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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1902
Page
6
The piece lauds Shariot M Hall as a leading Western writer of recent years with verses on desert life and various phases of frontier life. It criticizes domestic tensions and gender roles, urging careful, affectionate guidance in marriage and home life, citing advice from Lilian Bell in Barber’s Bazaar on how wives should manage husbands.
A fragment from a late era column recounts a girl raised among gavarendians and a love of the west, then shifts to a New York Journal essay on scolding as discipline. It argues calm, respectful rebuke fosters better behavior and notes a cooperative household trial where a cook and housekeeper shared a weekly budget, yielding savings and lessons about efficiency.
Helen M. Winstow argues in Woman's Home Companion that women should seek a moral purpose guiding their actions beyond personal desire. She asserts duty and the race’s good as standards, warns that work may erode femininity, and cautions married and independent women alike against embracing discontent.
The piece discusses facial wrinkling prevention through good nutrition and dental care, plus facial massage as body exercise to tone muscles. It then shifts to home furnishings trends, noting benches as mantel substitutes and decorating ideas with racks, bric a brac, rugs, and cushions.
Many people complain that the boiler rusts and iron molds the clothes. The remedy is to rub the boiler well with kitchen soap immediately after emptying it while warm and coating generously so the soap oils the boiler for the next washing day.
Mrs Annie McKay of Toronto, chaplain for the Sons of Temperance, credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her severe female troubles after seven months of use. She describes previous weakness, inflammation, and fatigue, and urges other women to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
A fashion feature describes evening gowns using tiny artificial towers as trims on sheer silks and dotted chiffons. Ball gowns in sheer shawls, oriental satin princess dresses, and embroidered chiffron overdresses appear with rosebud appliques, decolette shapes, peau de sole ribbons, and woolen glople trims.
A brief fashion observation notes scarce arms and the growing influence of violent exercise on female dress. It highlights the Turkish sleeve as a novelty on dive gowns, describing its sheer,soft, and voluminous qualities and its role in lone sleeve styles.
A fragmentary note from the New York Tribune describes an island burial on Martha's Vineyard with seventeenth century stones. The text hints at an epitaph reading of innocence and death, mentioning Elizabeth and a guardian grave scene with cautious reciphering of inscriptions.
Glowing descriptions note dinner and tea cloths edged with re naissance laces and similar inserts, with prices for best qualities reaching high figures. Napkins to match are likewise costly.
Mrs Mitford and Mrs Graham discuss a brutal incident as a friend allegedly harmed someone last evening, reflecting shock and horror in Boston society. The exchange underscores dissatisfaction with cruelty and the public’s uneasy curiosity about violent events reported in the Boston Transcript.
The Indianapolis News notes a grocer offering a higher priced item but at the same price to the customer. The piece hints at a misorder or substitution and a consumer dispute over value and pricing.
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