Monday, February 5, 1900

From the day

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The Headlines

New Post Office Sub-Station.

Best-selling Sheet Music

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Von Tilzer

The must-have

Lionel Trains

You Share a Birthday With

• Robert Peel (1788)
• Adlai Stevenson II (1900)
• Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848)
• Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626)
• Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804)

Slang

Tech Check

Kodak Brownie Camera, Zeppelin Airships & Escalators.

Style of 1900

Silhouette: S-bend corset and pouter pigeon chest

Material: Lace, silk, and heavy wool

• Gibson Girl hair
• Parasols
• High collars

Cost of Living (1900)