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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1901
Page
9
The About the House department of the Lowell Weekly Journal invites lady readers to send practical household tips and ideas. Submissions may cover chores, cooking, cleaning, budgeting, and home management to share with the column and its audience.
A collage of fashion and home interests from summer wardrobe upgrades to Eton jackets, vegetarian meals, and coffeehouse decor. It details ring fashions with rubies, butter and sugar mixing habits, lemonade cooling tips, asparagus serving, shirt waist making, and decorative window seating with matched cushions plus a plate glass boudoir showroom idea from New York Tribune.
The speaker Mr St John argues play imitates life work in children, dogs and cats, but his contrast of boys and girls with animals weakens his point. He overlooks human imitative intelligence and environmental effects while neglecting female development and broader nature truths.
Mrs. F. E. Clark described life in Foo Chow China during a talk on homes abroad noting narrow streets, sedan chairs, comb making, a girls school, a missionary hospital, and the challenges missionaries face including a perilous journey to a convention via the so called bridge of ten thousand ages across the river.
A period menu listing breakfast items such as Strawberries Eggs With Dried Beef Creamed Potatoes Brown and White Bread Toast Coffee and Luncheon and Dinner courses including Ragout of Asparagus Dress Sandwiches Rhubarb Jelly Sponge Drops Baked Halibut Steaks Hollandaise Cucumber Salad Water Cracker Sandwiches Potato Balls Spanish Puff Strawberries in Rice Cave and detailed recipes for Ragout of Asparagus Water Cracker Sandwiches Spinach Puff and Strawberries in Rice Cave with step by step cooking directions and ingredient amounts.
A cookbook style article offers two recipes. Coffee cake filling uses strong coffee infused in a cheesecloth sachet, mixed with milk, flour, sugar and an egg in a double boiler for a mocha cream. Frosting combines coffee with confectioners sugar. Poached eggs in cream describe cooking eggs in hot cream in a chafing dish, served over toast squares with melted butter and salt.
A visitor admires a sunlit sitting room where a deep recessed window and a long seat frame a view like a fruit orchard in bloom beyond. Large plate glass sashes flood the room with light as silken cushions top the window seat, creating an atmosphere of refined charm.
Good Housekeeping laments the commercial devitalization of corn meal through rapid kilning and removal of the germ. The piece warns that this destroys flavor and nutrition, noting rats destroy the germ in stored kernels and the resulting product is odorless and poorly digestible, harming rich and poor alike.
A pineapple slice improves tea and a journal describes a baking powder alum test. Heat the powder in a lid, add water, and stir. a white spoon indicates purity while tarnish signals alum. Mint sauce wanes as cherry sauce rises in popularity for lamb.
J. J. Thorpe of Van Wert Ohio has secured an option on the Seeley salt works and marble quarries in Blaine county. The Seeley claim hosts a large marble bed and Salt creek yields 30 percent salt by evaporation. Plans call for $100000 more in development and potential rock salt mining with an output of forty carloads daily. Accidents on farms are common and Dr Thomas Electric Oil offers instant pain relief.
The Lowell archdeaconry met at Grace Church in Lawrence with the holy communion led by Bishop Lawrence. A debate over anti canteen law ended with a vote to lay the resolution on the table as unwise, and the group adjourned after setting fiscal year and committee guidelines.
Fifty men formed a Methodist Men group at St Pauls M E church, adopting a constitution and by laws. Officers include President W S Dillon and Vice Presidents Frank B Murphy and C H Coburn. Committee on finance includes Merton Glidden and Walter Cleworth. social and printing committees named. Object is to boost evening service efficiency and fellowship.
Secretary Chase reports Lowell Congregational club’s December programme was well received by New Haven Congregational club. They plan to use the same programme at their meeting next Monday.
Andrew Carnegie recalls a witty line from a Pittsburg friend famed for fast horses. While touring a Kentucky stud and viewing pedigrees, the elder observer pauses in the heat and tells the dealer that he seeks an iser, a term the story uses to signal a horse that will restore his supremacy.
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