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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
13
The article promotes a modern hairstyle with hair drawn back from the forehead to reveal brains and height of brow. It discusses waving hair in soft waves, adjusting volume at the sides, and a single back comb, noting comfort and fashionability for summer. It mixes hair trends with a nod to equal rights and public praise of brains.
Practical faint dress making lessons prepared for this newspaper by Pictorial Review. The feature offers step by step guidance with sample patterns and fabric suggestions aimed at home sewers seeking modern, easy to sew garments and fit tips.
The article explains sewing a Roman trim jacket and matching skirt from silk, detailing pieces like peplum, collar, cuffs, and belt. It covers folding, perforations, seam adjustments, and assembly steps to achieve a cohesive two-piece costume from 2% yards of 14 inch material.
A discussion on love and marriage advises women to value faithful, genuine affection over idealized partners. It notes mutual interest and true love as keys to happiness, warning against choosing solely on appearance or pride. A reader asks Miss Libby about a conflict between marriage and enjoying winter sports.
A reader recounts a comic Valentine about an old maid chasing men with a long hook, who fearfully fly away with Not on your life. Amanda explains a young man hinted at her being on the old maid list. She advises not to mention the valentine and to respond with gentleness, noting a twenty five year old is far from an old maid.
Virginia Vale presents a whimsical tale in which brown green and flower gnomes prepare a garden. Flowers grow tall enough to see children playing as gnomes assist, then wind and magic transform flowers into gnomes who help continue the garden’s beauty. The story ends with a ceremonial good night and a note of future gnome duties. John Beck & Son.
Constantinople College, conducted by Americans, will dedicate five new buildings on June 8 at its Arnautkeny site above the Bosphorus. The project began in 1910 on 54 acres, funded by donations including $150,000 from Helen Miller Gould and $100,000 from John D. Rockefeller for the power house. The complex totals about $750,000, led by Dr. Mary Mills Patrick as president and Grace H. Dodge as board president, with trustees from New York and Boston.
A first person vignette follows a boy watching a man painting tents brown near his home. The boy jokes about white ones, noses get painted, and a prank ends with his nose stained brown as his mother cleans it with turpentine.
Miss Annie Morecroft with Miss Helen Gaudreau gave an exhibition of fancy swimming and lifesaving in Bridgeport harbor last night. She has a Boston beaches rescue record and medals for long distance and fancy swimming. At 14 she swam Boston harbor to Nahant, over 14 miles, and once tried Boston harbor to Boston light. A crowd on Stratford avenue bridge watched her over an hour and end with a demonstration of a lifesaving rescue carrying a 17 year old boy across the harbor head to Rosedale wharf.
Outdoor 90 degree heat ignored as Polls Main Street Theatre offers a vaudeville program headlined by The Country Store with grand prizes. Actress Merle Russell stars as The Tetranami of Vaudeville, with underwater duo Patte's Mirthful Mermaids, the Quinn brothers, Drake, Moore and Billo in sketches, and a two reel feature The Card plus a comedy Almere drama on the picture bill.
Lyric Theatre will not present The Modern Dance TWeerure as planned. The merger of the company decided yesterday to close the company. Instead the Lyric will showcase talking pictures all next week, their first Bride appearance.
At the Plaza Theatre yesterday a vaudeville program wowed fans as the Doll Girl of Vaudeville with her sister performed gravity defying tricks while Conners and Man sang and danced. Hees Lynden and Paul Levan Dobbs entertained with musical acts and acrobatics. Chas Chapin offered comic turns as the reel displayed.
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