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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1902
Page
5
Tuesday April 1 at 4 pm Miss Jane Addams Hull House Chicago lectures on College Settlement Work. Thursday April 3 Professor Michel Satros on Legendary and Historical Past. Saturday April 5 at 3 pm Middlesex Hall selections from the Kitchen Garden System illustrated by pupils. All are welcome at this meeting.
The article lauds Mrs Shattuck’s Kitchen Garden and a Middlesex Women’s club initiative to train “little mothers” for household duties. It argues such practical, hygienic home skills can have broad social benefits beyond immediate family gains, and critiques the idea that women must marry to be fulfilled, noting both professions and homemaking have value and limits.
The article defends girls basketball as a healthy, ethical exercise guided by teachers. It praises fair play, warns against unneeded male spectators, and notes the need for proper gym facilities including showers and dressing rooms. It argues girls can balance vitality with propriety and urges funding for a well equipped gym.
A Chicago girl who began at age five in public, Miss Augusta Cottlow impressed aboard the Friesland from New York to Antwerp. Her ascent included studies with Wolfsohn and a performance with the Thomas Orchestra, culminating in a soloist engagement with the Boston Symphony and high praise from critic Philip Hale for a Grieg concerto that displayed poetic feeling and lyrical, improvisational freedom.
Professor William Carey Poland of Brown University gave an illustrated lecture at Colonial hall on the development of Greek sculpture. He traced influences from Egypt and the Orient, showed sixth century Greek works, and discussed Phidias and the rise to ideality. The talk drew archaeology students and art students with interest.
Notes invite club members to hear Miss Jane Addams of Fullhouse Chicago speak at Colonial hall this afternoon at 4. A noted social reformer, she will discuss improving conditions in Chicago’s poorer districts. Tea after the lecture offers a chance to meet her personally. Mrs F G Boynton hosted a dinner for ten in Middlesex street honoring her mother, Mrs S R Foster’s 74th birthday.
The International Kindergarten Union, a federation of over seventy associations with more than 7000 members, holds its ninth annual convention in Boston on April 23 to 25, 1902. Delegates from the United States and Canada will hear lectures by Harvard’s Charles W. Eliot, MIT’s Henry Pritchett, and other educators. notable speakers include Miss Susan E. Blow and Miss Anna Williams. Social events include receptions at Radcliffe College and the Twentieth Century Club, plus excursions to Concord, Lexington, Plymouth, Salem, and Wellesley College.
An item noting that at Allston hall and Grundmann studios located at 194 Clarendon street, Boston, the city kindergartens will be open to visitors daily.
Annapolis March 31 The House approved the Senate bill admitting women to the bar by 54 to 9 An amendment ensures no denial due to race color or previous servitude Etta Maddox’s effort inspired the measure after she graduated from a Baltimore school but was barred from practicing in Maryland
Flow ae flow ae describes belt collar and cuffs in white mett e with scarlet bands and black white embroidery. Cuffs turn back, high collar with red silk bow. Novel belt back tabs and rounded front hook fastening. Hats in white tan ecru straw with black band edging. Milan straw uses black chip edging. Maire silk brim edges and machine stitched violets add luxury. artificial corsage violets sold in silvered violet boxes.
A small lot of all wool cassimere remnants described as soft grey and brown mixtures with checks and stripes is offered for boys and men suits coats trousers children jackets and heavy skirts. Double width at 79 cents a yard and single width 39 cents a yard. Seldom available so early purchase advised. Basement. A. G. Pollard & Co.
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