Moda and kitchen tips for the broad-shouldered woman
The article describes a tightly fitted jacket style for large women, with a basque back and overlapping revers, and advises keeping the waist line long with correct seam and dart placement. It warns a coat waist too short looks awkward and explains hat decorations with rosettes of ribbon and blush roses. It also offers home care tips for brooms and rustic lunchcloths and provides a Veal Cutlets with Tomatoes recipe with steps and seasonings.
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Tallor
Smart Shirt Waist Costume Supersedes Tailor Suit
The shirt waist costume has largely replaced the tailor suit for general wear. The illustration depicts a box plaited waist with a side plaited round skirt. Wool materials like serge cheviot or shepherd plaid suit cold weather frocks, while mercerized cottons resemble silk for summer use.
Ribbon Flowers as Table Decorations in Delicate Ribbonwork
The article highlights ribbon flowers as chic table decor for debutante luncheons. It describes using soft louisine to form a la France roses with artificial leaves and green velvet stems, and violet ribbons for violet blossoms, stressing to avoid stiff satin for best effect.
Dressy Effects in Thin Fabrics and Embroidery
Styles favor circular tops over skirts with ruffles in thin fabrics like muskims and handkerchief linen. Princess gowns with delicate trims and high elbow sleeves appear for summer evenings, worn over colored slips with ribbon beading. Hand embroidery grows stronger, as many garments receive intricate stitched details.
Hat Trim Using Hyacinths With Lavender Tones
A hat design wins admiration with shaded hyacinth petals in lavender hues. The toque for a fair-haired wearer features a pale lavender foundation and a brim and crown layered from light to deep lavender. White decorates the brim near the hair, finishing in a rich edge.
Hats and Frocks Lead Fashion This Season
Fashion notes describe hats with florals and lace, net insertions in silk blouses, and envelope handbags in scarlet or green. Filmy laces and French embroidery trends rise, with rabot styles and ruffled edges shaping the season’s look.
Skirts Keep Shape Amid Fashion Shifts and New Gores
The piece notes skirts remain stable as changes unfold, highlighting a six gored circular cut that is artistic but costly for nonexperts. It also describes a popular thirteen gores design with a broad box plait, and a five gores everyday gown pattern with gathered sides and back, Spanish flounce, and possible embroidery trim.
Witty Molding Board Becomes Kitchen Shelf Aid
A molding board is described as a practical extra shelf for kitchen or sewing room when attached to a wall with hinges and chains to prevent sagging when lowered. The text notes its use alongside warm water and ammonia for cleaning.
Silk and muslin blouse description with lace and braid details
A detailed garment description outlines a plain light silk or voile blouse with draped fronts crossed and bordered by silk braid. The plaited chemisette is white muslin with lace and braid trimming and narrow muslin ruffles. The collar features lace, and full sleeves are shirred at the top with elbow cuffs trimmed in braid and muslin frills.
New Ruffle Trick Enhances Skirt fullness at hem
A new embroidery ruffle creates greater fullness around the skirt feet. The design uses a shaped gathered ruffle forming half circles that meet at tips, with an additional pleated layer beneath. The pleating peeks out between ruffle sections for an airy effect.
Safe method for carrying a watch in bracelets
A method describes securing a watch in a bracelet of gold or silver bars or in a leather strap. Bars interlace and can be opened or closed to fit any wrist, providing a snug, secure carrying option.
Brown and White Voile Trimmed Silk Dress Description
A description of a garment featuring brown and white checked voile over brown silk. Trim details include soutache braid and brown crochet buttons, outlining vintage fashion elements and decorative finishing touches.
French Astronomers Propose Moon Solidifies from Surface Inward
French astronomers contend that the Moon solidifies from the surface to the center, challenging American views that it solidifies from the center outward. Their conclusion arises from photographic observations made at the observatory for the lunar atlas.
A Canny Guid Wife and a Young Scottish Candidate
A young Scottish parliamentary candidate visiting a Scots borough shoemaker and his wife kissed the wife and slipped sovereigns into her hand. She smiled and pocketed the gold, then invited him to kiss her daughter if he wished.
Cultivating Memory for Public and Hotel Work
The piece urges careful memory training as essential for public figures and hotel staff. It argues memory is learned through effort and practice, not innate talent, and that cultivating this habit is a valuable accomplishment for professional life.
Brandy From Old Boots Case Quoted In Eccles Probe
A solicitor in a London Standard report argued that pure alcohol could be drawn from old boots, making it impossible to prove if brandy came from grapes or boots. He noted it was unlikely grapes would be used when cheaper materials suffice.
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Eccles
Boots
London Standard
A Wrappers Wrinkle Sparks Press Wrangle
An Englishman argues that wrapping meats vegetables on newspapers should be illegal. The piece questions whether this targets press power and ponders what better wrapper could both protect food and offer eating hints.
Gunner's Mate Receives Fortune Teller’s Admiral Claim
A US Navy gunner's mate recently wrote to a New York fortune teller asking for a horoscope. The reply predicted he would become an admiral at 32, marry a rich widow, and win money in a lottery.
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United States Navy
New York
Hint for Travelers on Packing Small Bag
Travelers should carry a few necessary articles in a small bag for quick access on arrival. Leave the large trunks for a later opportunity or if the main luggage encounters any trouble during the journey.
Fortified Yokohama Compared to Gibraltar
A Russian writer claims Yoko suka fort, Yokohama, is more strongly fortified than Gibraltar. Fortifications were built under German military engineers while American and English experts developed the signal and submarine mine systems.
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Gibraltar
Yokosuka
Yokohama
Too Many Grumblers and the Call to Action
The quote argues that some people sharpen complaints against every issue and that much grumbling wastes effort. It suggests turning complaint into constructive action to improve situations, echoing Robert Hall's view that the world rarely matches one’s wishes.
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Robert Hall
Wills Estate to Undertaker
Hiram Cochran a California pioneer wills his town lots and other property to an undertaker who he trusted to carry out his funeral wishes and had promised to ensure a proper funeral.
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Hiram Cochran
California
Man Invents Asbestos Pipe for Connecticut Tobacco
A New Jersey inventor claims a pipe fashioned from asbestos flour paste and condensed milk makes a good smoke. The flavor of the milk is said to add a rare delicate taste to any Connecticut tobacco used in the pipe.
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New Versey
Connecticut
The Old Stunt of Refusing Street Fights
A Detroit Tribune observation notes that when men face a rival they cannot beat they often refuse to disgrace themselves by joining a street brawl and walk away haughtily.
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Detroit Tribune
Froth Blowers Club Enforces Oath At Meetings In London
A small London club named the Froth Blowers conducts meetings in public houses where each member must swear and curse at every gathering or face a twenty five cent fine.
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Unique
London Club
London
Froth Blowers’ Club
Neighborly Love Recounted The Philadelphia Press
A fragment recalls a sermon or aphorism on loving one’s neighbor as oneself. The text hints at self-restraint and the neighbor’s beauty as a theme, attributed to the Philadelphia Press.
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Philadelphia Press
Odd Birthday Party for a 50-Year-Old Wooden Leg
An Englishman held a birthday party for his wooden leg aged fifty. The article notes the population of British South Africa, listing 1,133,756 white residents and 9,208,355 colored.
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British South Africa
The Story of a Little Game and a Sad Stranger
On a fast Chicago train a well dressed stranger sat beside me. He spoke with sterling common sense and had strong views on trusts, the Japs, new breakfast foods, and battles at sea. His wealth seemed evident from his grand attire and refined vest, spats, and tie.
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Chicago
Origin of Slang Through Animal Expressions
A playful row of animal characters narrates common sayings with their origins. Each creature uses a familiar phrase tied to a behavior or object, illustrating how everyday expressions arose from vivid situations. The list traverses goats, bulls, bears, and more, ending with a lamb fearing slaughter.
No Escape for Motorist in New Jersey Case
Henry Russel recites a New Jersey incident where a motorist was arrested for loitering after a magistrate noted slow progress but no speeding. The driver claimed engine trouble and running slowly, asserting walking pace could match him. The magistrate fined ten dollars for loitering.
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Henry Russel
New Jersey
New York Times
Astronomy In the East and the Peru Arc Remeasure
Nearly two centuries after French astronomers first measured an arc of meridian in Peru to determine earth’s size and shape a new French commission led by army officers has been sent to remeasure the Peru arc. The effort is viewed as scientifically important due to advances since the initial measurement.
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Peru
South Africa
France
Light on Japanese methods and Admiral Evans
Admiral Evans recounted a tale illustrating Japanese adaptability learned from a swift servant on the New York. He recalled meeting Capt. Kato of the Mikado's navy aboard a Versailles battleship, where the captain offered a drink as a formal gesture, prompting Evans to salute a cultural moment from wartime diplomacy.
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Admiral Evans
Bob” Evans
New York
Versailles
Kato
Capt
The
Mikado’s Navy
New York Times
When Hopper Took Water
De Wolf Hopper, touring in a string of one night stands, sampled warm water at a southern supper. The actor, fond of water for hygiene, quipped for ice cold replacement, suggesting the waiter swap spring water for winter water.
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Hopper
de Wolf Hopper
Mr. Hopper
An Ambiguous Colonel in Virginia Town Tale
Police Commissioner Mc Adoo, then a congressman, visits a Virginia town near Washington. While getting shoes shined, a pompous man struts about and leaves. A Black waiter warns, That’s Colonel George Washington Blustah, the most ambiguous pUSG we have.
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McAdoo
Congress
Virginia
Washington
Mr. McAdoo
Kunnel
George Washington
Darky
the Darky
Kunneel
New York Press
Seeking a Wife from Polly Digressions
A witty quip notes that men seeking a wife avoid offices and clubs and instead plunge into social events to find love. The piece mocks courting rituals, imagining a man leaving a pink tea with a rose in his mind’s buttonhole after a momentary, blindfolded choice.
Homeless Census in London Reveals 2481 In Streets
A recent night census shows 2481 homeless individuals in London on streets stairs and arches. Of these 2169 were men and 312 women. Shelters and common lodging houses housed 23690 people including 21254 single men 1688 single women 357 married couples and thirty four children under ten.
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London
Move to Reclaim Everglades Faces Drain and Clear Plan
In Florida a movement seeks to reclaim about 3,000,000 acres of marsh and lagoon land covered by primeval forest. Proposals include draining accessible marshes and clearing trees and vegetation. Advocates say thoroughly reclaimed lands would become fertile and valuable.
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Everglades
Florida
Style In Africa Natives Of Kikuyu Arm Themselves
The Kikuyu of the East African protectorate are described as well armed with a spear shaped like the ace of spades a buffalo hide shield a double edged short sword a club and several sturdy sticks. Their attire is a terra cotta earth coat and they wear metal ornaments.
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Africa
Kikuyu
East African Protectorate
Digressions of Polly on Love and Matrimony
Excerpt notes a girl’s first love requiring several rehearsals to become a perfect wife in a playful view from Helen Rowland. It sketches how a girl judges a man at first by dancing skill, collars, hair curls, and not treading on her dress, a light satirical take on courtship.
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Ler
Helen Rowland
Polly
Tax on snapshot photographers in Italian cities
Tourists in Pompeii, Naples, San Martino and other Italian cities can no longer freely photograph historic sites. Permits must be written and a per negative tax, from ten cents to one dollar, is now charged.
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Pompeii
Naples
San Martino
Physicians Not Writers Curiosity in Medical Fame
A British Medical Journal remark notes great writers rarely pursue medicine, and doctors often appear poorly in literature because scribes enjoy lampooning them, reflecting a long held view of the tension between medicine and literary esteem.
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British Medical Journal
Magistrate Explains Street Betting Case In London Court
A bookmaker in a London police court denied knowledge of a paper thrust into his hand on the street. The magistrate explained the meaning as a warning of a five pound fine or a one month imprisonment if caught in street betting.
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London
Mourning Borders on Bridge Cards Praised by Punch
A remark from Punch hails an American firm for issuing a pack of playing cards for bridge featuring mourning borders, noting the thoughtful gift for friends in bereavement and praising the enterprise.
French Duel Ends After Long Standoff
A Paris duel extended nearly two and a half hours with twenty three encounters. Neither participant was struck, and the seconds declared both men showed equal courage and demanded recognition.
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Paris
Walled Cities of China and Their Fortified Walls
The walled cities of China are well named and ringed by walls thirty to forty feet high and sixteen to thirty feet thick. The city of Hsianti is encircled by a wall sixteen miles in circumference.
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China
Hslanti
French Smokers Divide Among Pipe Cigars and Cigarettes
In France there are 6,000,000 smokers. Of every fifteen, eight smoke a pipe, five smoke cigars, and only two use cigarettes. France still consumes more than 8,000,000 cigarettes annually.
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France
Cost of feeding royalty in Vienna reported by German observer
The imperial Austrian kitchen at Vienna costs about 250 a day according to a German contemporary, a figure that excludes extra expenses for court dinners and related entertainments.
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Vienna
The Origin of Woman Haters Theme Explored
A Philadelphia Press item critiques how a jealous mother cultivates dislike toward women in her son, titled The Waring One. It notes past romantic transgressions and a pattern of giving affection after a kiss. The piece also describes St Petersburg as built on islands at the mouth of the Neva River.
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St. Petersburg
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