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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1902
Page
10
The About the House department invites ady readers of the Lowell Weekly Journal to send household recipes hints and thoughts for the columns. Readers may submit ideas at any time to the About the House Department Lowell Weekly Journal.
A poem from the Christian Register reflects longing for nature and life as shadows of God’s leaves. The speaker compares life to fleeting foliage under sunlight and invites turning eyes to rebirth and hope through faith.
The piece urges recognizing cooking as an art and stresses thoughtful home bread making over reliance on bakers. It discusses spice use, changing tastes, and advises delaying outdoor planting until after mid May to avoid frost, plus spring plant reporting for best summer blooms and winter recovery.
A humorous exchange from Harper's Bazar shows Mrs. Perkasie criticizing a beggar while noting the poor conditions forcing affordable soaps. The beggar counters that the issue lies in the hardship of the laboring class and mentions a kitchen miscue about kerosene scented salad.
A recipe for Cheese Sandwiches blends cream cheese salt cayenne olives pimento lettuce spinach and mayonnaise in a cold set one. Form a rectangle chill overnight then slice thinly onto lettuce on rye. Also offers simple Bread Fingers as a sturdy soup accompaniment ready with minimal effort.
Instructions describe making yeast rolls with milk and butter, dissolving yeast in warm water, adding salt and flour to form a dough. After kneading, dough rests three hours, shapes into finger-sized rolls, second rise, glaze with egg white mixture, and bake for about fifteen minutes.
A family study on reforming meals by dressing for dinner. Mrs Brown suggests encouraging all members, ages seventeen to twenty five, to change into best clothes each evening to boost manners and ease tensions. The ritual shifts mood, reduces irritability, and makes dinner resemble a pleasant party.
An elderly narrator contrasts dining room standards with parlor fashion, arguing a home is judged by the dining room. She recalls learning not to judge households by drawing rooms, but by the dining room’s furnishings, service, and upkeep, as a test of character and breeding.
A Farm and Fireside feature prescribes a homemade liniment made from kerosene camphor-gum and sweet oil. Mix kerosene with camphor-gum until dissolvable, add sweet oil, shake well, cork tightly, and keep away from children. Applied to burns cuts bruises stiff necks joints sore throats and bunions it is claimed to cure many ailments rapidly.
A passage cites Bulgaria and Macedonia as brigandage hubs in rugged mountain districts. It notes mixed Bulgarian Albanian and Turkish populations, scarce roads, heavy levies on crops and livestock, and a culture that fosters robber leaders. The view, attributed to Rev. Dr. James L. Barton in the May Woman's Home Companion, frames brigandage as a regional phenomenon aided by Europe Asia crossroads.
Mrs QC Marchant and family from Fitchburg visit relatives in town. Sladen street work and Lowell Gas main extension near Lakeview avenue. Mabel Collier recovering from measles. Parker avenue school pupils back after diphtheria scare. J Kiernan enlarges store on Lakeview avenue. Sunday school entertainment tonight at Collinsville Mission. Hillside church sociable on May 21. Lowell lodge No 22 AOW to meet May 20 for 21st anniversary with town participants. Mrs Asa Stickney recovering from Jamaica Plain visit. United Workers plan strawberry festival May 27 at the vestry with ice cream and candy. Last season supper. Mr George W Davis adds telephone for trade.
A Bram Stoker review praises The Mystery of the Sea as less extreme than Dracula yet still gripping with modern English seaside action. It centers on an American heiress protected by Uncle Sam and aided by a hero who deciphers biliteral cipher notes, leading to a daring rescue amid mystery and romance.
In Dayton Ohio the W C A Budget notes Miss Hope Dutton of Wakefield Mass is leaving after a year as gym instructor with high praise for her mastery and impact. She will return home for a vacation before seeking a new position in the fall, location undetermined. Sunday services include All Saints Whit Sunday events and Unitarian preaching at noon.
Bedford items note the C E society discussing Practical Consecration led by Nélise F Sweet Nam. Bernard Bagley recovers from appendicitis. measles hospitalizes Abbott Reed Webber. School superintendent William Cragin reelected with salary up $100. Cheerful Letter exchange reports 723 magazines 887 papers 78 books 182 letters 35 postal cards sent. charity to Manila Hampton and Waltham hospitals. Local lectures, town meeting on Old Home Week funding, and Golden Eagle lodge installs officers with entertainment afterward.
Veterans of Westford led by Capt E De Roehn gather at Graniteville Music Hall to attend memorial services at M E church with Rev Charles Nicklin. The Graniteville cornet band and Troop F escort join a united memorial at Graniteville M B church, music directed by Charles H Hartley.
The Pepperell Ladies Social Circle of the Unitarian church held its annual meeting on May 8 electing officers led by President Mrs John O Bennett and announcing a plan to raise 300 for parish expenses. Delegates were named to church anniversaries, Prudence Wright chapter D A R installed new officers, a damaged flagpole prompted repairs, and a new booklet Flag Days was prepared for schools and the library.
A modern Cairo set romance explores divorce from an American Catholic viewpoint. A worldly man, his living wife, and a young convent-raised woman navigate love, faith, and obstacles leading to a hopeful, original ending. Illustrations accompany the text.
A compact history of devastating quakes from antiquity to 1857 across Calabria Messina Pompeii Herculaneum Judea Antioch and other regions. Notable events include 1783 Calabria death toll near 100000, 115 Antioch destruction, 526 Antioch disaster with up to 60000 killed, and 1857 Naples province losses.
A historical survey notes major U S quakes including New Madrid in 1811 12 and Casca Venezuela 1812. Charleston 1886 with 61 deaths. Galveston 1900 with about 10000 deaths. describes ground upheavals lake formation fissures mud and water blasts and a devastating Gulf wave from the West Indies.
The article lists historic quakes destroying Caracas Quito Concepcion and Callao, with waves up to 90 feet and 400 feet submarine eruptions. Dates span 1586 to 1861, noting Juan Fernandez origin and nationwide death tolls in a few events. It cites 12,000 deaths in the Mendoza event across Argentina.
A historic record notes over 250000 persons perished in a single calamity in Judea and Anti Och, with biblical references to earthquakes during the reign of Ahab. The fragment discusses ancient seismic events and their recorded devastation.
A page from Sprague Publishing Co. Detroit highlights humor and reading for May Motherhood. It includes sections "Mothers' Clubs" and "The Kindergarten in the Home" with articles by Mabel L. Conklin Grace Turner Adams Carrie May Ashton Wenonah Stevens Abbott Nellie A. Vanderpool Mariam Zeiber and Charles Leslie Plymate on moral training sewing cheerfulness baby development and the playroom.
In the May 10 issue Collier's prints the first half of Taft’s true condition of affairs in the Philippines and the second half completes the discussion. Richard Harding Davis’s Rawson’s Folly features a Remington double page illustration. Also tributes to Archbishop Corrigan and Admiral Sampson, plus Marconi, Leaders in the World's Work and more. Marion Manning by Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis published May 16 by Harper & Brothers, a Washington society figure’s tale of a Virginia heiress who marries a unscrupulous politician and faces his changes.
This May issue showcases handsome production with heavy paper and rich pictures. Principal stories include A Bond of Honor by Charlotte Canty and How the Vein was Found by Roe L. Hendrick, Jerry by Mary Hamilton Cochrane, A Position on the Staff by Frank H. Sweet, Billy Newgate's Nephew by Willard Lamonte Hartshorn, Robert by Louise Hardenbergh Adams, and Our First Tour by Frank Savage. Special articles cover The Mother of the Confederacy Life in an Aquarium The Last of the Mohicans Perhaps Another Edison Stuart Robson as a Boy The Boys Club of the Church Club of Philadelphia John D. Rockefeller Jr on Re-
Lisbon was struck on November 1 1775 by a powerful earthquake. The sea withdrew and returned in a massive wave over 50 feet high. About 60 000 people perished in six minutes. Humboldt estimated the affected region at four times Europe’s size. Destructive waves devastated northern Africa towns and triggered sea level changes as far as Scotland.
The text recalls major Japanese volcanic eruptions in 1883 and 1888, noting Asama’s frightful blast that buried villages and killed thousands, and Bandaisan’s 1888 explosion that hurled 16 million cubic yards of rock. It mentions lava flows traveled up to 48 mph, mud streams 8400 feet high, and deaths numbering in the thousands, with Java’s deadly flood claiming 401 lives.
Port Royal, Jamaica, the colonial capital, was overwhelmed by a volcanic sea wave on June 7, 1692, sinking in under three minutes to about 50 feet. Ruins reportedly remained visible for centuries, with earth fissures trapping bodies and burying lower limbs while upper parts stayed exposed.
An 1819 quake submerged 2000 square miles at the Indus delta and raised a neighboring region, while a later quake on January 10 1869 origin under Asaloo sent sand and hot water through fissures. The lower Ganges valley felt the shock and Calcutta reported it.
May Atlantic presents Vida D. Scudder’s opening piece on democracy. She analyzes class cleavage and its risk to democratic unity, urging countervailing effort to keep citizens from drifting apart and preserving the nation’s democratic ideal.
Miss Marie Van Vorst author of Philip Longstreth will sail for Europe next week and go directly to Paris, which she regards as home. She plans to rest from literary work for at least six months and spend the autumn in Italy.
Dialogue fragment shows a playful exchange where a student named Tommy asks about drinking and the teacher remarks on never seeing the student in a saloon. The line hints at humor and classroom banter without broader context.
Report notes Adam Bede is said to be running for Congress in Minnesota. Dina Morris is urged to campaign to support him, with expectations she should take the stump on his behalf.
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