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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1902
Page
2
Fashions frills highlight parasols as gay confections led by the Dolly Warden. Boleros and Louis XVI habits, delicate lace, and mousseline de soie dominate evening wear while Parisian rain or shine en tout cas parasols gain in popularity. White lawn collars, refined plaiting, and dainty cravats in cambric lace motifs complete a season’s wardrobe notes.
Embroidered lawn collars in batiste with matching stitchings and ecru embroidery adorn morning blouses for young girls. Deep turn down linen bands and soft silk cravats complete casual outfits. deep lace collars suit afternoon at home. Heart, oval and round gilt mirror pendants are popular toilet knickknacks, large and impressive.
A concise survey notes poets and writers favoring tea or coffee. Voltaire coffeeed weekly, Balzac drank coffee midnight to dawn, Johnson spurred tea habit with eleven cups, Reynolds challenged him, and Cowper praised tea in the Task while praising the Chinese brew.
A Philadelphia traveler recalls attending a bull fight in Mexico City and hailing an anti cruelty activist from Germantown who demanded the event end. The woman, badge visible, led an interruption before exiting with her husband as spectators reacted with laughter.
A Cornhill Magazine excerpt recounts a traveler’s misadventure after an Irish inn stay. The landlady awakes him at six, insists he must rise, then at seven returns with a joke about two commercial gentlemen awaiting breakfast and a top sheet, highlighting country inn quirks and mistaken identities.
A minister recalls a rustic wedding where a rough groom vows to endow his bride with all his worldly goods. The ceremony occurs in a log cabin with many guests as a tall man with a tobacco stained cheek interrupts with a laconic quip about a bull terrier.
The Electrical World and Engineer counters that accidental shocks differ from electric chair conditions. It notes the subject dies from the shock and is dead beyond hope before autopsy, regardless of potential survival in other contexts.
A health note explains that pure blood contains white blood cells that combat germs. It emphasizes keeping the body healthy to fight fevers and similar illnesses.
A terse dialogue on price and certainty. A woman asks for children's pictures and the photographer quotes ten shillings a dozen. She has nine, and the exchange underscores the folly of overconfidence while a newspaper editor mocks it.
Pingpong becomes the new indoor pastime in homes and clubs. The game needs little cost, fits on a dining table with a makeshift net, and uses light celluloid balls. Rules mimic tennis with quick serves, no volleying, and deuce scoring as best two of six games in a set. English households embrace the craze.
A Victorian era health note advises careful, gradual warming during spring breezes. It urges bed rest for chills, hot sea salt baths, whey or milk tea, mustard plasters for headaches, camphor for nostril tickles, and cautious avoidance of liquids at onset. It warns against ditching warm clothing too soon to prevent influenza.
Notes describe elephant hide as a top traveling bag leather and silver settings in pearl and diamond chains. Belt buckles are large and the piece highlights new art effects. Four buttons feature a painted dog head under crystal, offering a stylish cuff ink show.
The article urges spring meals centered on Krotes cereals and vegetables to satisfy renewed appetites. It explains salt and lime needs, the role of fresh produce in teeth and bones, and suggests sorrel soup and pot herbs like spinach and dandelions for health. Rhubarb is noted but used sparingly, with a raisin baked dish for variety.
A compact furniture sketch shows a shirt waist box repurposed as a small cabinet. The maker, using a soapbox, hinges, a cover ring and covering, crafts a handy piece with ins plied decor. The design uses art ticking or cretonne with a lively striped festoon pattern.
Boil one cup of rice in one pint of boiling water in the top of a double boiler. Salt the water in the lower boiler as heat increases. Boil for thirty minutes, drain the water, then steam twenty minutes.
The article notes champagne neutral tones like silver gray and zinc white dominate palettes with boleros declining for now while antique buttons gain prominence on gowns. Ruletres garnets amethysts mix with old enamel and paintings. printed lawns with tiny black spots and lateen lawns in floral patterns emerge as Paris highlights. Grass lawns rise in demand with white brocades and lacelike stripes. Ribbon velvet trim with oriental embroidery outlines bodices. tucked lawns and silks for white and ecru whites, piques, and black spotted muslin appear in summer wear.
A detailed 19th century house plan describes a bright seven room cottage facing west-southwest with a sunny dining room, cheerful kitchen, and two south-exposed back rooms. Ground floor hall connects parlor, dining room, kitchen, and pantry. stair to cellar. two cellar entrances and coal bins. Materials include white pine interior joinery, clapboard exterior, concrete basement floor, and a hot air furnace. dimensions 24 by 32 feet, cellar height 6 feet 6 inches, first 10 feet, second 9 feet, estimated build cost 1200 dollars.
At the Vienna exhibition a building is shown fully furnished with products from peat. Zschorner of Vienna reports notable experiments and novel results in peat weaving, marking an unusual exploration of fiber use for carpets.
A German professor's invention perfected by M. Charles Heller in Paris uses an arc lamp with a microphone to broadcast speech or song from miles away. Viewers must wear smoked glasses due to brightness. The device resembles a mass listening aid, possibly surpassing the theatrophone for wider audience use.
The British Journal of Photography notes photographs fade over decades, more in lightly printed images with little shadow. Darker toned prints resist decay. collodion enamelled and carbon prints prove most durable, while burnout enameling turns yellow and surface abrasion harms durability.
A young New York electrician develops a miner's lamp with a hat-mounted ball containing wiring to a three‑pound storage battery in the pocket. It can burn about ten hours and is designed to be safe in firedamp environments. The Gameless light also avoids oxygen consumption when the miner is distant from air supply.
Explorer Sven Tedin reports a newly found lake in northern Tibet, a landlocked basin far from any river or ocean. The body of water is isolated on a barren plain, not connected to any sea, unlike the Dead Sea near Jerusalem.
J B Davis a New Orleans dentist has invented an improved forceps system with detachable beaks that slide into the handles reducing the overall cost of the dental outfit. The device promises easier replacement and versatile use for practitioners.
M Sibillot of Paris unveils a new principle of aerial navigation. He claims his dirigible balloon will be weather independent and include a refrigerator and heating apparatus to cool or heat the hydrogen. Lever controls temperature to descend or ascend, reducing hydrogen loss.
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