Pearls Yet Fair Though Hidden in the Sea
A fragment from The American Queen celebrates a jewel of beauty found within a woman, likening it to rare pearls harvested from the sea despite the sea’s riches. The verse admires inner grace and true rarity.
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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
2
A fragment from The American Queen celebrates a jewel of beauty found within a woman, likening it to rare pearls harvested from the sea despite the sea’s riches. The verse admires inner grace and true rarity.
Doris sues for truth after breaking engagement to Terry following her aunt Miss Hudson's caution that there are two sides to every story. Doris confronts Terry after seeing him with Helen Logarde, while Miss Hudson weighs doubt and restraint. Later Terry confronts the note with firm questions as the couple faces misread signals and truth.
Doris hides from Terry's plea for belief while the wicked eaverdropper revels in the moment. Terry explains the death of Hugh Le garde and Doris admits her shame and resolves to trust him despite transgressions. The scene shifts to preparations for visitors as secrets surface.
An old circus hand tells how a hot iron poker tames lions and tigers, describing its hypnotic effect and noting it avoids cruelty to charges by not burning them. He explains uses during cage cleaning and moving wild animals to winter quarters, with strong boxes guiding the journey.
A Turkish farm owner’s visitor lost a diamond ring while feeding fowls. After extensive searching, the ring was believed swallowed. A Thanksgiving turkey later opened revealed the gem among contents, along with various odd items like suspender buttons and poker chips in the crop.
A professor describes the Arum lily as a dangerous plant that keeps a grog shop for bees to intoxicate them for its own fertilization. It then poisons birds with bright red berries to protect its progeny.
A Royal Postess notes Queen Helene of Italy will publish poems in Italian and French praised by critics as beautiful. Her father, the Prince of Montenegro, is regarded as a talented poet and it is said she inherits his gift.
Katherine Z. Dugan, probably the world’s only blind choir leader, conducts at St Aloysius Church in St Johnsbury. A Perkins Institute graduate, she earned honors and completed a post graduate year. She uses a baton and feels raised baton characters to follow the choir.
Fashion notes praise gold charms and pendants as the season's style. Diamond hearts and flower motifs lead the craze, with lockets hiding tokens like a prayer or four leaf clover. Other designs feature white enamel mice with diamond eyes, pigs, rabbits, owls, and cats.
United States Government figures show sharp gains for women in many fields over 1870 to present. Architects rise from one to fifty. painters and sculptors from 412 to 16000. writers from 109 to 8161. preachers from 67 to 1522. dentists 85 to 417. engineers 67 to 201. journalists 35 to 472. lawyers 5 to 471. musicians 6763 to 47809. doctors 527 to 6852. accountants 0 to 48071. copyists and secretaries 2016 to 2824. stenographers and typists 7 to 50638.
Practical dressmaking advice notes that for short waisted figures the waist below the belt must not fit tightly. Tightness causes a break under the arms as the waist is pulled up to smooth the shoulders. Suggested fix: provide width below the belt and adjust length at back and sides with a longer front point.
A Philadelphia Record piece offers gift ideas by recipient. It suggests boys receive something that “goes,” girls something “pretty,” grandmothers something useful, mothers ornamental, fathers comfortable, sisters personal, brothers swell. It adds the baby should please its mother and a garment for the orphan.
A columnist condemns trailing skirts as unhygienic and wasteful, arguing they sweep pavements and spread bacilli including consumption microbes. The piece notes fabrics ruined by sidewalk scavenging and observes summer vents of dust from skirts. It cites the fashion of holding folds in the hand as a strain and urges reform.
A London Chronicle remark condemns current street fashion for skirts worn in public as absurd, urging a return to sensible lengths seen historically beyond home attire. The piece hints at a shift toward more appropriate urban dress and calls the next move to bring sensible hemlines back into common sense.
A New York Commercial Advertiser excerpt describes rain bow stitching on cloth walking dresses with silk or cloth strappings in blue and purple shades. It notes bodices trimmed to the left with silver tagged panne bows, waistbelts and throatlets, and a tiny turned-over collar of stitched silt, while basques revive in lengthened coat skirts with various ornamentation.
In Alwert Kansas Edna Lyall is the pen name of Ada Blien Bayly. Queen Victoria was addressed as madam. Utah Idaho and Wyoming voter counts are cited. Mrs Nelson Miles precedes Mrs Dewey in Washington society. Mrs Craigie chose John Oliver Hobbes signature by chance. Foreign wearers of the Legion of Honor include Mrs Palmer, Mrs Manning, and a Napoleon I vivandiere. Queen Alexandra preserves thirty years of hats and bonnets. A Greek philanthropist left funds for a matrimonial lottery. A portion of English girlhood aged 15 to 20 works daily in factories, with six Lancashire towns showing 90 to 95 percent.
A fashion note discusses design elements in women’s clothing from collars cuffs sleeves and storm collars. It highlights sailor collars lounging robes bishop sleeves and gauze to fur materials. The piece comments on fit silhouettes and decorative features like stitched borders frounce and beading.
A Hanau firm reports welding aluminum without solder or acid, producing seamless joints that resist blows and temperature changes. The method is kept secret. The London Lancet notes color additives in canned tomatoes and England's focus on artificial coloring and preservation. A third undersea cable between the Netherlands and England uses Hughes apparatus for telegraphy. Excavations in Mexico reveal pre conquest golden Aztec ornaments and 60,000 dollars in gold and silver unearthed during railway expansion. Yorkshire faces labor scarcity driving mechanical milking trials with limited success. London adopts American red gum wood for street paving under dry and wet conditions, praised for durability and non shrinking behavior.
A Collier's Weekly excerpt celebrates electricity and its vast rise since the eighteenth century, noting how it powers bells, cars, elevators, messages, voices, pianos, lights, medical cauterization, and more. It credits Joseph Henry with the electromagnet, Morse with the telegraph, and cites American discoveries like the duplex, quadruplex, ticker printing telegraph, fire alarms, burglar alarms, and rail signals.
The Albi market at nine in the morning bursts with color and activity. Bright umbrellas shelter stalls of cabbages berries and apricots. Women wear vivid kerchiefs and ribbons while old and young display distinctive coiffures and fashion in a lively Southern scene from Albi by B. C. Peixotto.
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