The Game of the Day Lawn Tennis Praises and History
The article traces lawn tennis from antiquity to the present, noting its spread in Europe and its rise as a fashionable pastime. It cites Charles I and Henrys V to V, the shift from indoor courts to outdoor play in 1874, and mentions Major Walter Kingfield as key in moving tennis outdoors.
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Agrippina
Croquet
Cleopatra
Les Graces
Diana
Pila
Charles I
France
Henrys
Vol
England
Walter Kingfield
Dragoon Guards
Tennos and Lawn Tennis in Early Equipment Guide
A description of early lawn tennis in Newport and country houses detailing court sizes, boundary lines, lines of play, and equipment. It covers court layout with large and small courts, service lines, net standards, and the prohibits on faults and strokes. It notes costumes, rackets, balls, and shoe considerations and explains serving rights and fault rules.
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Newport
Tennois
Champagne
A Pretty Hamper Basket and Tennis Serve Excerpts
A Countess lauds a baby hamper with lace and ornamented items for a newborn. The article then shifts to tennis rules detailing single and double handed play, server and striker roles, fault conditions, and service procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie de Montaign
Tennis Court Net Description From Old Text
The passage describes a tennis court with a net stretched across the middle, supported by two posts situated three feet outside the sidelines. The net height is four feet at the posts and at the center over the half court.
Rules of the tennis service and volley play described
The passage outlines service conditions and faults for a tennis match. It defines ready status, repeated serves, volley rules, and how a ball on the fly or after a bounce is treated, including net touches and valid returns. It details when a point is scored and how strokes are counted under various service and return scenarios.
Racket Game Tactics Highlight Twist Ball Mastery
The article explains that skilled players gain advantage through study and patience, using the twist ball to complicate bounces. It notes how uncertainty in ball behavior can outwit adept opponents and, under certain failures by the striker-out, the server gains the stroke advantage, yielding a harvest for the striker-out.
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Gretna
Weir Mitchell
Two Scoring Systems Described For Tennis
The article explains two scoring methods for tennis. It details point by point progression from 15 to 40, then game, and how deuce occurs at 40 all. It also covers six games per set, the "games all" rule with advantage games, and variations in counting when different scoring modes are chosen.
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Pleven
Eit
Medea
Thoreau? No. Lawn Tennis Rules and Newport Practice
A discussion of umpiring for tennis with one umpire per side, the role of play calling and fair play, and the value of scientific, disciplined play. It notes long established rules, learned technique, and Newport tournaments with costly prizes.
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Newport
M. EW. Sherwaop
Two Easton Women Fight on Street Corner Over Man
Two Easton, Pennsylvania girls quarrel over a man and clash with punches in public. One strips a cast from an injury, the other removes a shawl, and bystanders urge the fight as no barring or dodging occurs.
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Easton
Brussels
Washington's tragic glamour home for the blue-blooded
A Dispatch correspondence describes Louise Corcoran Eustis Home the famed Confederate widows’ refuge in Washington near Morton’s palace. It details its 40 lifelong residents many Virginia nobles and Southern aristocrats, its strict blue-blood admissions, lavish rooms and hotel-like comforts, and notable inmates like Miss Hartley Graham and Mrs. Letitia Tyler Semple.
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Dispatch
Washington
Morton
South
W. W. Corcoran
Louise Corcoran Eustis
Congress
Louisiana
Eustis
United States
Louise Corcoran
France
Richmond
Charleston
New Orleans
Louise
Hartley Graham
Hartley
Miss Graham
Graeme
Letitia Tyler Semple
Purser Semple
United States Navy
Jobn Tyler
Household Hints For The Young Housekeeper
A Digpatch column emphasizes practical home management for young housekeepers. It covers sweeping and dusting, bread making, custards, coffee, and omelets as core skills, urging readers to learn through experience as a “dear school.”
Art of Beauty Blunders with a Beauty Parlor Experience
A New York woman recounts a disastrous encounter with a complexion parlor offering free treatments. She describes a crowded room, steam, towels, and aggressive sales pitches for face bleach soaps and creams, followed by painful massage. She notes minimal facial improvement and warns treatments may irritate sensitive skin.
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Ming
the Dispatch
New York
Mme
Sophia Hayden wins first prize for Woman's Building design
The article outlines Miss Sophia G Hayden's Italian Renaissance plan for the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. It details the center pavilion entrance with arches and Corinthian columns, the decorative frieze, and roof features while noting Hayden's Boston origins, Chilean birth, and path from Jamaica Plain to MIT and teaching mechanical drawing.
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Lautrop
Bornham
Sophia G. Hayden
Ter
Miss Hayden
Santiago
Chile
George Hayden
Jamaica Plains
Masa
Virginia
West Roxbury
Hayden
Institute of Technology
Eliot School
Spain
Chicago
Fads in Flowers and Trees Shape Spring Gardens
The article surveys coming horticultural fads, predicting a color blaze in carpet bedding with bright, ornate designs. It urges reliance on florists catalogs, notes a shift toward native shrubs and durable perennials, and advises careful pruning and planning for trees and shrubs as spring arrives.
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Maral
HeLten Whakburdor
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John Sherwood
America
Charles IX
St. Bartholomew
National Assembly
Bacwe
Balfecourt
London
Worth
Fish Commissioners
Portland
Ore
Dixie
Calhoun
Cocke
Catesby
Royal Stewart
Graham
John C. Calhoun
Webster
George Bancroft
Cleveland
White House
Hareford
Maryland
Frances Scott Key
Miss Williston
Martha Washington
South Oarolina
District of Columbia
de Louise Home
Corcoran
Howe
Vaughan
Ann Arbor
Miah
Fiona
Shilon
WM. Trinkle & CO
Wood ST
Bank of Commerce Building
Lincrusta Walton
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