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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1894
Page
12
A list of home crafts and fashion guidance for women includes embroidery patterns on Dresden and Sevres pieces, mother’s carriages, parasols, and photo frames. It advises on washing, dyeing, color preservation, and maintaining stockings, plus dress accessories like mantles, gloves, and the latest secretary desk decor with fur and feather trims.
A fragmented guide describes washing delicate items with careful temp control and specific solutions. It warns against harsh soaps, stresses warm water, careful wringing, air drying, and ironing while damp to preserve fabrics like silk and colored stockings.
A long, meandering piece on household cooking and beauty tips. It covers stewing, hashing, and pie fillings, plus pastry ideas and a chicken stock recipe. Also includes advice on hair care, nails, and simple first aid like tobacco poultices for minor wounds.
The piece surveys a winter scene in St Peters burg with skating at Yasoupoff Gardens and ice carnivals. It notes sleigh transport to Yusopoff Gardens, a Neva crossing by sleigh, and the Samoyed camp with reindeer and bear hunting. A bear hunt with a large female bear ends with a hunter’s last shot as the party disperses.
In Paris the elderly author Rousseau, living on a fifth floor and despised for affectation, is pushed by a Danish bog as M de Fargeau’s fast carriage evades him. Fargeau stops, helps the fallen writer, and the next day returns to inquire after him.
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