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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
9
Mary Dean highlights the latest evening fabrics offering soft drape and graceful lines. Beaded nets are the heaviest, lace veils, satin, chiffon, and fur blends create exquisite costumes with lightness that belies their weight. Debutantes wear swansdown accents with white chiffon for a dainty touch.
Hair fashion revisits tortoise shell pins combs and disks from grandmothers era with empire combs and band fillets. Styles feature curls at the back of the neck high combs, bands over the brow and ornaments to decorate waves.
The piece highlights new winter fabrics in red suitings with velvetlike finishes, noting high costs and exclusive shades. Mole, brown, red, purple and shot gray hues dominate, with mid Victorian magneto tones leading the color story for the season.
Fall fashion advice from Harper's Bazaar on choosing color schemes for autumn gowns. It warns that a gown fails if colors are unbecoming or inappropriate to the wearer's age, and while taste varies, several rules should be followed.
The new fur collarettes feature straight fur strips in sable er mine and similar tones with a stiff moire ribbon bow and lace tongue. They offer a compromise between delicate tulle ruffles and feather boas for spring and the heavy winter stoles for warmth, showcasing evolving fur accessory trends.
The piece explains creeping aprons as a straight sewn garment with elastic ends to enclose clothing and keep it clean. It also urges open air sleep for consumption risk children and a fat rich diet with cream butter milk and eggs to improve health. It notes urban families struggle to keep children content at home and suggests engaging home activities to reduce desire for others' yard play.
A new bowknot pin features a jeweled rim and a removable black moire ribbon that can be swapped with other colors to match outfits. The nearly three inch pin catches laces or drapery and can serve as a hair ornament. Watch fob buckles use the same style with interchangeable ribbons.
A compact saying contrasts awakening awareness with ignorance. It cautions about fools and those who do not know what they do not know while urging the educated to teach the young.
The 655-strong contest class names a hen as the most industrious, laying 260 eggs in eleven months and 148 eggs in 151 consecutive days. Secretary Quisenberry notes she leaves the roost at daylight, uses a trap nest, and misses only five days in five months, with timing shifting before a gap.
A historic Christmas recipe details a fruit cake once served to presidents and diplomats. It lists ingredients such as butter, sugar, browned flour, raisins, citron, cherries, pineapple, almonds, pecans, spices, grape juice and rose water, with soaking and preparation steps and baking or steaming for four to six hours. Also included are Fruit Vol au Vent and Noole Salad directions.
A reflective aphorism suggests happiness rises when people choose cheerful whistling over persistent argument, implying collective wisdom grows from lighter debates. The adage emphasizes communal harmony and personal restraint.
Tips for seasoning mince meat with boiled meat apple raisins citron suet orange peel almonds sugar lemon juice and spices. Marshmallow Pudding uses candied cherries walnuts marshmallows cream vanilla and a chilled mold. Frozen Pudding combines gelatin sugar water yolks whipped cream and candied fruits with optional whipped cream sauce.
Horace H. Dahl explains a simple nest box to install inside a hen house seven inches above the floor. The design uses iron supports with holes, a wooden end, nailed back boards, a tin or board bottom, and a weathered hinged cover. Partitions separate nests and side holes allow hens access. The nests are dark, easy to clean, and convenient during sitting time.
A rift grows between the Blobsons and the Bilfurs over horsepower. The Blobsons boast ninety horsepower for their new cars while the Bilfurs report only sixty horsepower in theirs.
A farmer reflects on city life after four days in town. He notes spending $38, explaining the contrast between rural and urban living through firsthand experience. He comments on the busy streets and urban bustle.
A kitchen note explains that a fresh egg foams more and takes longer to boil than a stale egg. When boiled, the fresh egg adheres to the shell, whereas a few days old egg peels off easily and smoothly.
A clipped exchange mentions a past opera company with a cost of 40,000 and a remark about pursuing a presidential candidate. The fragmented dialogue hints at historical ambitions and financial stakes in the arts and politics.
The piece notes farmers rarely consider how prolonged grain diets harm poultry as cattle and that grain is most effective when diluted with bulky succulent material to balance digestion and results.
The lesson highlights two core ideas from Matthew 18: wisdom of true greatness in the kingdom and Jesus' regard for children. It argues disciples must abandon ambition for rank, embrace childlike trust and humility, and guide children toward faith, stressing entering the kingdom through dependence, teachability, and purity.
In a resort setting a doctor laments a drop in patients from last year and wonders where they have gone. Mrs Wrink responds that all they can do is hope for the best.
The Minneapolis Messenger quotes Peter Doubt on the secret of success responding to a wife quip. He muses that someone over fifty will be asked for the secret, and he would answer that luck is essential to being born lucky.
The king hunting at Hon John Ward's Woolley preserves avoided the number thirteen. Eight guns were joined by five women at luncheon and the king, noting the superstition, refused to sit until Donald Harding the estate agent was asked to add one more to make fourteen.
A judge recounts a quarrel with a cabby over fare. The passenger complains of a roundabout ride as the driver jokes about an aeroplane, and the exchange ends with sharp words.
An advertisement explains that caffeine from coffee and tea worsens dyspepsia and insomnia. It promotes Postum as a caffeine free substitute, citing a doctor from Georgia about relief from nervous dyspepsia and better sleep after switching. Instant Postum is sold in tins with a trial offer and mail order.
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