Lanvin Fashions Rich Trimmings and Pearl Embroidery
The text reviews Lanvin couture highlights with lavish trims on velvet and fur garments. It notes monk fur use, white rabbit bands, and a new shell embroidery idea. Pearl embroidery accents holiday and Polish Renaissance inspired gowns, especially on plain dresses and accessories like sleeves, scarves, and headdresses.
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Tibet
Lanvin
Sleeves in Fancy Shapesdominate Autumn Fashions
Fashion notes describe sleeve trends for the coming season with a shift toward fancy shapes and trims. Conservative long close fitting set in sleeves persist while flowing bell sleeves gain popularity, often paired with silk undersleeves or full muslin sleeves. color contrasts and panel facings appear, with crepe de chine fabrics and oversized armholes.
Dinner Gowns Highlight Chiffon Lace and Grecian Georgette Styles
A recent fashion note describes a smart dinner gown in black chiffon with black lace panels hung over a satin base and shorter lace over chiffon, featuring wide sleeves. Another gown in Grecian style uses georgette in gray with a silver banded skirt and a cloth of silver girdle.
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Georgette
Chinese inspired afternoon frock with gold thread embroidery
An all over black canton frock features Chinese motifs in gold thread. Large loose mandarin sleeves emphasize the Chinese inspired design.
Garlic flavor and dressing tips from Ameritas column
The article extols garlic as a flavor enhancer and natural digestive aid. It describes garlic preparations including garlic vinegar and a Sherry's Dressing with peppers, salt, red pepper, vinegar, olive oil, and onions. It notes chilling the dressing and its two week refrigerated shelf life.
Common things of life dear in the warm half light
A reflective verse recalls the familiar room and ordinary moments the scent of home and the sound of a crackling fire. It celebrates the waking half light the awaiting footsteps and the welcoming door with handclasp and kiss as a form of heaven in the now.
THINGS WORTH REMEMBERING Household Dyes and Care Tips
Practical notes on coloring fabrics with turpentine and winter, making colors fade resistant, pillow care with extra slips, keeping ticking clean, soaking brushes to swell wood, using Osage orange chips for buff or orange shades, dyeing cloth by boiling, and handling wet feathers for drying and reuse.
Distinguishes Him Little Elmer Pauapa Statesman Question
Ad copy presents a tease about what makes a statesman great featuring Professor Broadhead-Death and a child named Elmer Pauapa. It promotes Ted Cross Ball Blue as a home laundry aid that whitens clothes without harming fabric, endorsed by grocers.
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Elmer—Pauapa
Broadhead
All Good Grocers
Deadly weapon of savages described by explorers
A National Geographic Society bulletin details the Masai and Andorobo using poisoned arrows from the Acean thera schimpers tree. Leaves are boiled into a thick poison placed on bark sheets high in trees. Animals die quickly, flesh near wounds is discarded, blood eaten or drunk, and some tribes drink cattle blood as a food component.
Tea Crop Grows in Pennsylvania Blue Mountain Region
A native Pennsylvania tea crop in the Blue Mountain area is rapidly expanding, supplanting Oriental tea in several counties. Harvesting and drying of the crop for winter use are underway as tens of tons are gathered.
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Pennsylvania
Blue Mountain
Truth in Second Place in Sales Patter
Frank Irwin Fletcher, a New York advertising expert, criticizes exaggeration in ads. He cites a bygone dialogue between salesman and patron about price and source, noting deceitful pitches often hinge on cheap shams and myths about direct-from-manufacturer deals.
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Frank Irwin Fletcher
New York
Insurance Payment Hint Courtesy of Mrs Tarley
The agent brought Mrs Tarley a fire insurance policy and suggested she make the first payment immediately. She asked for the exact amount and groaned at the delay, joking that the company could deduct the payment from what they owe if the house burns.
Of No Use to Him Hewitt and Jewett Dialogue
A brief humorous exchange shows Hewitt asking why Jewett does not provoke his opponent. Jewett replies he is a vegetarian, negating the reason to pursue the issue. The line reflects light political or social tone with a playful twist.
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Jewett
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