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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1900
Page
6
The Lowell Journal invites female readers to send practical household hints and thoughts for the About the House column. Submissions can help other households and are welcomed by the department.
A verse piece describes a narrator who longs for companionship and domestic ease waiting at home. It contrasts solitary life with the hope of marriage and a partner to share cares, comfort, and happiness at Hymen’s altar.
This column muses on practical housekeeping from sweeping with a broom to the limits of carpet sweepers. It warns against fried meat, praises simple breakfasts, and celebrates cheerful morning greetings that set a positive family tone despite busy schedules. It notes Philadelphia and Brooklyn street ordinance ideas about litter and the value of orderly streets.
The excerpt offers practical notes on housework and health, mentioning dusting with a cloth-bound broom, a canton flannel cover for the broom for safe cleaning, and Prof K Beerwald's advice on morning cold baths for vigor. It also discusses appetite issues with hard boiled eggs and notes that undercooked eggs are easy to digest while long boiling makes the yolk soft and mealy.
A guidance note explains that beating egg whites and yolks separately is optional for light cake. It emphasizes that separating and beating is not strictly necessary to achieve a fluffy texture.
Simple rice croustades use boiled rice mashed with egg pressed into moulds baked slowly until brown. Reheat before filling with leftovers like creamed chicken or salmon and finish with parsley. Also, can strawberries by washing drying hulls mashing small berries with sugar then cooking into syrup and sterilized jars.
Mrs Ora Gannett Sedgwick recalls Charles A Dana as a model head waiter at Brook Farm. She notes his organization of a courteous corps of waiters, shared meals, and the cultured, unselfish fellowship at a long-running table setting.
A London Table reprints an American claim that peanuts absorb alcohol and cushion its effects. The piece notes the peanut’s reputed ability to prevent stomach nerves from being upset while still keeping the drink's exhilaration, citing a quart of champagne and a pint of peanuts as an example.
A floorwalker complains of civility while a shopgirl explains her department duties. A photographer recalls church acquaintances and comments on a hat as the sitter watches for a good expression. The scene shifts to a flirtatious exchange about lovers and a humorous domestic quip about coffee and a cross husband.
A physician, Dr Schultz, traveling from Spring Run to Concord, carried a pint of chloroform in a case. A cork loosened and released fumes filling the buggy. He lapsed into a stupor, rode four miles, and awoke to realize he had a narrow escape before walking five miles to recover.
Bad bleed breeds catarrh rheuma tiem and humors all of which Hood's persepartita the great bio purifier effectually cures. It also overcomes that tired feeling end loss of appetite.
The July issues feature Richard Harding Davis's Ladysmith dispatches praised as brilliant war correspondence and Spear's Slave-trade in America with Clark illustrations. Also: Millard on the Boer fighter. Hoar on Harvard forty-eight years ago. Mason on health. Frank Leslie's patriotic lineup with Adams on the flag birthplace and Bernhardt sketch. Includes fiction, poetry, and art pieces across both magazines.
The July issue highlights Ernest Seton Thomson animal play and child roles, recalls fashionable resort days, and features a Continental Army heroine. It covers country living benefits, girls education, summer health, missionary tales, fiction, and art. A new Politics magazine debuts in New York, promising independent yet party-conscious coverage.
Wright presses the President to safety as a symposium on professions. Rev Dr Hillis James B Dill and Dr George F Shrady write on decline of professions, noting Dill as a lawyer-promoter who brokered a Carnegie Frick quarrel. The issue praises McGraw Marden and Summer Vacation pieces in American Kitchen Magazine June showing travel life and girls as waitresses.
An New Orleans Times-Democrat excerpt recounts a college professor describing a blind man born blind who could not form visual color concepts. He questions how color, size, and scenery are apprehended, noting the barrier between language and the inexpressible in sight perception and praising teachers of the blind and deaf.
Jack the water spaniel roamed Detroit daily while aiding a yacht party in danger. Absent months at a time, he rode coal wagons, quarreled with cyclists, and enjoyed free lunches at Rivard and Garibaldi. His rescues and loyal stance made him a local legend among German and other residents.
A historical piece on fire as the spark of civilization and the evolution of kitchen stoves. It covers fuel choices from wood to gas, the role of electricity, range selection, design considerations, and practical kitchen arrangements for efficiency and cleanliness. It emphasizes matching stove size to family needs, the benefits of gas and kerosene stoves, and practical storage and tools around the stove.
Christine Terhune Herrick argues for strict bottle cleanliness avoiding rubber tubes due to germ risk. She endorses sterilized rubber nipple use, thorough bottle cleansing, and double boiling, then details gradual summer diet changes for older infants including milk soups and light gruels.
Soak Irish moss in cold water then simmer in boiling water until dissolved. Add sugar and lemon juice, strain into wet molds, and chill. Serve cold with sugar and cream.
Instructions describe making a popular peach pie using fully ripe peaches. Prepare two crusts, fill with sliced fruit dusted with sugar, add three or four tablespoonfuls of rich cream, cover with top crust, bake and serve.
Chop raw clams finely and mix with the juice. Add an equal quantity of sweet milk and four eggs per pint of liquid. Stir in flour to stiffen the batter, then fry as you would other fritters.
A recipe instructs to mix one quart of cold water with a tablespoon of ground ginger and three to four heap tablespoons of sugar plus half a pint of cider vinegar. Keep the mixture in a cool place for storage.
A simple fish sauce method combines a pint of milk and cream with two eggs well beaten, the juice of half a lemon, and a pinch of pepper and salt. Heat gently until the sauce thickens to the desired consistency.
Recipe fragment describes peeling and cutting rhubarb into inch pieces with sugar and water, then cooking gently with care. The instructions emphasize a slow simmer and softening of the rhubarb while preserving a simple method.
The method instructs to pick stems and tops from berries and stew them with just enough water to prevent burning. Sweeten to taste, place a thin layer of stewed fruit on a shallow pie plate lined with crust, cover with a top crust, and bake until brown.
A Chicago street car conductor halted a funeral procession to discipline the hearse driver who refused to yield on the tracks. After inviting a future confrontation at the car barn, the driver stepped down, was knocked out in the first exchange, and the blockade ended.
The Baltimore Bun reports that the White House entrance doors were long grained in imitation black walnut. During spring cleaning Colonel Bingham ordered repainting and scraping to reveal they are solid mahogany with beautiful grain. He seeks to determine who had them painted.
A brief fashion note traces the dainty fingerie undersleeve as a leading feature on elegant gowns despite earlier forecasts against its popularity. The piece highlights its revival and timely appeal for refined wardrobe looks.
Advertises the Yusea Mantle offering 50 percent more light and three times the strength with long life. Claims about 100 candle power per light and cost under half a cent per hour. Sold at this office with first class gas cooking ranges available on installment.
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