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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1903
Page
5
A Boston Globe note discusses that American women have always been good looking and attributes perceived changes to fashion styles over time. It cites magazine writers and essays, observing that today’s attire makes daughters resemble their mothers, creating a youthful appearance overall.
The piece surveys delicate jackets in linen and pique with pearl buttons and wide collars, notes oriental and Russian embroidery enhancing gowns, and calls out turquoise jewelry, pearls, and slender chains as the latest chic. It reflects New York fashion, warns on India shawls, and recalls royal gifts and enduring heirlooms.
The piece mocks Scot and India shawls, praises Paisley ones, and notes how trimming real shawls hurts more than vandalism. It then critiques the feminine file, calling it skilled embroidery of gossip, while highlighting dangers of faulty memory and the need for caution to avoid being found out.
Swallow-tail bows and sunflower rosettes adorn hats while tucking gains favor in fashion. Lace medallions and pleated ribbons decorate gowns and hats, with filmy net gowns pairing Chantilly and Irish paint. The trend shifts to coarser weaves, long tight lace gauntlet cuffs, and elegant all lace parasols with gold handles. sleeves end at the elbow, becoming a sophisticated finish to the gown.
A brief guide on cultivating a success mindset. Surround yourself with energetic, achievement oriented people. Read about successful figures and visions of success. Train the unconscious mind to think of success constantly to drive action.
The editor argues endowments for libraries and schools fail to teach how to live. Billionaire donors seek monuments to education, yet practical instruction on building and sustaining the human body is lacking. He questions the value of free shelves without laws of life and diet.
From George Horace Lorimer's Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. The author warns against overreliance on flashy talent and urges cementing core business virtues, patience, and honest evaluation of a boy's true bent. He contrasts dull consistency with dramatic impulse, urging owners to nurture strengths and market goods on merit.
A New York Journal excerpt argues education should instill the law of cause and effect in children. It urges parents and future physicians to cultivate love, cheerfulness, and noble deeds as health tonics, teaching children to respond to anger with kindness and to raise others rather than lower themselves.
A collage of childlike verse about a lost baby, magic tricks with a water globe and scissors, and reflections on real life emergencies. It notes a girl saving a father by applying a medical lesson, a boy saving a drowning child, and a boy stopping a runaway horse, all highlighting courage in critical moments.
A grandmother narrates a tale of a magical hammock that alternately enlarges and tightens to include all children or just one, guided by fairies named Love and Selfishness. A science note follows, describing surface tension with a basin of water, floating matches, and the effects of soap and sugar on liquid pull.
A such called perfect extinguishing compound is described using twenty pounds of common salt ten pounds of sal ammonine and seven gallons of water mixed to form a powerful fire extinguisher mixture.
A reader notes that ivy growing on walls, long blamed for dampness, may actually draw moisture from the walls rather than impart it, challenging common belief about damp homes. The observation invites further study and discussion among homeowners and builders.
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