Woman Spurns Suitor After Swift Courtship
A man fondles a woman's waist and bestows a kiss, but she rejects him to avoid harming her sleeve and to keep distance. The brief scandal-like moment centers on romantic tension and social propriety.
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1894
Page
5
A man fondles a woman's waist and bestows a kiss, but she rejects him to avoid harming her sleeve and to keep distance. The brief scandal-like moment centers on romantic tension and social propriety.
A Boston station of the Boston and Liverpool Pneumatic Tube company hosts a guided journey to a future world described by Colonel Pierce. The narrator tests a dual tube system using air currents to propel passenger cars at extraordinary speed, with careful braking and a privacy shield, only to wake from sleep as a newspaper fantasy.
The Chicago Record notes that incandescent lamps skew color perception compared with daylight. Yellow and pink blur, heliotrope turns pinkish, pale blues fade while greens brighten, and crimson tones soften with proper shading. Wrinkles and skin tones are exaggerated, sparking caution about electric lighting and suggesting yellow silk lamp shades as a remedy.
Lord Tennyson writes aloud on his father as Beron Albert Rothschild shines in chess. The Earl of Mountcashell wed Miss Cornelius of Queen's county Ireland. Senate real estate, $400000, marks Sherman as a major taxpayer. Gorham Abbott, once mute for 80 years, begins to speak again. Hamilton, Ontario unveils the first monument to Sir John A. Macdonald. Francis Parkman exudes old world dignity. Young Kwai, Yale graduate, engaged to Mary Burnham of Springfield.
The piece surveys late nineteenth century bric a brac trends with footstools dels and delf dishes used for toilet and library. Vienna clocks in brass framed panels, Watteau scenes, a brass standard with a bird cage, terra cotta heads, sedan chairs repurposed as cabinets, Parisian knickknacks in brocade, hearth brushes with gold fringe, and brocade coverings on boxes and letter racks.
Plain ladies' cloth of exquisite texture tops fabrics for visiting and dinner gowns this season. Yellow brocade and black remain popular in ballrooms, with shot moire and shot satins featuring floral patterns. Woven corsets in natural undyed wool offer warm, durable, elastic cold weather wear.
The Baltimore Sun says diseases can spread by airborne exposure from small patients and by indirect contact through materials touched by the sick. It cites smallpox, erysipelas, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, and glanders as examples, noting transmission routes from air to blood.
Report links a painter known for grim works to nightly dread caused by his habit of eating raw beef and underdone pork for supper. The strange diet allegedly inspired vivid nightmares that shaped his disturbing artwork.
A new chrysanthemum crape fabric features narrow riblike cords crossing half-inch grooves from subtle crimping. Like waved chiffon, the coloring is perfect with numerous chrysanthemum shades and more on display.
Surgeon Murray of the U S A. claims a treatment that could save any yellow fever victim and even sought to expose his own children to the disease to prove immunity. The Tribune urges readers to subscribe for more on emerging medical hopes and contagion fears.
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