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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
3
A readable fragment asserts that American home talent can create fashions to outdo foreign imports, supporting the Society of American Fashions for American Women. The piece claims domestic designs can compete with international styles and highlights national pride in American production.
A critique traces fashion and decor through imitation periods, noting colonial houses, gold furniture, and dress styles as copied trends. It argues beauty relies on overall style, not skin deep looks, and mocks the obsession with imitated silver, jewels, and ragged fabrics as Dame Fashion codifies modern vanity.
Colored dresses for children use gingham percale linen chambray and many cottons with combinations of plaids and stripes. Plain color trimmings on collars revers belts and cuffs appear with plaid gingham and percale. Ratine crepes epanges and striped fabrics rise in children wear as high class makers adopt solid colors and patterns.
The fine mesh veil is praised as a god send for women who forget birthdays. It softly blurs signs of age, acting as a reliable ally that reveals only what the world should see while concealing more personal details.
Leather pin boxes sold to organize different pins. About five by seven inches, twelve compartments for safety pins hairpins assorted pins and colored head pins. Boxes aim to tidy dressers and tables.
A passage notes the 19th century gaze on artificial beauty as a flawless replica of natural allure. It quotes a New York Press line describing efforts to perfect feminine charm, suggesting only a discerning expert might detect the deception behind the cosmetic transformation.
The piece notes a revival of metallic effects in evening attire with cloth of gold and gold shot brocades. Silver and gold buckles, metal embroidery, jet ornaments, and parée plumes adorn hats and feather mounts, delivering a luxurious, exclusive finish to smart tailored headwear.
The article notes brocaded velvet and heavy silk handbags with silver filigree fastenings for middle aged women. It describes capacious pockets for handkerchiefs glasses and small items and adds new multi compartment pocketbooks with a central clasp. Silk and plush purses echo retro reticules with finger rings and muff carry.
The 1913 census shows farm buildings value at 36.8 billion dollars, about one sixth of farm property. Better materials and construction can cut depreciation and maintenance by half, with concrete and modern designs extending longevity and reducing upkeep across barns, granaries, silos, and residences.
Fringed and embroidered girdles and sashes become increasingly epatante as Paris fans describe. Widest popular sash width ranges four to six inches. Examples include a dark blue satin sash with bright floral embroidery, a black velvet model with plaid ribbon tied in a double bow, and a black charmeuse gown paired with a silver fringe accented sash.
The Christian Science Monitor notes a small rug made to fit the sewing machine treadles. It is designed to keep the operator’s feet warm during cold weather.
Fashions feature satin peplum jackets with cloth skirts and low corsets, vivid bow accents, and lace fills. Marie Stuart collars appear in velvet satin fur and plaited lace, jet bead girdles on evening gowns, plaited peplums on party frocks, and high belts across backs. Mantelets in contrasting taffeta drape for pannier effect, Watteau styles praised for straight figures and advised against otherwise.
Bell sleeves appear in updated form with softer flowing material. The style moves away from baggy past versions while preserving the distinctive bell shape.
Rations list for 1000 pound cows with numbers No 1 through No 10. Details include roughage types such as alfalfa hay clover hay cowpea hay and corn silage with daily milk production-based grain rations. Each entry lists pounds of roughage and grain plus supplements like bran cottonseed meal gluten feed and linseed meal and notes on substitutions and interchangeable feeds.
A humorous dialogue about clingy objects and stubborn items that won’t leave their owners, from gold pins to vases and lunch wrapped in a newspaper. The banter, set in a boarding house, highlights ironic attachments and a mischievous encounter on a rainy street.
Comrade Samuel Bright recalls the dangerous pontoon crossing during the Civil War near Rocky Mount. The Sixty-ninth Ohio, aided by Fifty-eighth Indiana and Michigan regiments, built and anchored pontoons with logs and stones, faced heavy fire from Butler and Wheeler forces, and suffered only one casualty, Sergeant Tom Adams, as the crossing succeeded at Rocky Mount Point.
A rebel soldier buried a fallen Union fighter near Richmond and placed a grave shingle bearing a defiant inscription about Yankee advances. The note reflects the Confederate morale after a bloody engagement and retreat from the capital.
The regimental band played on the parade grounds before the colonel's quarters when the colonel's German orderly rushed in to relay the general's instruction to play the Star Spangled Band.
A brief quip exchanges between two sailors about what would happen if one were killed. The bunkmate asks what he would do, and the other jokes about stuffing and kicking the stuffing out of him. The exchange uses dark humor to cope with danger and mortality.
Beulah jokes about a couple's strained marriage as she notices a change in domestic life. The exchange hints at tension and a shift from romance to practicality within a household.
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