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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1890
Page
3
A colorful tale unfolds with Miss Pinkerton deceived by a pretender posing as a cousin and census clerk. The scene shifts through flirtation and fraud to a household theft of dignity, then a ledger of odd domestic notes and a frank postscript about family marriages. The article also briefly cites a cooperative boarding house trend and Weehawken taxes, ending with a nod to Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Eastern money flows into Black Hill mines while Sarah Cowell Lemoyne popularizes Browning in New York through readings. Patti travels to New York from Boston with 34 trunks two dogs two maid servants and a parrot. Her Hoffman House suite costs 46 a day. A Rhode Island school boy William Davis 13 weighs 287 pounds and provokes corporal punishment as the teacher withdraws to the doorway to avoid shaking the building with his heft. Morgan Kittredge of Baltimore bears a fish shaped birthmark on his right thigh that aches when he eats fish and flares with illness, prompting medical emetics and a pallid hue.
The passage lists old weather sayings about signs of rain or good weather. It cites gossamer air humidity, glow worms, moon halos, damp ground, red evening and gray morning, windy storms, ducks in barns, lurid red clouds, and rainbows as indicators of upcoming weather, with notes on wind direction and timing.
A Buffalo woman explains a nonworking lawn pipe intended for a fountain, corrected by her daughter to say burst, and later uses the moment to reclaim the ground. A Boston guest departs after a marble tribute to the deceased husband is misnamed buret. A New York model is noted as plain in daily dress yet admired as a dancer and businesswoman. Betsey Arnold, Benedict Arnold’s sister, endures public charity in Norwich at 90, then almshouse, lamenting her brother’s disgrace and fading temper.
A fashion note describes summer style shifts with no creases in trousers fore and aft, a high backed collar, and straight leg lines. It highlights the Prince Albert front opening coat and warns against overgaiters with evening dress, while predicting April as a month for rainwear and moisture resistant Mackintosh coats becoming popular.
In New York theater chatter Stuart Robson earns more this season than he and Crane ever did together. Outsider audiences, from suburban districts, sustain long runs, while New Yorkers study the local shows like Hazel Kirke fading from the scene. The note traces how managers court distant patrons, keeping shows alive beyond three months as out-of-town attendance grows.
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