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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1914
Page
5
An era fashion piece describes a black chiffon bodice over white satin with jet bands and a surplice design. It notes jet watches and bracelets, drop earrings, stud earrings, and rimmed crystal earrings as popular, with jet necklaces enhancing pale skin and white luster.
Directions for crafting a combing jacket using a medium velvet circle for the neck with scalloped edges, padded white work, and four corner embroidered sprays. Details include front fastening with ribbon or crochet loops, white linen thread for white stitching, and speedy scalloping with coarse thread if rushed. Also describes a charming fur set featuring tailless ermine toque, long black quill, wide stole, tassel ends, and heart muff.
The text describes preparing a fowl for roasting with steps to singe, gut, and truss. It covers singeing the skin, cooling and rinsing, removing head and neck, loosening ligaments, and drawing sinews from legs and joints, then repeating the process for the other leg.
Detailed instructions describe gutting a fowl including skinning, removing organs, and cleaning. It covers trimming the neck, freeing intestines, removing the heart and lungs, and trimming for trussing, plus cautions on not washing to keep juices and avoid taint. Also includes a psychology aside on being blase and seeking new interests.
A period notice offers sewing tips from hemstitching with machine help and placket reinforcement. It covers placing carbon designs, hook and eye closures for plackets, and using several blotting papers to guide stitching. Lastly it urges digging up old fur bits for trims and at home fur touchups.
A nostalgic critique of the evolving high coiffure trend, comparing modern towering hairstyles to Marie Antoinette era hair sculptures. The piece notes growing extremes, possible artificial supports, and the public’s fascination with increasingly monumental headpieces, questioning restraint and taste.
A pamphlet promoting a two hour sleep regime inspired by Edison argues sleep is wasted time and suggests shorter rest improves reading, theater, and income. It cites gender differences in sleep needs and offers tips like warm drinks, a bath, outdoor activity, open windows, and relaxed worry to induce sleep.
The article notes Australia has nearly 1,000,000 women with the vote and more than 2,200 women journalists in the United States. It also cites Philadelphia boot and shoe factories employing over 1,200 women, Santiago Carmelite nuns as among the wealthiest groups, and Mrs. F C Penfield, wife of the American ambassador to Australia, earning over £1,000,000 yearly.
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