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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1901
Page
7
The article discusses tenement reform efforts in New York and Lowell, highlighting sunlit ventilated apartments, roof playgrounds, and humane investments. It profiles philanthropists like John Arbuckle and the floating hotel concept, plus the Denver News view on servant wages and discipline, set against Swift family fortunes and social changes.
A poem depicts a man whose body is ailing from a strict health food regime. Fierce images compare his eyes lungs heart and appetite to hardened, mechanical, or consumable parts. The piece critiques extreme dieting and artificial nutrition.
The Lowell city supervised summer playground and cooking school reports strong results with 16 girls at the cooking class under Miss Grace D. Bachelder. Lessons cover custards, soups, biscuits, and early cookery skills, with plans to teach meat preparation and nutrition next.
Historic lunch and dinner menu items with recipes for Cream of Wheat Huckleberries and Bacon breakfast, Water Cress Sandwiches and Scotch Cookies for luncheon, and Cream of Corn Soup Planked Fish Oiled Cucumbers Stuffed Peppers Cherry Dumplings with steps. Includes detailed instructions for Cream of Corn Soup and Planked Fish with almond notes and bake times.
A summer style wave brings sandals replacing stockings in Paris and London, with two sandal forms gaining favor. Jewelry dominates the scene with barbaric profusion as elbow sleeves revive bracelets and rings spread to many fingers, with Parisians dining and theatergoing glove-free.
The About the House department invites Lowell Week Journal readers to send recipes hints and thoughts for the household column. The staff welcomes practical suggestions and ideas from lady readers at any time.
A short poem fragment evokes a mother's heart as a garden where the beloved child grows. The speaker contemplates childhood's passing and the "blessed rose" of joy and pain, framed by faith and prayer sustaining the mother. The piece ends with the refrain on the blest rose of pain.
The piece notes mosquitoes disrupt daily life and suggests witch hazel and joss sticks as deterrents. It argues home ice cream making is costly in materials and labor. It urges women to embrace cooking duties, learn bread making, and care for a kitchen as vital to family health, warning against selfishness with flowers and roses.
An exchange offers tips for homemakers including enriching plain rice pudding with blanched almond meats, warning that wine decanters must be rinsed to prevent acid damage, and noting that heating a steel pen in gaslight and cooling in water restores it to good condition.
A Monterey style rice dish starts with bacon fat heated until smoking. Add one cup washed rice and parch briefly, then cover with boiling water and simmer until tender, adding water as needed. Stir in half a can of tomatoes parsley rings pepper and finish with butter and salt to taste. The method browns each grain for a unique texture.
A kitchen note instructs to chop a pineapple with skin on, simmer in two and a half quarts of cold water for twenty minutes, strain the liquid, then return to two quarts and add four cups of sugar and boil twenty minutes for a fruit punch base. The directions emphasize extracting juice from the fruit and creating a sugared boil for serving.
The article lists adding a pint of strawberry juice a cup of orange juice juice of three lemons and at least one quart of water as a basic preparation note from the Boston Cooking School Magazine.
Mrs. Bradley Gilmary argues in Good Housekeeping that modern mothers overprioritize child care at the expense of marital partnership. She notes fathers are neglected, marriages strain under long work hours, and vacations lapse as women devote years to children, leaving aging husbands without respite or shared time.
Mrs. M. E. R. Alger, New York school attendance officer, argues boys respond to sympathy and responsibility. She describes rewarding good conduct with shoes or clothes repaid by service tickets, using personal loans to curb truancy and motivate persistence in school.
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