02 Mar 1893
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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1893
Page
1
Depositors are advised that The Merchants National Bank pays interest on deposits and offers real estate loans. Office at rooms of The Merchants National Bank.
A brunette explains health women as those who shun vanity and dress plainly, while the blond defends sensible fashion and social civility. They define good society as courteous, honest, and considerate behavior, with restrained display, proper attire, and respect for others.
The New York Sun reports on housekeeping schools thriving abroad. Sweden leads with pioneers supporting a restaurant for about 260 people. France regulates the field to teach girls a viable occupation. London shows 94 model kitchens and extensive training. Germany has the largest program with practical courses.
In this notice from the Lady's Pivorial, a stance on women's progress in music notes the decline of the old prejudice restricting female instrumental study. It cites past dislikes of the violin and pianoforte as unfounded and observes girls now pursue any instrument, though it muses humorously on trombone or ophicleide as potential risks to propriety.
The Sheffield Telegraph notes Edna Lyall, novelist, lives at Eastbourne. Her study blends simplicity and comfort, she avoids long hours yet writes two to three hours each morning using a typewriter. A fan of Dedication, she adores seventeenth century literature and poets Tennyson Lowell Whittier Browning. Her pen name derives from rearranging letters of her name.
A New York Tribune excerpt recounts Mrs Patmore as a lovely, clever woman. It notes her tall figure, dark wavy hair, large eyes, and classical features, with a nose too high. The biographer praises her grace and the home she created with brains and taste.
On Vie Road to Wealth Lizzie Young a comely widow of under thirty with eight children promises to join the world’s rich before death through property gained by unusual means for a woman. She has just signed a contract removing sand from government excavations in Jacksonville and chairs a corps of thirty dray men while knitting or sewing. She also runs a wool yard a city swill route raises bags and poultry for market tends her home and children and does church work in Jacksonville Florida.
The Philadelphia Times argues mothers should train daughters in domestic arts from cooking to gracious entertaining. It stresses a wife’s practical skills, like grilling steak, baking biscuits, and making coffee, over romance or poetry, as essential for a stable home.
Mrs Kate Kidnay of 22 Lewis St San Francisco writes that Dr Bull s Cough Syrup has been a splendid remedy for a cough for nearly five years and she is never without a bottle in the house. Gertie Amy Messmer daughter of J A and B A Messmer formerly of Platte County Mo died at Baldwin Feb 17 1993 aged 14 years 6 months and 5 days.
Democratic reaction in support of President Harrison's nomination of Judge Jackson of Tennessee to the Supreme Court. Newspapers hail the selection as nonpartisan, praise the judge's qualifications, and note hope it calms party rancor while pleasing both the nation and the South.
A description from Decorator and Furnisher outlines creating a compact ornamental corner space. It features a tasteful easel with a mirrored crossbar, a three cornered corner table beneath to hold toilet necessities, and a matching cloth. A second shelf and pin cushion add practicality for a refined boudoir setup.
Alice Freeman Palmer, former president of Wellesley College, urged young women to seek self culture that serves a higher good, saying foreign missions ennoble character. A Sedalia man killed fifty six copperheads on his fiftieth birthday, hoping it foretells six years more. Shaker flannel for infants, cotton blend resists shrinking and lasts, offered at twenty cents to one dollar per yard.
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