Jakey Seifert Learns A Little Lamb At School Exhibition
A Youth's Companion excerpt recounts Jakey Seifert, a dull but good natured German boy, learning to recite Mary Had a Little Lamb. On stage his mispronunciations and nervous antics provoke laughter yet earn sympathy as he clings to the book’s text in a comic, endearing display.
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the Companion
Dakey Seifert
Bhakey
Jakey
Jakey Seifert
von Leedle Lamb
Mary
von Leedle
Bostry
Leedie Lamb
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Delamb
TWO BRIDES DRESSES AND OTHERS IN LATE 19TH CENTURY NOTES
The article describes Miss Tessia Fair's Paris sourced wedding dress with Lyons manufacture and rare lace, and contrasts it with a Chinese wedding attire noted by a North China Herald writer. It also includes fragmented wedding and weather-era vignettes from New York Herald and local papers about heat, gloves, and a fatal bronchial illness.
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Tessia Fair
Herman Oelrichs
Paris
Lyons
Miss Fair
North China Herald
Croquet Costumes and New Redfern Gowns
In New York, June 81, the piece muses on croquet revival in England as lawn billiards and notes croquet offers shade for the complexion, dainty dress options, and ornate toilettes. It previews Redfern croquet gown designs and their fashion appeal.
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New Yorke
England
Redfern
Graceful cotton frock designs with lace and ribbons
A description of two vintage fashion designs featuring an ecru baptiste frock with embroidered ros e and blue accents, a sleeveless jacket bodice, pale blue sarah giddle, silver clasp, and an acrostraw sailor hat with forget me not wreaths. A second, more youthful pattern is noted.
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Sarah
Betrothal toast and auction pie tale from Boston fair
A dinner in South Boston features auctioneer Muller announcing his daughter Elsie’s betrothal to Mr Angler. The fair ends with a pie sale where a buyer jokes his wife made the pies and he will buy them all, amid remarks about another bidder. Also notes social figures like Jay Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt in brief curios.
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Elsie
Mr. Angler
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