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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1902
Page
10
The department invites ady readers to send hints suggestions or thoughts for the House columns. Practical Lowell housekeeping guidance welcomed at any time. Address About the House Department Lowell Weekly Journal.
A nostalgic verse traces lighting changes from tallow dips to electric lamps and gas, recalling family bedtime rituals. The speaker hopes future visibility for a dolly through X rays, ending with a gentle note on progress and memory.
The piece argues washing and ironing dominate housework and suggests sending clothes out only to clean, sanitary providers. It notes the burdens of laundering delicate garments, the temptation of dainty undergarments, and the costs of outsourcing. It also touches on privacy issues at the door and shifts to maple sugar, brown sugar, and lemon juice as kitchen tips.
A recipe notes standard proportions for pop overs with one cup flour and one cup milk plus salt, plus options for slightly less milk or melted butter. Eggs are beaten separately or lightly, then folded into the batter to trap air for rising, with caution about deflating the foam.
Instructions describe beating eggs into batter to trap air for airy pop overs. Use small round earthen cups or iron gem pans. Pop overs should rise above cups, shell inside, dark crisp outside, and finish baking at low heat for about thirty minutes. Also notes fried mush requires overnight boil and careful frying for tenderness.
Miriam Zieber in Good Housekeeping urges cheerful mothers to foster optimism at home. A gloomy household saps a son’s vigor and chances in life, while a bright atmosphere aids his growth and future happiness. Mothers influence sons profoundly. avoid perpetual fault finding and cultivate cheerfulness to spare their masculine vitality.
In April Ladies' Home Journal Roosevelt describes Alice as active and outdoorsy. He recalls she can walk as far as he can and often takes long tramps at his pace. He notes she can ride drive ski and shoot though she does not care much for shooting. Outdoor exercise matters to her health.
In Chicago on April 27 Dr Frank De Witt Talmage preached that mutual helpfulness is a duty of humanity and especially for Christians. He tied Paul’s Galatians bearing one another’s burdens to examples from Civil War leaders and John B Gough, urging church members to support each other, cast burdens on the Lord, and revive old neighbors helping traditions to hasten the gospel’s spread.
In Middlesex County the Unitarian church holds a morning service with the pastor preaching and All Saints officiating at 10 45. A concert by the Kalmia quartette at the town hall is scheduled for next Wednesday featuring superior vocalists. Assessors are active, with strong shooting reports as they push for action.
G Clark suffers a severe cold at home on Pleasant street while W Fox of New York visits his aunt Miss M Fox on Sladen street. F Gunther named executor of his father’s property. Dracut petitions Boston water extension to Navy Yard with G Stevens leading. Collinsville reports 40 of 116 looms active amid strike, 18 new looms added, old jumbo looms removed. West Dracut license granted for rendering works by Mr Barnes. Rev E C Hayes petitions for Rev A H Armes Sunday at Orthodox Congregational church. Carlisle delegates attend Woburn conference in Reading on Tuesday the 29th. Frank E Wilkins serves as organist at the Unitarian church. Sunday school organized with J H Wilkins superintendent and Rev W E Lane assistant. about 20 children plus adults enrolled. Mrs Warren H Blaisdell tends a four and a half foot scar geranium filling one window with 20 blossoms and many buds. Fire bells rang Monday noon for a woodland fire near school buildings. George R Duren grateful for prompt extinguishing actions, suspected arson by children. Miss Alice F Morse of Dorchester visited town over Sunday. Edward W Reynolds appointed inspector of cattle.
In Billerica and nearby towns, Rev Wiers spoke on Stephen Phillips and Homer in readings at the parsonage, with literary praise from Mabie. Other talks covered Billerica history, Unitarian sermons on deeds over words, and church guild topics. A May 4 visit by Charles E St John was announced, along with the Women’s Alliance officers’ election on May 9. The week saw the lighting of streets, the burial of Viola Jackson after a burn, and sermons at Orthodox and Unitarian churches.
A description from Dr. Thomas Calver in Woman's Home Companion locates the Lincoln museum in the house at 516 Tenth Street NW opposite Ford's Theatre where Abraham Lincoln was shot. The three story brick lodging house owned by William Peterson housed the lodgers who aided the president after the shooting and directed carriers to bring him into the Peterson dwelling.
The record traces Emil Holab’s early voyage to South Africa with $200, a near drowning, and a career in British goldfields that funded first explorations. Captured by a native chief he escaped with collections valued at 72 000 florins donated to Austrian institutions. He lectured to earn $20,000, then undertook a second trip with his wife. Exhibits appeared in Vienna in 1887. Later years brought poverty, malaria, and a 5000 crown Austrian pension before his death two months later.
Henry Van Dyke writes that daily work should be welcomed as a blessing and purpose. He urges mindful labor whether in fields, offices, markets, or rooms, sensing work as a personal destiny that proves powers and sustains cheer through day and night.
In our bargain department we offer a fine variety of summer shirts for men and boys. Clean new goods with fast colors, some with detached or attached collars. Prices 25¢, 89¢, and 4c each. Fabrics include Ginghams Cheviots Madras Bedford CardSateeng. A. G. Pollard & Co.
An advertisement claims Devoe Lead and Zinc paint covers more with fewer gallons than old mixed paints and lasts as long as vintage coatings.
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