilege over genuine paupers. A doctor is confronted by a paying motive in a free service, highlighting misdirected charity and social inequities.
The article surveys traditional washing practices across Korea Japan China Egypt and France noting methods from pounding and paddling to outdoor sun drying and river washing. It contrasts cold water pounding in Korea with flat-board ironing in Japan and Nile river washing by Egyptian washermen and women.
An old domestic note advises prudent housewives on refrigerating during heat. Cover ice with newspapers to slow melting and scour shelves to keep clean. Cool drinking water under the ice, not with ice in it, and teach maids there is no magic preservative on top. The best storage is beneath the ice, not above.
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