Women to Wear Trousers Says Poiret Fashion Vision
Majories Howard in Harper's Bazaar reports Paul Poiret predicts women of the next generation will wear trousers as a matter of course. Maurice de Valeffe hopes men abandon them for knee breeches and silk stockings. A century after trousers established masculine wear, the question remains when women will adopt bifurcated garments seen in Paris salons.
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Paul Poiret
Majories Howard
Harper’s Bazaar
Maurice de Valeffe
Couturiers
The Liberation of the Masculine Leg in Fashion Debate
A critique of the rise of trousers and the decline of skirts argues that women embrace pants as liberation while men face tightening dress norms. The piece notes shifts from pony skirting to pajamas, cites historical examples like hipe culotte and Oxford bags, and suggests fashion moves in opposite directions for genders. It ends with a provocative forecast that if women pursue trousers as daily wear, men will face a choice to adapt or accept kilted attire.
Jazz as Demagogic Noise In American Culture
Benjamin de Casseres argues in MacNaught's Monthly that jazz embodies democratic frenzy and mass appeal. He elevates Paul Whiteman to a national symbol, equating his influence with Beethoven and Chopin while lampooning jazz as blare, noise, and social flattening.
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Benjamin de Casseres
MacNaught
Paul Whiteman
America
Willy-Nilly
Colorado
Pike's Peak
Beethoven
Germany
Chopin
Poland
Walt Whiteman
Grange Cake Recipes and Baking Tips from Historic Card
Instructions for two cakes with orange flavor and icing. Steps include creaming shortening and sugar, adding eggs and flour with baking powder and salt, mixing dates and nuts, and baking two or three layers. Emphasizes gradual heat changes, air circulation, and decorative orange wreaths.
New Orleans Gingerbread Recipe by Miss Rosa Michaelis
New Orleans cooking expert Miss Rosa Michaelis proclaims gingerbread good for children and adults and describes a tempting dessert topped with whipped cream. The recipe uses molasses sugar buttermilk soda ginger cinnamon salt and butter or shorting with directions to cream, sift, fold, bake in square pans and ice.
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New Orleans
Rosa Michaelis
Miss Michaelis
Cold-oven Angel Food Cake From Home Economics Expert
Miss Margaret A. Frail of Battle Creek College of Home Economics shares an angel food cake method using a cold oven. The recipe emphasizes egg whites, sugar, flour, and flavoring, with careful folding and inverted cooling, plus three cake doneness tests. It notes oil stoves aid kitchen comfort in hot weather.
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Margaret A. Frail
Battle Creek College of Home Economics
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