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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1915
Page
19
This article outlines inexpensive home methods to make tiny gilt wire baskets for bonbons almonds or confections. Steps include preparing a cardboard base coating with silk and lace, adding a lace frill, attaching a ribbon handle, and choosing color schemes for Christmas or harlequin displays. It suggests Wallace lining and expanding to larger pieces as skill grows.
The article notes transparent summer dress fabrics require a shadow proof petticoat. Fine white sateen is praised as satisfactory and affordable. Petticoats should nearly match the dress length, perhaps half an inch shorter, to maintain a smart silhouette.
A fragmented tutorial shows how to crochet a square cap with rose patterns using fine mesh. add picot edging or two rows of main stitch. Form a casing inside the ware, remove corners, thread elastic through, and shape the corners with fine millinery wire to create a quaint Normandy-like cap.
Embroidery remains popular with frocks for summer afternoons and refined attire for the Den, offering graceful scroll designs. Soulache braiding features prominently, applied to intricate patterns and embroidery scroll work, combining elegance with sufficient detail for rich serviceable wear.
Fashion guidance from Belle Armstrong Whitney notes most women fail ideal beauty standards in height, figure, or complexion. Dressmakers adapt designs to emphasize good points, and fashion plates idealize tall, fair figures while warning against slavish copying of cuts.
Smocks gain favor this summer with thin fabrics. The described style features a skirt that is shirted and subtly smocked into a slim silhouette at the waist and hips, flattering slender figures and enhancing a fresh, airy look.
An article discusses the trend of lacing across garments from boots to hats. Navy blue gaberdine outfits feature a bolero jacket with snug lacing, large sleeves and collar also laced. Inside lacing extends to boots hats gloves showing coordinated, interwoven fashion.
The most radical change this season is in color. Dressy waists are either dark to match the salt or bright to contrast. Semi-tailored models stay mostly white or flesh. Conservative waists favor navy brown dark green purple gray or mulberry. Waists of whiking type use garnet light green rose royal purple and French blue to blend with dark salt tones.
Boston Red Sox clinched the American League title in 1915 under manager Bill Carrigan after a hard fought season. Carrigan, a strict, demanding leader, steered star players and a strong pitching staff to overcome injuries and illness and secure the pennant.
American jockey Archibald led the summer meeting at Hoppegarten Berlin with seventeen firsts in forty eight races. Jockey Ramnenberger, with Weinberg stables, placed second after fifteen wins in fifty six races while serving in the German field artillery. Plueschke finished third with seven victories as German riders trailed in the results.
Harney Dreyfuss credits Hans Wagner for years of service and denies reports he will be named Pirates manager. The owner’s gratitude seems to preclude a sudden managerial change.
Arthur Chapple today holds a new 4 mile motorcycle record after clocking 8736 seconds. He shaved one fifth of a second off the mark he made last year, signaling a notable improvement in speed.
Phil Hubbard visits Pauline in her new gown house and contemplates romance as tension over a provocative sign on a private park gate tests friendships. Pauline reveals design ambitions and a budding future in fashion while Mr. Hubbard weighs property concerns and family approval.
The German administration announces a new war croquette named vollkost to be produced under central control and sold for 24.5 cents. It is made from Indian cornmeal, epagheptic noodles referred to as betrayal noodles, various dried vegetables and meat extract.
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