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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1892
Page
4
The article reviews cloth and velvet mantles with suggestions for garniture and fit, noting cloth offers richer trimming while velvet suits dowagers. It describes a beige cloth mantle with tobacco brown plush pelorine, a beaded fringe, and a feather plastron style. It also covers cleaning tips for leather and fur lined gloves for cold days, plus new glove colors and styles.
The description notes a dark ground plaid fabric with light cross stripes. A feather muff completed the ensemble, suggesting a winter fashion detail from a bygone period.
A catalog of children's clothing showcases pure wool and camel hair pants hats and bonnets in Indian red egg blue fawn brown and soft grays. Gowns indoors and party frocks use amber yellow silk pale blue crepon and electric-blue trimmings. Garments include a Grecian indoor gown a Russian blouse with embroidery a scoprdion-kilted skirt and a pelisse with blue serge and astrachan trim.
Mrs Mallon critiques elaborate gowns for theater box wear while approving modestly elaborate dresses for post performance hospitality. She praises evening gowns in white cloths gray taffetas Bengalines brocades and rich fabrics where design acts as the trim to enhance the fabric’s richness.
Mrs Mallon reviews a sealskin Russian blouse with high full sleeves belted by suede and sealskin band. A mink cravatte at the throat, a cloth toque with mink heads and tails complete the ensemble. The wide coat suits only a slender figure.
An English report, cited from the Japan Mail, denounces the ancient Chinese practice of foot binding as brutal and degrading. It describes the endless torture, deformity, and lifelong hobbling of young girls, condemning parental consent as moral failure and calling for reform amid a nation of 300 million.
A New York telegram and West mail via Pittsburg failed to arrive by its 5 50 PM Friday time and much of the mail was damaged by fire and water from a wreck near Altoona Pennsylvania. Seven bags mainly containing Christmas boxes for delivery in New York were soaked and partly destroyed, with drying efforts underway to salvage what remains. A physician notes Syrup of Figs offers relief for constipation and bills it as a reliable family remedy with favorable results.
John Fitzsimmons appeared yesterday at the seventeenth ward station on charges of stealing a hat and an overcoat from Dillemuth's store. He was fined ten dollars and ordered to pay for the goods.
A passenger recalls a chance meeting on a 6:30 Euston to Chester express with a mysterious stranger who claims to be a journalist and asks him to stash a valise. In Dublin at the Griffin Hotel the valise leads to a confrontation with Scotland Yard and a revealed forged bank notes plot surrounding a captivating woman.
A fragment describes a Christmas event at a gallery on Federal Street with mentions of bottles of Angostura Bitters and a warning to beware of counterfeits. The text references a small sale or display and a noted product as a Christmas table staple.
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