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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
7
Fashionable net waists and trimmings can be dyed at home for exact color. Use artist’s paint shade in gasoline, add gradually, test on a fabric sample, and dry without ironing. The same method freshens soft finished silk like crepe de Chine and silk mulls.
A 19th or early 20th century advice piece notes women fear wrinkles as a sign of age. It links scowling to forehead wrinkles and recommends remedies using astringents with boracic acid in ointment or glycerine. Apply along wrinkle lines with a camel hair brush.
The article describes a shift away from milliners bows toward broad flat bows used on hats and resembling pumps. The new bows appear in three to five layers, each about half an inch apart, mainly on tailored hats of the upper class. They use thick corded ribbon like Ottoman, often secured with a buckle or cabochon pins.
The new chintzes or cretonnes make attractive book covers and are easy to craft at home. Striped and straight patterned cretonnes are favored over common twilled fabrics, with a suggestion of adding a gold gilt edge.
The piece argues restless children need exercise and engagement. It suggests active play, walks, and structured activities as healthier than punishment. Provide safe, inexpensive amusements like coloring and old magazines to occupy a child for hours, emphasizing health over costly ornaments.
A detailed description of a pink crystalline waist of wide plaits. The front and insertion feature silk and soutache embroidery on a tulle foundation with tassels. The guimpe and undersleeves are mousseline de sole with lace Insertia trims and soutache straps, wrists finished with embroidery and tassels.
A group of Minnesota editors toured Western Canada and returned with praise for rapid rail and settlement growth. They cite new land rules offering 160 acres at 3 dollars per acre and note 1908 crops strong with Milestone Saskatchewan yields around 30 bushels per acre. Government agents provide free-land and transport information.
A primary class teacher asks Willie to name the graceful animal with big horns hunted each fall. The joke ends with a child’s quip about what his father calls his mother at night, "Betsy," because it plagues her.
A reader offers advice to avoid ruining derby hats by brushing with a stiff brush. She suggests a soft hat brush or silk handkerchief to keep hats clean, arguing that gentle care wins favor with husbands or brothers listening to hat groans.
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