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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1895
Page
7
Notes describe new millinery partnerships and hat styles including a brimless round toque with roses and ostrich tips, a gauze ribbon rose tie, and a bonnet with a peasant bow and jet wings. Also mentions ruches and bonnets turning to fanciful shapes with oddities in design.
The article notes the godet skirt remains widely accepted with designers making only slight alterations rather than full changes. It discusses vocabulary shifts in fashion terms with a focus on rosette definitions, describing elaborate net and satin decorations and how terms are applied to current gowns.
The article surveys summer fashion trends, highlighting plaited and rosetted chiffon collars, gigot sleeve fullness, long sleeves, and box plaits in blouses. It notes the dominance of shirt waists, new dimity materials, large collars, sac paletot coats, mohairs, alpacas, white pique for mourning, and black trimmed mousseline de soie for necks and waists.
A detailed sketch describes a five-slashed skirt design with fan plaits at each slash and a potential two or three tone look. It notes matching bodice options, two material combinations, and a practical approach for revamping older gowns without new cloth, plus an empire style evening head dress with a large bow and lace jabots.
Among evening footwear the designs showcase jeweled embroidery and bold motifs. One pair of white kid slippers is heavily embroidered in gold with aquamarine cabochons while others feature turquoise flowerlets and a butterfly traced in gold with ruby accents on a patent leather Queen Anne court shoe.
Practical homemaking tips on shoe dressing with Vaseline sharpened by turpentine for patent leather. Cold tea cleans paints better. vinegar tenderizes meat. Boracic acid wash soothes inflamed eyes and throat. salt water cures catarrhal cold. Soft newspaper cleans glass. fruit juice aids breakfast. Stored treats like jellies and jams reserved for meals. spiced fruits generally breakfast fare.
The piece outlines hat styles for outdoor sports with emphasis on dress-aligned designs. Golf hats feature soft crowns, many stitched brim rows, side ribbon loops, and a rosette with plumes. Cycling hats use tam o shanter crowns and quill accents, while steamer hats favor soft felt with alpine shapes and front gros grain bands holding quills.
Lace hat adornments include petaled flowers cut from rich lace patterns wired into shapes for dainty caps. Some lace is stiffened with wire loops to form upstanding aigrette-like bunches enhancing wealthy hats.
The late Caroline Duchess of Montrose leaves the necklace of over three hundred pearls valued at 11 500 pounds for the relief of East End poor. The writer hopes the money is spent wisely as such a sum can do much good or cause harm and create paupers.
For an impromptu masque or garden party a Dolly Varden panier dress of bright cretonne is easy to sew and charming. Complete the look with a large straw hat shaped into a bonnet style and trimmed with feathers and roses. An old-fashioned fan and elbow-length gloves plus small black slippers with white thread are ideal accessories.
Smith College hires both sexes on the faculty but does not grant the title of professor to men. Heads of departments are as responsible as their female counterparts, yet men in such roles are not professors. Last year 746 students were enrolled with 36 teaching staff, two-thirds of whom were women but not professors.
An elegant visiting dress features gray cloth with a passementerie band at the hem edge. The waist uses a very dark blue perforated fabric showing the skirt color, with blue sleeves and plain sleeve tops and long cuffs. Passementerie collar and epaulets match the skirt trimming.
An article describes an American inventor from Strasburg with an electric incubator and electric mother to hatch eggs, claiming precise temperatures with low electricity use. It also covers explosive nitro glycerin accidents, beet sugar cultivation labor estimates, and a center blast pipe upgrade for furnaces to increase efficiency.
Hollow glass bricks filled with air form walls for greenhouses and plant houses. They provide insulating heat and light, enabling roofing without traditional supports. If successful, this method could reduce heating costs and revolutionize greenhouse construction.
Describes a two part hull system linked by an overhead frame with swinging cranes and grappling devices to seize a sunken vessel. Grappling forks engage the hull, chains rise via windlasses, and an indicator shows engagement. The design can lift stones or sand and uses telephone guidance for directing the raising apparatus.
Official reports state beet sugar production is highly profitable with returns double those of wheat. An acre yields about eleven tons, and 806 pounds of beets produce 100 pounds of sugar. Residual syrup can be turned into valuable products, including potentially profitable alcohol. Imperfect crop portions may be fed.
Aluminium disappoints in pure form lacking tensile strength but as a composite with extremely hard steel particles it forms durable wearing surfaces. The alloy creates light horseshoes designed for racing and other lighter uses, providing satisfactory performance in specific tasks.
The female mosquito alone bites and injects no proven poison as venom glands are missing. Mosquito sting uses five sharp needles to puncture and feed. Flies do not walk on ceilings by suction disks. they use foot cushions and hooks. spider feeding study weighs prey to compare human consumption.
A society physician gently checks a patient with a low fever and hopeful words. The patient recalls the struggle for social recognition as she pursues a staged pride, convalescing beneath the veneer of Vere de Vere.
An exchange suggests a humorous scene where a physician smiles at a wealthy patient and a Punch magazine quip highlights the patient’s riches. The dialogue implies a medical consultation context with social satire.
The article recalls the English scientist Thomas Henry Huxley who coined the term agnostic. It notes his stance on religion and revelation, his views on evolution, and his life from birth in 1826 to naval service and scientific honors. It also cites an anecdote about a slave and discusses the perceived value of belief versus scientific inquiry.
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