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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
5
The piece argues for bright sickroom design with washable rugs and minimal furnishings. It favors light, air, and wood frame light screens over curtains to reduce dust and keep walls clean. It urges washable surfaces and removable curtains to ease cleaning and fight disease.
In agreeable hues a wastebasket, sofa cushion and workbasket share yellow coutil with pink flowered cotton trim. The portable wastebasket arrives in flat pieces that unfold into five boards. the round workbasket features paneled sides pockets and pincushions. Wastebasket $1. workbasket and cushion cover 75 cents each.
Verdi in mission style sets of furniture headline new furnishings for out of town houses. Silicified ash in bronze green evokes petrified Arizona woods as the latest furniture finish. Denim walls gain popularity and Verdi becomes a ground tone color, with simple decor advised to balance large figural patterns.
Twenty five years ago large 250 piece sets were common for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Now small sets are preferred with breakfast china distinct from dinner service. Design trends revert to earlier styles with regular edges and relief patterns. White and gold English china remains a safe, lasting choice.
Unique and inexpensive cedar-inspired furniture gains traction at golf clubs. Designs feature simple lines, denim or roan cushions, and long leafed waterproof pine fiber fillings for durability and odor resistance. The new style emphasizes practicality and distinctive appeal for club interiors.
A scientific study chronicles the great dust storm of March 9 to 12, 1901, tracing its path from northern Africa across the Mediterranean, through the Alps, reaching Denmark. Dust particles grew finer northward, moving at over forty three miles per hour along a low pressure trough toward the Baltic. Austria Hungary and regions farther north saw rain, snow or sleet with the dust fall.
American engineers have built most of the world s greatest and most difficult railroad spans since 1870 and many more in a fraction of a century. They perfected bridge building to practical limits, achieving speed safety and cost efficiency unseen in other nations, until a new material surpasses steel.
A Buffalo Commercial item notes rising eavesdropping fears as a Swedish government exchange tests a device to signal subscribers if the central operator is listening. The test aims to detect listening, sparked by a woman who overheard a suspicious remark and heard a strange denial.
A Paris Messenger report notes a widow in Charenton who, since her husband’s death on April 30, 1894, has repeatedly attempted suicide on anniversaries of his death. Neighbors have intervened eight times, the latest on April 30 when she urged waiting until next year before acting.
Sir James Crichton Browne argues insomnia is less dangerous than worry and that literary minds may train the brain to rest in sections. He notes some brains sleep in sections with centers taking turns, allowing six hours of rest in twenty four.
Senator Spooner is worth about $250000 and says he does not want more. He is noted as the ablest corporation lawyer in the northwest and could earn a fortune in his profession, but fears wealth would spoil his sons who are steady industrious and ambitious. He prefers things as they are.
John W. Griggs, former US attorney general, is a raconteur whose latest yarn features Terence Hooley. Hooley arrives with two cents and hope, rises from trench worker to alderman, and earns affectionate nicknames as he moves through life, ending with a chapel moment and a singing crowd.
A New York lawyer Abe Gruber recalls as a boy he saw a "Boy Wanted" sign, took it, entered a store, and told the proprietor he would take the job. The anecdote illustrates Gruber's early hustle and humor.
A kitchen note on double and triple kettles for gas stoves. Double kettles have handles pointing in different directions and are inexpensive. Two vegetables can be cooked simultaneously in one, and three interlocking kettles with separate lids save space.
A Baltimore Sun note describes one fire department horse that loves limburger cheese. When the pungent treat is near the horse shows clear joy and eager anticipation, and often receives a portion of the cheese in return.
A Indiana farmer advises using stale bread to make dressing when cooking ribs or backbone. The seasoned dressing, baked, is praised as nearly as good as poultry or game. Cold mashed potato or rice can be mixed in. dressing also accompanies boiled or roasted beef.
The hall and stairs may feature Turcomaris or Persiatn inspired rugs with dark rich coloring and visible stair rods to preserve pattern. Dining rooms favor the Veraghan rug in large size with chintz motifs, while drawing rooms suit Louis era Aubusson Savonnerie or light Indian rugs. baths use wool rugs and cork mats.
Fern luncheons showcase summer elegance with fern decorations everywhere from halls to tables. Centerpieces shaped by ferns, white candle shades, fern trimmed name cards, and a fern inspired ice course using vanilla ice cream in small pots complete the table setting, with fern sprigs on each plate.
The guide suggests building a triangular corner shelf six feet up, using cloth to block dust and denim curtains to enclose storage. It advises securing hooks, bric-a-brac on top, and using newspapers as extra bed coverings when needed. It warns not to leave a kerosene lamp burning low to avoid drawing oxygen and danger from carbonic acid gas.
The article notes a shift from conspicuous poles and rings to cottage draperies in artistic and country house bedrooms. It favors frilled tops with straight hanging side draperies in flowered dimity, matching mantel lambrequin and bed valance, with upholstery dimities reflecting old English patterns.
A recipe describes lemon rind essence rubbed with sugar, beating egg whites and shells, dissolving gelatin in water with sugar and lemon juice, then simmering and straining. The mix is poured into a mold with chunks of orange, strawberry, blackberry jellies, grapes, and berries, yielding a colorless jelly as it cools.
Mr John Kendrick Bangs leads a family hike with three witty sons. Climbing a hill, he invents San Juan as a mock battle. The eldest blushes after blowing his nose during the charge, prompting a witty exchange about soldierly propriety.
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes Sol Smith Russell linked to two songs during a 30 year stage career. He sang I saw Esau kissing Kate in the sixties as a serio comic vocalist and later popularized Shuby Genteel in Poor Relation. His persona embodied shabby genteel poverty and dignity on stage.
A new Iceland geological map by Dr. Horoddsen presents fresh details about the island. The Katla volcano, buried under snow, periodically erupts, melting ice and flooding large tracts toward the sea, making travel between Katla and the coast hazardous.
A three line advertisement shows a poet seeking a sunny airy quiet unfurnished inexpensive room. The note portrays pathos with cheerful tone and tidy manners as the poet, in middle age, searches for living space in Boston.
A rural Wisconsin representative, craving water before bed, discovers no pitcher in his room. After a quick search he notices two wall buttons with a label reading Push twice for water. When he presses the button the bellboy arrives with water while the congressman holds a pitcher beneath the device.
The Christian Register denounces the so called Chautauqua salute as a wave of handkerchiefs at religious gatherings. It warns that unless all handkerchiefs are clean, microbes fill the packed hall’s atmosphere from hundreds waving them.
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