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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1894
Page
3
Fashion's Fancies notes autumn styles with geranium and petunia tints, drop linings, and revival of 1840s silhouettes in silk and wool fabrics. A humorous Washington Star item tells of a banker offered a $5,000 salary with no duties who declined to quit poker for the job.
Fashion notes highlight waists collars and puffed shoulder trimmings as new styles. Fluiting plaits from imported breaves and peplums offer variety while capes and feather boas remain popular. A contrasting house to street transformation is advised with color coordinated wraps. Also noted is a medical anecdote about a pin embedded in a heart during dissection.
The article surveys French tennis fashion noting hygienic benefits and emancipation hints for young women, who wear gloves and striped flannel gowns. It details costumes including striped silks, satin wedding gowns, and elaborate collars, bows, and lace, with hats, belts, and long ends as feature elements.
The piece discusses preferred hair styles for dignity and timeless elegance, warns against excessive trimming and tight braiding, and criticizes constant fashion changes. It surveys a complexion lotion recipe using soap plant, rosewater, cucumber juice, tincture of licenzion, and myrrh, plus notes on silk hosiery bargains and a vivid petticoat illustration.
The article notes a shift over decades from gray and mauve outfits for women over 60 to a freedom in color choice. Cap wearing loses popularity with age, while silver or white hair is styled to enhance color, with jet bonnets and black velvet trims remaining classic. An illustration shows a middle aged woman’s small jet bonnet accented by pale blue and black velvet.
A jarring dispute portrays the angler as inferior to the oarsman who labors from dawn to dusk. Both endure sun and strain, yet the angler mocks the oarsman while the oarsman ridicules the angler. The moral hints at fishing’s storms and futility.
A historical survey notes the long attempts to grow raw silk in the United States from Jamestown to Philadelphia. It highlights W. W. Cleaver of Unadilla raising 25,000 silkworms, Georgia’s early silk export, Connecticut and Rhode Island efforts, and the 1838 1840 mulberry plant speculation collapse. It credits Lorin Blodgett and the Franklin Institute with urging feasibility and notes Philadelphia’s Woman's Silk Culture association and ongoing small scale prospects.
In response to a 10 percent rise in youthful offenders aged 18 to 19, Germany’s Imperial Ministry of the Interior in Berlin plans to reorganize compulsory schooling and imitate English systems. Current laws allow state action only after crime, not against morally depraved youths who have not yet offended.
A new enameling method coats inner boiler surfaces with a smooth thin brick enamel that resists acids and aims to reduce incrustation and corrosion in steam boilers. The coating is claimed to be highly durable and not attacked by acids.
A correspondent recalls differences between French and English servants noting greater independence and self-sufficiency among Parisian staff. It contrasts wages tips and household routines, praising cooks and challenging claims of rampant dishonesty while describing shopping, meals, and daily schedules in French households.
In Harper's Bazar the article explains curry as a complex blend of spices and ingredients rather than a single seed. It describes curry as a vegetable mix including coriander cumin mustard almonds saffron and more, ground and dried to form the Indian powder known as curry.
A Chicago Herald excerpt recalls clashes between circus crews and local toughs in Georgia and Mississippi. Gun threats, hand to hand fights, and damaged wagons followed shows that hid harsher dangers behind performances.
Advice on proper prep for canning pineapples and quinces. Do not cook in clear water for long. longer cooking with sugar makes fruit tougher. Sugar proportion suggested is one pound sugar to three pounds fruit for canning.
The passage expresses how few grasp the scale of a million. It contrasts the Old and New Testaments and notes their combined total around eight thousand, implying a broader meditation on vast numbers beyond ordinary comprehension.
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