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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1900
Page
4
The Warren Mail argues for daughters to wear hygienic and tasteful dress aligned with a family’s means. It condemns extravagant fashion funded by fathers and urges mothers to avoid flaunting finery while daughters are dressed simply and with restraint. It emphasizes taste, suitability, and economic prudence in attire.
A columnist notes winter skin damage from wool fabrics and rough mittens. The remedy is to protect delicate skin with a washable white China silk apron, which looks dainty and can be worn when possible to shield hands and nails from rough textures.
A pastel blue draped waist dress features a yoke and sleeves of tucked mousseline desoie, with black velvet ribbon bands and cut steel buckles. The glove fitting lining closes at the center back with a square yoke, and the dress shows a draped front with soft folds to flatter a slender figure.
The close fitting waist features circular cuffs that extend over the hands and black ribbon velvet straps with small steel buckles. A velvet belt finishes the waist edge and the design can become an evening corsage without the yoke and sleeves. Materials options include satin taffeta foulard India silk Venetian cloth or poplin with mousseline de soie yoke and sleeves.
On falling ill during a visit, depart quietly if you can. Illness away from home is uncomfortable except with close relations, but if travel worsens your crisis, resign yourself to circumstances and recover with minimal disruption. Nerves influence recovery, so staying calm helps.
Spirits of turpentine applied with a soft cloth removes the dull look patent leather gains with age and brightens the surface so it looks nearly new.
A simple method describes soaking water crackers in milk for ten minutes then dusting with salt cayenne and black pepper before a slow twenty minute bake to finish.
The passage lists Sarah Bernhardt and peers such as Ellen and Marion Terry, Mrs. Brown Potter, Ada Behan, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Genevieve Ward, Ju lia Neilson, Lily Hanbury, Gertrude Kingston, Mme. de Navarro, Annie Hughes and Mrs. Kendall, detailing interests from painting and sculpture to cycling sailing golf and reading.
Washington correspondence notes Secretary Long and Senator Lodge becoming accomplished speakers through persistent practice. The piece contrasts early awkwardness with later polished eloquence and argues frequent public speaking, not talent alone, builds oratory. It also critiques Congressional mileage passes and the Agricultural Department's growth and clarity. Senator Allen of Nebraska is depicted as a courageous yet divisive figure.
A cautious estimate places Boer forces at 64 000 including South Africa Republic, Orange Free State, Immigrant Boers, Uitlanders, Natal Dutch and Cape Colony Dutch. The piece argues Boers’ defense is aided by patriotism, intelligence, and terrain with new rifles and smokeless powder. end hinges on English public opinion, broader war burdens, or mediation.
A natural history class teacher asks a boy to name a butterfly cocoon. The student, after a pause, answers that his father says all cocoons look alike to him, revealing a humorous family perspective on nature study.
A compact note cites a saying about commitment to work attributed to Abraham Lincoln, urging present action and local resilience. The fragment hints at diligence and practical mindset as guidance.
A compact set of aphorisms on women and society. It critiques promises, discretion in love, and business inequality while noting sorrow, hope, and everyday quirks. The tone is ironic and observational, with snippets about attire, letters, and social roles.
Over six weeks twenty eight girls aged 18 and under received marriage licenses in Polk County. Records show a 13 year old wife and several teens between 15 and 17 years old obtaining licenses with parental consent. Most brides claim ages 18 to 22 and keep consent forms on file.
The Isle of Pines lies south of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, spanning about 1 214 square miles with mountains up to 2 000 feet. Nuevo Gerona serves as the main town. the population is around 2 000. The island hosts mahogany and palm groves, marble quarries, and mineral springs, with prolific fruit and crop life. The natives are famed divers and swimmers, illustrating their skill by coin-dive feats from a ship’s rail and a giant “maja” python-like snake habitat in the Cienaga swamp.
The author laments how keeping friendships through letters consumes hours. Plans to write to friends expand into lengthy, detailed notes rather than brief scraps. They argue love and friendship require cultivation and regular, substantive correspondence to thrive.
The article asserts that regular water intake supports body tissue changes and waste removal. It links morning weakness to accumulated wastes and recommends drinking a tumbler of water before retiring to refresh tissues for the next day.
All cake tins should be lined with buttered paper and a sheet placed on top. To remove varnish stains rub hands with a flannel dipped in methylated spirits before washing. To prevent rust rub metal with a mix of ozokerite paraffin and beeswax. Dry paint stains on garments respond to benzine or spirits of turpentine with persistent use.
The guidance emphasizes thoughtful selection for those with limited means. A durable umbrella outlasts a cheap one and complements any gown. Favor black coverings and tasteful handles such as twisted wood with silver studs or a plain crystal ball. Avoid quirky handles and flashy colors.
Practical household remedies include cinnamon to kill airborne bacilli and decoctions for fevers, peppermint for bee stings, fumigation with sulfur to curb diphtheria, inexpensive disinfectant of copperas and carbolic acid, carbolic acid in wash water to ease soreness, and washing iodine with ammonia to relieve stinging.
The piece outlines how spies operate along the Franco German frontier with field tests of disguise and observation. It details routes, air cures, bridges, crops, lodgings, and ways to report, plus risks if suspected or caught. It includes two anecdotal cases of officers penetrating fortifications and the dangers of exposure.
Admiral Dewey presents Mrs Dewey with a diamond brooch from a Manila shipwreck. Aldrich prefers writing after smoking. Stevenson favors private life over politics. Wilhelmina approves a new coin portrait. The Columbia house project nears completion. Cramp comments on Britain Germany and US power. Haeckel remains active at 76. Ruskin revival recalls Norton's famed gentlemanly quote.
Instructions for washing lace curtains. Soak in cold rain water with a tablespoon of ammonia per three gallons, then rinse in hot suds without rubbing. Dry, starch thinly, then run through a wringer, dry, shape, and hang. Iron carefully on the wrong side using wax and heat, or pin to stretched sheets if ironing risks tearing.
Scald sausages in boiling water then fry until light brown. Chop and spread on bits of moistened toast for a quick sausage toast snack.
A concise recipe describes chopping cold steak or tongue finely, simmering in a little water, then adding cream or milk and thickening with butter salt and pepper before pouring over toast. Boiled ham can be used similarly with the addition of an egg yolk.
On baking day roll out dough to the thickness of doughnuts cut into two inch squares and fry in fresh lard. Eat with butter the same as biscuits.
Chop fire cold ham tongue and chicken to a pint of the mixed meat and half a cup of melted butter, one tablespoon oil one teaspoon mustard if desired the yolk of a beaten egg and a pinch of cayenne. Spread on thin slices of buttered bread. Ham or other meats may be used in this way alone.
Shread suet and mix with flour salt and water to a stiff dough. Roll half an inch thick. Place meat or mutton steak with oysters and minced onion on the paste, roll in a cloth and boil until done. Thicken the liquor to gravy and pour over after removing the cloth.
Spread bread crumbs in a baking dish then layer alternating mutton scraps with fresh or canned tomatoes. Season each layer with pepper salt and extra bread crumbs on top. Bake 45 minutes and serve hot.
A new wrinkle treatment uses a basic facial massage that requires no help. Starting at the ears the skin is rubbed with the whole fingers toward the nose using a vaseline cream until it is absorbed.
A collage of dated quips and cartoons recounting mortgage jokes, windy day hat lines, a steak remark, a lawyer heirs feud, calendar leap year, a hen’s daily egg, a foundation stone joke, a villain in fiction, a salary vow, and a rome trip gag.
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