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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1900
Page
6
A miscellany of era column style invites readers to send household recipes and thoughts to About the House. It blends a Salem Lowell Journal prompt with a humorous spring cleaning poem by Sam Walter Foss, followed by a fragment of culinary tips about frying potatoes and cleaning water bottles.
The piece discusses mercerized cotton resembling silk in dresses and undergarments, cushion abundance for rooms, and the appeal of quiet tea spaces. It questions English tea norms versus American habits, predicts possible revival of earrings, notes the Boston bag’s decline, and highlights lighter net bags and enduring silk options for small items. It ends with pockets returning to dresses as a desired change for convenience.
The Boston cooking school notes tea added to apple jelly enhances flavor. It suggests three tablespoons of freshly made Japan tea with one pinch of nutmeg. Care for coffee and tea pots daily and wash thoroughly. A simple home dinner service tip uses frozen custard to scoop ice.
Delicious fruit candy combines figs dates walnuts and grated chocolate with sugar and water to cream then set firm in shallow pans and cut into squares. Cucumber jelly uses pale green lemon jelly salt cayenne and cucumber dice as a decorative salad garnish shaped with cutters.
Mrs May Wright Sewell, new president of the International Council of Women, rose to prominence through the general federation of women's clubs and has long been a key figure at national conventions. She leads a girls' classical school in Indianapolis and once taught physics explaining centrifugal and centripetal forces to students. A pupil quipped that domestic virtues are centrigfugal, keeping a man at home, while a saloon acts as a centrifugal force.
In a reflective passage from Aunt Jane's Album in The Cosmopolitan, a woman recounts a lifetime of unpaid domestic labor. She contrasts tangible chores with the desire to be remembered by future generations, expressing quiet pride in long standing work despite its invisibility.
A clergyman cautions a child about choosing a toadstool over a mushroom, noting the mix up could happen as they plan to eat some themselves and then market the rest. Trained Motherhood.
A famed comedian, angling enthusiast, finds a stranger fishing in his private lake at X- dot. The visitor had fished all day without a catch. The comic warns him the lake is private but the stranger replies he is not fishing for sport but feeding the fish.
A Philadelphia tailor shared a tale of a fashion-minded customer who sought to buy a new suit for fifty dollars. Lacking cash, the man proposed using fifty of fifty dollars owed by confectioner Mr Pancake, promising to direct the funds from a New York debt. They visited Pancake, who agreed to pay the portion to the tailor, resulting in fifty cream putts arriving that afternoon.
Boers landed at Jamestown St Helena creating the island’s largest population surge in years. The article describes Jamestown home to Napoleon relics and the distinctive Deadwood Plain camp where prisoners are housed with views over the sea and the valley of the Tomb. It notes isolation, climate, and terrain shaping the Boer experience and references Rupert's Hill access to Longwood.
A naval surgeon reports a transatlantic voyage showing sea trips do not cure delirium tremens. Of four heavily drinking passengers two died at sea, one attempted suicide, and one soberized and reached Liverpool in good condition. The Englishman who left for home proved the only one to improve. The doctor notes this is his 23rd voyage with a delirium tremens case aboard.
Mrs G W Pullman of Chicago buys a $7000 ring in Paris for her daughter and now readers wonder which bold young man will offer a $20 engagement ring on the same hand.
The article argues that disease germs, not cars, threaten urban life and that sanitation plus education are key. It touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery to purify blood and strengthen digestion, claims it cures obstinate coughs and consumption, and promotes sending stamps for The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser booklet from Buffalo, New York.
Christine Terhune Herrick warns against relaxing parental control over a child’s diet after infancy, noting long term risks like dyspepsia, headaches, and mood issues. She warns against letting a child sample many dishes and to refuse indulgence, even when faced with persistent pleading. The piece ends with a recipe for Cream of Chicken Soup using chicken, parsley, bread, eggs, and cream, with optional barley or rice.
Fresh calf liver cut into even slices, floured and fried in butter. Remove and add butter parsley mushrooms onions to form a sauce with flour and stock or water. Return liver to warm through but do not boil. Season with salt pepper and lemon juice. Serve hot as entree or breakfast dish.
Slice a medium cabbage remove the heart boil in water fifteen minutes drain and pour a dressing over it. Prepare dressing by heating vinegar sugar mustard oil salt and pepper then whisk in cream and a beaten egg. Pour over cabbage and serve hot.
A recipe instructs layering chopped veal with buttered dish, seasoning, and cracker crumbs, moistened with milk, repeating until full. It covers and bakes, removing the cover near the end to brown the top, and finishes with a diluted veal gravy poured over.
Soak one pint of bread crumbs in one pint of milk then beat eight eggs lightly and fold in. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan and add the egg mixture. Season with salt and pepper, scramble quickly, cook without burning, and serve on a hot platter with buttered toast.
Pare and quarter eight pounds of apples and boil with one quart of vinegar four pounds of sugar and spices. Add apples after the syrup boils a few minutes and cook till tender. Pack in a jar and simmer the syrup until thick then pour over the apples.
Cut thin slices of calf liver and fat bacon then layer bacon bottom of dish and liver on top. Season with salt and pepper add one onion and one apple cut up, cover, and bake slowly in the oven for over an hour without water.
Boil a large chicken until meat is tender then remove, strip the meat into a stone jar and cover with nearly a pint of cold vinegar plus the same amount of the cooking water. Add spices to taste and let stand two days before using.
An elderly woman forgets her latchkey on a Kilburn doorstep and, as a group of men across the street offer help, six skeleton keys flash in the air and the fastest operator opens the front door. The woman gratefully accepts but later reflects on human cleverness overcoming the lock.
Select one quart of medium sized turnips, peel and boil until tender. Scoop out centers, mash with salt pepper butter and egg yolk, fill shells, cap with tops, brush with egg white, and bake until brown. Serve hot.
A tenor cries fire during a Philadelphia North American moment and urges instant audience evacuation. The manager consents and orders silence while retreating performers continue to sing to finish the show.
A historic kitchen instruction describes boiling three pounds knuckle of veal with asparagus in water for three hours, straining the juice, readding asparagus, simmering, then thickening with flour and milk, seasoning, and serving hot.
In a light exchange Pat questions Mike about snoring while Mike-Faith claims he stayed awake all night to prove otherwise. The playful dialogue appears in the Philadelphia Record reflecting neighborhood humor and daily life.
James Fitzgerald of 10 Garnet Street recounts severe kidney pain four years ago from blood poisoning. He says Doan's Kidney Pills from Ellingwood & Co. alleviated back ache and restored kidney function, with strength returned after a finished course. Sold by dealers for 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole U.S. agents. Remember the name Doan's.
The market boasts the largest lobster catch of the season with daily arrivals. It is the city’s only spot hosting lobsters and offers Kale Apple Sass Strawberries Asparagus Bananas Lettuce Radishes Dandelions Spinach Kale. Fresh eggs from a local henhouse arrive daily. Butter is at a low-water mark and available in any quantity from top dairies. Maple syrup is in short supply but available now. The honey dew of Vermont is highlighted as the season shortens.
The ad extols a Welsbach light mantle delivering 50 percent more light and three times the strength, claiming long life and a bright output of 100 candle power per light. It promises lower cost per hour and notes sale at the office with first class gas cooking ranges available on installment plans.
Notice states no charge for meter use and no charge for running supply into consumer cells when orders are left at the office. prompt attention guaranteed.
Most people begin repairs by painting while others, on the roof, handle gravel roofs and all repairs. Taylor Roofing Co. offers carpentry, cellar cementing, housepainting, shingling and related work in out-of-town places. Send address for figures. 140 Humphrey St. Telephone.
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