Lilian's secret marriage shocks Lady Jane and Banford
Lilian reveals she married Williams by special license in Wormington, prompting Lady Jane to banish the groom and confront the deception. Lord Banford reacts with amusement as Lilian unveils her husband, Tarleigh, in disguise, leaving Lady Jane shocked and disapproving of the ruse.
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Evelyn
Shev
Lilian
Lord Banford
Indies
Lady Jane
Wormington
Williams
Wiliams
Lillian
Harleigh
Hampshire
St. Louis Star
Flo
Miss Branston
Jack
Tarleigh
Lord Orton
Marlelah
Decorated status boosts manners and movements in Europe
A traveling observer notes that award badges like the Legion of Honor and Golden Eagle grant courtesies across railways hotels and stations. In Vienna, milliners and flower makers protest a fashion ban on ornaments including birds, fearing mass layoffs and urging a reversal of the decree to sustain craft trades.
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Legion of Honor
Order of the Star
Europe
Washington Post
Women Officials and Social Progress Across Cities
London County Council plans to grow its women sanitary inspectors from eleven to twenty. In Milton Hill near Boston Massachusetts Mrs A D St Whitney famed author celebrates her seventy ninth birthday. In Tom’s River New Jersey women form a village improvement association electing Mrs G E Burr president. Margaret I M Sangster named as third representative at Canadian National Convention of the World’s Women’s Christian Association. Indianapolis resident Mrs Rhoda Houghton Millikan dies noted as friend of poet James Whitcomb Riley. Hot Springs Arkansas widow Mrs Martha W Junham a Wesleyan alumna from 1838 remains vigorous at seventy seven. Southern Pacific reports more women stenographers than ever, accepting lower pay. Boston Park Commissioners adopt rules to remove billboard and advertisement signs from parks and parkways.
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London County Council
A. D. ST. Whitney
Milton Hill
Boston
Mass
Toms River
N. J
G. E. Burr
Margaret IX. Sangster
World’s Women’s Christian Association
Rhoda Houghton Millikan
Indianapolis
James Whitcomb Ri. Icey
Martha wJunham
Hot Springs
Ark
Wesleyan Female College
Southern Pacific
Boston Park Commissioners
Emperor of Peddlers Hayard Sketch Returns From Paris
Napoleon Hayard the so called emperor of Paris street peddlers dies leaving a strange career. A former soldier in Poland, Italy and France he wore a yataghan with mock jewels and two large pistols. He became a penniless street merchant then a ballad maker and topical toy trader. His quips and verses charmed Paris as vendors mourn his passing and his last words deny being a sweater.
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Napoleon Hayard
T. P’s Weekly
Poland
Italy
I’rence
Hayard
Paris
Vayard
Alme
Humbert
Pauvre
Therese
Simple hair styles replace exaggerated dress era
The piece advocates minimal hair dressing with simple lines in gowns and wraps. It condemns immense puffs horns and flamboyant croiffures as vulgar and low bred. It notes hats now require soft fluffiness and less elaborate hair underneath, aligning with restrained styling trends.
Cinnabar Deposits Spark NSW Mercury Venture
Extensive cinnabar deposits unearthed in New South Wales prompt local capital to fund a stamping works to treat ore. The find matters since mercury ore is scarce, with California serving much of the U S demand and European supplies dwindling.
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New South Wales
California
America
Europe
Strong Woman Swimmer Towers-Clark Crosses Solent
Miss Towers-Clark swam from Yarmouth to the mainland near Hurst Castle, covering two miles 660 yards in one hour seventeen minutes. aided by tidal current, she was accompanied by her father in a rowboat and then rowed back to her Fort Victoria home.
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Miss Towers-Clark
Solent
Yarmouth
Hurst Castle
Fort Victoria
Philadelphia
Fashionable Jewelry Trends Highlight Diamond and Turquoise Styles
In full dress wear diamonds pearls and turquoise are popular with collars brooches pendants and trinkets. Jeweled hat pins waist belts and long earrings are in vogue while New Zealand stones add green elegance and a rosy pink opal like gem offers necklace pendant or brooch options.
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New Zealand
If You Would Manage Him Quote From Home Notes
A Home Notes line advises wives on marital care and management. It urges loving study of the husband and to tailor responses to his traits from honesty to jealousy, secrecy to sociability, urging praise, support, and gentle guidance within marriage.
The New Earring Fashion of the 1830s Droop
The article explains a shift from Gibson square shoulders to elongated droop in earrings. Pennant earrings and pierced ears support heavy, diamond stud bases with pendants like rubies or pigeon-blood rubies. Elaborate designs add small diamonds, and bi colored earrings and single earrings gain popularity.
Fashion Demands Jewels at Society Functions
The piece notes a trend toward wearing a variety of gems beyond diamonds and pearls with afternoon attire. It suggests the vogue partly stems from a craze for barbaric jewelry influencing social dress at these events.
Lace fashions reflected in graceful dresses and accessories
The article notes lace trims for fur, shirred undersleeves, jabots, and delicate lace wrists as essential in revival styles. It highlights Cluny and Irish crochet lace, silk lace, and lace braid on net dresses, with taffeta fabrics and hats featuring taffeta ribbons shaping elegant evening attire.
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