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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1901
Page
1
A lyrical image of a Moon-Baby cradle under a violet sky opens a mixed prose and verse piece. The second tale, The First Love, follows a boy of fifteen who plans to marry Mollie the doctor's cook, facing practical hurdles, a meddling friend, and a gardener revealing Mollie’s fate, ending with bittersweet memories and cheesecakes.
The piece notes Belgians kingly vanity with a silk sack for the beard and a daily beauty routine, plus weekly trims by the valet de chambre to keep hairs away from the collar. It then contrasts a girl begging her father to visit grandma with his quip about costs and bushes.
A feature on corduroy fashion for walkers and the revival of undersleeves, followed by a profile of Grace McKinley, niece of President McKinley, who chose teaching over a courtly life after graduating from Mount Holyoke. It also highlights four American-born Klumpke sisters gaining fame in France in art medicine astronomy and music.
A survey of daily life topics: Swiss hotel waitresses from wealthy families. Frau Nina Auerbach widow of a famed German novelist is dead. German Empress photographer with a large collection. 1550 Cuban census workers include many women paid five dollars a day. A self-built four-room house near Fountain Ferry Park Indiana. Chinese brides wear a long plait with scarlet thread symbolizing marriageability. Dr Rebecca Johnston of New York runs a morning free clinic thrice weekly. French marriage dot custom dying out, likened to extinct species. Atlanta Business Women's League forms with seventy five members seeking incorporation. West women’s suffrage via state legislatures boosts Denver-led Colorado clubs’ Senate bids. London report: a women’s cooking club disbanded after members marry, dinners run by members with male guests allowed.
Dr. Talmage envisions the next century bringing major advances in invention religion and social reform. He predicts universal peace a fully inaugurated millennium and the conquest of crime and poverty as cities are saved by the gospel. He urges Christians to labor toward morning without clouds with confidence in divine victory.
Dry Goods Economist notes a catalog of ladies items including box calf shoes with Cuban heels netted ceilings short jackets with hips and back stacks of chiffon in gold, eiderdown wrappers trimmed with braid, sterling toilet articles, imitation tortoise shell hair pins, Irish point scarfs and shams, heavy cotton school hosiery, patent leather belts with gold braid, gold plated barrettes, Marie Antoinette lawn handkerchiefs, velvet hats in various colors, double breasted French kersey coats, mercerized sateen petticoats with accordion pleating, and ribbon clasps for bows.
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