About the House column and moral gardening of a Lowell reader
A Lowell Weekly Journal housing note opens with a sentimental tale of a mother who learns to stop demanding gendered appearances for her son after seeing how it harms him. The piece praises simple care, patient guidance, and a single lesson about allowing every child to grow unmocked. It then presents actionable homemaking tips on sugar, irons, dye, flowers, watering, and brass preservation for everyday household maintenance.
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Lowell
Lowell Weekly Journal
Fashionable muffs reflect changing taste through eras
An editorial notes how muff sizes swing with fashion from grandmother’s oversized to snug new styles then back to large showpieces. It warns against buying cheap bargains to hoard attic finds and argues efficiency in cooking and bread-making while preserving valued heirlooms.
Sugars and Baking Powder Improve Fruit Sweetness
A historical note explains that boiling certain fruits with ordinary cane sugar converts part of it to grape sugar, which has only a third the sweetening power. Adding a little baking powder is suggested to overcome this issue and restore sweetness.
Olives in Tomato Jelly and Ivory Jelly Desserts
Two early 20th century jelly recipes are described. The first creates a tomato jelly used to hold olives in molds, with a garnish of lettuce and mayonnaise. The second covers a gelatine milk cream dessert with sugar and vanilla, set in a mould and served with sugar and cream.
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Boston Cooking School Magazine
Buttermilk Health Advice From A. X. Hyatt
A. X. Hyatt extols buttermilk in Norwestern Agriculturist, praising its laxative diuretic and digestive benefits. He claims it aids diabetes, stomach cancer cases, and rheumatism relief, and suggests hogs thrive on buttermilk. He urges readers to swap beer or tobacco for buttermilk for health and happiness.
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A. X. Hyatt
Norvuhwestern Agricuiturist
Philippines
Pocket Money and Marriage Ties in Explaining English Wives
A writer says lack of pocket money, not affection or temper, erodes marriages. Lady Violet Greville notes American women’ s charm lies in spending money freely from youth with no family questions. The piece contrasts English dependence with female financial autonomy and equal footing in marriage.
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Violet Greville
Bonnes Bouches Comic Dialogues Row
A collection of humorous snippets from Chicago News and N Y Weekly. A man boasts of a perfect organ of speech while a woman retorts hers has no stops. A married daughter laments constant requests from her husband and the mother asks what he wants. A daughter recounts threading a needle upstairs for his clothes. A man compliments Miss Daintee yet notes she only says yes or no and mocks her lettuce eating stance.
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Chicago News
N. Y
Daintee
Burdock Blood Bitters Claims Digestion Aid
An advertising note promotes Burdock Blood Bitters as a tonic for the stomach that strengthens digestion and supposedly makes indigestion impossible. It emphasizes health benefits and uses assertive claims without providing medical evidence or endorsements.
Fashion's Fancies Decides Cold Weather Wear Styles
This fashion note outlines contemporary winter ensembles and alterations. It describes fur vises, belts, capes, boleros, sleeveless velvet pieces, and luxurious wraps suitable for elderly women. An evening gown features sky blue voile with lace, roses, and Richelieu trim, while theater wear stresses ornate bodices and rich decorations.
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Richelieu
Joe Chollet
Dinner Gowns for Formal yet Versatile Attire
A period guide describes dinner gowns balancing formality and practicality. Thin embroidered and spangled fabrics dominate, with tulle sleeves and dark linings preferred. bodices in brodie silk feature square decolletages, satin collars and belts, and illuminated trims, showcasing a polished but flexible evening look.
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Bib
Tucker
Talle
Jupie Cholier
Fashion Hints on Boleros and Fur Trimmed Winter Wear
Fashion notes declare boleros universally becoming, featured in fur, velvet, satin, and lace. Winter outfits emphasize fur trims on gowns, wraps, hats, jackets, redingotes, and capes with elaborate lining and passementerie. A pictured hat blends black velvet, astrakhan border, and a butterfly motif with a silver crystal buckle. a tight bolero in black astrakhan shows ermine trim.
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Jupte Chollet
Pepper's Patent Heart Searcher tale ends in heartbreak
A narrator inherits Pepper's device a watchlike heart reader that shows emotional states on a dial. He tests it on family and colleagues, witnessing hopes, disappointments, gratitude, and doubt in vivid mini scenes before confessing love to Amy Clinket, who rejects him and marries another man.
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Pepper
Waterbury
Amy Clinket
Diana
Goodby
Young Brown
Theodore Augustus
Heart Searcher
Brown
Amy
Home Magazine
Little Man Big Warship Admid Ocean Courtesy
A short dignitary in a Chinese port scolds Captain Caspar F. Goodrich with a remark about size and rank. The story illustrates a bias toward judging by externals. The tale, from Youth's Companion, underscores cultural perceptions of height and authority.
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Caspar F. Goodrich
Goodrich
Golfers in Court Fight Charged by Policeman
A Philadelphia magistrate hears a quirky case as a police witness explains he arrested two golfers for fighting. The judge calls for a court interpreter, highlighting a mild, local courtroom moment from the Philadelphia Record.
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Philadelphia Record
Good Cookery The Small Childs Diet Continued
Christine Terhune Herrick discusses mothering errors in feeding children and warns against early overzealous diet rules. She emphasizes lasting dietary foundations, prudent cereal starters, and careful use of milk and cocoa, urging continued attention through early school years.
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Christine Terhune Herrick
Octavia
Roly Polypudding Recipe From English Puddings
A compact recipe describes Roly Poly Pudding an English meat pudding. It instructs a suet crust from flour and chopped suet, water, a layer of minced raw potatoes, then strips of fresh uncooked beef with minced parsley and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, sealed and boiled two hours.
Hash Brown Potatoes Cooking Method
Chop two cups cold boiled potatoes and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add one third cup salt pork fat in a frying pan and cook three minutes, stirring constantly. Fold like an omelet, let brown underneath, then turn out on a hot platter.
Jelly Cake Recipecard with Butter Jelly Fill
A simple jelly cake method uses half cup butter two cups sugar one cup sweet milk three and a half cups flour three tablespoons baking powder four eggs. Mix well flavor with lemon or vanilla bake in a flat tin when cool spread jelly between layers.
Fresh Water Fish Recipes by Louis Rose
Recipes for preparing pickerel perch lake trout and carp including pickerel stuffed and baked pickerel a la hollandaise and parsley sauce. Instructions cover scaling cleaning trimming stuffing seasoning butter sauces and cooking times with tips for avoiding rancid sauces.
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Louis Rose
Troubles of Sovereigns in a Turbulent World
A NY Sun opinion notes monarchs face stress from war and unrest. Queen Victoria resists but accepts Boer War, Kaiser scolds, Germany seeks fleet, Holland’s queen worries for the Dutch in South Africa, Russia’s czar is broken, China seeks help from Japan, Italy’s king desires a bank, and advice ends with monarchs enduring compensations in nonregality.
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Victoria
Germany
Holland
South Africa
Europe
Russias
China
Japan
Italy
New York Sun
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