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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1901
Page
5
Mabelle Myers, only daughter of Julius Myers of the Cripple Creek mine, is introduced to Washington society. Known as a western beauty and heiress, she excels in horse riding and bears a Gibson girl likeness noted at her coming-out party.
A poem recounts the family care during the father’s illness. The narrator describes the distress, warmth, and frantic routines as children aid him with medicines, hot water bags, and support until the doctors declare it a common cold. The tone shifts to reveal the father’s irritable behavior when not sick.
The passage presents a poem excerpt titled Love Forsaken by Clinton Scollard originally appearing in Harper's Bazaar. It laments lost happiness and a sunless world, contrasting a once blessed garden with present sterile hopes and deep solitude.
A fragmentary verse evokes a silent camp at night with wagons, coyotes, stars, and shadows moving as the workers rest. The lines, credited to Robert V. Carr, read like a quiet nocturnal meditation on exhaustion and memory.
A colonel and Mrs. Sparrow discuss a tense quarrel between a man and wife in a fashionable New York boarding house. Voices rise in the stairwell as the troubled couple enters the room, a potential tragedy looming over the house while bystanders offer muted sympathy.
In a boarding house, Mrs Ayton endures a tense breakfast with her husband John Ayton, who orders her to eat and to take a pony cart ride with him. The colonel, Miss Crawhall, and Miss Garden discuss signs of abuse as Mrs Ayton gazes out the window, while the Aytons depart angrily.
In a park scene the general learns Ayton and Mrs Ayton have wed to the amusement of Burton and others. The general confesses he lost a bet about recognizing the newlyweds, while Sissy earns affectionate praise as an actress and the couple shares a quiet kiss.
Andersons Scotch ginghams are in demand with a 40 cent yard price. Descriptions include reseda stripe on white, corded stripes in pastel shades, broken cheeks in white with violet, embroidered stripes, and black and white broken plaids among the pretty patterns.
A crop of short quotes from Life Tit-Bits and the Detroit Journal capture social reversals and shy gentleness. Clara Dimpleton refuses a marriage proposal leaving a softened remorse in the suitor. A father compliments his son as a blockhead from the pia block. Marjorie and a whispered moment at a piano scene add quiet tension.
Philosophers claim green holi days affect graves. sleigh dealers cling to this. Children with christmas sleds mock the weatherman. Snow shovelers gripe about bread. Coal barons hope for a blizzard to level the fields. Pi numbers crave freezes while amateur photographers seek snow scenes. Tropic visitors despair at the lack of the great sight.
The New York Tribune describes simple evening hair decoration for young girls using pearls, coral and turquoise beads, satin or velvet ribbons, and small flowers. Older women favor ornate combs and pins with rich coloring, some enameled in the art nouveau style to add flair to the coiffure.
A quirky recipe outlines Boston Tea Cakes with eggs milk sugar butter flour and baking powder promising easy reliable layers and jam or cream topping. The piece shifts to advertise Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming it cures when others fail.
A vintage advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething infants. It claims to ease pain, soften gums, relieve wind colic and diarrhea, and to be the best remedy, priced at twenty five cents per bottle.
Indiana Dental College at S. W. Cor. Delaware and Chiosis opens daily from 8 a m to 5 p m offering all kinds of dental work. Fees are stated as covering the cost only.
The era of real food on stage grows with acts by Maurice Barrymore and others. Lost River and Annie Russell plays feature edible theatrics while Arizona enjoys a long New York run. Miss May Irwin, Mary Mannering, and Miss Vivian Bernard headline notable engagements with Klaw & Erlanger money-winners and a busy Chicago season.
Salts as gargle relieve throat soreness and avoid giving baths to fed infants to prevent convulsions. Hot water helps thirst and digestion. one glass before meals aids digestion and may help insomnia. Hot water applied to feet and neck eases headaches. A cold remedy mixes egg yolk, water butter sugar and whisky boiled to froth then taken by spoon. For bleeding a flour bandage. For grip use Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
New Florida service via C H D Ry operates weekly trains from Indianapolis to St. Augustine leaving 4:15 p m and arriving Jacksonville by 7 30 p m and St. Augustine by 8 30 p m the next evening only one night out reservations via ticket agents R P Algeo D P AL
Clement J E Lloyd, brother-in-law, prepared a private memorial of Rachel Attie Lloyd born 1439 in Flushing Ohio. It recounts her early education in Flushing and Westtown, Philadelphia marriage to Franklin Lloyd, then her chemist career after his death. She led the Women's College of Pharmacy in Louisville and earned a Ph D in Zurich despite opposition. She later headed several women’s colleges before dying of paralysis on March 7 1900 in Beverly New Jersey.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison hosted a violet luncheon on Saturday. St. Paul's church youths plan an old-fashioned social and concert on Tuesday at 8 pm. Holy Cross social club hosts a gathering Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Feeney of 902 North Capitol Avenue entertain St. John's club Tuesday night. Mrs. Henry L. Wallace entertained 40 friends at a buffet luncheon Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Shaw hosted a party Saturday night for the Ferry-Malott bridal party. Miss Celeia Martin of 2229 North Capitol Avenue hosted the Musical Club Saturday night in honor of Miss Florida Carlson who departs soon for Omaha.
A card tray at the front door of a Boston residence holds a tablet and pencil used by the maid to record visitors who decline to leave cards. The system preserves memory of social calls that might otherwise be forgotten by “my lady.”
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