Styles in Dress Stripes dominate spring and summer fabrics
The article surveys new fabrics for spring and summer including Gen galine, Bengaline, and cashmere in stripes and plaids. It details silk and satin textures, Bengaline skirts, moire, pienes, and Battenberg greens, with bold striped dresses, diaphanous tunics, and revived antique moire trends.
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Harper's Bazar
Louis Quatorze
Tussah
India
Ecru
Faille Francaise
Paris
Dinner Dress Descriptions Highlight Rich Fabrics and Colorways
The article catalogs ornate dinner dresses with bodices in burnt sienna and gold brocade, coral pink ottoman underskirts, cream lace chemisettes, and decorative plaitings. It notes fashion trends including electric blue silks, terra cotta brocade trims, and blue ribbon velvet accents, alongside millinery color forecasts and fabric choices for the coming season.
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Philadelphia Record
Towel Shams as Everyday Luxuries in Well Appointed Bedrooms
In a period piece on household decadence, towel shams become necessary for concealing towels during the day. Elaborate designs appear in ingrain cotton with rabbit wool padding, paired with paper-like rectangles sketched in black silk and darned with flourishing thread. It highlights a trend toward plush, embroidered fabric art in Eastern motifs with myriad materials and decorative stitches.
How to Be an Agreeable Guest in a Home
The article offers guidelines for pleasant visiting from advance notice to departure. It advises informing hosts of travel plans and length of stay, respecting household routines, helping with chores, keeping your room tidy, and avoiding nuisances. It stresses consideration for all family members, modest attire, and leaving before overstaying. It ends with brief anecdotes on self improvement through reading and prudent leisure.
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David
Scotland
Greece
Gambetta
Delescluze
France
South
Adam
Eugene Pelletan
Monsieur
Pelletan
Lafayette
Lasteyrie
Jules de Lasteyrie
Madam Adam
Harper's Magazine
The Tender Sex Gossip in a World of Witty Exchanges
A humorous budget of light gossip on marriage and finances drawn from a Boston Courier and Omaha World excerpt. Dialogues explore money worries, spousal roles, and social expectations with clever quips about opera and upkeep. Two domestic scenes show a wife negotiating spending and a husband debating tickets.
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Bella
Boston Courier
Our Mutual Friend Manuscript in Childs Library Revealed
Harper's Weekly reports the original Charles Dickens manuscript of Our Mutual Friend in George W. Childs collection. Dated Gadshill January 4 1866 the two volumes show Dickens skeleton planning chapters and detailed revisions with erasures. The piece notes ink, paper, and handwriting traits, plus a personal Dickens letter to Childs.
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George W. Childs
Dickens
Gaffer Haxen
Hexam
Jen
Lizzie
Twemlow
Podsnip
Lady Tippins
Alfred Lighthouse
Eugene— Mortimer
Harmon
Gaffer
Gadshill
Goffin
Childs
Harper's Weekly
Peter the Great at Uluslee Foundry and Gambetta Reflections
Stories recount Peter the Great earning fifty-four kopecks by smelting iron at Uluslee and Gambetta’s skillful handling of public opinion. The piece also notes a social dinner with Gambetta, and a column on education for women, tobacco-based paper, and sleep advice.
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Peter the Great
Uluslee
Moscow
Peter
Ulullee
St. Petersburg
Fragmented Humorous Snippets From A 19th Century Page
A mixed collage of quips and domes from Harper’s Bazar and Yonkers Gazette. Jests about women feet and silence, bets on romance, a father named Nothing New, drinking in mirrors, and a seaside innkeeper. Classic city papers showcase pranks, braces of puns, and aging poets foreshadowing mortality.
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Penny
Augustus
Patrick
Mr. New
Washington as a model of restraint in foreign policy
Horace E. Scudder notes in St Nicholas that Washington kept the United States out of European quarrels during the France England war. He contrasts this with partisan attacks that labeled Washington unpatriotic while praising his impartial guidance to avoid disaster.
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Wie
Lon
Washington
United States
France
America
England
Europe
Horace E. Scudder
St. Nicholas
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Yonkers Gazette
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Puck
Smith
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Southey
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Mac Roo
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