Paris Fashion Notes for Dining Gowns and Hats
Paris fashion pages describe formal yet informal gowns for dining with the Prince of Wales in London styles carried to summer wear. Threads cover cerise silk coats, glace silk, and velvet trims with jeweled bands, ribbons, and feathered skirts. American socialite Miss Morton’s Newport gowns are highlighted.
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Paris
Prince of Wales
London
Arthur Keppel
Eton
South Africa
Randolph Churchill
Maine
Princess of Wales
Cape
Miss Morton
Trousseau
Levi P. Morton
Newport
How to Brew a Cup of Tea by Wu Ting Fang
Chinese Minister Wu Ting Fang outlines tea brewing rules in a interview with a woman reporter. He says tea is China’s national beverage and consumed at home, not only on meals or special occasions, likening tea to ice water. He emphasizes the teapot as central, noting porcelain teapots are standard.
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New York
Ray
Chilk
America
England
China
Wu Ting Fang
Fancy sponge bags gain luxury sheen under jewelers
The sponge bag, once plain, is now an elegant accessory highlighted by jewelers. It shifts from dull rubber to striped rubber silk with pale lining and uses a silver or silver gilt clasp instead of a damp drawing-string closure.
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Couturieres
Breakfast menu featuring fruit and savory items
A listed breakfast includes Strawberries with Powdered Sugar Cream Hash of Veal Fried Potatoes Parsley Omelet Water Cress Rice Muffins Toast and Coffee. This compact menu segment presents a mixed plate with both fruit and hearty morning dishes.
Requisites of a successful actress in Miss Cayvan list
Miss Georgia Cayvan, longtime Lyceum leading woman, offered a catalog of stage success traits. The list includes a strong physique unimpaired digestion slender figure a marked face a carrying voice a lack of real feeling an abundance of pretended feeling much magnetism fascination of manner purity of speech general knowledge of history a good general education wealth of costuming knowledge practical economy business faculty unflagging industry undaunted ambition utter lack of sensitivity vast capacity for taking pains absolute devotion to theater unwedded life ability to distinguish critics from abuse readiness to profit some genius at advertising quickness at seizing opportunities a well defined specialty a good memory good luck talent.
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Georgia Cayvan
Lyceum Theater
Dinner menu with soups and entrees
Dinner courses include Cream of Asparagus Soup with radishes olives and dressed tomatoes. Main dishes feature Potato Ballad, Chicken Timbales in Cream Sauce, Baked Potatoes, String Beans, Stuffed Heart of Beet, Brown Sauce, Escarole Salad, and Angel Cake with Strawberry ice cream and coffee.
Ingenious New York Dice Represent a Full Deck
An inventive set of twelve faced dice hold a full 52 card deck across four dice with two blank, rounded faces. Each die carries two or three cards per suit and no die contains duplicates of a denomination. Players use five dice each to play tricks by pushing a selected die toward the center. A follower with matching suit can win the trick. if unable to follow, all dice are rethrown. Points determine the game score, and the poker-like hands allow straights and flushes similar to drawing from a deck.
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Riviera
Arc de Triumph
Countess Castellane
Charlie
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