Table Appointments and Care for Damask Napery
Damask table cloths and napkins worn out should be cut into pieces for doilies tray cloths and wraps for food. Create varied shapes and add scallops in white cotton for nicer pieces. Wash tradition tea cloths with care using stain remedies and avoid ironing lace edgings directly. Centerpieces feature pongee silk and embroidered napery patterns.
Fashion Notes: Silk Gowns and Trimmed Parasol Styles
Silk muslin gowns reveal cloth hems while new petticoats button to corsets. Filigree decor recedes from parasols as tunic-like frocks appear. White pique skirts show colored linen bands and dotted swisses rise in popular effect. Sleeveless coats in silk or lace net become a feature as heavy filet laces supplant older styles. Green trimmings and lingerie embroidery appear, with jabots of fine platted lawn edged in colored hemslitch.
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Paris
Waistcoat Embroidery Trends For Spring Coats
Embroider waistcoats with a fine canvas material and simple front bands. Designs need not be large or shaped. solid floral embroidery along the vest front enhances the appeal of spring coats.
Zola to Be Honored in Pantheon Despite Opposition
The planned removal of Emile Zola’s remains to the Pantheon in Paris signals a shifting public view after Dreyfus era tensions. Despite Mme Zola’s reluctance, Premier Clemenceau refuses to allow calls for Marshal Lannes’s remains to be moved first, as Zola’s legacy and Dreyfus defense are celebrated.
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Pantheon
Paris
Tolstoi
Ibsen
Dreyfus
Devil's Island
France
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Per
Duke of
Montebello
Clemenceau
Marshal Lannes
Traducer
India Rock Temples Awe With Ancient Architectural Feats
A long feature surveys India's temple and monastery rock-cut architecture across centuries of Hindu Jain and Mahometan influence. It notes vast pagodas carved from granite and more than 40 temples along with a thousand monasteries, highlighting the Kylas at Ellora and the lingering mystery of their creators and purposes.
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Edward VII
Tommy Atking
India
Fergusson
Eflora
Kylas
Advertising Pays: From Hungry Babies To Lambs And Lovers
A collage of comic verse and punchy adage threads through a Chicago Record Herald item, pairing a hungry baby and its bottle with the refrain it pays to advertise. A cradle of jokes follows, featuring a Sunday school tale, a curious boy’s quips, and a Georgia woods encounter about German carp and safety razors, all in breezy magazine miscellany style.
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E. Kiser
Chicago Record Herald
Novels of the day clash with novels of the night
A light exchange in a bookstore features a pretty stenographer asking for novels of the night, while the polite clerk responds with the day’s offerings. The Chicago Daily News quotes the banter as a peek into leisure reading habits.
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Chicago Daily News
Common Month for Weddings and a Street Dog Query
Dialogues mix wedding timing and dog sale humor. Evelyn and Harold debate months for marriage while a customer orders an ordinary dog to annoy neighbors. Nealer and Derler discuss breeds and pricing in a clipped, domestic scene from New York Weekly. A South Dakota relationship quip adds local flavor.
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Evelyn
Harold
Nealer
Derler
Nati-New York Weekly
Balloon Ball Joke Worth a Smile at Yale Yard
A brief exchange jokes about a pitcher being an aeronaut with Miss Brinmore noting the quip that he is forever going up in the air. The humorous line plays on balloon humor and schoolyard wit.
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Yalevard
Miss Brinmore
Dinner guest mix up ends in a meal talk
Mr Quinby calls his wife by telephone to say he wants to bring a friend for dinner. Mrs Quinby asks where the guest is and Arabella explains she prepared a good meal. He says he could not find anyone to bring and suggests they eat.
Patords of a Brother’s Writing Hidden in Hand
Fragmentary note reveals longing and recognition as a speaker recalls a brother’s handwriting and asks Pat for news. The tone is intimate, unsure, and affectionate, hinting at family closeness and concern without concrete events or dates.
Tit P for Tat and a Runaway Pause
A garbled exchange shows misheard talk about a baby and a man who speaks long on one subject. A Cleveland Leader quip on stopping a runaway and a Yonk ers Statesman remark about a brave woman who would not run away with a man.
Bay lore and wedding foreshadow in humorous verse
A fragment laments hereditary taint of taste in bay lore with innuendo about Pad and a wedding. The playful mock melodrama weaves family taint and social flirtation into a seaside tableau featuring names like Cholly and Johnnay.
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Jespas von
Johnnay
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