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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
2
A fashion correspondent notes Paris designers ignore seasonal heat with long sleeves and muffled collars. New models feature taffeta dresses with lace and tulle, bold color combos, and costly woven effects, including chain-like multicolor fillings and black accents.
New spring models mix plain and striped weaves with deep English embroidery on skirts and bell sleeves. Black taffeta bodices with steel bead accents accompany low waistlines and rounded fronts, skirts hanging over liver cloth foundations with black tulle showing through scalloped edges.
The article urges women to extend color use beyond fashion into home decor. It notes fear of color in interiors limits originality, cites labor and disruption costs as excuses, and encourages experimenting as skills like wallpapering and painting grow.
Fashion notes highlight a shift toward longer gloves with prominent sleeves. The sixteen button mousque in white, bisque, and ivory shades, in leather and fine fabrics, gains favor as a broad revival gains momentum.
Garden tips advise using old berry boxes or common roofing shingles to start plants indoors. Harden plants before transplanting and protect transplants with light frames and glass to avoid overheating. Water roots before transplanting and firm soil around plants for strong starts.
The article discusses using alsike or sweet clover on lime limited soils. Alsike suits low, poorly drained land and flame risk soils better than red clover, while sweet clover needs lime but can grow on poorer land and may replace red clover in rotations. It recommends Farmers' Bulletin 797 for full culture details.
Lime applied to infected soil can control clubroot in cabbage. Heavy applications from 10 to 80 bushels per acre may completely destroy the disease and also help sweeten soil for a larger crop. cauliflower is affected when grown on infected cabbage soils.
United States Department of Agriculture advises planting ensilage corn two to three weeks earlier than the small grain variety. Early planting yields more grain and better maturity, while delaying until after the small crop reduces yield and quality.
Dairy notes emphasize washing milk cans when emptied and thorough cleaning of utensils. It advises early familiarization with cow grooming, feeding all roughage, and feeding multiple times daily. It warns tuberculosis as a major dairy cattle disease with no specific cure and highlights prevention as key.
A long advertisement extols S. S. S. as a blood purifier and rheumatism remedy, distinguishing black carbon diamonds from true diamonds, and claiming the medicine cleanses impurities and targets rheumatic germs. It urges readers to obtain literature from the Atlanta address and notes a Red Cross letter about one armed musicians.
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