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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1913
Page
6
A fashion note describes summer negligees with airy chiffon jackets designed to keep cool. It details a pastel flowered chiffon jacket with elbow sleeves, lace trim, and a blue satin waist bow, plus washable alternatives in dimities and swisses and tips for home sewing.
Boston woolen industry chief notes tariff and cites a river road joke about a minister losing a silk lined overcoat. A parishioner from the back narrates finding it, prompting the minister to praise a stranger’s timely help with humor.
The quote ponders the natural hue of a river horse asking what color best suits its coat. It suggests a bay like tones as a plausible description.
The article chronicles evolving fashion trends with plain skirts giving way to drapery trims, pleats, panels, and tucks. It highlights dolman fur mantles fastened by buttons or buckles, red and gray evening wraps, flame velvet models, and white costumes with color accents.
The article describes new loose straight coats with no shape, popular for summer and travel. Made of chinchilla cloth, they feature a straight cut with masculine shoulders, an outside waist belt, edge-fastening buttons, and pearl buttons. White remains stylish with blue and rose tones. bright yellow suits fair complexions.
A craft note describes making delicate slippers from brocaded satin to wear with summer negligees. It covers selecting a brocade, cutting toe pieces from muslin, stitching soles, outlining with silk, adding embroidery, inserting a lining, and fashioning a matching fabric case with a pearl button.
A delicate white chiffon bodice over pink chiffon with shadow lace trim and rhinestone buttons. It pairs with a draped dove gray lansdowne skirt in a graceful clinging silhouette.
A fragment proclaims that true unity of mind and soul creates a single, vast music together. It suggests continuity with past harmony while expanding reach and depth beyond before. The line reflects a philosophy of inner concord yielding expansive creative form.
The piece argues that as age advances metabolism slows and overeating causes fat and disease. It recommends light meals, limited meat to once daily, reduced fats and sweets, a diet of vegetables fruits fish eggs and simple cereals, ample water, and open air exercise. It urges moderation and gratitude for good health at sixty plus.
A quoted quip asserts women are not fools, claiming they were created to match men. The speaker insists that true progress requires both better ideas and action, reflecting a bold stance on gender parity.
A Victorian style guide presents currant dishes from conserve to spiced currants and pies. It includes quantities for currants, raisins, sugar, spices, and citrus rind, plus methods for frosted currants and a currant cream jelly, ending with fresh currants served with sugar for breakfast.
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