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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1902
Page
4
The Sun day North American promises the continuation of Maurice Thompson's Alice of Old Vincennes. The tale follows Alice Roussillon and foster brother Jean in early Indiana pioneer life filled with border dangers and fierce fights under Pere Beret.
A witness testifies about a quarrel involving a coal scuttle and the prisoner. The foreman questions the witness about whether the scuttle was raised to throw, but the witness describes the man lying with the coal scuttle over his head and his wife on top. The jury returns a verdict of not guilty.
A reflection on Goethe and the link between sorrow and art. The piece notes that great music and poetry often spring from affliction and pain, with lines about self restraint and a humorous anecdote involving Miss Jackson, Jim, and a Joliet visitor.
A Yonkers Statesman snippet contrasts historic trees on Tennsylvania avenue with modern street greenery. It pairs a brief recollection from a trolley meeting in Georgetown with a remark about widespread presidential timber nationwide. Nearby, a cereal advice line notes eggs or vegetables provide essential nutrients for an active man.
Mrs Lydia Hart Green, an Illinois woman, has earned fame as a meticulous painter and scientific illustrator of small creatures. The devoted nature student blends precise color work with exacting detail, tackling moths, butterflies, fishes and similar subjects despite the demanding challenges of scientific illustration.
The Chicago Tribune profiles Mrs. Green born in Quincy Illinois who trained in grammar and high schools there. She became a scientific illustrator at Illinois State University Urbana and later filled the official illustrator role. Her work for state exhibits at the World’s Fair shows microscopic accuracy in coloring and texture of insects, surpassing ordinary reproduction and earning praise for delicate touch and intuitional method.
A doctor is often summoned for a crying baby when family life is disrupted by public baths and noisy playmates. The piece argues mothers should concentrate on quiet nursing and avoid distractions during child care, noting how public scenes confuse and distress infants and families.
Dr Julia Holmes Smith recalls a New York gathering of influential women where papers on education hygiene and child development were presented. After a session, several guests toured a Fifth Avenue home to watch babies bathe. Twins eight months old were subjected to forced exercise in tubs before a small group, leaving Smith uneasy about outcomes and fearing neurasthenia.
A practical note from Good Housekeeping advises siting on a stool four inches lower than the table to reduce fatigue while washing dishes and bread making. It suggests a large bibbed apron, duck sleeves reaching above the elbow, and wrist buttons or a rubber band to protect sleeves and speed dressing.
A method for trimming lingerie uses cheap novelty lace or imitation lace outlined with coarse wash silk. A running stitch completes the design, producing a lace with an elegant look that resembles wet lace with applique figures and launders well for repeated use.
A discussion of decorative table covers using one inch margins and crochet borders in Irish and white or natural colors. It notes fashion in darned net and guipure d art with tinsel threads and ribbon bows. The piece then contrasts American and Armenian kitchens, noting many tin receptacles versus earthen jars that are covered, kept clean, and dry to avoid musty odors.
When cushions are grouped with care, color harmony yields ample compensation for extra effort. Green, yellow, and golden brown blend well with a room furnished in weathered oak. Blue accents from oriental rugs or draperies pair with brown and yellow cushions and pillows.
The Pall Mall Gazette states that women show greater courage than men due to frequent suffering. It notes women endure pain with fortitude while men often dread pain and bear it poorly.
Washing irons weekly keeps starched clothes neat while monthly washed irons suffice for plain laundry. Boiled beef loses weight, roast beef even more, and mutton loses more than beef. If candle wicks are too large, soften ends in hot water. Dried clover blossoms go into pillows in muslin. Many German women work in farm labor. Cedar dust sprinkled on vegetables reduces strong odors.
An English minister at a fashionable seaside church urged his female parishioners to remove their hats during sermons. He argued it improves sightlines for the preacher and listening, comparing it to theater etiquette and noting hatless congregations are more comfortable and conducive to worship.
An art circle in Paris, reported by the New York Times, quotes Americans and English artists praising Lord Leighton, noting his music, dress, dancing, and essays. Whistler finally remarks that Leighton also painted, provoking varied reactions among the group.
Human remains found at Girga in Egypt form a continuous series stretching back at least 8,000 years. Well preserved by dryness, hair nails ligaments muscles nerves remain visible and even brain, eyes and lenses preserved in two cases. Graves span from early dynasties through Ptolemaic and Coptic periods.
Crystalline quartz serves as a wood finisher and is produced entirely in Connecticut. It also acts as an abrasive in stonecutting, with a small portion crushed for sandpaper. In 1901 production was 14,050 short tons valued at 41,500, down slightly in tons from 1900 while value rose. After processing for market its value increases three to fourfold.
In 1901 experiments in Europe and America confirmed light exerts mechanical pressure. Maxwell had predicted the effect from theory. For absolutely black bodies the pressure on a square meter is four tenths of a milligram and for perfect reflectors it is doubled.
A curious ocean specimen, a small fish with four webbed feet may have been captured off Honolulu by the United States fishing vessel Albatross. Reportedly one of only a few such creatures known, the unusual limbs are said to be webbing between foot and fin.
An elderly priest on the Kiev Poltava line in Russia inadvertently set a new express engine in motion during an inspection at Louburg. Telegraph lines warned crews to stay clear, and the train halted only after water ran out. The priest fled in fright.
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