Dresses for Older Matrons and Their Elegant Revival
The fashion page notes the middle aged woman now setting trends as younger women learn from elder style. Gray hair or a crown of snow enhances grace in draped frocks and mantles, with somber tones like wine, brown, mauve, taupe, and dull blues dominating. Redfern presents a rose taffeta gown with a plain bodice, lace collar, scalloped sleeves, and rose embroidered flounces. a black velvet bow adds artistry. Tengsian crash textiles for dress tables mirror room decor with colorful embroidery or hemmed finishes.
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Redfern
Polishing Furniture Advice From Home Expert
A domestic guide warns against using polishes that never dry and leave dull films on surfaces. It prescribes a simple mix of one third inseed oil and two thirds benzine, applied with a soft brush and dried with muslin, rubbing small sections until surfaces are completely dry.
Silk Bummer Wrap Trimmed in Silk Bands and Rose
Silk bummer wrap described as a long summer garment in mahogany silk. Trimmed with silk bandings and shirred details. Features a large rose accent made from the same material.
Unusual Black Satin Cravat Described With Silk Shirt Style
The article details two black satin cravats for wash silk shirt waist styles. One features a flat bow and a widening long end with six buttons and cream lace trim. The other adds a square bow with flat plaits and Valenciennes frills along the lower end. The overall effect is quaint and stylish.
How to Whiten Your Teeth Effectively
Cleaning the teeth with powdered pumice stone has been found satisfactory. This powder should not be used more than once every three months as it can destroy enamel if used too often. If you cannot reach spots near the gums with a brush, cover them with the powdered pumice and a soft cloth.
A Strange Bird's Nest Built by Central American Wren
The little brown wren constructs a nest far larger than itself with a thorn fence. It seeks two parallel branches as a site and lays a five foot platform with a dome shaped nest surrounded by interwoven thorns. A crooked tunnel links the nest to the platform with inward thorns and small interior thorn fences. A movable gate seals the tunnel end.
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Central America
Mme. Wren
Heart of the World Poem Fragment by Owen Tryon
A free verse style piece speaks of roaming and yearning under distant seas and mountains. The narrator addresses the heart of the world, claiming kinship with the vast unknown and pledging lifelong wandering guided by distant songs and inner fires.
Man and Society Vignettes from a Chicago Tale
A series of humorous contrasts on male behavior from the Chicago Record-Herald. Onlookers at weddings, a man in a fifet straw hat in spring, waiting an hour for a train, and a husband listening as others praise his courtship are sketched. A nurse near a rubber plant and a man wheeling a baby carriage are touched with light satire. The note adds a quirky line about a barometer found in 1634.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Rescue on the Observation Car Aboard the Southern Limited
Two young men aboard the Southern Palm Limited near Jacksonville face danger as a tramp saves a man from a fatal fall from the rear observation car. The rescued man, Robert, learns of a public accusation from a letter his partner wrote. Helen vows to stand by him, and they plan to marry in Washington while facing potential legal trouble and public scandal.
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Southern Palm Limited
Jacksonville
Pullman
Sud
Lincoln and a Bug Lesson from a Kind Moment
The Minneapolis Journal recalls President Lincoln stopping to help a bug in distress. A poet questions cruelty to living things, urging aid to any creature in need at no cost, drawing a small but pointed moral about empathy toward all living beings.
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Lincoln
Minneapolis Journal
A Chinese Family Photo by American Press Association
In faraway China the children wear bright silks and similar costumes that blur gender. They watch their mother grind rice kernels into fine flour to make supper rice cakes, using a large earthen mortar and pestle.
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American Press Association
China
A Child'e World in Buffalo News Verse Preview
A poetic fragment describes a world of sunlit rooms and playful scenes for children. The lines evoke flowers, skies, laughter, and dreams crafted for young ones, set as a cheerful feature in the Buffalo News.
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Buffalo News
A Trick For Girly Demonstrates Wrist Strength Challenge
The passage notes many boys prize muscle power while a girl can test strength by placing her forefingers together and offering a steady pull on wrists. It suggests most boys will fail unless unusually weak or the challenger exceptionally strong.
A Riddle About Jetter A And Honeysuckle
A petite quip asks why the Jetter A resembles honeysuckle and answers that B follows it in a playful wordplay riddle.
Hardest Workers and Quiet Letters in Riddling Texts
A riddle asks which letters are the hardest workers and which are most fond of comfort. It replies that bees Wohleb are the most extensive, seas correspond to 8, ease to K's, I's and 1, says to the longest ells bh, ores O's, and tease T a as the most tantalizing.
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