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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1893
Page
2
A St Louis Republic fashion remark comments that back lacing or buttoning gowns look best on slender figures but require a maid or patient helper. without assistance the back of the dress cannot be fastened, no matter how long the arms or patient the wearer.
A New York World piece outlines a marketing dress concept featuring quiet wash-silk or sateen fabrics, a bell skirt, plain waist, and a low neck with a shirt front. Accessories include a sailor hat with ribbon, rifle-thread gloves, tan shoes, and a silk umbrella, with flannel or cloth versions finished by machine stitching.
An advise piece from the Washington Star counsels women not to bathe the face after a shopping trip to avoid deepening redness. Instead dash water on the neck, sponge with Florida water, apply rice powder, dust lightly before descending to greet guests, preserving a fresh appearance and true coolness.
The article argues that heavy domestic labor will be done by machines and cleaners, but trained women cooks will remain in demand. It likens high level cooking to poetry and nursing, urging women to train as skilled cooks with good grammar and spotless appearance to command high social status and fair pay.
The article explains hairpin production using automatic machines, from coiled wire to finished japanned pins. It notes four American factories in Birmingham and Waterbury Connecticut, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn, with half a million dollars of hairpins imported annually from England, France, and Germany.
Leather bindings replace velvet on dress skirts while diamond ivy leaves and pearl berries decorate gowns. New sleeve frills appear on summer dresses and sleeves become less pretentious as cool, pale hues and crepon skirts dominate.
A compilation of assorted items from a mid 19th century periodical includes local satire on Shepherdstown mayor fines, mortality rates for clergy and doctors, English temperance bills, Ravenstein on world population, railcar costs, Palisades fishermen, Old Circus veteran Joan Ropixson, a Kansas clergy cutoff tale, praise of American political influence, derelict vessels in the Atlantic, and the schooner W L White’s historic voyage.
Practical tips for home care from lemon peels to ammonia and turpentine to clean brass, wash windows, brighten glass, soften paint, and maintain a neat kitchen. Emphasizes dishcloth care, separate cloths for china and pots, and drying to prevent pests and odors.
A Canadian physician recounts experiences of dying by freezing, noting an initial sharp pain and stiffness followed by pleasant warmth and unconsciousness. He compares this to dying by drowning and argues that death itself is painless despite prior distress.
A Times report explains minting processes from smelting and casting to milling and stamping. It notes the labor of about 100 women weighing and shaping coins, bagging and packing wealth, and the rapid output of coins per minute.
A New York social leader orders monogrammed black on plain white mourning paper while many favor narrow borders and skip crests. Black sealing wax grows popular and monograms fade from envelopes as mourning gray paper gains favor.
A discussion notes that gray sealing wax supplants black for envelopes and heliotrope wax appears with heliotrope dress in some cases. Memorial cards from England are not common, and answering a condolence letter is not obligatory. Death grants a year free of social duties, and the idea of complimentary mourning is debated as a costly option.
This excerpt traces how silver's value compared to gold across eras from Abrahamic times to the late 19th century. It lists ratios such as 8 to 1 in biblical days, 12 to 1 around 1600 B C, 7 to 1 by America's discovery era, and 24.24 to 1 in the recent preface year, noting the present year's figures are missing.
A fragment from the Times-Democrat describes Nebuchadneszar's hanging gardens built by Nebuchadse? for his wife Amyitis. The terraces rose 400 feet above the walls with piers and stone beds laid with bitumen sheets and lead. Earth was heaped to create verdant layers visible from the river gate.
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