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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1891
Page
13
A London tea in Kensington at 48 The Gore offers a genteel respite from travel. The narrator, arriving by hansom in rain, finds Mrs. Tomkyns and a cordial welcome with tea and dainty pastries among pretty companions by the fire.
A narrator contrasts crowded rooms and social routines between English and American entertainments. He notes London afternoons filled with drives shopping private views and late dinners followed by theater or opera while crowds and etiquette shape social life.
The narrator describes fatigue from social duties as a carriage arrives with ladies to be received gracefully. He plans to start a sequence of gentle English style afternoons after returning to homeland life, seeking to avoid the discomforts of lavish social show.
A visitor describes English tea culture in a charming room with simple treats, noting minimal preparations and the hostesses setting, tea freshly brewed for each batch, and occasional musical entertainment. The piece contrasts American expectations with English practice and mentions wedding lists and social visits.
A writer defends fashion journalism for women arguing that pricey descriptions drive aspiration but frugal readers seek elegance. He asserts that skilled women can adapt high end French or English models to limited materials and budgets without losing grace or color.
A reader recalls an attractive walking gown in fawn color with dark blue accents. The skirt, made of fawn cloth, reaches only to the knees before being cut in a stylish fashion.
A fragmentary description details a cream faille gown with otter-brown velvet and black chenille lace trim, a square four inch deep robe, and a blue silk underlayer. The bodice is oddly designed with a braided waist section, ending abruptly.
The piece surveys three quarter length gowns with silver clasps and blue lining, a dark blue hat with feathers, and kaleidoscopic bonnets in Bond Street, Regent Street, and Piccadilly. It mocks extravagant belts and ornate millinery, laments frowzy hair, and jokes about a snake motif on a bonnet while questioning contemporary Ibsen exposure.
A carriage gown in pale gray drap d ete features a plain trailing skirt with tiny vandycks and a silver bead flecked rube. The seam free bodice uses a wide collar of heavy silver embroidery with lace frill, long sleeves, and silk puff at the waist. The mantle shows tiers of silk and a pointed yoke. Accessories include a gray bonnet with yellow buttercups, pale gray gloves and gray suede shoes with silver buckles.
The article notes new mantles with little near the waist, highlighting a dark brown nouveanure with a square beaded yoke. The design features a pleated skirt, silk scarf front, cross-shouldered beaded fringe, and a three-bow shoulder fringe, emphasizing heavy iridescent beadwork.
The Paris fashion scene aims to restore heavily trimmed and draped skirts while women adapt to life with peril from furniture and nails. Trianon paniers gain traction but suit only slender wearers in colored Dresden silk looks.
A fashionable jeweler offered a golden four inch sword shaped lace pin with a cross shaped hilt and pearl ends on each arm. The weapon fits into an enamelled sheath and creates the illusion of a sword stabbed through lace when embedded through fabric.
A spring feature extols asparagus virtues and medicinal value. It notes salt aids growth on Coney Island and northern Spain shores, praises London growers, and details a French cooking method that uses the entire spear for delicate tenderness.
A 19th century piece argues children need guided play not excess. It recounts Mme Snetchine’s tale of a girl who returns a coveted watch and praises dolls and pantomimes as education. It urges adults to provide room, sympathy, and creative, simple science and games to nurture imagination and restraint.
The skeleton vest shown by the Mercer features a tall front, open back, and a continuous collar and shoulder wrap for proper shoulder setting. It fastens with a waist belt and comes in two sizes to fit busts from 32 to 46 inches. The garment emphasizes gala features and a weighty, stylish silhouette.
Howard Fielding recounts Maude buying a spring coat at Gadsby Co with $25 left, noting her clear preference for a tan Louis XV hip seam paletot or a Medici collar shoulder cape. He hints at a theory on whether women's intellect develops, preserving the dramatic anecdote.
In a comic expedition through Gadsby’s and Brownley’s Maude frets over fits, prices, and style while I endure a parade of salesgirls and a missing coat. A costly pursuit ends with another coat, a shopper’s manipulation, and a strained domestic balance.
Madison Buell argues that electric use of water power will replace steam engines, citing vast Niagara, Pacific river flows, and global horsepower totals. He describes turbines, dynamos, and long canals feeding mines, mills, and factories from Colorado to Salt St. Marie, predicting widespread adoption across cities such as New York and Brooke.
A survey of early electrical devices includes a ceiling mounted fire alarm triggered by heat, sprinklers reducing fire risk, and new lighting methods in France and London. Electricity powers hoisting and light driven alarms, silent call systems, and a lamp floating in water without wires. Reports from Boston cite American Rail Telephone Company earnings, dividends, and reserves. Salaries for railroad engineers and telegraph operators are noted, with reflection on the human cost of railway duties. The Berlin conundrum about God and the Emperor ends with a wry punchline about divine and imperial knowledge.
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