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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1902
Page
8
The Department invites Lowell Journal readers to send ideas suggestions and thoughts for the About the House column. Readers may address the department with practical household hints and queries for publication.
A poem narrates a hotel or restaurant scene where a smooth faced waiter hovers beside a diner. It details the sense of helpless dependence on service as the waiter anticipates needs, offers appeasing help, and even handles the bill and coat. The speaker alternates between pity and resentment as the routine drip of service exposes social power. In the end it laments housework and calls for a new method to ease nervous strain.
An introspective editorial on modern women managing homes. It weighs sentiment against practicality in discarding unused items, choosing plain versus ornate silver, and the varied methods servants bring to household tasks. It notes the burden of dirt collectors from year to year and the challenge of adapting cleaning practices across households.
A florist advises letting a rubber plant become very thirsty before watering to avoid spoilage. Salt on carpet and sweeping days helps dust and revive colors but can rust racks and hinder carpet removal. A Boston fern performs best in cooler rooms rather than very warm ones.
A historical excerpt describes cheese fritters made by cooking cold boiled rice with milk then mixing in cream or milk, an egg grating of Swiss cheese and flour with baking powder. The batter is dropped into hot butter and browned, yielding tender light fritters with cheese flavor. Variations include sage cheese and more eggs for puffiness.
A humorous exchange on Christmas presents includes a grand piano on instalments and subscriptions to Karper's Bazar plus a Century cookbook. Botts quips about success with a key and keyhole as Hetty and Bertha discuss a promised bonnet that remains a dream.
A New York Post article argues that the country lacks an art atmosphere due to insufficient art appreciation among adults. It urges awakening love of art in children through careful choice of artistic stimuli, avoid cheap penny pictures, and favor serious reproductions.
A February Ladies' Home Journal excerpt by Maria Parloa advises sewing machine mending techniques. She recommends silk or cotton threads matched to fabric color, moderate stitch length, and starting beyond damaged areas. For worn or frayed spots, use dense stitch rows, cross them, and apply a patch of same material or substitute net or muslin as needed.
The reviewer outlines Josiah Strong new book The Next Great Awakening a 211 page volume from Baker Taylor New York. It traces historic awakenings from the Reformation Puritan and Wesleyan revivals and Finney Moody and argues for a present revival returning to Christ and the kingdom of God. Strong contends only by preaching essential truths in modern language can a global awakening occur.
Scribner's Magazine for April presents the new novel Captain Macklin by Richard Harding Davis with Walter Appleton Clark illustrations. It runs six numbers and follows a West Pointer dismissed from the Academy who goes to Honduras with revolutionists. The issue also includes three articles on fishermen life, stories by Thomas Nelson Page, Mary R Andrews, and Miss Dasham, reminiscences by Ex-President Gilman, color prints by Pyle Yoh Shinn, and a Foringer cover design.
The April Century showcases a Velasquez frontispiece engraving by Timo thy Cole, recollections of Appomattox by Alexander and Marshall, and Union generals Gibbons and Merritt. It opens a serial on marriage by Mary Adams, plus four humorous stories by Fernald Loomis and Gibson. Also featured are The Plains Across travel chronicle with Remington illustrations, an illustrated bottles paper, reminiscences of Alexander II by Rhea, Abyssinia travels by Le Roux and Crosby, Buddha discoveries by T W Rhys Davids, John Burroughs on literary values, Weir Mitchell stories, Henry C Rowland Philippines piece, and more.
DESERET NEWS outlines President Young's plan for a grand organ in the tabernacle, detailing ten years of build work, pine sourcing from 300 miles south, handmade glue, and 4 000 new pipes added in recent years. It boasts 108 stops across five organs with a 726 notes per minute repetition and a 5000 cubic feet per minute air displacement in full organ passages.
In Munsey’s Magazine, Charlotte A. Canty crafts a delicate scene of Nessie’s quiet awakening to love. A mother notices her daughter’s subtle joys and dreams, while Nessie’s tenderness reshapes family moments from meal tasks to sunset on the veranda, foreshadowing an intimate bond with a man named John.
The text of Salvini's eightieth birthday address in Rome covers beautifying villages and towns, praise for Ristori, poetry and the departments, and signals a wide range of topics addressed in the celebration.
The April Era features Canton as Li Hung Chang's home in a W G Irwin portrait, essays on children's gardens by Katherine Louise Smith, The English Regal ia by George Ethelbert Walsh, Lucy C Lillie on The Crowning of the King, and Robert Reid's mural decoration in Boston's State House. It also includes critical articles by Penn Steele and Alfred Mathews, a defense of good government by Benjamin C Potts, a debate on women's intuition by William Walsh, Josh Chandler Harris's Gabriel Tolliver, The House of McCann fiction, and poems by Theodosia Garrison and others.
The Ledger Monthly’s April issue features articles on Miss Alice Roosevelt and the White House, Dining With the President, and the Social Side of Church Work by Rev Wm J Peck. It also covers Dr Van Dyke’s Young Women’s Christian Association talk, Judas in Effigy, and spring notes on bird care and canaries.
Ainslees Magazine for April lists leading pieces by Rev. Pettickney Grant on Divorce and the Family, John Swain's Along the Mississippi, Anne O Hagan on Indian Children at School, John Gilmer Speed on Penny Saved, Oliver Henry Friends at San Rosario, Dabney Marshall Sweet Bones, William McLeod Raine The Wife of Captain Burke, The Fortunes of Lal Faversham, and Willi Leyington Torn fort The Espritu Santo Trail.
A terse notice endorses Courier Citizen as a reliable source for classified ads. It urges readers to try the service, claiming consistency and satisfaction with listings and print reach.
An old pair of gold cuff links once owned by General James Grant Wilson traces a tale from Washington gifting them to Arnold after Saratoga for bravery. Arnold wore them until his treason, then passed them to Colonel Tarleton. Tarleton’s aide Israel Halleck, father of poet Fitz-Greene Halleck, kept them and, before his death in 1867, entrusted them to a biographer, linking the relic to its modern guardian.
The Northwestern Christian Advocate reports Livingstone era Africa lacked civilized towns. Now Manchewe Falls near the mission will power machinery and light homes, schools, and churches at a cost of about $20,000 for equipment and transport. Wheat thrashing, flour grinding, and milling will occur by day, with electric light by night, seen as a civilizing influence on natives.
Pope Leo XIII leaves his personal fortune to five nephews with a ban on any claim against the Italian government. The government pays a yearly stipend of 3,000,000 lire, which the pope has refused. After Pius IX died his nephews sought back pay, harming Vatican prestige. Leo aims to prevent a repeat scandal.
Edgar Saltus muses in Smart Set that Louis Napoleon could be the unifying proconsul France needs to demolish the state’s limited liability apparatus. He envisions a glamorous, panoptic ascent with ties to czarist, Italian, and Kaiser realms, a political meteor rising in Paris.
Miss Florence K Jewell a wealthy young Jewess who gained notoriety in 1899 by marrying Lobengula's son during a Kaffir kraal exhibition at Earl's Court seeks a divorce on grounds of cruelty and misconduct. She testified he gave her black eyes and stabbed her with a dagger as Judge Sir Francis Jeune noted the savage outcome.
Tomas Estrada Palma recalls his mother shaping his character and devotion to country in a tribute quoted in Success. He credits his mother with discipline, rectitude, and the love of freedom that guided his path as the only child who grew up under her care.
A compendium of quirky legal quips from cases and judges. Notable lines include testimony about horse tallow fiction, a divorced man as a widower, glass eyes not annulling marriages, drunkenness definitions, temperance after delirium tremens, and plain responses to marriage proposals. Also remarks on notices of flowers and gifts, artificial teeth, tainted beef affecting juror guilt, Wyandotte Indians as human beings, dog ownership without consent, and diverse observations on conjugal affection, insanity evidence, and spousal authority over keys.
A new Russian religious group, Podpoiniki meaning dwellers under the earth, shelters fugitives from justice and deserters in rock clefts while treating sick members with no food or water. They baptize the dead and rename them, burying corpses secretly to keep souls spotless.
A tablet dedicated to Anneke Jans is sunk into the wall of 23 Whitehall Street in New York City by the Knickerbocker chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The tablet marks her historic home site and surrounding gardens on a large red brick building. the Jans heirs have pursued Trinity Church property since the early 1800s.
The Edinburgh Review celebrates its 100th year as a long running periodical. Over its century it has been led by six editors: Francis Jeffrey from 1802 to 1820, Macvey Napier from 1820 to 1847, William Empson 1847 to 1852, Sir George Cornwall Lewis 1852 to 1863, Henry Reeve 1863 to 1895, and the Hon. Arthur Elliot since 1895.
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