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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1908
Page
26
A 1920s style guide discusses graceful seating and a balanced stance, noting women should rest weight on one foot when sitting and shift weight smoothly when rising. It covers bust development through diet and exercises, warns against padding, and extols natural form for elegant silhouette and carriage.
A fashion advice piece explains the all skin Princess gown requires a near perfect figure and extreme fit. It covers shaping tips for hips waist and bust, exercises to reduce hips and waist, and posture and walking to preserve a sleek straight front.
Reader questions cover skin care regimes and homemade beauty remedies. A lime juice skin test, carbolic face baths, glove pastes, and arm whiteners are discussed along with bust development, wrinkle massage, and morning hot baths with rose water preparations.
A fragmentary note describes pushing for a procedure to reduce flesh and improve appearance. The speaker expresses relief at apparent success and acknowledges discomfort with excess weight. No names or locations are provided.
A German periodical notes a new durable floor made from wood pulp mixed with cement. The process yields a cheap surface with woodlike appearance, pressed between rollers and painted to imitate oak, aiming to solve dirt and germ issues in old floors.
A local train limps along as passengers grow restless and a drummer taunts the conductor. The conductor tires of the heckling, offering a witty retort that the drummer should walk if he dislikes the pace, while the drummer quips his wife expects him to ride in.
Tommy owns two affectionate ducks that play ball by chasing a ball Tom throws. One day Mr Yellowbill pulls at Tommy's trousers, leading to the discovery of Mrs Yellowbill near an outbuilding. The male duck shows concern while others arrive to help.
A digest of readers questions covers Babels tower confusion, dice odds, cattle terminology, Arctic explorers, color sensation, world steamer tonnage, phonetics, soap history, US national parks, and related notes from a rural and urban exchange.
Ohio author James Ball-Naylor prepares a new poetry collection Songs From the Heart of Things to be issued by the Ohio Library Company of Columbus. The poet and fiction writer, living in Muskingum Valley, offers verse tracing human experience from simple nursery rhymes to Thanksgiving scenes with hopeful, heartful melodies. The book will include over thirty full page engravings based on Naylor images.
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