Midwinter dress ideas for debutantes and home sewers
The article previews white and pale blue summer gowns for home sewers, highlighting lace, shirring, batiste, and lace inserts. It notes debutante luncheon decor with orchids and roses, and social season details asFebruary and March dressmaking peaks.
White Is the Proper Thing in Napery and Decorations
Easter season promotes a White Fair focusing on white linen napery and decorative items. Vendors encourage white flowers, especially lilies, with green leaves. booths for handkerchief initials, embroidery on lingerie and linens, table linens, towels, and various cloths are proposed. A white supper may feature turkey, chicken, veal, white fish, celery salad, cream cheese, lemon jelly, angel cake, and white ice cream.
Care for Baby's Teeth and Teething Timeline
An article explains teething as a normal process with first teeth appearing between birth and eight or nine months. It describes the order of eruption, with two lower central incisors first around seven months, then the four upper incisors, followed by lower lateral incisors and front molars, and notes the total infant dentition count and eruption intervals.
Skating Costumes Describe Velvet Furs and Ermine Styles
The article outlines skating dress trends with velvet and fur trim, including sealskin boleros and ermine jackets. It describes hats with holly, red berries, and camelias, plus fawn velveteen skirts and blue panne drapery, and notes the general style favors short skirts and full lower hems for movement. It also discusses dental eruption timing in young children from twelve to thirty months.
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Tiger in the coffin fools family of John P
A New York Times tale reports John P. traveling to India for health with family guidance to wire his status thrice weekly. After a deadly tiger attack confusion leads to a tiger coffin shipment mistaken for John, a cadaver misidentification, and a heroic old scout Captain Francis Marion Schell’s death tied to the 1849 California wagon trek.
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John P
India
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M. Cemetery
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Atlantic
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Francis Marion Schell
Painsman
California
How to Serve the Company Table in Formal Dinners
The article lays out server etiquette for formal dining with guidance on plate removal and passing, serving order, and guest-first rules. It notes that the hostess may serve first to set example, and describes serving from the left for dishes and from the right for beverages. It describes finger bowls usage and luncheon ideas including hot rolls in napkins and a thin sandwich. The piece ends with an anecdote about a provincial town entertainment where a fireman interrupts a singer by shouting from the audience.
Color Cure for Nervous Diseases
An article from Sioux Falls reports Ward's Island New York testing color therapy for insanity. Rooms dyed red, pink, purple, violet, green, and white aim to trigger calming or stimulating brain vibrations, with women said to benefit most. the piece notes Senator Dolliver’s sharp attacks on Dingley tariff schedules and reciprocity.
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New York
Monette
Sioux Falls
Senator Dolliver
Dingley
Senate
Allison
Dolliver
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