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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1900
Page
6
A women and home feature notes a milliner who declines to sell ill fitting hats and offers tips on summer decor. The piece also includes stage faces and a belligerent crooking school break. Poem excerpt by Alfred Tennyson reflects nostalgic tones about the sea and vanished voices.
A French milliner in New York explains hat colors and customer tastes. She prefers gray and blue hyacinths for pink and green complexions and rejects coral bonnets for color conflict. The artist designs hats to suit each wearer, valuing artistry over fashion fads.
The article notes conflicting advice given to women who want to gain weight or maintain a fuller figure. It contrasts strict regimes with simple guidance such as eating vegetables, butter, milk, sweet cider, cod liver oil, and adequate sleep, suggesting cream as a substitute for cod liver oil.
The piece notes a move away from dainty patterns toward severity in wall furnishings. Old fashions return with colonial primness as primary colors dominate modern interiors. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie's home features a vehicle stripe pattern in red green yellow blue and violet, while hollyhocks morning glories honeysuckle and dahlias also appear in updated schemes.
Recipes explain cheese cakes with quince jelly or strawberry preserve fillings baked in pastry, then whipped cream topping. Supper Cake dough uses flour butter lard yeast sugar milk eggs currants and spices, kneaded and baked two hours, with option to make four flat cakes.
Passage from the Maple Leaf prints Hagarty's Napoleonic funeral ode noting Notre Dame and the imperial tombs, with later narrative about Dr Philip Penrose and Mrs Felton in a Boston Post summary. Penrose counsels John Carleton’s wife and queenly memory inspires Penrose’s own scholarly work.
Philip Penrose and John Carleton, lifelong friends from boyhood, pursue different paths after Harvard. Philip becomes a physician in New England while John builds a Chicago business career and marries the woman he loves. Two years after John's marriage Philip learns his friend's wife has left him.
Chicago Chronicle reports a spate of lost garter notices striking the city. A South Side clasped treasure with a gold buckle prompts calls for its return, while a Tower Place North Sider seeks the buckle’s recovery amid discussion on garter wear and seasonal loss.
The Fortnightly Review lauds Wellington for his Indian service. He rose to prominence during a critical crisis, guiding the Nizam's army and leading Mysore after Tippoo’s death. Although early campaigns inclining to missteps, his leadership and decisive victory at Assaye defined his military genius.
Senator Depew says the United States Senate is the last place for new stories. He trained in Washington believing cloakroom hours would yield fresh anecdotes, yet the senate proves a barren field for wit and humor.
In Condition to Repent Eddie Reed a boy preacher of Paris Illinois has induced several townsmen to sign pledges to refrain from the wicked game of draw poker. Little Eddie probably struck a bench of losers.
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