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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1903
Page
9
A playful historic verse by Joe Cone describes a mother visiting, the household in a stew as she cleans relentlessly from garret to cellar. Father frets and worries while meals are prepared ahead, and the family endures a lean month until she returns home.
A regular correspondent shares a method for apple jelly using rose geranium for flavor and cores from mince meat for texture. The piece reflects on entertaining well, clothesline care, and Western women’s clubs studying pure food laws as they inspect canned goods labels in stores.
The article urges careful food labeling to curb adulteration and praises home grated cocoanut for flavor. It highlights teaching children practical tasks, noting a mother who trained her daughter in sewing, turning early effort into skilled work and personal growth.
A Billerica correspondent shares a pumpkin pie method from slicing and boiling the pumpkin to drying and baking with rich milk and limited eggs. Also included is a cocoanut sponge dessert recipe using cornstarch milk mixture, eggs, vanilla, grated coconut, and a whipped cream center.
A visiting observer marvels at thrift in a young mother home. She shows how old garments become new baby wear and kitchen essentials. Rag carpet from torn scraps, repurposed tablecloth squares, and an old coat turned into an Eton jacket illustrate frugal reuse.
A brief excerpt describes thrifty home life and simple furnishings from Indiana Farmer praise and explains the origin of the term tumbler. An anecdote from All Souls College, Oxford, notes silver bowls used at meals that balance upright when emptied, inspiring the nickname tumbler.
A 19th century style fragment offers folk remedies and domestic tips. It advises storing flannel to avoid shrinking, removing worn pockets from skirts, and gradually adjusting clothing. It suggests testing egg freshness by water immersion and using pumice stone to treat warts with extended daily rubbing.
A Maine husband used Scripture to claim chores were wifely duties. In rebuttal, his wife cited 2 Kings 21 13 about wiping out Jerusalem to argue for equal share of chores. The anecdote ends with the husband humbly taking on the dishwashing role.
In a humorous note Exchange reports a countryman visiting a restaurant protests over lamb and ends up asking for fried oysters. The waiter doubles the order with exclamations as the countryman grouses about city dining.
A parade of short humorous exchanges from various papers. A child jokes about an oiled crick et, a ham served with a joke about weighing, and a customer quips at a market scene. In Town and Country, Miss Gotrox and Miss Jingle share gibes about manners and autos. Other quips touch on Europe weddings and a servant bell in country life.
An advertisement promotes large size extra fine buffalo robes as old fashioned and rare, available cheaply at D W Parker's 529 Dutton Street, along with a full line of other robes at good prices. Also promotes JOHN A DONOVAN Insurance services at Donovan Building Towers Corner.
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