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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1908
Page
8
The Paris fashion note highlights velvet sleeveless coats paired with recent skirts to create new outfits. It mentions green velvet hats with pink tulip linings, lace edged sleeves, and a bold Fatma sash tied at the hip. The piece notes color contrasts and economical updating of last season’s gowns.
A guide notes that large loosely draped vell s especially bordered ones highlight facial lines from chin to hat. Properly adjusting the vell to the best possible advantage is presented as a valuable craft for color restoratives and cosmetics.
The Delineator touts a Virginian beauty routine for graceful necks. Women are advised to inhale deeply at dawn, hold breath, and exhale forcefully through an open mouth while contracting throat muscles. Repeated for two weeks, it promises improved neck curves and a sense of exhilaration.
Fashionable women spend spare moments forming and decorating hatpins. Each chapeau requires a dozen or more special pins. Disks are large and nearly flat. They buy plain disks, drill holes, and set saphires, pearls, rubies, or emeralds with gum. Copper and enameled disks are praised for color and chic appeal.
The imitation fur pelts in plush cloth reach high fashion and price as ladies wear long coats for day and evening. Lined with satin brocades or satin with embroidery and chiffon roches, these near furs exude elegance this season.
Velvet hems and velvet dots and jet accents enhance lace or net robes. Bright colored linings and repeats in garnitures create coordinated dress trimmings. Elegant fabrics such as chiffon formats appear with spangles and polka dots, some designs printed in colors.
A Manhattan four and a half year old girl and a five year old boy, playmates for eight weeks, face separation as the boy, to attend school after his father's death, lists dreams of a horse, carriage, big house, motorcar, and candy. The girl prefers candy over grand ambitions, highlighting childlike desires.
News briefs compiled from a dated clipping recounting Seattle rat control arrests for noncompliance with a new ordinance. It covers police action, ratproofing requirements for food businesses, and plague fears tied to San Francisco. Also included are notes on papal honors, an elderly Windsor magistrate, German sports clubs, and a Detroit Free Press quip about a man succeeding in every venture including marriage.
Borax described as a simple, safe method to prevent typhoid by flushing unsanitary sinks and drains with a hot solution. The ad touts hygienic, domestic uses, including laundry whitening, cleaning, moth prevention, skin care, and baby bottle sterilization. It promises a free color Jingle Book with tops from two one-pound cartons and stamps.
A vignette recalls a Philadelphia boy Jack visiting New York with his merchant father. The child, fatigued by the big city, resists bedtime duties and doubts prayer, while the father remains shocked yet restrained. Also cites brief ad lines for health products and literary quotes from Gounod, Beaumont, and Campbell.
Little Virginia, three, woke her mother in anguish claiming she might not be all there. The child asked to be felt for her feet and head, insisting she had dreamed she was a chocolate stick and had eaten herself, sparking a tender bedtime worry.
A pair of testimonial anecdotes describes eczema cures using Cuticura remedies with claims of dramatic improvement. The first recalls an 1854 case where a grandson recovered after treatment. The second cites a later sufferer whose virulent sores largely healed after using the products. The excerpt also includes a brief political exchange about government competence and election prospects.
A father prods his daughter about a match with Mr Spriggins based on wealth alone. She rejects him for habits she detests such as smoking, chewing, drinking, swearing, clubbing, cards, late nights, or solitary motoring. He replies gently that heaven is her home.
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