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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1893
Page
7
The article surveys season trends emphasizing triangular silhouettes with lace trims and capotes, Paris influences, and new jewelry designs. It details outfits featuring black satin skirts with yellow bodices, corded grenadine, and jeweled buckles, plus various heart and whimsical jewelry motifs in diamonds, rubies, and sapphires.
The article details bracelets and bangles with single stones and diamonds set in tint cups to create a raised look. It notes a diamond heart bangle doubling as a safety pin brooch, and describes plain curtain ring bangles with gold charms like bells, a padlock, and bears, highlighting English enamel as particularly beautiful.
Fragmented fashion notes describe cotton dresses with elaborate trimming, ribbons, and lace, noting plain skirts fading and skirts featuring new materialed frills. A separate item reports on acids' effect on microbes, praising citric acid for destroying microbes in tainted beverages and recommending lemonade with optional bicarbonate to neutralize acidity.
A nineteenth century guide outlines proper tools for dressmaking and a detailed method for taking measurements. It covers cutting tables, tape measures, scissors, pin cushions, needlebooks, thread, press boards, waist and sleeve pressing, and fabric notions. It then explains molding the waist diagram, marking darts, aligning lining, and fitting the basque waist to the body, with emphasis on accuracy and practice.
The article discusses needlework supplies and methods, noting patterns in lace and embroidery, and describes handling fabrics, patterns, and tools. It gives practical cleaning guidance for carpets using ox gall and ammonia, emphasizing careful preparation, rinsing, and drying.
A New Yorker known as Daniel Bedell works as a discreet lost and found specialist. He combs sidewalks, gutters, and hotel corridors for valuables, using tips from morning newspapers and cafe chatter to locate owners. Bedell pursues only the most valuable advertisements, calling himself honest and efficient in returning items like rings or diamonds for a reward.
A decor and furnishing article advises on cleaning and polishing floors with beeswax and turpentine or oils for a glossy or eggshell finish. It notes elbow grease, prep work, and the value of a dainty tea table to lift domestic mood, alongside household tips on bags, pine shavings as pillow filling, and damp-cellar care.
A historical note describes a revived method called tongue traction to restore respiration in asphyxia from drowning or poisoning. It urges rhythmic pulling of the tongue tip to mimic breathing, claiming deep sighs or vomiting may follow and respiration returns with continued traction. Authors Labonte Laborde and Billot are cited as proponents of this reflex approach.
An eminent physician advises mothers that infants, whether breastfed or bottle fed, will crave water in dry weather. Teething and restlessness lessen with hourly spoonfuls of water, aiding cooling evaporation. If the child seeks water, offer more as it accepts. pure water does no harm even if not taken all at once.
A French statistician estimates for a 50 year old man that he has worked 0.500 days and slept 6.000, raised self, walked 12.000 miles, been ill 500 days, eaten 96.000 meals, consumed 16.000 pounds of meat and 4.00 pounds of fish eggs and vegetables, and drunk 7.000 gallons of fluid, enough to form a lake of 500 feet surface at three feet deep.
A selected Calcutta doctors committee is ordered by the government of Yadis to investigate a new strychnine injection method for snake bites. Reports from Australia claim the method has already shown definite success.
The piece presents etiquette advice for visitors from Good Housekeeping emphasizing prompt acceptance or decline of invitations, not being met at trains, not overattributing host duties, fair tipping for servants, and avoiding extended stays. It also includes a simple railroad rule of thumb: multiply rail weight per yard by 11 and divide by 7 to estimate tons per mile, exemplified by a 10 pound rail giving about 15.7 tons per mile.
An illustrated plan describes an attractive colonial style church with a square tower clocked belfry and slate roof. It outlines construction details from foundation to interior finish and notes varied costs and heating, while suggesting a church can raise funds through subscriptions and boost local property values.
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