A Dangerous Interference With Nature In Homes
Women are urged to cultivate beauty and health through careful grooming, diet, and habits while avoiding extreme standards. The piece discusses lips, teeth, hair, eyebrows, complexion, and the toll of maternity on singers, then moves to table manners for children and proper meals, ending with cautions against drastic weight loss. It cites tips from Detroit Free Press and Good Housekeeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Free Presa
Gerster
Sembrich
Patti
Pareps Rosa
Nilsson
Jennie Lind
Clara Louise Beljogt
Nevada
Chicago Mail
Ytable
Simmons Liver
McReey Maench
Warren
Morck Burgess Ativsie Cle
Cham
Fanny Davenport’s drastic diet to lose pounds and its toll
The article recounts Fanny Davenport’s attempt to shed weight under doctor Whistler’s guidance. She diets to extremes, eats only toast, lean meat, tea, and avoids sweets, fats, and dairy. After three months she reaches 163 pounds, then loses further weight but gains health risks and facial hollows, finally reversing to regain strength and health with effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fanny Davenport
Ned Price
London
Stuidisa
America
New York
Education by learning to learn and life paths
A longstanding view on education argues that schools should focus on developing the habit of learning rather than merely transmitting facts. It urges avoiding narrow short courses and stresses guiding youth toward suited life directions and enduring effort. It also includes domestic tips like kitchen cloths and cleaning hacks and notes a Japanese shift away from traditional blackened teeth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Everett Hale
Gilmore's Aromatic Wine Promoted by Local Testimonials
A series of endorsements tout Gilmore's Aromatic Wine as a cure for female weakness, nervousness, and debility. Letters praise rapid relief from malaria and insomnia, improved sleep, and renewed vigor. Advert says 128 doses for $1 with claims of household usefulness and general health benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilmore
W. Fisk Requa
Aurora
RE. J. Whitney
Clarkson, N.Y
J. H. McIntyre
Daggetts Mills
A W. Motck & Co
To Preserve the Tops of Stockings and House Care Notes
A compact set of short home tips from old periodicals covers stocking tops with elastic and tape fixes, musty room ventilation, a domed pomade for hands, best dust brushes, and West Indian breakfast potatoes. It also notes cleaning methods for grease spots, knife polishing with potato, and social perfume trends while mentioning cat numbers in Britain and Iowa hangers earning up to twelve dollars daily.
Liberty Enlightening the World mistranslation controversy
The passage notes a misnaming of Bartholdi’s statue. It argues the French title means Liberty Lighting the World, stressing illumination over instruction, and cites the Washington Post on the mix-up spreading. It also mentions a New Jersey school adding marksmanship to military drill on a range near New Brunswick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartholdi
Washington Post
New Jersey State Scientific School
New Brunswick
Chicago Times
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Chicago Tribune
Alma
Zest
Dane
Detroit Tree Press
Japan
Pierce
Golden
Golden Medical
Trists
Andral Kilmer
Binghamton
N.Y
Kilmer
R Kilmer
Loomis
Elba
N Y
H. B. Emeli
Pavillion
N. Y
D. Richard B Stewart
Warren, PA
Ofice
Third Street
Second
Liberty Streets
Warren and Shemield
Court of Common Pleas
Warren County
Deremier
George F. Mader
Peter Holmes
Martin Ison
Otto Marker
A.P. Anderson
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Augustana Synod
John Musson
Jen P. Gusieison
Otto Saveramist
PB. A. Kyberg
Gus Johnson
Lutheran Betlanie
Foregeius Notier Batik Fiune
Sid Cenity
Tureo J
J. E. Marsh
John A Marsh
Benjamin Johns
Joseph Par Yu
Wm. P. Roberts
Morice W. Roberts
Samuel Grosenburg, Jr
Samuel Grosenburg
BJ Dennis
Sarah C. D Ross
J W. Phillis
I. Second &T
Philada
Des. J.N
B. Hobensace
Eetablicihned
Calior
Jefferson College
Olopd Susdaye
Adam
Meldrum
Main ST
Buffalo, N. Y
Rouse Furnishing
Main Street
K* App & Cable
Eatty
A Davis
Iealars
William Be, Richards
B. Umer
S. Facs
Cwas
Cox American
Mori
Ais Fe
Candee
For
Smith & Son
Warren, F
BABEL
Och
GEO, A. Macbeth & CO
Pittsburgh
Bryant, Stratton &Smith
Meadville
Allegheny College
United States
A.W. Smith
Actual
Ty Bros Pruggists
Oswego
Pittsburg Dispatch
Phila
Boston Herald
West Indies
Philadelphia
Scientific American
Iowa
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Britain
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