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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
2
The article advises using long-cloth with Hamburg embroidery or torchon lace for durable homemade lingerie. It warns against mercerized fabrics and cheap laces, endorsing German var, torchon, and Irish crochet. It notes fashion favors sheer materials, fitted underwear, and satin skirts, with messaline and delicate fabrics for evening wear and dressy skirts in varied colors and trims.
Instructions describe making a decorative trinket box lid with wadded silk or sateen lining, embroidered top, and edge finishing. Use light wood or firm cardboard, line with wadding, attach silk cover and embroidered sprig corners, mount on lid with mucilage, and line the lid with silk or linen for a neat interior finish.
Readers embrace coarse unbleached muslin for summer dresses. Frocks are made simply with wide fabric, trim options include cretonne or cotton prints, and accents use solid dark blues and deep reds. One dress features a four inch cretonne trim on the gore skirt.
Fashion notes describe pairing black net and lace for frocks aimed at mothers and young matrons. Avoid matching belts in bright color. trim with black filet lace and optional ribbon braid embroidery. Suggest black yokes with white face details, white lace sleeves, and a black satin girdle with a jet buckle for smart, wrapper-like silhouettes.
A daily bath is essential for good health and cleanliness. The sponge bath suits those unable to bathe daily, with cold or hot options chosen by strength. Cold baths may dry skin, so outdoor activity helps. sea water baths aid nervous fatigue, while hot baths soothe and aid sleep.
A dainty white wool crochet jacket with a colored pink blue or mauve accent is described. It features a square yoked top supporting a full hip length body and wide bell sleeves, suitable as a gift for an invalid or elderly woman heading to mountains or sea.
A fragment notes decorative edging on a garment with airy fabric and threadwork along the border and sleeve edges. It mentions a matching ribbon and lists a price of 3.50 in Chicago American.
A Victorian style column notes sleep deprivation shows in appearance and advises brisk morning walks, sun exposure for hair, and sunlit rest for facial neuralgia. It suggests buttermilk for freckles and sunburn, tea with potash to curl hair, and sun as therapy for insomnia and nervous debility.
The piece notes a revival of glossy, silky hair with silk applications in Parisian hairdressers. It contrasts the old brilliantine method with a modern practice using silk to achieve a metallic shine and purported growth benefits.
Silks split when overheated and near heat sources. Wardrobes with chimneys or close radiators suffer. Wholesalers vent walls in winter and manufacturers store summer stock cold. Colors vary in perishability, but precautions protect all silks.
The text advises prudent women to own a separate white skirt to go with fancy blouses. It praises white poplinette as a durable material and describes a gores cut skirt finished with a deep hem and accented by soutache or hercules braid.
The outing girl favors rose pink linen and pongee with many pink color schemes on display at fashionable hotels. A pretty model wears pink linen with white embroidery and a black satin tie in front, illustrating the season’s popular summer color.
The current fashion highlight is a filet net blouse worn with colored silk muslin. The style blends elegance with versatility for both formal dresses and tailored jackets, featuring low necklines, high embroidered yokes, and intricate netting patterns.
A nostalgic claim asserts pretzels rival stale bread for young children. Fresh bread is discouraged as pretzels’ dryness and saltiness are praised as beneficial. The text argues saltiness is purifying and tonic for a child’s constitution.
A visitor recalls a Washington afternoon when asphalt so hot a shoe heel stuck, leaving a three inch limp. The tale mentions eggs fried on car track plates, mushrooms in cupboards, and long whiskers on gas tubes as kooky climate anecdotes.
A grassy shore scene near the water frames John and Mary as a young couple in a moonlit moment. An older pair approach, sharing a playful tableau as the young duo jokes about a baseball umpire, in a Washington correspondence from the New York Sun.
Mrs. David Brown of Locke Arkansas reports two years of eczema with sleepless nights and ineffective treatments. After trying Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills three times she slept well and saw her ankles heal quickly with no relapse after a year.
A New York ferry line posts a notice to passengers about banning spitting on the floor while also stating that life preservers are provided for all aboard. The tongue in cheek observation questions whether the reforming zeal has gone too far, given the two-part warning displayed together.
The article notes that a twenty minute sermon is a modern idea and cites a 1564 entry in St. Katherine’s Aldgate paying for an hourglass to time sermons. It also mentions a rare eighteen minute pulpit glass in the Chapel Royal Savoy installed during the 1867 restoration.
O'Brien calls insomnia insomniy and O'Toole claims one cure. The doctor agrees the ailment exists and O'Toole suggests simply going to sleep and forgetting the worry.
Four year old Little Jr. rushes inside screaming about a bug removing its trousers. He reports seeing a locust emerging from its shell in the yard, prompting a puzzled mother to investigate.
Advertisement claims FITS St Vitus Dance and nervous diseases are permanently cured by Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Offers a free $2.00 trial bottle and treatise from Dr R H Kline Sd at 931 Arch St Philadelphia PA.
In a court exchange the receiver asks the judge for guidance after winding up affairs in a week to discover only 100000 dollars remains. He seeks the source for payment of the balance of his fee.
A short notice notes Miller and Holmes of St Paul Minnesota pay top prices for cream. A melodramatic aside follows about a milkman kissing someone named Jane with lines of jealousy and a vow not to kiss anyone else.
The Well Informed demand a mild, effective liquid laxative. The California Fig Syrup Co offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a known value, gentle yet prompt in action. Buy the genuine product only from California Fig Syrup Co. sold by leading druggists, price fifty cents per bottle.
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