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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1890
Page
13
A fashion column previews this season’s woolen garments with bright colors delicate finishes and innovative designs. It contrasts past restrictive styles with modern feminine silhouettes and hints at upcoming trends in fabrics and tailoring.
Meg outlines spring fashion focusing on bold color shifts from browns to purples and beiges, plus new suitings like French serges, Edison shades, and Karsun textiles. She praises individual style over uniform designs and credits Boges & Buhl for sourcing ideas.
Mus. McC HunGrEFORD outlines a design method where a distinct open pattern is drawn on blotting paper, pressed under a blotting cloth, and painted with near-dry colors. After drying, an embroidery outline is added followed by stems leaves and veins in split floss silk and long and short stitches, with optional yellow satin lining and pink or red ribbon edges.
In Washington many women keep pugs mastiffs and poodles as a social craze. Mrs. Palmer of Michigan owns numerous dogs including tiny French spaniels and terriers with imported animals last winter. Senator Palmer also adores the pets and once taught them tricks.
Wealthy residents favor exotic pets with attendants. Mrs Glover owns valuable pugs and mastiffs, Miss Lester parades a mastiff on Connecticut Avenue, while Mme Horacio Guzman cherishes her beloved parrot Preferito as a favored companion in diplomatic circles.
A detailed description of a showy centerpiece by Mrs. Hovgerford for home decoration. The cut features a long, narrow form nearly twice as long as it is wide, made from bolting cloth with a two inch wide yellow satin ribbon edge laid flat and mitered at the corners.
A portrait of Rosa Bonheur and peers highlights French women in painting and sculpture. Mme Leon Bertaux leads Women’s Art Society and sculpture scenes in Luxembourg, while Claude Vignon, linked to Maurice Rouvier, reflects the era’s female prominence in culture and politics.
The piece notes Mme Seymour, a noted sculptor with works in Paris and public squares, and M. de Brazza, African explorer, are to be married. It highlights Seymour at the Luxembourg statue of a fisher boy and her state commissions, and praises Brazza’s sitter. The report closes with Theodore Stanton’s observation.
Mrs. Leland Stanford of California is cited as diamond mad yet generous. She gives from 100 to 300 dollars each Christmas to many Washington charities, supporting the poor and churches, while her Stanford University project remains her chief memorial charity.
A compilation notes Mas L. May Wheeler as manager of the National Woman's News Association of Chicago and Mrs T Shephard of Ventura building a seeds and floricultural business. It covers Pro Re Nata’s public speaking club, women’s education questions, and the formation of the Woman's National Liberal Union led by Matilda Joslyn Gage to discuss church influence in state affairs.
The piece details ingenious smuggling tricks against U S customs. Women use double corsets false bosoms and hollow shoes while books hide jewelry and cigars. Brandy in oil cans and can disguises are described alongside inspectors exposing clever concealments.
Max O Rell critiques lawyers in American courtrooms as the St Louis Republic notes. He attacks their earnest faces and cocked speech, poking fun at pockets and powerful exclamations while praising independence and dignity in a democratic society.
A dense medical column discusses whether drunkenness stems from nervous disease or causes it. It covers lead poisoning from flour, neuralgia treatments, insanity statistics, alcohol effects, and the place of hypnotism and asylum care in treating addiction and morphinism, citing various doctors and global sources.
A vintage New York Press feature recalls Adelina Patti early in her operatic rise. The picture shows a teenage Patti in stage debutante form, long before fame, with a critic noting her silvery voice and her growth into a more beautiful Mme Patti.
A Parisian standard clashes with American taste as Mrs Kendal’s dress code falls flat in New York. The piece surveys women’s work options, from stenography to nursing, and notes elastic social rules, with anecdotes of a Yankee beauty outsmarting a German suitor and a Nassau Street waitress dubbed the Duchess.
A correspondent reports a proposed law requires every drinker to hold a liquor license. Licenses would not be issued to those of bad character and could be revoked if the holder overestimates their capacity to drink.
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