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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1893
Page
7
StYILISH MILLINERY notes that sailor hats dominate the season for country, yacht, and city wear. Elaborate trims such as wings, roses, grasses, and rosettes on a roses band elevate the plain sailor, while the picture bar remains popular for smart occasions and small bonnets offer a prettier alternative.
White dominates Parisian gowns with white hats and veils. brown and blue straw hats with velvet trims appear. Glossy geawish braids and white satin trim pair with black wings. Garden party hats feature ostrich tips and plumage. The season favors circular basques and satin frills, with pink and green tea gowns and a blue jet hat. The piece notes fashion notes, fabrics, and accessory details from Harpers Bazaar and French modistes.
A historical presenting of a proposed multifloor hall for a Knights of Pythias style secret society. The design emphasizes a business basis with earning capacity to cover charges and create a sinking fund. Detailed layout includes stores on the first floor, offices and social rooms on the second, and a 45 by 50 foot main hall with an open timber roof on the third floor. It notes independent connections to the hall, multiple ancillary rooms, and light features for basement spaces.
The corridor planning emphasizes light to attract tenants, with basements brightened by bulkheads and side windows. Architecture borrows from fourteenth century French motifs, featuring an elliptical entrance, crenelated cornice, and corner towers. Terra cotta adornment centers a central Knights of Pru jan feature.
Article notes Wissahickon stratified gneiss forming cave like spaces, including the Hermit's Cave. It cites Meehan's Monthly on cave genesis via acid limestone dissolution and mentions an arctic explorer figure at the cave mouth from a relief expedition for Lieutenant Peary.
Mr 5 F Walker explains electricity as the motion of molecules in substances subjected to electrical action. He notes the definition parallels heat and other forms of energy and outlines understanding of electrical force and its effects.
An early physician warns against indiscriminate use of springs, sea bathing, Turkish baths, and exercise as cures. He notes dangerous effects on delicate individuals and recounts a mother bathing a four year old to death. He urges common sense and cautious guidance from the therapeutical world.
A Blue Earth description quotes an astronomer claiming if one stood on the moon the Earth would appear 64 times larger than the Sun to lunar observers. The Earth would look blue and swiftly revolving, with eight times the Moon’s diameter and the sea showing similar surface to observers on Earth.
The Industrial World describes a diver's helmet adapted with a copper sheet replacing a glass pane and a telephone fixed to the helmet. By turning his head slightly, the diver can report visible conditions or receive instructions from above while at the river bottom or set.
A fragment discusses sound heat light and electricity rates, explains refraction when viewing submerged objects, and describes a coin seen via water refraction. It includes an experiment with a syringe, a vase, and a coin hidden by water. It ends with a line about boring wells by electricity.
The office of master of the music in ordinary to the queen has been offered to Sir Walter Parratt 52 a Huddersfield native and lifelong church organist He directs the pie band guards the royal library at Buckingham Palace and will have special conductors for state concerts Parratt was knighted last year and is famed as a chess player reputedly playing blindfolded while Bach fugues ring out on the organ Also noted is a comical tale of a Boston Maine conductor aiding a frantic lady near Old Orchard.
A jumble of quotes and facts appears with statements on success, emerald rarity, solar heat, a London letter traveling world in 62 days, a flotilla of steamships, the sensation of violet light, Gainsborough’s parentage, and the unusual burial of Clement Spelman upright in a pillar at Nar burg church.
A St Nicholas correspondent explains spider biology and lore. Spiders spin sticky threads from tiny tubes, forming varied webs used for swinging, floating, or scientific observations. The cross spider is named for its white mark, not its temperament, and tarantism links to a dance.
A list of terms to avoid in usage is discussed along with a quizzical verse about nursery language and a garbled note on toy project designs. The text mixes examples of preferred wording shifts with misprints and fragmented lines from songs and notes.
A North American Review passage surveys Australian women, noting beauty and social dress, equality fashion, and a mix of cleverness with limited intellect. It contrasts Melbourne style, dowdiness, and vanity, while critiquing domestic expectations and parenting amid cultural attitudes.
In a sketch of Emily Dickinson a friend recalls her reclusive habits and oddities such as conversing from a balcony and walking with a Newfoundland named Carlo. A tale from South Carolina adds a 12 year old boy with extraordinary memory who repeats Genesis after three hours and can copy written text with punctuation and flourish.
The Herald notes the Senselers display at the fair tempts theft as thousands crowd daily. It argues costly gems and ostentatious watches invite crime and urges women to avoid carrying valuables, suggesting simplicity and restraint protect against dishonesty.
A fragmentary 1733 Lynouston church register notes Baldwin Es journur ta este immune. References to married couples show quarrels and a drastic line about dancing on ion. The piece mentions Patsy and Spartacus, Eliz Kellogg, and a Beverly police court tariff dispute over a man fined for slapping his wife and assaulting an arresting officer.
A medical advocacy urges keeping sickrooms well lit rather than darkened. Sunlight cleanses air of minute poisons, lifts mood, and reduces dirt and disarray caused by darkness. Dr B W Richardson and private practice alike should extend this sunlit remedy to home patients.
Mo Doutdouki of Moscow suggests head percussion to diagnose material lusion and ease headache. Light taps, fading in intensity, act as a vibratory massage providing momentary relief while seeking underlying cause. The method also helps muscular pain in nervous individuals and is easy to try with no harm even if it does not cure.
Foreign exchanges of recent date carry a correspondence by two French surgeons proposing that pork food may origin cancer. They note two well established facts: animal origin of various diseases and harm from common animal foods. They cite urticaria from shellfish and intestinal disorders from bad meat, and mention ancient claims that pork causes leprosy.
A New York Medical Journal writer commends codeine as a aid in treating morphine dependence but cautions it will not replace patient effort. The drug eases withdrawal by providing relief from pain and is dosed according to prior morphine use.
The piece argues that true breeding rests on simplicity, not peasant simplicity but refined, artificial naturalness. Vulgarity arises from unrest, imitation, envy, or trying to outdo others, and the text cites The Atlantic Monthly urging careful book use and respect for hosts, advising guests not to hoard borrowed books.
The ad touts Rambler bicycles as a healthful recreation that improves eyes and cheeks, promises strength and safety, and cites 14 years of bicycle sales experience. It claims corrugated G. & J. pneumatic tires prevent dangerous side shaping and guarantees each unit. Call to try them at the MNzw office.
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