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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1900
Page
9
A Breakfast Chat writer cites a preface on Character Expressed by the Hand noting the hand as a dictionary of its owner. It urges clean, well kept nails, light domestic work with gloves when possible, and regular hand exercises and massage to preserve beauty and function.
Shopkeepers note a surge in sunshades with black handles favored by women this season. The trend marks a shift in accessary style as retailers report strong demand for the darker hue in practical, wearable sun protection.
A sensational fashion note describes a woman who has repurposed a braided leather whip, once used to discipline a pet, into a belt. The accessory is worn around the waist with a straight leather piece and a sturdy harness buckle in front, a curious trend in collars for dogs.
The autumn color card presents six pastels and a wide range of greens blues and yellows. Names include Emeraude Paon Watteau Ciel Azur Champs de Mars Trocadero Elec tricite Lumineux and Cleopatra Eldorado Kharki. Many shades surface with new labels while existing tones reappear.
A historical kitchen hint details making baked custard with milk eggs and sugar, plus flavor options such as cinnamon vanilla nutmeg or lemon. It suggests jam, dried fruit, chocolate, dates with nut meats and meringue, and richer blends with extra yolks cream or raisins ginger and citron. GSUSTARDS may be varied indefinitely.
Tomorrow at Epiphany Baptist Church Chestnut corner 36th Street services at 10 30 AM and 8 PM. Walnut Street Presbyterian Church hosts Rev Alfred H Kellogg at morning and evening services. Memorial Baptist Church preacher Edwin M Poteat speaks on Christ Mission and War in China in the morning and delivers Character Sketch No 8 Felix in the evening. Masonic Home holds 4 PM service with Louis Wagner sermon Life Uncertain Death Sure. Northminster Presbyterian Choir provides music. Baptist Young People's Union rally planned at South Broad Street Baptist Church for Cincinnati convention July 12 to 15. Elder Lee Wheeler and W J Fitzgerald announce Gospel tent services at Thirty mente and Brown streets. Calvary Lutheran Church reopens Friday with Rev G W Enders and Rev Sydney Elon Bateman to preach. Berean Church marks twentieth anniversary with sermon by Rev Matthew W PRR.
Monday 2 PM Select Council holds special meeting for general business. Tuesday 3 30 PM Councils committee on schools to open bids. Thursday 2 PM Regular bi monthly meeting of the Board of Supervisors.
Visitors including New Hampshire delegates and Hawaii judge A N Kepoikai called on Mayor Ashbridge yesterday. Select Council plans a Monday special meeting to act on measures favorably voted in Common. The Mercantile Tax Bureau saw heavy business as taxes near the July 10 deadline. Public baths reopen next Monday with nine facilities and new schedules. Wills probated include John Moore and Sarah T Johnson with multiple bequests to hospitals churches and charities.
The article notes a summer trend toward more dancing with two step and waltz remaining favorites and introduces Lucien C. Carpenter’s golf-step as a popular new routine. It describes a six count left and right pattern with three small slides, finished after repeating four cycles, with the lady starting on the right and the gentleman on the left.
A new English study argues the Philippines war was misrepresented and Dewey allied with Aguinaldo for independence not annexation. Also reviewed is Esther Singleton’s Paris as Seen and Described by Famous Writers and Frank Stockton’s late works.
The Macmillan Company plans James Lane Allen novel The Reign of Law to be released July 5. Hindu children songs and Rajah gopaul writings highlighted. Cassell's National Library issues include Sir John Maundeville and The Wisdom of the Ancients New Atlantis. Rohde Haskins publish Tim Tom and Tom Tax Tariff debate for Roswell Benedict. Appleton's condenses Froissart for young readers with Berner translation and illustrated edition.
A long list of newly arrived publications with authors and prices. Notable items include Georgie by S. E. Kiser, Secrets of Monte Carlo by William Le Queux, A Gentleman Born by Edward C. Kane, and The American Business Woman. Prices range around 75 cents to $1.50 for various novels, biographies, and reference works.
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