Fashions For Fair Dames From The Present Season
Rich Parisian style notes detail cream white eider brown jackets for riding and coats with plush or velvet trimmings. The article describes demi season and all white evening toilettes, Chantilly and Vandyke laces, brocaded satins, and leopard of fabrics. It notes tailor made wool gowns for promenade wear, fur garments like the Russian redingote, and a wide range of hats, bonnets, and garb with ornate lace and embroidery for fall and winter.
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New York Evening Post
Sarah
Moliere
Chantilly
Paris
India
Lyons
Eve's Daughters And Other Humorous Verses
A fragmentary humorous verse piece by H. C. Dodge and others features satirical lines about boys and girls, marriage, and social manners. It includes dialogue from Harper’s Bazar style sketches, with snippets about fashion, romance, and domestic life, ending with a courtroom pun.
Cost of Raising a Boy and a Girl in Baltimore Life
Two Baltimore parents compare the expense of raising a son and a daughter with detailed itemized lists. The boy’s outlays include clothes, tuition, dancing, and travel while the girl’s cover dresses, coats, shoes, accessories, music, lessons, and a pet dog. The father of the girl concedes a boy might be easier to raise.
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Park Avenue
Baltimore
Charley
Gymnnasium
Ereliey
The Wife's Story The Half Moor
Advice from a period piece arguing wives influence marriage happiness through cheer and openness. It urges wives to support husbands with warmth, to share troubles, and to keep confidants in their marriage, claiming women possess keen insight and prophecy when treated fairly.
Correcting Children and the Power of Gentle Discipline
A reflective piece argues against harsh punishment and urges parents to foster obedience through calm guidance. It cites experiences with flogging, emphasizes self-control, and notes the long-term value of a happy home for shaping character. It contrasts rigid discipline with reasoned behavior and praise.
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Socrates
Martinet
Rats in America From Early Settlements to Today
A brief historical note recalls that the brown rat first arrived in America a little over a century ago, marking the start of a long association with urban life and commerce.
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America
Princeton College Mourns Dr John Maclean Ex President
A long obituary notes Dr John Maclean ex president of Princeton College who died. The piece recalls his eighty years of campus presence in cloak and high hat and his nightly patrols with a dark lantern and gum shoes. It recounts student pranks and the campus proctor system under President McCosh.
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Princeton College
Jturper
John Maclean
Princeton
Johnnie
John
McCosh
Not a Thrower and the Myth of Womanly Bravery
The piece argues that women are physiologically unsuited for brick throwing and pitching, using humor and literary references to claim women’s shoulders and frame shape hinder aiming and throwing. It critiques masculine assumptions about female strength and temperament, suggesting cultural stereotypes shape sport and violence.
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Truman
Chicago
Haymarket
Tony
Cleopatra
Cairo
Ig Aly
Octavia
Dante
Beatrice
Alers
Ancient builders borrow Egyptian art for Greek structure
The article traces how European builders learned stone construction from Egypt then passed it to Greece and Rome. It notes similarities in temple pediments and roof forms shaped by climate, praising Egyptian influence on classical architecture and the spread through colonization.
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Greece
Egypt
Tt Temple
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Atlanta
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Royal Academy of Sciences
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United States
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Mrs. Shapkins
Jane
Love
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Siming
Mrs. Simp
Burgh Dispatch
Blubbs
Dobbs
Blobbs
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