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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1898
Page
3
A guide on upgrading mantelpieces with inexpensive drapery fixes in bedrooms and wooden casings for main rooms, avoiding fire risks while improving the room’s overall appearance. It discusses taste, costs, and practical disguises for bare shelves.
Opinion piece argues against reformers who clash with natural human nature and warns that chasing gender politics harms harmony. It contrasts with practical design notes for mantelpieces and overmantels, and highlights fashion for stage costumes by Helen Windsor Wilson with historical accuracy.
An editorial warns against treating the woman question as a separate social issue. It uses a wheel metaphor with the home as hub and marriage as rim, arguing that distortion of one spoke harms the whole societal wheel.
London witnesses the appearance of young women in white costumes and hats as part of a new display. They face jeers and insults while the social debate grows as Paris sees La Fronde for women in printing, halted by government for violating night work laws pushed by women’s rights advocates.
The University of Vienna rector Professor Leo Reinesch retires while advocating expanded higher education for women. Meanwhile silk tablecloths grow popular among those who can afford them.
The article cites Paul Leicester Ford in his novel Peter Stirling arguing for women’s suffrage. He contends that expanding the electorate to include women adds knowledge and safeguards against demagoguery, comparing the value of many small votes to larger ones in shaping fair elections.
The Knoxville Centennial Building association has secured an old courthouse lot lease for ten years and plans to move the Centennial building to a permanent clubhouse. Women’s organizations in Knoxville will have a central meeting place once the building is relocated and delivered.
Fashion notes reveal new silhouettes including short pad bustles long skirt bustles panniers and high heels. Sleeves shrink to close fit and the head features tight curls. The era also departs from the winter picture bat accessory as it fades from fashion.
Lord Sandhurst the Bombay governor praised women entering medicine at a hospital opening. He said mockery of a woman's desire to pursue medical work shows ignorance of the blessing such doctors bring to the afflicted gender.
The Lend a Hand club, formed by Baltimore women, aims to promote just causes in the state. A committee will travel to New York to study policy and methods of metropolitan clubs.
In a rustic exchange, Cal Swamp questions practical needs while Higgins envisions electric shock for crops. The banter hints at rural desires for modern utilities to protect cabbage worms and portato bugs and to shock wheat and corn.
Timetable lists corrected rail departures from Northampton Ware Barre Jefferson Canale West Boylston South Clinton Berlin South Boston Hudson Rockbottom Wayside Inn South Sudbury East Sudbury ayland Weston Waltham Belmont Boston on Oct 4 1897 with multiple morning and afternoon departures and Sunday services. It notes station times and sequence.
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