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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1902
Page
19
The feature highlights silk dresses with matching bodices and skirts in white moire and fiches of foulards and dress silks, with bold embroidery, lace, and ribbons. It notes moire silks rising in fashion, Swiss muslins, peau de soie, and crepe de chine, plus elaborate trims and new tailor styles for spring.
The passage compares French women and English women educated in convents, noting the French woman’s instinct to please across roles from daughter-in-law to dressmaker and servant. It asserts greater intelligence and broader life knowledge in French women despite convent flaws and strong religious influence.
The Outlook excerpt presents Abbott praising Jesus of Nazareth as the world’s key to progress. He avoids polemics and metaphysical debate, expressing a personal desire to emulate Christ, live by His teaching, and find life in His spirit.
The article discusses Madame de Girardin’s view that the urge to please extends beyond marriage and family. It argues French women cultivate this instinct as a social virtue rather than repressing it, contrasting with English norms. The piece frames pleasing as a broader cultural attribute rather than a mere personal trait.
A July 21 1900 Journal of the American Medical Association writer urges physiologists and pathologists to examine patients regularly to detect disease early and prevent illness. Dr Stewart W Tufts of Pittsburg argues insurers should fund exams every one to three years, claiming longer lives and higher profits from premiums and policy face values. He contends preventive medicine would reduce mortality from tuberculosis nephritis diabetes and cardiac disease and profit from healthier lives.
The Kansas City Journal notes the Prince Henry banquet menu included terrapin Philadelphia style, a dish long thought to be Philadelphia style. The remark suggests terrapin was always served in that preparation.
A fragmentary quote from Curtis Wager-Smith in the March Era describes tears on the speaker's lenses and laughing shades as they stagger, weary and heartsick, yet fix their gaze toward the East where hope and morning meet.
An article from the New York Commercial Advertiser surveys the latest jewelry designs in Paris. Enamelled metal motifs on ivory combs feature hydrangea blooms and mistletoe with pearl berries. Coronets favor flower arrangements and the exceptional Vever design uses honesty seeds set in gold. Smaller pieces include carbuncle buckles, large single-stone rings, and novel druidless rings. Animal and natural motifs decorate charms in gold and silver, with stones like opal and moonstone. A light health note ends with a nurse’s motto about nervous prostration.
New York Tribune describes spring hat trends with delicate white rose brimmed designs and black velvet bows. It highlights violets, tulle robes, pearl ornaments, ostrich fumes, and bold black and white silks, noting a overall shift toward black and white season elegance.
A busy New York woman shares a health plan from a doctor that she says saved her. She learned to dedicate an hour of nightly rest in a dark room with her wrapper on and to add regular light exercise, choosing steady routines over constant overwork.
A collection of maple sugar uses for ice cream fudge frosting and sauces, plus economical meat cooking tips for small households. Includes instructions for maple sugar ice cream, maple fudge, and a maple sugar biscuit step, followed by economical beef dishes such as shin of beef jardiniere and potato balls in cream sauce, with steps for white sauce and a sample menu.
In the New York Evening Sun critique, the phrase business woman has become a cant term replacing earlier labels for female workers. The piece notes that clerks and secretaries now call their work business, with many firms and ventures using the title Business Woman in names to gain prestige, though it may be mere gallery playing.
The piece notes that bargain counters can hold items from reputable stock to goods with questionable origins and urges thrifty households to inspect such sets for honest savings. It defends the homemaker who spends wisely as part of the partnership, paralleling business buyers who invest in firms.
Frank Dempster Sherman writes in the Bookman about a poet who wanders dream fields and hears nature speak. Flowers and brooks reveal messages in fragrance and song, and modest verses rise from the sod to exalt humanity toward divinity.
An elderly Civil War veteran near Elizabethtown is described as a remarkable curiosity. He has not slept in a bed for six years, wore the clothes from the day Lee surrendered, and has rarely worn a coat since 1890s. He never married and rarely interacted with women, and is noted as well off and neighborly. The writer requests the address of any similar figure near Cuba.
In royal households a signature dish stays constant at meals. Queen Victoria’s table reportedly features roast mutton and boiled chickens, rarely costing less than fifteen shillings per pair, while Emperor William favors mutton cutlets at supper. Tea is served in large cups at meals.
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