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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1918
Page
8
The column showcases silk satin and brocade options despite calls for restrained style. Chinese blue and silver brocade features a gathered skirt, deep corsage girdle, net drapery and lace edging. A supple black velvet with silver lace combines a narrow skirt with slight side fullness and silver straps. Both outfits require 6 3-4 yards of 40 inch material.
Mildred wakes at 5 am to join a nurse in charge of patient instruction. The nurse plans to take temperatures and prepare breakfasts, guiding Mildred to accompany and assist with the thermometers and related tasks.
Ellen Lane Spencer argues that certainty replaces guesswork in business. She urges relying on proofs and facts rather than assumptions, noting that doubts and unfounded beliefs harm treatment, pay, and appreciation in professional life.
Mrs John Wooster reads a paper for Authors club at Mrs Edward McClellana Park street home while members knit for Red Cross. Young Women's guild of United church meets Tuesday at Miss Beatrice Smith for Laurel avenue. plan charity work for destitute city children. Several residents travel south for winter visits and Theatre events preview Seventeen at Lyric. Stratford children invited for Stratford day. Bridgeport hosts welcome.
A fragmentary note recalls travelers via the Simplon Pass ancient highway, with Napoleon’s era roads and Milton’s return. John Pycion faced fears of avalanches and wolves, yet minor harm occurred when his companion’s pistol belonging to a peasant was found guilty of attempting to ride away.
A large group of Bridgeport, Fairfield, and Stratford women gathered at Stratfield Hotel to honor Hartford’s Miss Bathermen Ludington, newly elected Connecticut Equal Franchise League president. The event featured receptions, tea, and talks promoting thrift stamps, hospital unit funding, and suffrage initiatives with active committees and dignitaries guiding the program.
The narrator visits Lolly in the morning sees her still in bed and plans lunch and a show. A water main break forces a rush to fetch basement water in a pail. Dolly, described in a pink bath robe, is packed by a maid and taken home after a hurried bath and tea.
A taxi passenger complains of a long ride and demands the meter readout as an exhausted driver claims eight dollars and a half for the trip. The scene shifts to a social gathering with names and invitations mentioned, hinting at a bustling Chicago social page.
Bridgeport offers dressmaking and millinery classes by WLC A and YWCA to help women reuse last year suits, new material, and craft affordable up to date gowns and hats. Miss Mary Woodcock, with Miss Olive Cottrell, leads expert teachers. second term starts the week of February fourth at central and East Side branches. Then butter waste note and a Greek professor collar anecdote follow.
A diary style note from Natalie recalling safe transport arrivals and hopes Harold is among them. She mentions candy shipments, ice cream prices, shopping at Buckingham Woe Company, Vogue Dress Shop, and R. P. Whiting’s grocery. The piece touches on wartime supply hopes, fashion details, and a buoyant mood amid news from France.
Adele Garrison recounts early Paris days and a difficult marriage to Will Morton. She recalls bonds with Dicky Graham and Lilian Underwood, the strain of jealousy, and the struggle to balance work and home life as motherhood begins with daughter Marion. The piece hints at growing apart and a looming divorce.
Mrs Underwood reveals how she believes she spoiled her life by marriage. She speaks of past friendship with Dicky and the strain of gossip, saying she is temperamentally unfitted to make a man happy. The confession lifts a weight as she recounts Paris and New York days.
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