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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1900
Page
5
A Chicago Times-Herald reflection warns that postponing duties dulls peace and happiness. It argues that steady daily effort yields true leisure, while delaying tasks breeds doubt and dread. The piece contrasts the anxious wait for a future bliss with the contentment of consistent present action.
A New York World verse portrait shows an aging husband and wife whose fifty year bond endures. The man supports the woman with gentle pride as she smiles accepting his aid, while time ages them yet their devotion remains evident.
In Lincoln Park Tom Chapman, discharged from the Philippines, sits despondent with an empty sleeve. Elizabeth Hunt, daughter of Mrs Hunt, consoles him and they confess love, despite his ruined art career and pension. They pledge themselves as bystanders witness a private reunion.
The sunflower is valued for malaria prevention and poultry feed. Seeds yield one gallon of oil per bushel and the refined oil rivals almond or olive oil. Uses include soap lighting and cultivation thrives in Russia India China Germany and Italy as a profitable industry.
The source notes Esther Cleveland as the only child born in the White House during a president’s term, born Sept 9 1893, and lists nine other presidents’ births in the White House including Julia Dent Grant and descendants of Tyler, Jackson, Adams, and Madison.
A quoted passage from Margaret E. Sangster in Ladies' Home Journal extols the exquisite girl as one who shows scrupulous attention to dress hair and skin. It urges busy women to imitate the dainty girl in daily care of appearance, thorough bathing, vigorous friction, and tidy belongings.
Beige replaces gray as top shade with half length jackets and new negligees. Soft ribbons replace heavy bows. close fitting shoulder lines set the fall vogue. Foulard gowns and capes remain in use, with price cuts noted and textile patterns described for house gowns and bedding.
A girl in blue suggests to the fiancé that he must quit smoking before marriage. The girl in pink fears he may not quit, reflecting a playful exchange quoted by the Chicago Evening Post.
Fashion notes show ribbons remain popular for fall and winter hats. Black velvet ribbons, bows, bands, and rosettes decorate models with loops and side falls. Jet and sparklers, metal gauze butterflies, black tulle and panne hats feature bold decorative touches.
A 19th century advised method to clean a piano using paraffine oil on woodwork for two to three hours to loosen dirt then washing with soap and water. Avoid water contact with interior works. Dry and polish with soft cloths to finish.
A collection of proverb like musings on debt speech and virtue. It contrasts fools with speech to the silent wise and jokes about public favorites and honest talk. It ends with a label for Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry pitched as Nature's remedy for dyspepsia diarrhoea.
A mother tells her daughter a bedtime tease about asking God to make her a good child. The next morning the girl says God answered with a surprising line, Great Scott. I know many little girls worse than you are. The quip captures a charming bit of humor from Harper's Magazine.
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