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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1900
Page
8
The About the House department invites Lowell Weekly Journal readers to contribute practical household recipes hints suggestions or thoughts for the home care and housekeeping columns. Submissions are welcomed from any lady readers to share advice and ideas.
A nostalgic poem recalls dining in a club cafe with rich dishes and elegant surroundings. The speaker laments hunger despite wealth and social status, longing for family meals and simpler days. The piece touches on appetite, memory, and the influence of money. November 28th, 1900, AN. D.
The piece surveys meat consumption and imports, notes venison quality and price in Boston, and offers kitchen guidance from cooking class lessons. It also includes reader questions on growing the umbrella fern and houseplant care, with practical observations on plant placement and light.
Peach pudding combines grated bread crumbs with peaches milk eggs and spice then steamed three hours for a light dessert. Cheese salad blends hard yolks grated cheese mustard and pepper with oil and vinegar served on lettuce with egg rings and celery tips.
A school piece presents a pessimistic view of life from a twelve year old girl. It portrays boys as loud and expansive while girls remain quiet until spoken to and then respond properly. It notes boys wade in deep water and grown men become husbands who stay out at night, while women become widows managing homes.
A playful mix of quips and kitchen humor from a boarding house scene. A boarder jokes a carrier pigeon can go farther than other birds while the landlady contemplates trying one. A clergyman warns a child about toadstools and a Newbury Street family quips about meals and mischief.
A Sunday religious service on an Atlantic liner was led by two Roman Catholic priests for a largely Protestant congregation. The rite followed classic Catholic prayers in English, with Interfaith-friendly readings and a sermon praised as broadly applicable, ending with hymns such as Come, Ye Faithful and Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee.
A survey of Charles A. Conant’s book The United States in the Orient with emphasis on economic outreach and open markets, alongside Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars and current literary and periodical offerings including Ledger Monthly, Engineering Magazine, and the Atlantic December number featuring poetry and prose by notable authors. The reviews note racial themes, industrial and imperial topics, and cultural essays in a period-appropriate tone.
Masson's edition of Milton's poems is praised for color printing in The Century. The issue opens Birrell's Down the Rhine with illustrations by Castaine, alongside Warner's Pursuit of Happiness. It presents diverse fiction by Bertha Runkle, Hamlin Garland, Henry James, L. B. Walford, Ed win Asa Dix, Carolyn Wells, and Charles Battell Loomis, plus serious pieces by Pethick Palmer Dowd and Griffis. The issue includes Dunbar's The Haunted Oak, Beasant, and Vale images, with frontispiece portraits and New England topics.
Engineering Magazine reports a generally prosperous period for U S shipyards from late 1899 through early 1900. Few failures among large plants, many reopenings, and substantial capacity expansions. Ten new ship building corporations planned with outlays from $500 000 to $6 000 000, possibly over $20 000 000 in total.
An advertisement touts unlimited hot water via faucet turning on a heater that also cuts gas when turned off, noting The Kenwood heater needs no boiler though compatible with one. It invites an in-office demonstration. The copy also promotes the Welsbach Light with the Usea Mantle delivering 60 percent more light and triple strength, promising long life and brightness along with gas cooking ranges for sale.
The record outlines gas pricing with a discount for prompt payment and notes no charge for meter use. It also states no charge for running a post from street main into consumer cellars and mentions orders and promises attended to by Gee.
On and after June 10 190, all trains will leave Lowell Middlesex Street Depot for Taunton New Bedford Newport Providence Pawtucket Marlboro South Framingham and way stations at 1112 am and 625 pm. Connections at South Framingham with Boston and Albany R R for Worcester Springfield Albany and the west. At Concord Junction with Fitchburg R R. The 525 pm train connects with the Stoning ton line for New York City the south and west. Sundays for South Framingham Mansfield Pawtucket Providence on Way stations 715 am. C Peter Clark Gen Supt A C Kendall Gen Pass Agent.
Corrected timetable details list numerous Boston and Maine lines from Middlesex Street Lowell to Boston and other destinations. Includes departure times, Sundays variations, and connections to Lawrence Salem Haverhill Newburyport Amesbury Rochester Somersworth and more with steamship links.
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