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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1900
Page
14
A Bayonne New Jersey trial of night signaling used flags two feet square attached to kite cables with a 100 candle power searchlight suspended a few feet below. The light aimed sideways created a blue, white and red display extending 10 to 12 feet, promising wartime signaling use and festive night effects.
A compact digest of diverse items: a discussion of the Guinea type among southern Negroes with physiognomic notes attributed to Prof. N. B. Shaler, plus a Massachusetts Essex Institute copy of Gen. Ward’s imperial edict, and vignettes on Dublin lodging, and Gen. Gatacre’s marches with Father Brindle offering morale.
The piece highlights crepe de chine satin as a fresh lustrous finish for gowns, suggests black or colored crepe paired with silk, and notes parasols with lace, paillettes, and rose leaf designs. Lingerie items feature shell pink sarah gowns with lace, ribbons, and elaborate edgings, focusing on understated fullness in the front and gathered backs.
Domestic Lore offers fixes for tight spaces such as hanging portieres on long wooden arms on wall brackets to stay out of the way or lay flat. It includes kitchen privacy, light control, candle shading advice, and silver polishing with wood alcohol and chalk precipitate warnings. A chicken salad and egg white omelet recipe follow with step by step preparation and baking notes.
The Detroit Free Press lists spring silhouettes and fabrics including boleros of embroidered taffeta, black pompon trimmings for hats, white velvet gowns for day and evening wear, Cluny lace dominating, revived half sleeves with dainty undergarments, and Turkish cuffs returning in linen.
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