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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1910
Page
6
The article discusses fur accessories and trimmings as essential to winter ensembles. It notes the appeal of fur with lace and sheer fabrics, the fashion of matching hats and muffs with satin scarves, and the trend of enveloping cloaks. Julia Bottomley comments on warmth versus display and urges good care for valuable furs as demand grows.
The article argues extreme waist sizes were once celebrated with Parisian trends and bone corsets. It notes 26 to 28 inches as fashionable, critiques padding and hip confinement, and recalls Catherine de Médici’s introduction of the bone corset to shape the torso while preserving digestion and avoiding tubelike silhouettes.
Embossed table mats, covers and pillow tops are highlighted for this season by up-to-date housekeepers. Two-layer construction with an upper camitossed layer, offered in two tones of the same color.
New hatpins feature bird head mounts, tufted feathers, spread-wing designs, and many other varieties. The article highlights the latest decorative styles for ladies’ accessories and fashion records the boutique trends.
The piece advises pursuing Wallachian embroidery on Paris muslin or handkerchief linen to imitate costly chiffon and net gowns. It suggests flowers and foliage stitched in various colors, with sprays appliqued to Brussels net for blouses or gowns. Techniques include stitching directly on chiffon with tissue paper underneath for body.
Hatpin sets are offered in boxes containing six pins of varying lengths. They include eight colored mother of pearl or jewel heads that screw onto any pin length. A double point hat pin is also advertised with a hair pin shape and screw-on fancy heads for added security.
Huge cameos of former days come back for dress trimming. A monster cameo set in gilt with enamel color is worn as a buckle in the girdle, creating a shield at the back while the front remains plain.
A humorous exchange at a cigar counter features a harmless customer flirting with the new cashier as he pays his dinner check. The cashier retorts that if money were meant to stay with him minting would produce coin with handles, reflecting light sarcasm over spending.
Charles H Rosenberg of Bavaria arrived from Hamburg aboard the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria with lumps on his body that the doctor mistook for disease. The doctor learned the lumps contained money amounting to $500 per lump, part of $11,000 total Rosenberg planned to use to buy an apple orchard in Oregon. He was admitted to the country.
A scene from Lippincott's Magazine recalls Miss Mattie from the old booth hosting a distinguished guest. Tillie the maid delivers a water request and Miss Mattie’s compliment about a bath, provoking the guest’s loud laughter as he’s told to wash himself.
A Mack's National Monthly vignette features a humorous exchange about Ale Hall a skilled whitewasher known for excellent work yet oddly selective about a chicken house job. The dialogue plays on race and stereotypes in a satirical tone.
A reflective verse encourages choosing contentment and aligning with optimists to weather troubles. It notes that happiness rises from within, with hidden springs in the human heart and sunny, hopeful outlooks as years pass.
In a fragmentary exchange a landlady claims a new boarder is a foreign nobleman while another character doubts it. The dialogue notes the boarder has not paid any rent yet and hints he may be the team member in question.
Grouchly boasted about saving $2,190 by denying himself three ten-cent cigars daily for twenty years. Moxley questions the total, and a playful exchange follows as he offers to share a chew of tobacco.
An audience cheers a black-face comic at a vaudeville show while a city man comments that the performer is a self-made negro. The excerpt reflects dated racial language and public attitudes of the era.
The article notes high per caput wealth for Indians around 2130 dollars versus 1300 for others. It flags oil timber and other resources on Indian lands, millions in agricultural land value, and ranches leasing 500000 head of sheep and cattle. Revenue tops 272000 to tribes while 1.5 million head graze. Also mentions asphalt deposits on Indian lands.
A chummy scene unfolds in a lunchroom as a chesty man jokes about egg orders and slang. The waitress and two young men navigate misunderstandings showing dialect and contemporary restaurant speech.
A new body in Berlin called the League of Politeness aims to improve manners among residents. Initiated by Fraulein Cecelio Meyer and inspired by a Rome organization, the league adopts the motto Pro gentilezza and will award a medal as a talisman to deter discourtesy. Any polite person may join.
A Gazette notice reports an Order in Council barring ordinary interments in the churchyard identified with St. Giles Stoke Pages Buckinghamshire. The change restricts burial activity in the historic site.
A mother notes her three children differ in precocity with Edith the baby seen as brightest. John retorts that Edith learns quickly because she has them while they lack "us," revealing a humorous child’s mispronunciation of grammar.
The late former Georgia Governor Allen D. Candler was noted for a northern humor quip. A Gainesville man recalls Candler switching from cigars to a pipe at year start and sticking to it, claiming to have saved $208 by year’s end and asking where the money went.
The Christian Herald notes Ramadan as a holy month for Moslems when the Koran was revealed to Gabriel and Muhammad retreated to the cave of Hira. It says prophets like Abraham and Moses received revelations then and that heaven doors open while hell is closed and devils are chained.
A patient describes two doctors giving conflicting advice and finally agreeing to mix the recommendations. The exchange highlights a humorous deadlock resolved by combining treatments.
A Success Magazine anecdote describes a bus climb up Cumberland Gap where the rear door thrashes and unsettles a mare aboard. The driver hushes the passengers after the mare is startled each time the door shuts, fearing she believes someone is alighting to walk up the hill.
On arriving in New York Mine Sara Bernhardt joked that her youth comes from God and constant work, then quipped about being a steal grandmother. Her spontaneous laugh drew a chorus of disbelief as she dismissively addressed exaggeration.
A conciliatory man and a vindictive person clash over value judgments in a tense exchange. The aggressor argues no peace can be achieved and labels a target as worth 40 cents a pound to anyone. The remark prompts a retraction.
A sentimental interviewer asks Mr. Meekton if he hesitated proposing to his wife. He replies that he was not nervous but would have avoided the next decade if he could foresee it.
Mr Sirius Barker discusses his plan for his daughter to study singing citing art and literature as wasteful. He argues art spoils canvas paint and literature wastes paper while singing only creates a temporary disturbance of atmosphere.
Mrs Bossim asks about the initial reaction as her husband describes the hotel room earthquake. He recalls a vase striking his ear a chair a flying chair and a shower of books and a framed picture as he jumped to the room center. He notes her anger persists into the evening.
A historic discovery in stained glass making describes a method using mineral colors on glass followed by firing at intense heat to fuse the coloring. The technique yields a pebbled surface that creates a warm, mellow light in windows with separately molded and bent panels assembled in a metal frame.
A Holmes quotation recalls a scene among young people on a train in an industrial city. The speaker contrasts loud soprano voices with sweeter tones and defends honesty, noting only two voices ever frightened him with their sweetness.
A Weekly criticized our foods, prompting libel actions. Trial revealed disputed expert analyses of Krain and Grape-Nuts detailing mineral salts and phosphate content. Dr Carey testified that Potassium Phosphate is the chief factor in brain nerve fluid formation.
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