Flowers and wreaths honor fallen soldiers on Memorial Day
A June Memorial Day scene unfolds with veterans from 1861 and 1898, a white-clad child, and a crowd around graves. Major Mason guides a symbolism plan using roses, laurel, evergreens, daisies, and hawthorn to express courage, purity, innocence, and patriotism through flowers and verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B.C. Elchorn
Élementa
Alice Manson
Alice
Major Mason
Roberts
Longfellow
Earth
Agnes
Mason
Jennie
Rene Ima
Robert Shaw
Katie Hyde
Robert
Unwitting Aspects of Social Pride in Card Games
A Chicago Times Herald quip and Chicago Tribune cartoon caption reflect social vanity at a card party. It contrasts Mrs Bingley’s delight at securing second prize with the first prize winner’s jealousy, while another panel jokes about Mrs Gushleigh’s portrait and her chin in repose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bingley
Chicago ‘Times-Herald
LIVE HIGH ON CREDIT Up at the Fashionable NYC Restaurants
A New York Tribune report exposes how a notorious fashionables crowd built vast restaurant bills. It details practice of running accounts by promising tomorrow payments, tip manipulations, and slow, cumulative charges that keep debt open. The piece includes anecdotes of a supper where a guest paid cash but still charged it to impress others, and a general note on selective dunning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Ninety-sixth Street
Bronx Park
Marlon
New York Tribune
Flouriah
New York City
O. K
Tses
Wall Papers Debut in Two Tone French Stripes
The new two tone French stripe wallpapers on Myrtle Green Vere Rose Bisque or Silver Gray grounds are highly admired for their expensive look. Joan N Tregellas notes the fresh design and its rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan N, Tregellas
Joke That Failed at Albany Senate Dress Switch
In Albany during a legislative session Senator Grady expected a reception, but his satchel was swapped by Assistant Corporation Counsel Creamer with a rainy day suit. Grady unveiled his dress suit to shocked Senators Coggeshall Ahearn Coffey Featherson Martin McCarren as Creamer admitted the joke with a stutter and offered cigars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Thomas PF
Grady
Thomas J. Creamer
Creamer
Timothy D. Sullivan
New York Journal
Novelty Empire Treatment Adorns Billed Cloth Green
A genuine novelty in Em pire style appears on billierd cloth green in two tones of white, creating a strikingly effective display. The design is attributed to Joan N. TREGELLAS.
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Joan N. Tregellas
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Flora
Florence
Major
Trobert
Papa
Stobert
Leigh Hunt
Rosa C. Ercuorn
Camille Flammarion
Nouvelle Revue
Flammarion
Pittsburg
Atchison Globe
Sas
the Bee Hive
Emollie Ryan
Prop’r, Brinkman Block
By Joseph A. Altsheler
Altsheler
Melville Philips
Opera House
Footlights of
Gotham
Main Street
Miller & Jackson
Grafton
Wheeler & Wilson
O’neils
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