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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1902
Page
8
The Lowell Weekly Journal department asks ady readers to send household hints receipts or thoughts for the About the House column. Submissions may be sent to the About the House department of the Lowell Weekly Journal.
Poem about a person who imagines a magical box that could store smiles to spread them and gather frowns to seal away, ending with a wish for good health. The tone is whimsical and hopeful, with vivid images of a box large enough to hold emotions and a giant dropping it into the deep sea.
The piece advises housewives to plan ahead and do as much work the day before guests arrive. It emphasizes smart fridge checking, supervising servants, and sharing tasks with help to ensure smooth hosting. It notes sugar varieties, modern tea service practices, and measuring butter, finishing with ribbon fashion trends.
A cooking teacher advises frying oysters with parboiled prep and crumb coatings to reduce splatter and enhance flavor. For small batches choose large oysters, coat in crumbs, Mayonnaise dressing, and crumbs again before frying. The same source notes butter should be melted and stirred into the brown Betty batter.
Describes a method to mix bread crumbs into butter before adding to oysters for even richness in escalloped dishes. Advocates stirring crumbs with butter rather than scattering on top for improved results over each layer.
The old-fashioned green and black calico returns as a cotton print ideal for portieres. A green corduroy portiere lining uses the calico effectively. Table linen looks best when sprinkled and ironed dry. Well laundered linen sets off a table. and hot sharp vinegar removes mortar and paint from glass. Never leave fresh meat wrapped in paper as it absorbs juices.
Two century old recipes describe an orange layer cake with orange juice icing and a rice dish baked with milk and eggs. The orange cake uses orange zest and juice, flour and baking powder, with a custard like orange filling. The rice compound blends rice with milk, cinnamon, yolks and whipped whites, then bakes to a light brown.
A 19th century hostess showcases rooms lit with careful glare control and shaded side lights. Firelight, rose silk, silken tapestries, green mahogany library, and a grand tea-room all highlight strategic illumination. The scene emphasizes the subtle, deliberate lighting that enhances mood and decor.
The article explains saving and refreshing chiffon and similar fabrics rather than discarding them. It details soaking in soap solution, gentle agitation, rinsing until clear, dissolving gum arabic with vinegar, and air drying between muslin while ironing on the wrong side with tissue paper. It notes embroidered mousseline de soie can be renovated similarly.
During the 1899 blizzard I visited a cold attic dwelling to help a widow and her six year old son with instant relief funds. The boy lay hidden under thin bedding, asking for more help while the father or mother suggested sharing with another in need. The scene highlighted harsh winter poverty and charity efforts led by Rev. David M. Steele.
A hint to the wise points readers to Ken nedy's as the genuine Butter Thin Biscuit brand, warning that others are imitations and urging selection of the real Ken nedy's product.
A new inexpensive manual by William E. Hickox promises practical guidance for amanuenses in business and professional offices. The 128-page clothbound work, edited by Hickox, covers practicing shorthand, typewriting, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviations, spelling, and more, with lessons and examples. Lee & Shepard publish in Boston for 50 cents.
Literary notes report Mr Howells will publish a new novel with Harpers in April titled The Kentons not A Family Affair as initially announced. Allen French’s Revolution tale reached a fourth printing in its fourth week with Boston window displays during Evacuation Day celebrations on March 17.
A leader in a northern industry writes to Booker T. Washington enclosing a $5000 check. He says reading Up From Slavery opened his eyes to the importance of Tuskegee Institute and its work.
Andrew Carnegie plans a new volume The Empire of Business to be issued by Doubleday Page Co in April. The book will contain about a dozen chapters presenting direct views on fortune wealth and its uses along with discussions on industrial enterprise tariff and other affairs of interest to men of business.
The April Scribner’s features a long ambitious novel beginning with a young West Pointer’s exile and revolution in Honduras, illustrated by Clark. Bram Stoker praises Americans in The Mysteries of the Sea. Other notices include Wistons by Miles Amber, Roman Biznet by Georgia Wood Pangborn, The Strollers by Isham, and Rodolfo Lanciani’s Forma Urbis Romae prize. The Century’s April issue previews an Appomattox symposium with works by EB Alexander and Charles Marshall, highlighting Civil War reflections.
Harper and Brothers release The Dark o the Moon by S R Crockett a tale of love and adventure set in Galloway Scotland. The author explains how reader demand for a second Raiders inspired work led to this new story featuring the Silver Sand character.
The Scribners announce an early publication of a vigorous new novel by Harrison Robertson of the Louisville Courier Journal. Titled The Opponents, it dwells on latter day Kentucky politics with rivals for Congress balancing love and ambition.
R W Peabody of Chicago, 91, visits publishers as one of the paper's few lifelong subscribers. Since its first issue on April 17, 1827, he has maintained a constant bond with The Youth's Companion through wars, peace, and vast national change, witnessing the magazine's growth alongside America.
The March issue of Literary Collector showcases Recent English Experiments in Artistic Printing by Alfred W. Poard Books Before Printing Part III by William Cushing Bambergh The Portrait of Dante from the German by B F Kunz The Lewis and Clark Expedition by William Harvey Miner The Reflections of a Book Lover by A H J London Bibliographical Letter by Alfred W Pollard plus book reviews notes and items of interest to collectors.
The April Popular Science Monthly features articles on diverse topics. Noted pieces include The Formation and Motion of Clouds by Frank H Bigelow and The Evolution of Fishes by David Starr Jordan, among others.
The April issue opens with Farming Out Convicts, a graphic look at Georgia’s labor system. The Mongrel Child recounts life in a Chicago prison school background. Frontispiece by Charles Livingston Bull. John Ari Lloyd contributes Northern Kentucky in War Time. Also a Maj or Jones portrait, and a sketch of Mrs Leslie Car-.
The issue includes the opening chapters of W. M. Raine's A Daughter of Raasay along with several short stories, signaling the start of a new serial and a collection of brief fiction for readers this month.
The April Ledger Monthly highlights include The Social Side of Church Work by Rev William J Peck on the Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip, Dr Van Dyke’s remarks from the New York YWCA meeting, and Judas in Effigy showing a Mexican Holy Week custom. Also featured are articles on birds Training of the Singer and A Hospital for Birds, with illustrated short stories and full departments.
The April issue centers on Easter with pieces like The Easter Flower Market and An Easter Bonnet. Includes Will Payne's The New Men and Annie Steger Winston An Idyl of Oyster Point, plus Baynes Little Journeys to the Woods and Fields and Curious Marriage Customs in China and Japan. The double page features Paris Salon paintings and six pages of spring and summer fashions. Published by Crowell & Kirkpatrick Co. Springfield Ohio one dollar annually, ten cents a copy sample free.
The April Pilgrim highlights the upcoming biennial General Federation of Women's Clubs conference in Los Angeles. It features essays on Los Angeles as convention city, the Federation, twenty five years of clubwomen, notable members, and future possibilities for womankind. It also includes art on Players of Promise, a Jean de Reszke feature by William Henderson, love on stage by Walden Fawcett, and a new Harriet Prescott Spofford serial A Flash of Lightning.
In April National Joe Mtchell Chapple discusses Affairs at Washington. Edwin L. Sabin, Frank Tracy and Clarence Hawkes contribute short stories. Elbridge R. Anderson writes about The Gem of the Minneapolis Lakes. Frank Patnan reviews The Gentleman From Germany. Day Allen Willey covers Kipling's Village and home amusements. H. S. Clevena writes on Verestchagin exhibition and Lincoln portrait. George Ade's opera is noted. Helen Arthur offers New York stage chat and star portraits. Edwin A. Lee recalls McKinley wedding incidents.
The issue outlines elaborate beautification plans for Washington by Blbert F. Baldwin with a dozen original drawings and maps titled Washington Fifty Years Hence. It includes Borchgrevink’s Antarctic experiences with photos, portraits of Mcouy Kempff and Brooke, an Education in the Philippines article by Fred W. Atkinson with photos, part of Hale’s Memories of a Hundred Years, and Lambert Masterpieces detailing Mr. Lambert’s notable art collection.
The March 21 issue presents John S. Durham's complete West Indies love story, plus stories by Seumas MacManus, Charles King, and Mary Catherine Hewes. It includes essays on Samuel Richardson, travel hints, native plants, German influence in America, and a verse list.
The April Forum opens with Sydney Brooks on The Example of the Malay States under British rule. Other papers cover The Anglo-Japanese Alliance by A Maurice Low and Prince Henry's Visit by Prof. Paul H Reinsch. Domestic topics include Interstate Commerce Act reforms, Army promotions, grazing land leases, and constitutional amendments with broader scholarly notes. Yale and Harvard contributions appear alongside a Heidelberg PhD account by Mrs M K Genthe.
Earley Vernon Wilcox outlines practical recommendations in Preservation of Large Game. The piece surveys current access for women in German higher education and offers actionable steps for policy and institutional reform.
Taine extols Tintoretto as a vigorous prolific genius akin to Michelangelo noting his savage originality and energetic will. He praises the Miracle of St. Mark as unmatched and lists ten plates with scenes and portraits, noting gallery locations in Venice Florence and Frankfurt.
Oswald G. Villard opens the April Atlantic with The New Army of the United States detailing army reorganization and Root's modernization efforts. John W. Foster reviews Pan American Diplomacy tied to a Mexico convention. Elizabeth McCracken surveys The Play and the Gallery and its theatre culture effects. Paul G. Huston discusses The Day's Work of a Forester, reclaiming and protecting national forests. Frank Gaylord Cook honors Oliver Ellsworth and Federation. An Athenian contributes Our State University. George W. Cable continues Bylow Hill. Mortimer O. Wilcox and Anna N. Benjamin offer short stories. W. R. Lighton writes about Omaha. Bliss Carman’s The Pipes of Pan inspires. J. E. Spingarn contributes Prothalamion. Agnes Repplier writes on Allegra, Byron’s daughter, and Ferris Greenslet on Jane Austen. Other reviews and the Contributors' Club complete the issue.
Wallace Robinson is recovering from pneumonia. Litteton Grange held a cobweb party led by Mrs. C Grace Litchfield and Grace Needham last week Wednesday. Mrs. McCoy of Chelmsford led evangelistic services at the Baptist church for three weeks. Ralph Woodbury is on the sick list. Mr and Mrs Wm Turner have returned from England and Mr E B Parker is home from the south.
Groton mourns Deacon Milo B Stiles aged 66 after a week long illness from cerebral hemorrhages. He served Congregational church as officer and devoted member. Survived by widow two sons and six grandchildren. Funeral held in Groton then Lowell for burial. obituaries note other local notices and arrivals.
The Wilmington Woman's club, newly established for sociability and mutual growth, drew praise for its member talent. A slender narrator impressed with flawless character delineations, switching from stern man to a weak teen, without revealing her femininity, signaling artistry at its finest.
The Acton Centre notes record church events, society meetings, and local rumors. Highlights include the Shakespeare club gathering with Mrs F P Wood, plans for the Bullard place purchase, a Christian Endeavor sociable, and a forthcoming dogged program report. A library bird exhibit runs March 26 to April 19, and an Easter concert is planned. Town meeting warrants urge voter turnout and caution against licensure.
Prices current for Lowell retail market dated March 26 1992 reflect figures provided by Munn & Co grocers J B Dover Co flour rain D W Horne Co coal Killpartrick res fruit F H Putnam 15 Prescott Street sh provisions and vegetables.
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