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Newspaper
Fort Macleod Gazette
Location
Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 06, 1902
Page
7
An American soprano faces pressure from French managers over a debut and clings to her contract rights. She refuses to leave until her agreement is torn up, prompting a sudden operatic offer elsewhere and headlines of American resolve versus French obstruction. Gustav Kobbe commentary notes the clash and outcome.
Advice argues infants sleep best face down on a firm flat mattress with no pillow. It claims stomach and chest warmth prevent colic and aid digestion while back and spine avoid overheating. The text notes quick adaptation, rest quality, and warns back sleeping may cause dreams and mouth breathing.
A humorous notice defends the elderly woman called the Ola Maid highlighting her kindness and selflessness despite stereotypes. The piece praises her warm nature and tactful speech, contrasting common notions of nerve and cantankerousness.
A Harper's Weekly vignette extols a woman as a fairy godmother in a family, shaping children's joys and dinners, offering steadfast support in life’s trials, and especially guiding young lovers with understanding. Her selfless labor is praised as the source of grace and comfort to others.
A German physician explains that enlarged tonsils and nasal obstructions cause chronic stuttering by forcing mouth breathing. Removal of these growths can improve attention memory and speech, revealing the obstruction as the chief cause of the defect.
The article stresses using good materials for household linens, recommending French working cotton for fancy work and high quality white linen grounds. It highlights that the first essential is the direction of the stitches, forming the foundation of embroidery technique, especially clear in French white work for amateurs.
Experience shows that for real service and wear in trimming white aprons gowns and all garments to be laundered torchon and valencieries insertions and edgings are the cheapest in the long run Embroideries tear quickly and are hard to mend A fair quality of torchon launders well and is more easily replaced when worn out Try this trimming if you have not already discovered it and it will save in many ways.
Turkish baths are cleansing and pleasant but should not be indulged in too frequently. If you have vitality to spare you may bathe with no ill effect. The ordinary nervous woman should be careful as they are enervating. A bath every three or four weeks suffices with at least two hours of rest afterward.
The Ladies' Home Journal warns that stage life is full of drudgery and disappointment. Only a few rise to brilliance while mediocrity is common and poorly valued. The piece argues stage work is best avoided for women seeking broad culture or stable careers.
A newly married English curate introduces his wife to a village grande dame with the line a poor thing madam but mine own she retorts your wife should have introduced you as a poorer thing but mine owner the exchange reflects class and social wit in a Short Stories magazine piece.
The article prescribes a gingham skirt with a shirt waist attached to the belt, short enough to clear the ground, for the working housekeeper. It suggests mending sleeves with patches pre-placed, using a smooth old silver thimble for floss work, and lining sleeves for longevity. It advises a lime bag under a piano cover to absorb moisture, wool or cashmere socks for tender feet, not wearing the same boots two days in a row, and using a new paint brush to dust carved furniture deeply.
Practical guide to crafting an India seat using hard maple. Describes turning four corner posts, joining legs with rounds, inserting short rounds, and attaching a hollow top rail. Covers assembly, headless nails, staining, varnishing, and making a lacquer from shellac powder for varied color effects.
Linuda Hull argues that daily tasks like golf and housework can be transformed from drudgery into engaging activities through mental training and admiration for skilled labor. She, an experienced housekeeper, defends the idea that women’s natural role is housewifery when embraced gracefully and intelligently, despite potential disapproval.
George Ken nan writes that Russian women are among the finest in the world. In upper classes they are brilliant, educated, and multilingual, often accomplished musicians. Across classes they are self sacrificing with exalted ambitions, seeking to aid others rather than personal advancement.
A housemaid proposes embroidering towels with blue or red thread to show the use of each towel for specific utensils. She notes that prior mix ups by kitchen staff—wiping glass with a crash towel and frying pan with a glass towel—led to confusion until the emblems were added, after which no further trouble occurred.
A cooking school teacher says wire egg beaters are best for angel food and meringues to whip air for volume. Wheel beaters are preferred for recipes needing a fine grain texture in the cake.
Edith Scott advises on managing long skirts for dressy wear. She suggests gripping the center of the back as far down as comfortable, lifting just enough to clear the ground, keeping the sides full, and giving a light shake to settle folds. The train should rest only indoors.
An old Welsh oak dresser embodies fine simplicity from the 17th and 18th centuries. Welsh and Yorkshire pieces are especially sought after by antique furniture lovers today for their understated decorative appeal.
An old Welsh dresser is described as a mounting for silver and china and as a functional sideboard. The illustration shows a simple, home easily built piece whose size can be adjusted to fit its surroundings and which can be ornamented to suit the builder, though its simplicity is its strength.
A vintage instruction describes treating black silk fabric by slicing a medium white potato, pouring boiling water over it, soaking overnight, straining, and adding pure alcohol to achieve a thin starch. It instructs sponging the right side and ironing the wrong side to lift stains.
In France women teachers elect women members on all boards of education. In Sweden women vote for all elective officers except representatives and indirectly for the upper house. In Ireland women vote for harbor boards and poor law guardians and in Belfast for municipal officers. In Russia householders vote for all elective officers and on all local matters.
The tincture of benzoin, mixed with water, serves as a mild astringent wash with whitening qualities. A few drops of the tincture poured into a bowl of water create a refreshing facial bath that tightens pores and cleanses the skin.
Instructions describe using a large sponge saturated with water to allow old wallpaper to loosen. After soaking the walls, the paper can be scraped away with a knife with minimal effort.
Home health tips advise hops tea for blood impurities and onion poultices for sprains. Salt small doses halt hemorrhages. alum water aids cuts. bread poultice for neuralgia. white of egg with chalk for burns. peppermint oil carbolic gargle to prevent tonsillitis. laxative with short fast and water recommended for colds.
The piece notes how mothers clubs have raised breakfast quality for city children. It contrasts bread with cheap jelly and coffee or tea to a shift toward nutritious, affordable meals. Yet many tenement families still rely on fried sausage and eggs in winter, aiding illness risk from November to May.
The article extols daily open air exercise as essential to cleanliness, promoting perspiration to expel impurities. It advises moderate exertion, regular routines including dumbbell use, and warns against wearing a corset during exercise. Skipping rope is praised for chest expansion and figure improvement.
Stair walking strengthens leg muscles from the hip down and improves body poise when done upright from the hips. Landing on the ball of the foot with flexible knees while ascending or descending ensures vitality and reduces nervous strain. Sprinting up stairs on the ball of the foot builds ankle strength and helps prevent flat feet.
A method uses walnut sized lye dissolved in a bucket of cold water to soak the fabric overnight. After soaking, wash with white soap, boil, then run through weak blue water. This yields fresh whiteness. delicate materials may rot if overused, but pique or duck endure several soaks without damage.
Cooking ham guidance recommends slicing from pre cooked ham for tenderness whether broiled or fried. For raw ham, cut rashers very thin and dip in cold water while broiling or soak raw slices in hot water before frying. Broiled ham achieves best quality when from a ham boiled halfway and rested a day or two before slicing.
A trick explains inserting eyes nose and mouth into a shadow on a wall using a half length mirror and a candle. By angling light and placing two paper masks on the mirror, luminous features appear on the wall. Moving one mask creates rolling eyes and a snapping mouth to startle viewers.
A damaged Harper's Magazine account describes an egg bound quail bursting from its shell by pushing with its horn against the walls of its nest. The moment reveals the bird’s waking sense of strength as it escapes the hollow space and emerges into open air.
A playful passage guides readers to challenge a friend with rapid tongue twisters such as she sells seashells and sea ceaseth and it sufficeth us. It notes difficulty increases with six repeats in one breath and ends with a tricky line about a six shilling single shingles.
A playtime activity for boys and girls lists famed figures Napoleon, Washington, Grant, Daniel Boone, Paul Pry, Paul Jones, Captain Kidd, Roger Williams, Molly Pitcher, and others on slips. Children draw from a bat then pretend to sleep. a bell signals the game end and a chorus of judges decides the best ghost with fines for missteps.
A boy named Johnnie explores a garden hearing insects and attempting to catch a big bee. He is stung by a bee and rushes indoors with tears while his mother tends his finger. The tale ends with unclear fragments about a remedy and embarrassment.
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