New Fall Gowns Preview Louis XVI Revival Notes
Mate Leroy surveys New York fashion, praising Mrs. Cora Urquhart Potter's stage gowns inspired by Louis XVI. He details gowns worn by Olivia and Marie Antoinette roles, fur trends from chinchilla to ermine, and the era’s modernized silhouettes. The piece blends period references with contemporary fabrics and accessories.
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Cora Urquhart Potter
Littl Trianon
Versailles
Jay
Marie Antoinette
Olivia
Ministers' Wives and the Blessings of Prudence
A Watchman quotation observes that ministers' wives are usually of a high type of womanhood. It suggests the Lord compensates pastors with virtuous spouses, noting that houses and riches come from fathers while a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Handkerchief Drier Aids Fine Lace Care
A four-piece wooden device with pegs and holes lets users adjust size. White felt padding secures lace and embroidery while pins hold fabric, stretching it like a lace curtain for air drying.
Color quotes from Worth Gottschalk and others
A collection of quotes on color labeling yellow as experienced, white as inexperience and aspiration, blue as worth living for, and pink as self sacrifice and generosity. The remarks attribute moods to colors and reference a blond in yellow seeming sunlit.
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Mate Leroy
Worth
Gottschalk
Baron Alphonse Rothschild Faces Anarchist Threats and Wealth
Profile of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild head of the Paris branch, his immense fortune and influence, and the repeated anarchist and anti Semitic threats against him. Notes his estates, world spanning banking power, and public stance on anti Semitism and violence.
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Baron Alphonse de Rothschild
Paris
Financiers
Baron Rothschild
Rothschild Bank
Rue Lafitte
Baron Alphonso
Baron James
Mayer Ansel
Frankfort
Baron Alphonse
Lord Rothschild
London
Ferrieres
France
Laycock's Valhalla Largest Pleasure Yacht In World
Joseph Laycock sails the Valhalla in New York harbor. The 239 foot full rigged ship costs 450000 dollars, carries 117 crew, and hosts two 8 pounder Hotchkiss and a Maxim gun. The yacht, built three years ago, travels across oceans with vast sails and limited steam, offering opulent interiors and rooms for ladies and crew. Laycock, 26, heir to wealth and Wisdon estate, owns extensive Rosshire deer parks and a Nottinghamshire family seat.
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Joseph Laycock
New York Harbor
William Barnard
Laycock
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Japan
Cape Horn
Iceland
Robert Laycock
Pariament
North Lincolnshire
Wisdon
Nottinghamshire
Rosshire
Scotland
Sault Ste Marie canal carries vast annual tonnage
The Sault Ste Marie canal linking Lakes Huron and Michigan now handles about 20 million tons of traffic each year, roughly twice the annual weight that moves through the Suez canal.
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Sault Ste. Marie Canal
Lakes Huron
Michigan
Suez Canal
Mexican Water Jars and Australian Skin Bottles
The text describes porous pottery water jars in Mexico that keep water cool through evaporation, enabling large but safe drafts. It notes Australians using leather skin bottles hung on verandas where air movement cools the liquid, making it palatable.
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Mexico
Natural Exclusiveness of Women in Society
The piece argues women are perceived as more aristocratic and exclusive by nature due to less broad life experience. It suggests women resist fraternizing with lower social orders, balancing male aristocratic tendencies with a drive toward strong personal character as an antidote to aristocracy. The Philadelphia Press perspective notes ongoing tensions between culture, refinement, and native vigor.
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Lfe
Maud Muller
Jif
Philadelphia Press
The Harm of Forcing Children to Walk On Raised Hands
A critique of mothers who drag toddlers by the hand with arms held high and simulate walking, arguing the strain harms heart muscles and nerves. The writer urges letting children walk unaided or with peers to prevent distress and injury.
The Typical New England Woman
The piece lampoons the typical New England woman as devoted yet prone to overbearing self sacrifice and nagging. It mocks Martha like virtue, carriages, and perpetual doubts within a rigid moral frame, claiming such a generation would be better off without consciences.
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New England
Martha
Virtue
Dante
Boston Transcript
What Keeps Women Young
A brief editorial note argues happiness comes from contentment rather than chasing change. It warns that wishing for a different tomorrow harms self view and friendships, aging women prematurely. Contentment is praised as a universal, wise quality to cultivate for lasting youthfulness.
Rolling a Sandwich to Keep moist and tender
A cooking note advises rolling sandwiches to prevent drying. Use tender home made bread twenty four hours old, spread meat paste on buttered slices, roll firmly, and pin each roll with a napkin. Let stand under light weight for hours to retain shape and keep moist when served promptly.
Practical coat hooks lock securely in Berlin restaurant
A Berlin restaurant introduces a practical invention with clothes hooks arranged so coats can be locked by a snap lock on the upper hook or hatrack. Regular guests receive a key, while transient visitors must ask for theirs at departure to reclaim their overcoats.
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Berlin
Pilgrims' Sons and the Congregational Council History
An overview of Congregationalists in America tracing their roots to Mayflower pilgrims, detailing the ninth triennial National Congregational Council at Syracuse from Oct 14, its 500 delegates, leadership, aims, and the denomination's historical growth through 1890s. Includes Moody sermon, Plymouth Church venue, and lineage to early English church societies.
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Congregational
United States
Syracuse
Congregational General Society
A. H. Quirt
Boston
Henry A. Hazen
William H. Moore
Hartford
Samuel B. Thurber
Daniel M. Camp
National Congregational Council
Dwight L. Moody
Plymouth Church
Albany
Boston Council
Chicago
National Council
Oberlin
New Haven
Detroit
St. Louis
Concord
N. H
Worcester
Minneapolis
Europe
Congregationalists
New World
First Church Society
Scruphy
Enghvnd
Pilgrims and Puritans in Early American Settlement
The text outlines early migration from England to America. It notes the Mayflower voyage departing Delft via Holland on July 22 1620, landing at Plymouth on December 16, and distinguishes Pilgrims from Puritans. It lists leaders William Bradford Miles Standish Alden and Winthrop among prominent figures associated with the pilgrims and Puritans.
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Armsterdam
Loydon
Delftahayen
Plymouth
Massachusetts
Maglaund
George Phillips
John Cotton
Richard Mather
Tnerease Mather
Voyager Du Chaillu Proved Trailblazer by Travelers Again
Veteran explorer Paul Du Chaillu, now about 60, is praised for discoveries in Africa and his Norse history project. He traveled 800 miles inland, collected thousands of specimens, and inspired renewed support as later explorers like Stanley verified his findings.
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Gotontints
du Chaillu
Paul Bellont du Chaillu
Africa
Paul DU Chailly
Aslog
Dui Chaillu
Dusha-yu
Paris
Gabon
Tilo
Hou
United States
New York Tribune
Stanley
du Chailly
Adare Manor: Ireland’s Grand Historic Home of Dunraven
Lord Dunraven, Irish noble and yachtsman, lives at Adare Manor eight miles from Limerick. The Gothic English estate spans 14 000 acres with a deer park, river salmon, and a famous grand staircase altered by the second Earl. Dunraven 54, a versatile figure as war correspondent and statesman, shapes hunting, architecture, and Irish affairs.
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Adare Manor
Ireland
Limerick
Shannon
Adare
Lord Dunraven
Lord Adare
Earl of
Dunraven
Mount Earl
Caroline Wyndham
Glamorganshire
Wales
Wyndham-Quin
Baron Kenny
United Kingdom
parHament
Lord Salisbury
Not a free country until all voices can be heard
The writer condemns the country for silencing dissent and compares its condition to Russia and Germany, arguing that slums and provincial towns deny respectable individuals the right to speak openly without mob harassment or harm. The critique laments societal intolerance and lack of civility.
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Russia
Germany
Both Eyes Open in Gun Aiming Says Calm Authority
The column advises shooters to use both eyes when aiming rather than closing one eye. Sir Ralph Galway argues open-eye aiming offers advantages including wider peripheral awareness, faster second shots, and quicker sighting of game, while conceding that a single-eye method can still work briefly.
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Ralph Galway
Dick's Dream Fishing Tale at the Shady Pool
A boy named Dick skips school to fish at a shady pool. He fails to hook any fish and returns home hungry. That night he dreams of monstrous catches and feasts, a tale from Christian Works about truancy and dreamish dinner hopes.
Girls learn to use tools and build with skill
A Brooklyn Bayle note says girls can learn carpentry and tool work, as with a hammer, screwdriver, saw, and inlaid cribbage board. The Royal College for the Blind class in London showed how quickly children learn to drive nails. The piece urges girls to master practical crafts and not rely on others for small tasks.
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Royal College For the Blind
London
Brooklyn Bayle
Owl and German prince mix in whimsical and wary notes
An assortment of observations blends a small owl’s bowing gaze with a grandic character of Little Billee and Germany’s prince studying naval law. The piece moves from animal charm to a grand naval scheme and shifts to trolley parties and water tax curiosities in urban life.
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Emperor
Germany
Little Billee
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Mother Hubbard
Laycock’s
Valhalla
the Conregational Church
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Mount Narl
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