Female Homemaking and Blind Kitchen Education
The article describes a Wisconsin School for the Blind teaching girls cooking and housekeeping using a wood stove, emphasizing safety, hygiene, and practical skills. It notes the aim to create professional cooks among blind students, with a focus on independent living, kitchen routines, and the broader education program for visually impaired youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyman Pease
Wisconsin Scout For the Blind
Janesville
Jae
Pease
Mer Ows Bowes
Divid
Iris
Bardwal
Progressive Proposing Ends in Impassioned Plea
A young man, deeply in love, makes repeated, failed marriage proposals to Mary as her mother remains strict. After hours of effort and patient encouragement, he finally bursts into a proposal scene interrupted by the mother's cautious call from above. A week later the engagement is announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Edith
Mamma
Pete
Tommy
Mr. Loftley
Palatable Household Dinners and Porridge Varieties
A long recipe collection lists dishes from Veloute sauce with asparagus to a pea soup with warm milk and soda. It includes tongue preparation, poverty cakes, clam chowder, fruit desserts, and a mint roll cake. Also features brief vignettes and humor about a late night interaction, a girl praying, and a child’s quip about money.
Paris Riding and Bicycling Styles for Women
The Paris fashions for riding and cycling relax formalities with graceful lines and lighter hats. Melon felts, light cloths, and blue tones replace black, with white kid gloves and a woven riding stick as accessories. French cycling dresses imitate English cuts, featuring fitted jackets, basques, double-breasted waists, accordion skirts, and Turkish trousers, worn with a flat sailor hat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Republic
Esx de Rothschild
Duchess d'Uzis
Domestic Bliss Shifts Toward Literary Husband
A young wife recently married enjoys a considerate domestic life with a husband who writes at home. He produces quality work and receives good pay, fitting their newlywed happiness.
Wordplay and Drills in a Curious Newspaper Excerpt
A fragment from a humor page mixes jokes about fashion lies and wordplay with stray classroom quips. It features a joke about a dress, a pun on ton weights and a child’s question about Washington trips, ending with a garbled line on decorum.
Blood Purity Promoted by Surpant Bitters
A promotional snippet asserts impure blood causes disease and extols Surpant Bitters as the best medicine to purify blood, claiming health depends on pure, rich, strong blood and urging readers to use the product.
Fashion notes and a child soothing syrup advertisement
A period piece notes a fashionable jacket with a long rounded cut and full sleeve styling. It also promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, claimed to soothe teething, ease gums, and cure wind colic, marketed worldwide for over fifty years.
Londons Latest Dance the Kouta Kouta Origin
A London critique explains the Kouta-Kouta dance as ancient in origin possibly from India, traveled via Egypt and Morocco to Spain, with Magyar and Kouta Kouta linked by a scarf motif. The piece notes Moorish and Spanish gypsy performances resemble the dance today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Morocco
Spain
Dance as Art and a Court of Appeals Reported Misfortune
The passage compares art to a miracle of motion and questions its origin while noting a New York Court of Appeals ruling against Fanpy Davenport. It reports Miss De Lorez’s breach of contract case resulting in $725 damages, and notes the death of Charles Robinson, famed among the Herbert brothers, from smoking. It mentions Augustus Piton’s trolley-car incident in Toronto and Eleboora Dow’s Germany tour, with Anton Seldi pursuing German open disputes and a potential compromise with Walter Damroseb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Kingsley
Hungary
Albany
New York Court of Appeals
Fanpy Davenport
Miss de Lorez
Charles Robinson
Herbert Brothers
Muncie
Ind
Augustus Piton
Toronto
Severn Brulend
Eleboora Dow
Germany
Pextantuma
Anton Seldi
Walter Damroseb
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Biatsui
Bossywives—Blied Girls Cat Geek
Canaidiala Demesnie
Passahie Summer Derbes—Progressivg
Shota
Filebork
Alregty
Pat Dot
Bowd
Stalra
Blash
Detroit
Hoy
Johany
Washington
Jimmy
Tts
Terpsichore
London
Alex, Frew
Alex
Main Street
Ay Tetas
France
Columbus
Columbeas
Privewion
OrTman
France Medical and Surgical Institute
U.S
Orm
Parmarty York
MI Soria
Pesttute
Save We Bridgeport
Sheree Boase
Bariaire
Areday
Windeoe
Wednesdar
Thea
Fromoe
Mebas, Ola
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