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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1894
Page
12
Purported feminine fare and social curiosities unfold in a stream of archaic recipes and decor. A Dresden china powder box with satin bows competes with a cream pudding, veal soup, and spinach broth. A social mishap ends with a hapless woman blackened by charcoal powder, a humorous foil to refined fashion.
A nostalgic mixture of baby hammock fashions, household tips, and domestic ideology. Articles describe a silk hammock for infants, then drift through recipes, home crafts, hair and bath advice, along with populist musings on women's roles, virtue, and marriage in a late 19th to early 20th century tone.
A survey of current fashion and writing etiquette notes stockings in bold colors and embroidery pairing with black satin and patent leather shoes, plus guidance on stationery tones, envelopes, and monograms. Antiquity of engraving is touched with early signets and ancient gems, and red and black hosiery styles are discussed with prevailing color pairings and shoe options.
A collection of wry medieval and early modern quips about women. Proverbial lines toast or tease wives with sharp wit, noting folly, fickleness, gratitude, and the social gaze on female virtue. The tone is playful, cautionary, and satirical.
Misa Harraden argues women must be polite to succeed in public life and trade. She criticizes fashionable, mannish, and insolent women and urges respectful service in shops. Harraden notes personal choice to leave unhelpful clerks and seek proper service elsewhere.
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