Notable American Women Artists in Modern Light
A New York correspondent surveys American women illustrators and painters. Alice Barber Stephens leads in black and white and explores color, while Mrs J Francis Murphy excels in oil and crayon. Maud Stumm, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls, Matilda Browne, and Georgiana A Davis are praised for varied media and vivid, commercially successful work in periodicals and books.
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New York
Liberty
Alice Barber Stephens
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Julien
Carrie Rossi
Paris
Stephens
J. Francis Murphy
Maud Stumm
Holland
Harper's
Georgiana A. Davis
Art Students’ League
Coin's Teacher and the Women Journalists of St Louis
A Chicago correspondent profiles William Hope Harvey author of The Elementary Principles of Money and Coin's Financial School, tracing his career from West Virginia law to Colorado and Chicago. It then highlights St Louis women journalists Mrs S Innes Stone Mrs Spe Vandegrift Moore Mrs Johnston and Mrs Annie L Y Orff, detailing their origins careers and current roles at major papers and clubs.
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Chicago
William Hope Harvey
Buffalo
Putnam County
West Virginia
W. H. Harvey
Cabell County
Putnam
Kanawha
Ohio
Colorado
Denver
Ogden
Utah
Harvey
Cain
Financial School
St. Louis
Innes Stone
Missouri
Old Missouri Republican
Old Dominion
South
Stone
Old Republican
Republican
The
Herald
Spectator
Spe Vandegrift Moore
Litely
Philadelphia
Camden, N. J
Boston
Woman's Journal
Johnston
Chart Club
Annie L. Y. Orff
Chaperone
Market Life and Millionaire Mirth
The dialogue notes a habit of millionaires dressing shabbily to invite pity and boost sales of their watered stock. It contrasts social strategy with market speculation, suggesting cashing in on appearances affects investor perception.
Women Write the News in St Louis Press Rise
St Louis gains a corps of women editors and writers, including Mrs. Walker, Miss Rosa Kershaw, Mrs. Vandegrift Moore, and Mrs. Maria I. Johnston, who rise from local papers to lead and shape editorials and society pages. Their careers trace from Post Dispatch and Globe Democrat to magazines like Fashion and Fancy, Life, and Spectator, with notable reporting feats and editorial influence across Mississippi Valley papers.
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St. Louis
T. Louis
Chicago
Walker
Rosa Kershaw
Europe
Globe-Democrat
Life
Maria I. Johnston
Fredericksburg
Mississippi
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Electric light in Roman churches debated in Rome
The discussion on illuminating churches by electricity in Rome continues with the belief that the method will be allowed for general use except on altars where wax candles or olive oil lamps will continue to be used as before.
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Rome
The Fin de Siecle Gym Heroine Nominates a Modern Muse
A satirical verse from Baxter Street mocks a young woman who abandons balls for gym training and athletic discipline. The speaker notes her strength and vigor, praising her earnestness while wryly remarking on the era’s craze for active femininity and the fin de si cle girl.
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Baxter Street
Ring Money Plans Endearment Pact
They agreed they were not meant for each other. The maiden offers the ring but the man says he intends to raise money with it to pay his last month's board bill. The exchange is reported by the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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Pittsburg
Proposing Fate Amid Quips in Two City Papers
An agitated Boston woman and a fatuated suitor exchange heated dialogue in a comically charged scene. A highwayman pressures a victim for valuables but dismisses a cheap watch, revealing satirical banter about money and currency.
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Highwayman
New York Tribune
He Was a Little Off Absentmind Discovers No Wife
A humorous dialogue features Mr Absentmind greeting a friend and probing about his wife. The friend reveals he has no wife, prompting the absentminded reaction that she must still be unmarried. The exchange plays on misheard assumptions and social expectations.
Rose lending turns to playful accusation in stalled romance
A dialogue unfolds with a young man courting a cousin, promising roses for a kiss, as she darts away to fetch more blossoms. The scene shifts to a sharp rebuke from Oscar Chambers Jones accusing Pauline Mallard of deceit, claiming she is not a woman with a past and that they must part due to lack of dramatic feeling in their affection.
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Oscar Chambers Jones
Pauline Mallard
Not Surprised by Fenderson in Theater Gossip
A Boston Transcript note remarks that Fenderson is a regular lady killer. It also references Cass and a remark about a woman in a big hat seated just in front of him at a theater the other night.
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Basa
Fenderson
Cass
Boston Transcript
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Coin
FUN
Dorfbarbier
le Siecle
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