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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1898
Page
3
The article urges young women to choose a path of self respect and duty over frivolity, highlighting lasting virtues like honesty and true womanliness. It discusses long skirts for house gowns, street wear limits, and the revival of draped fronts in fashionable skirts with trims and embroidery.
From Paris comes brisk fashion commentary praising ultra slim silhouettes with minimal shoulders chests and waists. The piece notes ribbon bands corsets and hat emphasis while predicting fashion spreads to spread from Paris to New York and St Petersburg.
Mrs. Alice Freyran Palmer spoke at a Congregational club dinner in Brooklyn invoking a Berlin professor’s remark that the US would reach 25 or 50 years before a collapse. He claimed universal suffrage and blamed women teachers for shaping most of an educated workforce. Palmer framed the point as a critique of women teachers and delivered a graceful discourse on their influence.
The Baltimore American notes garters move toward up and down styles for comfort during exercise. Striped garters feature a four leaf clover gold buckle and rosette ribbons, with silver options priced at 3.50. It also catalogs colonial book plates tied to notable figures and engravers.
A long endurance contest in Landes France inspired by a peasant on stilts. Pierre Deycard of Biles won the 490 kilometer race in 103 hours 26 minutes earning 1000 francs and multiple medals while spectators cheered through Dax and St Vincent de Terosse.
The Chicago Record recalls hunting in the city with stories of minke fur trades in West Ridge and prairie animals like weasels rabbits and groundhogs. It mentions an African hyena shot near a cowyard last summer and comments on spring hat trends with bright trims and shaded flowers in major house displays.
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