Fashion forecasts for fall gowns and cape styles
Vogue notes rougher materials and old style trimmings return with elaborate skirts and new sleeve shapes. It highlights circular capes, hooded wraps, and a revival of flower ornaments as accents for evening and carriage toilettes, describing fabrics, patterns, and dressmaking tips.
Shirred Gowns and Beaded Overdress Fashions
A new shirred gown features a princess tunic overdress with a fitted waist, semi-decollete collar, and long flounced underskirt. Pale shell pink tissue, crystal bead bands, mousquetaire sleeves, and silver lace collar create an elegant look, with beadwork costs modest for skilled sewers.
Finding a soothing soap for harsh dry skin
The article advises changing soap or stopping use to treat dry harsh skin and potential wrinkles. It notes soaps can strip natural oil and recommends experimenting to find a soothing soap. It suggests almond paste as an excellent substitute.
Washing and pressing a lace collar for best finish
The article advises washing an Irish lace collar and pressing it face down on a Turkish towel fourfold. This method creates a soft surface and prevents the shiny finish that ironing can give to faces.
Baby’s Kimono From Worn Flannel Underwear
When the flannel underwear has become too worn for use, tidy baby kimonos can be crafted from the remaining fabric. The article suggests making small, comfortable garments for infants from the scraps, keeping warmth and charm.
Novel Marabou and Chiffon Scarf for Summer Evenings
A scarf combines marabou feathers with chiffon in the same shade. Fluffy feather strips are sewn across the width of chiffon, spaced apart to look airy and elegant. The look suits summer evening attire, and repurposing an old marabou boa is feasible though tedious.
Two Good Litters of Pigs a Year Highlighted
A guide explains mature sows can produce two litters yearly with similar feed to one, and outlines benefits of September and March farrowings. It presents parity-based litter averages, emphasizes shelter and nutrition, and notes better outcomes when keeping sows for breeding rather than fattening, with practical feeding mixes to boost growth and health.
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Mouse and Rat Proof Crib and Bordeaux Mixture Guide
An illustration outlines a corn crib design resistant to mice and rats by removing bottom corn so movement triggers pests to leave. Instructions cover lime and blue vitriol preparation, storage, and mixing to create Bordeaux mixture, with safety notes and a test using potassium ferrocyanide to ensure proper lime balance.
Spraying Potatoes Against Blight From Wisconsin Bulletin
Wisconsin experiment station outlines spraying potatoes against blight with blue vitrol lime and potassium ferro cyanide. For season use 200 pounds lime, 150 pounds blue vitrol, and 5 cents worth of ferro cyanide crystals. First spray calls for 40 pounds blue vitrol and 50 pounds lime. mix by suspending blue vitrol in 25 gallons water overnight. Use wooden or copper vessels when handling the solution. avoid iron.
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Wisconsin Experiment Station
The Live Stock Man and the Stockman’s Leadership
J Ogden Armour praises stockmen as the strong leaders of agriculture. He notes their progressiveness and willingness to invest in better stock to meet packers demand. Armour cites exchanges with packers and stockyards, and the use of exhibitions to improve meat stock through imported breeding stock.
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J. Ogden Armour
Breeders Gazette
Art or Nature in a Rainy Schoolyard Scene
In a shabby urban setting Anna Karenina and Sophie Bauer Schmidt discuss Miss Lucy at the Bauerschmidt saloon circle. A damp school scene follows with Miss Lucy coaching Class A as a shy critic teacher arrives and a classroom incident reveals tensions among students and teachers.
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