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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1897
Page
3
A New Orleans Times-Democrat style note extols the latest fashion in portraits: large hats posed by artistic photographers to flatter shape and beauty. It argues that modern photographers must be artists and motivators, shaping hair and attire for flattering proofs.
The article notes a shift in insurer attitudes toward women as risks. It states that mortality for women is not higher than men and that after age 48 women often outlive men. It questions the old belief that married women are poorer risks than single women.
The article discusses gendered education debates with Oscar Browning’s Forum view on woman’s education differing from men. It then shifts to fashion, detailing winter hat trends with ostrich feathers, bird head trims, pheasant feathers, and velvet bindings in black and brown felts, noting practical and stylistic observations.
Carrie E. Garrett notes that the funny woman can vex society by ridiculing sacred themes and exposing private ambitions. The article surveys eminent French widows, detailing pensions, residences, and acts to preserve or honor their late husbands’ legacies.
A London Telegraph correspondent recalls a social clash over needlework modernization. An old school gentleman mocked the craft, prompting a charity potato race for the Society For Bettering the Condition of Indigent Needlewomen. Entries paid 2s 6d, with rules about footwear, while the photographer-boasting critic displayed damaged stock and burst seams as foils to his claim.
A woman in mourning dress with a brown chiffon veil turns heads at a shop counter as brown veils dominate the season. The piece notes the veil’s ubiquity and its claim to match all costumes, with one observer calling it a bold completion to a mourning ensemble.
Miss Enid Yandell has designed a fountain for Louisville funded by a Richmond benefactor. Her World’s Fair and Nashville centennial works drew praise. Miss Louise Lawson, known for the S. S. Cos statue in Clinton Square New York and the Mediaeval Fencer relief, has a New York studio and is completing marble busts for William Jewell College Missouri, while earning admiration for her sculpture.
The Portmouth Ohio Woman's Literary Club, born from an 1877 history class and formed in 1890, joined the National federation in 1891. Instead of flowers, the club purchases a valuable reference book inscribed with the member’s name and placed in the public library.
To prevent rusting knives should be rubbed with oil before long storage. For needles a small amount of powdered lime in the packets helps keep them rust free.
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