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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1890
Page
13
The piece blends satire on Ottoman leather use and fairy tales about footwear. It recalls Cinderella and Goody Two Shoes while noting how shoes and slippers captivate modern fashion. The rambling essay links footwear to romance and social satire, ending with a nod to current dress trends.
The piece notes the irrational fondness for high heels called the "Grecian bend" worn by stylish women. It warns the absurdly tight shoes harm feet and body, with a cheeky line from Christine Terhune Herrick about prudent choices and economy.
The article catalogs silks, velvets, brocades, and textures spilling from Paris to Egyptian inspired designs. It highlights Regence silk, gold and silver weave brocades, and bold colorways including olive, amethyst, and Nile references. It notes gowns inspired by Mrs. Cleveland and Eastern fashion trends.
Mrs Hongerford proposes a decorative screen for a bedroom and cottage parlor. The item uses a 36 inch clotheshorse base, narrow folds, painted pink with silver cross stripes on upper panels, and is designed as a compact, attractive floral display.
The article details ribbon embroidery techniques for ornate screen panels. It describes pink India silk at each cross rail, a basket of flowers inspired by Louis XVI French panels, and construction methods using rib bons, scrim, paper disks, and colored ribbons.
In Clara Belles Chat the writer sketches two wealthy aging women at a Fifth Avenue home living in seclusion. The piece recalls a mid 1800s romance, a failed engagement, and the sisters' quiet life after inheriting wealth. It notes their stringent privacy and a small black poodle as the only sign of life.
Ben Butler, 71, long troubled by a drooping eyelid, had surgery at the General’s home in Lowell on February 17. The lid now matches his other eye, yet caricaturists still persist, praising his distinctive features and rose boutonniere. His wife, once an actress, inspired romance and two sons and a daughter. She loved flowers and pinned a rose to his coat at breakfast until her death.
The piece recalls Mrs Partington’s five day appearance as a witness in a humorous duel over notes and land, with banter about Paul Partington and Timothy Diggs. The tale weaves through comic misreadings, a stalled case, and her return to the old homestead amid local rail talk and church banter.
Ike recounts wild voyages and comic danger while Mrs. Partington, aging, recalls his boyhood name. He recalls gift troves from Bingpon and a tale of winking idols and cannibal priests as he brags of escapes and bold predicaments. Captain Pelton visits and the Nip and Tuck Railroad prospers.
A 25 year old New York woman, Miss Lillian Leland, journeyed to San Francisco by sea and then circumnavigated the globe. She traveled 60,000 miles unaided, explored Egypt and Japan, visited Norway Constantinople and the Holy Land, and endured only one nuisance in Paris.
Foreman John Farrar of G. W. & F. Smith Iron Co shows three small cast iron plates sent to the Herald. One plate bears the Lord's Prayer in sunken letters, while the other two display outline drawings including a pig enclosure swans on water and a deer with pyramids in the distance. The plates are impressed by writing traced with a steel pen on thin paper and transferred to casting after pouring iron.
An instructional piece advises actresses to let eyes speak first and use controlled gestures, calm facial expressions, and measured voice tones. It contrasts fluid, self possessed manner with fluttery behavior and stresses grace, presence of mind, and subtle, meaningful delivery over mere word delivery.
The Browning ancestry controversy ends with confirmation that Robert Browning is descended from an Anglo-Saxon chieftain named Beno. Dr Frederic Purnivall, president of the Shakespeare and Browning societies in London, states new research shows direct lineage. The finding answers years of debate about Hebrew ancestry.
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