Evening gowns of 1910s era dazzle with color and lace
A fashion page details the season’s simplicity keynote and dazzling gowns. It highlights pale green tinsel accents, pink satin frocks, white chiffon ensembles with pearl work, black lace over satin looks, and Paquin creations in mousseline and Venetian lace. Navy blue and red ensembles appear, plus bold belts, rosettes, and jeweled sashes.
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Drecoll
Couturieres
Paquin
Paris
Isette
Directoire
Separate Paquin Gowns Feature Long Trains and Lace
The article describes gowns with trains half way to the knees tapering at the back, with varieties from Venetia and Drecoll styles. It notes satin veiled with lace, filet net, cuirass fronts, angel sleeves, and contrasting color trains. Empire fashion, with scarves and fans among Napoleonic era styles, is described as women occupy hands with work, fans, and light trains.
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Venetia
Roof Garden Nurseries For Babies Air House Happiness
A historic piece describes roof garden nurseries as air houses for babies and children, detailing a four-child family’s success with a sunlit tin roof play space. It explains safety features, moisture control, and daily outdoor-like activity aiding growth, appetite, and health, with tips on water feeding and choking awareness.
Diet tips for feeding three to four year olds at table
Practical guidance on simplifying meals for young children to prevent summer illnesses. Suggestions include beef on crackers, prunes juice in porridge, small portions of vegetables, gentle soup from pureed peas, easy desserts like rice dumplings, and careful dairy handling to prevent germ-related illnesses. Emphasizes gradual eating, safe milk, and avoiding adult desserts for toddlers.
Household Hints on a Flexible Outdoor Tent Solution
The article outlines a DIY tent expansion using a six inch elevated floor, a light framed wire netted enclosure with optional canvas roof and green burlap interior for cooling. It recommends keeping sides a set height, adding curtains, and projecting canvas fly protection while noting ease of disassembly for storage and suitability for tuberculous patients. It also briefly covers laundering tips for pique and wool skirts, advising waistband pinning to prevent sagging.
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London
Sterilizing Milk Bottles for Infant Care
Instructions describe sterilizing milk for babies by washing bottles, boiling water, and drying. bottles are filled, capped with raw cotton, and heated in a kettle two thirds full of water for thirty minutes. nipples are boiled before use. milk remains usable for a couple of days in the ice.
Household hints and kitchen quirks spark domestic tips
The column shares humorous household tips about grease on towels and use of discarded handkerchiefs to protect laundry. It notes misguided aims like end-of-sink faucets saving dish knocks and printing toasts on napkins to amuse guests, illustrating light domestic forethought and mishaps.
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Helen ‘Falco
Baby’s
Emma E. Walker
Asa
Louisville
LE Gray Taylor
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