Velvet and Satin Coats Dominate Fashion This Season
Coats in velvet satin and cloth draw attention with lavish evening styles and practical single colors. Velvet appears in evening wraps and day wear with fur trimmings in sable mink or ermine. copper lace and metallic touches accent few evening wraps. White fox and chinchilla mingle with rose shades in velvet or crepe, while practical wool velours offer striped or plain options. Top coats in dark blue serge, raglan sleeves, and varied textures suit travel and motor wear.
Benefit in powdering hair sparks Paris trick gains
A society woman describes adopting a Paris fashion of lightly powdering the hair around the face to hide gray roots. She says the subtle touch softens harsh dark hair, takes years off her appearance, and adds a dash of youthfulness despite initial reluctance.
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Paris
Fashions and Fads for Autumn Hats and Dresses
Plush and velour top children's hats with marigold yellow among Paris colors. Wide white belts of kid or suede appear. Wash frocks suit the first days of school. Wool brocades enter girls suits. Persian effects dominate autumn gowns. New braids mix dull and bright tones with basket weave. Pouch bags in silk or leather match pannier handles. Separate jacquard wool skirts drape nicely. Black with violet green or white accents appears. Inexpensive bead necklaces finish color schemes.
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Paris
Astrakhan
Old Friend Hat Described With Silk Frame and Feathered Trim
A sketch depicts a hat with a light blue silk frame and a curved brim that rises at the back. The crown resembles a modified Tam with a wreath of curling aigrets and a strand of upright aigrets to the left rear, complemented by an ostrich feather garland.
The Net Frock Fashion of Today Moves With Grace
A vivid look at contemporary young women in net frocks and corsetless silhouettes. Designers favor soft curves over rigid lines with lace net or chiffon gowns mounted on silk foundations and veiled to highlight lace designs.
Feeding the Orchard Tree
A farmer credits his success to not neglecting to feed his trees. He notes a neighbor who misused cornstalks as late fall fertilizer, creating ragweed and a weed cushion that sheltered falling apples. The piece emphasizes balancing soil inputs with returns and personal responsibility in farming.
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Bessie L. Putnam
Poultry Keeping Tips for Health and Profit
Practical guidance for raising chickens and fowls with attention to care, housing, water, and feeding. Emphasizes cleanliness, space, varied grain, and timely processing to maximize profit and minimize disease. Warns against overstocking and neglect, and notes seasonal considerations.
Proper Feeding for Work Horses Emphasizes Regular Rations
Guidance urges consistent grain and hay portions, fed in small amounts to prevent waste and maximize labor output. Proper feeding rewards the animal’s work with steady nutrition and reduces manger waste and underfed power.
Business of Dairying Pays
An editor urges dairymen to raise dairy intelligence and attract youth to farming. He argues education, careful feeding, and scientific practice improve stock and profits, while avoiding cheap, mixed-bred cattle and guesswork. The piece stresses open doors for future citizen farmers and continuous learning.
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van Aken
Prevent Wire Worm Attack in Clover and Oat Fields
The author notes an effective method to stop a wire worm infestation by destroying the pest and finishing it, recounting a field where oats sprouted after clover leavings but were devoured within three days by the worm.
Home remedy for calf warts and horns
Apply nitrate of silver in stick form to warts on calves and rub gently daily. the warts should disappear in a short time. For horns, apply nitrate of silver to the horn stubs within ten days of birth starting on day three. the blood should appear and stop further horn growth.
Water for Wheat Arithmetic Problem for Farms
An inch of water is worth two and a half bushels per acre. To average 25 bushels, the farmer must secure and deliver ten inches of water to his wheat plants. The solution is simple arithmetic guided by practical intelligence.
Age to Work Colt
From the age of two and one half years a well bred colt properly fed and handled should be able to do enough work about the farm to pay for his keep.
Social Sundays Calendar for 1914 Published
A conference committee of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis proposes a 1914 calendar of sixteen national social Sundays. The list includes Church and national holidays such as New Year’s Sunday and Christmas Sunday, with six Sundays aimed at social propaganda.
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Philip P. Jacobs
National Association For the Study and Prevention
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Prison Association of New York
William T. Demarest
Home Missions’ Council
Book Heroine in Dub Class Old Brown Wives Waits
A light London Tit-Bits joke features Old Brown and his wife debating patience in love. He notes a fictional heroine waiting years for the hero, while she recounts delays caused by football, cricket, and a new hairdo. The wife calls his imagined hero an impatient mugwump.
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London
Tillman dodges depth in suffrage dinner quip
In Washington at a dinner Senator Tillman, an anti suffragist, listened to a brother senator's impassioned suffrage speech. A diner applauding remarked that the speaker was a deep thinker, prompting Tillman to quip that he cannot talk three minutes without going beyond his depth.
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Washington
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