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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1890
Page
13
A humorous essay argues men misstate judgment in buying women's wear while a wife weighs needs against cost. It mocks male overconfidence in fashion purchases and contrasts shopping strategies, noting colors, fabrics, and the tension over prices and worth.
A dapper man in his forties enters a millinery shop and selects a bright red crape hat for his wife after describing her small, thin face and preference for different colors. The scene prompts reflections on men’s fashion knowledge and the era’s hat styles, with notes on red hats affecting complexion and two model illustrations for light-weight summer fabrics.
The article praises millinery fashion for Martens and Misses and Baby Boys with sun hats and neglige chapeaux. It describes tennis and picnic hats trimmed with ribbons and quills, seaside style hats in light materials, and notes the coming outing season with summer visitors arriving at seaside resorts.
The article celebrates roses as the queen of flowers for millinery and describes hat garnitures and colors in vogue. It notes roses, lilies, and laurel as favored motifs, describes wide brims, sailor hats for children, and straw hats in green, gray, heliotrope, and other shades. It cites a New York fashion moment with rose-adorned hats and mentions a poet designed lace and lilac trimmed specimen by Ona Seaney.
A Victorian style essay praises French culinary thrift and practical cookery. It notes that economical cooking uses every ingredient, cites Delmonico’s lunch for 35 people at a dollar, and offers recipes and methods for spinach, cheese dressing, fruit macedoine, hard sauce, chicken dishes, tartare sauce, and techniques to prep bread, raisins, and poultry.
Mrs Kendal plans a memoir titled The Kendals in America or What I Had Better Left Unsaid recounting a late London visit. The note jokes about Queen Victoria’s reaction and features a curiously described ostrich hat accessory from the court milliner.
Carmencita recounts how at 15 she was seized by brigands between Madrid and the Escorial. After entertaining them with a dance, the band chief paid her with money from the masses and gave a bent iron to protect her from future molestations.
Miss Helen Bertram a prima donna with Howe Opera Company offers hair care tips. She warns against fine combs and wire brushes, favors a bristle brush, and prescribes 5 to 15 minutes of daily downward brushing. She endorses a bay rum rinse and monthly ends clipping while discouraging many hair tonics. She also explains cutting hair at new moon to preserve oil and color inside the scalp.
Phebe Couzins criticizes the system where a United States Marshal advances costs for the District Court and clerks in the First Controller’s office at Washington have near limitless power to suspend accounts. She cites mileage cuts and out-of-pocket carriage expenses from Cape Girardeau to St Louis and Clayton to the point of loss, urging reform.
A practical guide to household nursing stressing cheerfulness, obedience to physicians, clear patient communication, cleanliness, and trained, steady hands. It covers patient comfort, voice control, confidentiality, attire standards, and daily habits to prevent contagion and improve outcomes.
The piece recalls Mrs. J. C. Ayer and Mrs. John Bigelow by Vichy in France, noting Ayer’s engagement to Prince Dulgo rovki and Bigelow’s eccentric dress. It contrasts Ayer’s lavish wardrobe with Bigelow’s plain, dowdy style, and highlights their social prominence among international visitors at the famed spa.
Women seek washable gowns for warm weather to stay neat and healthy as daily laundering becomes essential. English cottons and linens, damaske fabrics, and floral stripes offer stylish, washable options with careful care. The piece notes fashionable London styles, stage costumes, and hair trends, favoring smooth hair and simpler masses over harsh features. it highlights Kate Greenaway’s and Edgeworth era styles as influential for young and old alike.
Edward Cook left England for America with a pointer he later lost while hunting near Baltimore. Months later his brother George heard a dog in the night and sheltered it, discovering it was the same dog. The pair reunited when the master returned, though they never learned which vessel carried the dog back to England.
The Boston Herald notes Mrs Langtry's rumored religious turn following recent London reports. It flags a contradicting cablegram describing a wild supper party attended by Mrs Pasgiry and companions, suggesting sensationalism in theater advertising and press coverage.
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