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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1890
Page
3
The story follows John who learns his fiancé’s mother runs the household as a manager, laundress, cook, and more. A scolded fiancee explains a wife’s heavy labor and argues a husband should share duties. The letter concludes with John reflecting on his future and the idea of equality in marriage.
Women run a prosperous blacksmith and horse-shoeing shop after their father’s death with the oldest daughter in charge. Noted singer Miss Clementine Da Vere earns up to 4500 a year for church cervical duties and 11 50 per Sunday, while Miss Jennie Datton earns 3000 for Sunday work and 5000 in concert. Salaries reflect hard work and constant practice, not easy wages.
A Kansay prohibition paper editor Sourbeer notes on public morals and a New Jersey clergyman deposed by his parishioners delivers a terse farewell. The item mentions Rev John Hiliott turning 100 soon and comments on Carleton the lecturer. Also Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised as blood purifier and tonic.
Fashion notes describe skirt dancing as wildly popular in high society and beyond with trendsetting girls embracing the craze. Blooms including chrysanthemums decorate gatherings while autumn luncheons feature brown leaves and golden rosettes. Visiting maids emerge as a new fashion service in New York offering facial and beauty tasks to fashionable clients.
A lively sketch of Mrs Van Rensselaer-Crages entering the literary world praised for promising work. Portraits of Prof Owen with vivid features and a velvet skull cap, Heineia and John Habberton are described as a serious, genial man. Habberton discusses Helen's Babies and the narrator recalls a rainy day recording his children’s mischief that inspired the book.
A damaged catalog entry describes rocking chairs, salt cellars, perforated glass jars, and Dresden candlesticks with Cupid motifs. It notes candle rings with white clovers, pale green silk shades, and tea cups shaped as acorns, hearts, and bird eggs. Porcelain and silver pieces feature fine pierced work and delicate enameling.
A collage of quirky lines from Chicago Tribune Epoch and Harper's Bazaar quotes. A Canadian clergyman shares long life rules emphasizing plain food, personal cleanliness, frequent ablutions, flannel wear, open air exercise, room ventilation, and long sleep each day.
The piece notes three routes to Pike's Peak via the Colorado windings, a stalled fruit harvest in Hungary, and the shortage of foreign apples. It adds a Missouri giant girl story and a humorous 1865 recollection of meeting Lincoln, including a barber’s quip about leadership.
A health warning in favor of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe, vegetable tonic and nervine for women during adolescence to adulthood. It claims to strengthen the whole system and the uterine organs, assists with the Change of Life, and guarantees satisfaction or money back.
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