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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1902
Page
15
Martha Taft Wentworth extols professional home styling for women, noting firms can plan and estimate costs to the dollar. She illustrates color’s power with a red room tale and credits soft greens for calm, warning against overuse of bold hues.
Practical kitchen guide detailing quick bacon strips fried until crisp, then eggs cooked in bacon fat, followed by milk gelatin desserts, mixed ice drinks, cherry soup, and a rice and raspberry pudding with raspberry sauce. Includes steps for preparing lemon or vanilla flavors and serving suggestions.
The piece extols love as the source of beauty, goodness, and enduring values. It links mortal and divine love to family, friendship, service, and faith, arguing love lifts thoughts and actions toward higher aims. It urges readers to cultivate noble loves and place affections on lofty ends.
Practical advice on pest control and scent based remedies appears, recommending sunflower seeds for rodent baits and sandalwood vaporization via a hot shovel to scent rooms. The text also mentions a cough remedy tied to a household context.
Parisian perfumer, drawing from a garden near Paris, uses crushed orchids to craft three cosmetics. He claims orchid extracts yield wonderful scents and aid in softening and beautifying the skin, contributing to his fame.
A survey of home goods includes a tin strawberry picker, a mammoth strawberry cream pitcher, burlap wall borders, rock crystal pansy holders, Gosseware in cream tones, Old English glass, milk porcelain Tumblers, the Darby and Joan two seater, various woods and weave inspired wallpapers, leather cushions, lion rampant prints, colonial style glass candlesticks, and period glass tableware. A poem mocks Science in Babyland and cradle debates.
Philadelphia clubs map a busy summer with the T B Club hosting a tennis tournament at Fairmount Park in July plus practice Saturdays. Civic Club lists playground visits and vacation schools, free concerts at Recreation Pier, and excursions for poor families.
Three hundred alumnae gathered at the school on Broad and Master streets for a reunion and the showing of a comedy Twentieth Century Courtship, depicting 1950s courtship pace. A dinner honored the graduating class and Miss Emily Sarraff spoke as principal.
Baron Eiichiro Shibusawa, a leading Japanese merchant and head of forty stock companies with $100,000,000 capital, arrives in San Francisco with a large retinue. Former president of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce, he is touring the world for pleasure after being made a peer for his contributions to Japan's commerce.
A narrator recalls a fishing mishap and misadventures with gear as a boot fills with water and the line flies off. He improvises, returning to the pole and casting anew, reflecting that luck in fishing is not always good.
The Brooklyn Handicap and warm spell bring summer fashion into focus with a relaxed look for all heights and builds. Rich Panama hats are costly and fading imitations. looser wide trousers dominate English styles. notable wearers include Harry Payne Whitney and Alfred Vanderbilt in blue flannels and brown suits.
Social pages detail numerous attendees. Mrs. Clarence Mackay and Mrs. Duncan traveled by motor victoria in rose pink and pale gray gowns with lace and ostrich feather hats. Mrs. Harriman, Mrs. Siegel, and Miss Cassatt wear elaborate black, white, and blue ensembles with lace, Pompadour panels, and wide hats.
The Philadelphia area rail division announces three June dates for excursion trips to Oxford Pa for the Spring Fair. Tickets may be bought from Philadelphia, Chester and nearby stations with return validity through June 7.
The New Deaf Mute Association met in Trenton on May 1 and elected Isaac Broker president and J ohn Neenae vice president with Rose Stephenson as secretary. About twenty attendees gathered, including members from New York and Philadelphia.
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