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Newspaper
Cumberland Press
Location
Cumberland, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1915
Page
3
A vintage beauty piece explains shaping eyebrows to improve facial expression using tweezers cold cream and vaseline. It notes risk of skin irritation from repeated pulling and suggests gradual work over days plus brushing for the desired arch while offering a reader query about waist-reducing exercises and golf as beneficial activity.
A traveler describes Oxford where students are gone to war and townsfolk adapt. Women knit or sew by the Cherwell while convalescing soldiers and officers fill social spaces. The Mitre hotel notes mourning, etiquette softens as the nation endures a second plague of war.
In Trenton on October 18 suffragists finish a statewide campaign for a constitutional amendment granting women the ballot. They cite President Wilson’s support and hope to gain labor and Socialist votes in manufacturing districts, while opponents warn New Jersey is not ready and predict defeat. Governor Fielder and Princeton faculty oppose the measure.
At Oxford and Cambridge campuses the halls are empty of students and filled with convalescing wounded and young trainees. Professors dine alone as war departments take over rooms and courses shift to officer training for both British and American recruits.
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