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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1908
Page
3
Fashion notes advise home sewers to use simple lines with elaborate machine stitchery and delicate band embroidery. Emphasis on up to date fabrics, lace medallions, stamped patterns, and stitched trims to achieve stylish evening and afternoon wear without high expense.
A columnist recalls learning from neighbors through simple dishes and tips. Notes include a novel ice cream topping with vanilla cream, substitutions using various fruits and maple syrup, a milk sherbet called One Two Three, and a duck stew named Dutch baked slowly in a bean pot with peas, tomatoes, and spices.
Practical health guidance on bedside manners and avoiding disturbance in sickrooms contrasts with a feature on cosmetic veils and monthly massage. The piece advises clear speech near patients, careful bed and dust control, avoiding alarming illness mentions, and staying in a patient’s line of vision. It also notes veil use for busy women and the soothing benefits of massage for nerves and skin.
An elephant named Kooli endures daily goading under the watch of The Little Brown Man as crowds cheer nearby. He longs for peace while enduring sharp commands, aching from the sting and pushing into the dark corner of his pen beneath a hanging sign.
A vivid tale follows Kooli the rogue elephant trapped in a carnival prison. The Little Brown Man exhausts him with torments as crowds watch, prompting brutal visions of forests and a lone bull elephant. Heat of passion drives Kooli to violent escape, ending in a fiery, tragic crash with a locomotive and burning debris.
At a Pittsburg wedding breakfast the bachelors were asked to give reasons for remaining single. Among the replies were playful quips about preferring water to jumping into a well, selfish honesty, and a spectrum from liberty and dreams to cold meat and empty pockets, plus a twin brother who is married.
A brief dialogue notes the water’s safety with the landlady affirming healthfulness and stating use of only well water. This snapshot captures a local concern about drinking water quality in a domestic setting.
The article surveys fortunes of theatre notables and impresarios, listing Richard D'Oyly Carte and others with estates from $20,000 to $1,000,000. It notes Savoy operas profits, endowments by Edwin Booth, and contrasts fortunes across actors, managers, and impresarios, highlighting the varying outcomes of a life in the theatre.
Gertrude Coghlan, soon to star in James Parkes' traveling salesman comedy, rejects formal drama schools. She recalls years of apprenticeship with her father, the late Charles Coghlan, and emphasizes natural talent, daily arts talks at home, learning the basics, and the value of perseverance, advice, and practical management for success.
Rose Coghlan engaged to support John Drew next season. Paul Armstrong writing In Time of Peace for Klaw and Erlanger. Lillian Russell, in a biography, says she is 47. Carrie De Mar preparing debut in London music halls with husband Joseph Hart. Louis James to star in Peer Gynt at 65 but looks 40. Otis Skinner and family at Fontainebleu France for summers. Adele Rowland engaged by Charles Frohman for a season musical. Grace Hazard builds act Five Feet of Comic Opera and gains favor abroad. Mme Sembrich buys Lake Geneva estate and plans permanent home after next opera season. Frohman to replace Gertie Millar in A Wea Dream for American presentation of Pie Girls of Cottonberg.
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