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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1900
Page
7
The About the House department invites Lowell Journal readers to send practical housekeeping hints and thoughts. Readers may address suggestions to the About the House department, Lowell Weekly Journal, for publication and discussion.
A weary hostess laments endless entertaining and longs to retreat to a remote, snowbound solitude. She imagines a northern pole refuge free of callers, cards, and lists, hoping for a life of uninterrupted quiet and mental ease.
This piece wryly surveys khaki prepared note paper styles for fashionable young women, warns plaid skirts must match, and cites a German physician blaming veils for facial eruptions. It offers tips on plain dress, home textiles, rest, and five golden rules for flower arrangement to avoid common mistakes.
Table Talk offers oyster recipes with new twists. Surprise Oysters uses mashed potato formed into oval pots with two oysters per piece, breaded and fried or baked until golden. Oyster Teddle is described as a seashore chowder style dish.
A dated cooking direction: cook fat salt pork, add sliced raw potatoes, cover, then hot milk, thicken with flour and butter, stir in washed oysters, season, and remove from heat when oysters ruffle. Serve with broken hard tack or crackers.
The text outlines a simple diet code: eat when hungry and drink when thirsty, stop when full, eat to appetite, and expand tastes by trying foods like oysters multiple times. Match food strength to activity level, distrust doctors dictating diet by their own appetite, and beware of diet cranks.
The British war department tests a new flour preservation method. Flour is compressed into bricks to resist damp and mould, avoiding insect attacks. The compressed bricks take up less than a third of the space of loose flour, enabling large storage savings.
A Boston woman is approached by a tramp seeking food. The quick quip asks if a chop would suit him and turns to a pun about mutton or woodshed. A muttered joke about a hat and a feather duster leads to a tale of spider nets on a porch. A breakfast table dialogue follows.
Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg describes visiting Confucius tomb near Qufu in Shandong. The account notes the gate ceremonies, inscriptions, and the philosopher king’s grave as a central sight. It contrasts Confucius with Buddha and Mohammed relic worship and comments on his enduring influence. An aside mentions another expedition seeking the north pole and relics like Andree’s balloon.
The Youths Companion will issue a special 1901 calendar as a 75th anniversary souvenir designed and lithographed exclusively for the paper. It features a Puritan maiden portrait, Priscilla, in twelve colors. non-subscribers pay 50 cents, while new subscribers receive the calendar and the 1900 remaining issues free for the year.
Ainslee's for November features strong fiction including S R Crockett's The Lass in the Shop and Joe Lincoln's The Woman from Nantucket. It notes a broad mix of new stories, illustrated pieces, and twelve Forum articles by Dick Towne Roberts Fox and others on politics trusts and world affairs.
Senator Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota lauds the McKinley administration as progressive and effective. He argues Democrats seek to reverse gains in arms, industry, and finances, condemning free trade and silver policies while highlighting the Dingley tariff, Cuba intervention, and wartime unity as proof of leadership and national prosperity.
The speaker extols the gold standard as anchoring the nation’s employment and stability, notes thriving foreign commerce with exports over 432 million dollars, a two billion dollar total trade, and growth in maritime activity. He asserts successful policy at home and abroad, urges no change, and predicts a decisive November verdict.
The piece outlines how Daniel Emmett composed Dixies Land in 1859 as a walk around for Bryant’s minstrels, inspired by soldiers’ and circus campers’ refrain I wish I was in Dixie. It chronicles early popularity in New York and New Orleans, with a publisher exploiting the tune despite lacking Emmett’s authorization.
A well finished nine room cottage on a desirable Highlands street features reception hall parlor open fireplace plate glass and hardwood floors. Owner leaving city. Price 7000. Also listed is an eight room home with bath pantry laundry furnace and cemented cellar on 4500 feet of land priced 2900 and a seven room cottage near city center at 2700 with 4600 feet land and easy terms.
A prospective buyer lists several desirable properties including a 56-acre farm near Amherst New Hampshire a 7 room cottage near Coral street a picturesque Highlands place near Pine street a 26 acre farm near Lowell and electrics a fine house with stable near Belmont street and a two family home near Warwick street aiming to purchase each property soon.
New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad announces new daily and Sunday departu res from Lowell Middlesex Street Depot effective June 10 1900. Morning and late afternoon trains run to Taunton New Bedford Newport Providence Pawtucket Marlboro South Framingham and other way stations with connections at South Framingham to Boston and Albany for Worcester Springfield Albany and the west and at Concord Junction to Fitchburg. The 525 pm train links with the Stonington line for New York City and other southern and western points. Sunday service to South Framingham Mansfield Pawtucket Providence and way stations at 715 am. Signed by C Peter Clark General Superintendent and A C Kendall General Passenger Agent.
Train times listed for Boston and Maine routes including Woburn Nashua Portland Amherst Milford Wilton Greenfield Peterboro Bennington Hillsboro Keene Nashua Manchester Concord Franklin Lebanon White River Junction Warner Bradford Sunapee Newport Claremont and St. Johnsbury, with Montpelier Essex Junction Burlington St Albans Montreal Quebec via various divisions. Daily and weekend services noted with special routes and destinations.
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