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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1900
Page
5
The article portrays Wu Ting Fang and Madame Wu as influential figures in Washington society. It details Madame Wu’s English learning, high rank symbols, ceremonial attire, and summer and winter garments, contrasting Chinese modesty with Western fashion.
A wounded Londoner Mr Chubb of Peckham in Beckham, London recounts a comical yet grim wartime misadventure with a leg injury and a drunken escapade. He recalls marching under a blistering sun and a clash with Boers before the injury and a chance exchange with a field artillery man in the same shelling. The two men, each convalescing, exchange bleak humor about Peckham and the war.
In a dark street scene, Chubb helps his wounded comrade Field of the Horse Artillery by sharing a final drop of brandy from his flask amid pain and fading strength. The exchange reveals a chance meeting from the past and ends with hopeful but somber outlook as an ambulance is awaited.
A column from Indianapolis critiques women in openwork black lace gowns with yokes and sleeves. It argues daytime wear shows too much skin, suggests editing by a big brother, mocks necklines and styling, and ends with a fable about decollate dress at a papal audience.
In a London An swers report, Field notes the wounded Mr Chubb from Peckham declaring he feels better and intends to go straight home after a night shift. He asks for no messages beyond telling his wife they will walk together and start anew. An ambulance carries Fela to Netley.
A poem reflects on losses of vanity and social trappings and gains of kindness and simple joys. The speaker notes losing a bow from Mrs Haughty and an invitation to a ball de caste, while gaining loving words a waiter card a child's smile and nature's gold plus a helping hand.
The Saturday Evening Post notes Mrs Jos Fiatchild Knapp of New York is said to have written about 5000 hymns, including Open the gates of the temple and Blessed assurance. She often collaborates with Miss Fanny Crosby. The International Sunshine Society, in which she is a local officer, aims to bring sun shine to the poor and shut in by providing music flowers pictures companions books and money.
A collage quotes women and men from various papers noting wartime hopes for peace, female equality clubs, and a weary tramp seeking a college president post. The snippets mirror social tensions and comic contrasts across papers like the Chicago Times Herald Detroit Free Press and Washington Star.
A brief fashion note critiques contrasting garments such as bustles with short skirts and pink underwaists with white shirt waists. It advises clean linen collars over dirty ribbons and cautions that thin gowns with short petticoats do not pair well together.
A girl redesigned a light pink silk parasol by covering it with white point d esprit. The edge is lightly fulled with a rose quilling about two inches wide, bordered by pink satin baby ribbon. A pink ribbon bow secures the top.
The Atchison Globe notes a dry goods ad promising ribbons tomorrow will be a cent cheaper per four yards than today. The implication is townsfolk will finish housework early to start the sale.
A reflective passage questions gender behavior noting a woman’s laughter masking falsehood and her reactions to quarrels, fashion advice, friendly letters, and price negotiations. The author uses rhetorical questions to critique perceived female passivity and social expectations.
A woman claims faded straw hats can be renewed with watercolor paint. Use a cake color matched to straw, moistened and applied with a camel hair brush. Mauve shades hold best, blue fades quickly, and the method also revives faded flowers and wings on millinery.
A Waterloo woman aged 9 takes to wed again after a long life of marriage. Previously widowed at 63 in 1832 to Thomas Preston, she later married Brainerd in 1873 who died about a year ago. Samuel Decker then fell for her, and Rev Pulaski Smith conducted a parlor ceremony in the Magee Baptist Church. She quips of rheumatic health but being “purty smart.”
A feature on a first class Chinese breakfast with pink tender ham eggs fried on soapstone and orange fritters, served with berries melon cereal Média and Java. An India US contrast follows, then a drug advertisement for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure claiming digestion relief.
Travel ad notes fast steamers to Paris with lodging through Atlantic Steamship agency agent P. Pfisterer at 26 Virginia Ave Telephone 1961.7. Secure accommodations now.
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