The Hands and Arms In Fashion In Paris Advice
A fashion piece explores hand care and arm dressing, praising the return of bare hands and manicure as art. It describes hand culturists, finger hats, rings worn in series, pearl and turquoise jewelry, lace cuffs, and royal gray gowns, detailing how to display hands with style and restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Amelie
Portugal
Europe
Rothschild
Kaiserin
Arthur Paget
Mrs. Waldorf Astor
London
Olga Nethersole
Herod
Bonaparte
Home Beauty Remedies and Hair Care Advice Column
Marian Martineau offers readers do it yourself beauty tips. The letters advise making sachet powders tinctures and creams with ingredients such as benzoin tassamine cloves and lavender to scent bathe and soften skin. Hair care steps include warm sweet oil scalp massage plain soap jelly shampoo and a curl method with glycerin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian V
London
Until this is the date
Poem fragment urges readers to delay risky choices and seek advice from elders. It appears as a quatrain admonishing procrastination and fate with a refrain about waiting for a specific date. No clear event, person, or place identified within the readable lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Evening Sun
Charity fund appeals misread by Folks remark
Homer Folks of New York notes the awkwardness charity workers feel in public appeals for funds. He cites a colored preacher who quips that he cannot preach as neatly as a preacher who is “board in heb'n,” illustrating the social humor surrounding fundraising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Homer Folks
State
Charity Aid Society of
New York
Folka
Brudren
Heb'n
Piqua
City of
Washington
F Street
Donald McLean
Charlotte Hmerson
United
Society
National Society
Registers General
Board of Management
Readers Ask About Deserter Citizenship And Jig Origins
A long reader letter column answers questions about when a deserter can become a citizen and vote, Irish jigs versus older European dance forms, and notes on Milan cathedral completion plus the Saxe Holmes author query. The column also covers Dickens widow status, Herculaneum and Ephesus excavation, and DAR membership details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fernbank
Charles Dickens
Herculaneum
Ephesus
Milan
Saxe Holmes
Saxe Holme
Origin of a Habit in Street Manners
A Philadelphia Record note explains why men walk on the street’s outside with women. The custom stems from old street dangers and chivalry, not modern safety concerns, as a practice to protect women from flying debris and accidental harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
England
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rte Oe
Marian Martineau
Baroness
LANDS
ARIZS
Feat Aomen Nabe
Dreelay
Avmorr
Clay Zo
Saseciek
Artz
Pansy T
Daisy T
Bureau OF Information
J. B. A. Reader
Newport
United States
H.F
Ind
Denman F. H
Bach
Handel
Mozart
Haydn
Scotland
Ireland
Lewis M
Dayton
Samuel D. v
Covington, Ky
Erasmus
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