The Adaptable Woman Martha Crowe in Chicago Society
Profile of Mrs. Martha Foote Crowe a noted Chicago teacher and alumna advocate. Details cover her career from Waynesburg and Wellesley to Chicago University and Dearborn seminary, her educational philosophy, and admired social standing in literary and educational circles.
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Martha F Chowk
Crowe
Waynesburg College
Wellesley
Iowa College
British Museum
Bodleian Library
Board of Education
Washington
England
Scotland
Germany
Italy
Switzerland
George Meredith
Theodore Watts Dunton
Israel Gallance
Temple Shakespeare
F. J. Fursivajs
Chicago University
Tso
Dearborn Seminary
University
Chicago
Wabash Avenue
Washington Street
Calumet Avenue
Twenty-first Street
Mia Crowe
Child’s longing for nature and simple home life
The passage argues the child seeks atmosphere and a private sanctuary from public gaze. It urges extending the reservation of childhood, preserving trees, grass, water, and a garden in a box for fostered connection with nature, and notes the comfort of a living pet in tough times.
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Nature
Florence Hul
Winterburn
One country offers husbands to all women in Siam
A writer claims Siam guarantees husbands for every woman who meets certain conditions, asserting a universal female appeal in that country. The passage notes the supposed method by which singles there achieve marriage.
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Siam
Siamese royal marriage rite assigns criminals to wives
The article explains a Siamese custom where women reach a certain age without a husband may register as young daughters of the king and gain royal protection. Criminals are sentenced to marry royal protegées, with selections based on offense severity and the bride’s temperament, a practice unlikely to appeal to spinsters elsewhere.
The Mermaid Lace Tale and Bridal Veil Legend
A Home Needlework Magazine yarn tells how a Venice bride's mermaid lace inspired by a sailor’s coralline gift becomes a famed guipure scarf. The piece blends folklore with a caution about salt for hair and health, then shifts to a tribute to the Pennefather family and a childhood bee sting anecdote.
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Venice
Indian Seas
Fragmented Thought and Moral Resolve in Christian Endeavor World
The fragment reflects a woman's reaction to injurious men and women while she holds firm truths. It portrays her anger and hurt shaping views yet preserves clear judgment and rejection of error. The passage illustrates conflict between emotion and steadfast belief in accuracy.
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Christian Endeavor World
Household Tips and Health Notes from Victorian Era
A collage of domestic advice on glove washing with soap and borax, broom cleanliness to prevent disease, home bacteriology urged for mothers, bread toasting for weak stomachs, simple hat styles, limewater for cleaning vessels, and a note on Mrs. Kruger of the Transvaal cooking and housekeeping.
The Vaudeville Theater as a Circuit and Its Reach
A study from Scribner's notes the four main vaudeville houses in New York Philadelphia Boston and Providence serve over five million patrons annually with 3500 actors and 350 attaches on payrolls. The Boston house runs year round at seven thousand dollars weekly costs and hosts about twenty five thousand patrons weekly with holidays drawing ten to twelve thousand attendees.
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Vaudeville
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Providence
Edwin Milton Royle
Scribner's
Distinction Between True Pearls and Pearl-like Intrusions
A French scientist explains the difference between genuine pearls and nacre coated intrusions. True pearls form as a pathological calcification from parasites, are perfectly spherical, and reside inside the shell away from the mantle. Nacre coated foreign bodies imitate pearls but lack iridescence and are only shell material.
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Orient
Peculiar Lacemaking Techniques In Mexican Lace Work
The article notes lace makers often use a method that removes stitches from a linen base rather than weaving from single threads. Japanese linen, delicate as silk, is favored. Some patterns rival Battenberg in precision, reproducing rare designs while demand focuses on embroidery items like doilies centers tray cloths and table covers.
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Battenberg
Watt’s Dilemma on Bribes Sparks Moral Debate
In a social discussion Potts argues the briber is as culpable as the recipient, noting the briber’s wealth and willingness to pay. The exchange centers on whether money contaminates integrity and who bears greater fault in a corrupt offer.
Presidential Succession Questions in Early Centre State Debate
The Post asks who acts if both president and vice president are disabled and whether the speaker of the house ever sits in the line of succession. It notes the 1792 law placing the president pro tempore and speaker next, then 1886 cabinet succession, and warns there is no tribunal to define when disability begins or ends.
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House of Representatives
Iss
Congress
Senate
USSG
Thomas W. Ferry
Michigan
David Davis
Illinois
Wilson
Garfield
House
Washington Post
Ingenious Self Lighting Gas Burner Described
A gas burner uses two metal coils with different coefficients arranged around the burner. A platinum black pointer absorbs oxygen, creating a flame when gas is turned on. Heat expands the coils, drawing the pointer away to avoid affecting light diffusion, then cooling returns it to start position.
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Porget
Martha Foote Crewe
Ieving
Myra Thacher
Myra
Beter
Katy
Kitty
Eleanor Kirk
Lin
Kern
Pittsburg Dispatch
Pittsburg
William Pennefather
Midmay
London
Pennefather
Ladies’ Home Journal
British Medical Journal
Watts
Potts
Pal
Thoria
Ceria
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