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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1898
Page
7
Lucy A. Hayes argues in the New York Times that unerring home training builds the charm of real ladies and gentlemen. She contrasts refined upbringing with showy manner and urges both parents to cultivate kindness, self control, and shared duties to raise children who become true ladies and gentlemen.
To achieve a well fitting waist the boning must provide sustaining power and pliability. Properly sprung bones allow the waist to curve along the bust and hip, enhancing natural lines and giving the garment a French stylistic fit.
A new edition de luxe expresses a symbolic partnership theme. It states the phrase taken not from feet or head but from the side near the heart, symbolizing mutual affection and companionship rather than supremacy, with attribution to J Campbell in Rain's orn.
Orlena L. Shackleford explains lace nomenclature tied to pattern and stitches by locality. Bayeux and Valenciennes shift production to Ypres and other centers while Normandy yields fine black and white blonds. Belgian laces lead in needlepoints with Bruges and Flanders retaining prestige.
A compact excerpt traces the notion of deshabille through witty anecdotes from Dickens to Mark Twain and Sydney Smith. It references a cocked hat figure delivering news of death, clergy breeches misadventures, tropical deshabille, and Henry Drummond and Sierra Leone imagery from Cornhill Magazine in a collage of late 19th century sensibilities.
Dr. J Curtis Webb warned that hysteria signified nerve exhaustion caused by unequal education and overwork. He linked cases to education for girls and suggested exercise and sports like golf and cycling as preventive measures.
The Fortnightly Review notes Henry George possessed gifts of oratory and journalism plus personal sincerity. His book Progress and Poverty, though rough in form, stunned politicians and economists and reached over 100000 copies. His rising influence rode on his stage presence and persuasive debating power.
A Southwark police court scene features a school board inspector and a mother who admits she lied to save her husband about a child’s truancy. The inspector quips that these mothers who keep children from classes in order to escape fines “lie like gas meters.”
A Boston Traveler quip notes a joke about a tonic not for anxious people but for those who must endure them. The line reflects humor on dealing with difficult personalities.
A Boston Transcript account recalls Summer Hill near Studley Virginia where Mrs Newton widow of Captain William B Newton of Fitz-Hugh Lees brigade held out during Civil War clashes around 1862 General Grant used Summer Hill as a war council site and urged her to flee with her children she chose to stay at her home to safeguard the potato cellar as a bombarded refuge Grant later inquired after her safety and praised her courage
A philanthropist recounts letting his sick child sleep in near darkness and the infant’s first experience of total darkness. The baby sits still, then speaks softly, declaring “Baby all right,” illustrating a paradox of egoism and care through a tender moment.
The future poet laureate debated the honor for a day and sent two letters, finally accepting after a dinner anecdote about liver wing etiquette. He reports receiving vast numbers of poems daily, while San Francisco Argonaut notes Aust ralian green ants weaving nests from leaves with natural glue.
In the Cluny museum a pair of yellow silk shoes linked to the famous Marquise de Pompadour are displayed. They are said to be identical to the pair she wears in the pastel portrait that hangs in the Louvre gallery.
Freddie Harkaway’s English valet Beppo rises from servant to personal impresario in Venice and Paris, charming a suite of maidens and triggering a cascade of discharges. Freddie returns to New York, but Beppo’s street‑side concerts disrupt households, endangering Freddie’s social circle and prompting a Paris return.
Miss Lilian Bell writes from Paris to The Ladies' Home Journal praising Parisian amusements. She notes theater crowds, duel cheers, and tears for a mother’s death, contrasting Parisian joie with English and American reserve. She admires Parisian beauty and Parisian social ease.
A brief colloquial exchange from the New York Journal where Archibald jokes about starting housekeeping. The speaker explains avoiding the cost of kerosene and coal by furnishing his own supplies, in a lighthearted tone.
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