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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1908
Page
3
Over 10 000 club women are organized in more than a hundred clubs in New York City. Sorosis, the oldest group, marked its thirty eighth anniversary last December, while Colony, among the youngest, prepares to open a 500 000 home on Madison Avenue this Wednesday.
The London Truth reviews Dorothea Gerard’s Itinerant Daughters where four discontented girls swap homes for three months each. The idea impresses as fiction yet ponders if such a plan could work in real life.
Mrs Dosebai C Jessawalla the first Parsee woman educated in English attends parliament in native robes and draws attention. In London she receives lavish entertainments from society women. Now 87, she is an expert needlewoman finishing an oriental embroidery to present to Queen Alexandra before resuming her world tour.
The New York Press notes autumn panic reduced New York women’s purchases at European hotels and transatlantic bookings. Newly rich travelers from other states buy clothes and jewels, while long-established fortunes buy art and curios. A London Dresden and Sevres sale saw $100,000 taken with no American women bidding.
The piece advises proper female gait and posture guiding readers to walk straight with knees stiff, align steps, and avoid slouching. It stresses slow, dignified movement, minimal arm swing, chin up, and careful seating to preserve elegance, noting longer gowns require slower steps.
To believe all nice things said to us is usually conducive to happiness but sometimes leads to trouble. Beware flattery from tailors dressmakers milliners and corsetieres and similar advisers who color our view with pleasing words.
A Boston Post quote argues women should honestly evaluate flaws and enhance assets. It warns against self-satisfaction, urging targeted fashion choices to flatter body types and avoid mismatched styles for short, angular, or aging figures.
An essay on marital authority arguing the husband should lead with just and gentle governance while acknowledging that most men struggle to rule wisely. It discusses timing, tact, and “psychological moments” in managing a wife’s concerns, and contrasts indulgent versus tyrannical behavior, citing a Chicago Tribune remark about family dynamics.
The article describes hats banked with flowers and sheer frocks layered with two petticoats. Forest green and coppery brown tones are highlighted, with contrasts in color. Morning suits feature cambrics in white, while lace blouses in entre deux or strips of Craponne lace charm. Deep American Beauty rose shades and Bordeaux reds emerge as fashionable choices. Nicver sailors, hats with minimal trimming, and lace inserts complete the season’s look.
Horace Seymour Keller quotes a New York Times feature describing Pembrook Farm shut tight with no activity. The narrative recalls exodus of people and livestock, a failing local economy, and the tenuoushold of Lemuel and family amid changing times on the premises.
A collage of jokes and light anecdotes from editorial pages and cartoon captions. It features exchanges about buying poetry, marriage plans, drink costs, and social manners, including quips from editors and reporters in 19th century newspapers.
Mrs Isaac Rice of New York known as the Queen of Silence resumes her crusade against undue noise. She will spend the summer abroad and hopes to organize anti noise societies in every European capital to spread the agitation until her aim is accomplished.
In Saxony practically all live stock is stall fed 300 days a year with the majority fed the full 365 days.
Careful research traces orange origins to India where they spread to Western Asia and then to Europe and the Americas. Wild orange growth is noted in Northern India. Arabs carried cultivated varieties from Hindustan to Southwestern Asia before the 10th century, then to Africa Spain and possibly Sicily via Islamic conquests.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes Matthew Arnold adopted the phrase from Swift, who used it about bees for honey and wax. Arnold applied it to culture where love and truth prevail, linking aesthetic ideals to moral progress.
A Swazi proverb contrasts colonial impact with lasting marks, saying the footprint of the white man remains in the ground. Another saying likens white men to quails, noting they arrive in a country but never leave, unlike the birds.
A short quotation from Charles Kingsley urges embracing beauty in all faces skies flowers and thanking the divine source of loveliness. It invites simple earnest appreciation as a charmed draught and blessing.
The anonymous critic predicts doom and accuses them of seeking a discount price. The remark reads like a jab at a doomsaying figure with a sharp motive.
The London Daily Mail reports the first divorce between natives on grounds of a husband’s disappearance in the Congo Free State. The court ruling marks a notable legal milestone in colonial administration.
In the S ayonie section of the New York Public Library there are 8527 volumes and a large share of Russian readers prefer books on social and governmental subjects.
A mother recalls her son Clyde plagued by eczema for a year with head face and neck covered in scabs. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent he slept that first night and by six weeks was perfectly well.
In Naples Vice-Consul H. M. Byington urges Italians to start ostrich farms in Southern Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia to boost ostrich feather commerce. Citing successes in California and Nice, he highlights potential gains for the Italian industry.
An old medical advert promises permanent cures for fits chorea and nervous diseases using Dr. H R Kline’s nerve restorer. It offers a $2 trial bottle and a free treatise from Arch Street Philadelphia. Also mentions Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup for teething with claims to ease gums and wind colic at 25 cents a bottle.
Test results from the German army show the average soldier should not carry more than sixty eight pounds on a day’s march to avoid heart injury. This limit reflects wartime physical standards referenced by New York sources.
Mrs. Pinkham of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. sails from Lynn Massachusetts with her son Arthur W. Pinkham and younger relatives for a three months European tour and vacation starting May 20.
A remark on slight stomach derangements causing acid fermentation leads to discussion of dietary balance and digestive health, quoted from a medical column.
The article explains that thinness often stems from stomach catarrh and hyperacidity which hinder pancreatic digestion of fats. It states fats must be emulsified by pancreatic juice, preserved by Peruna before meals, and followed by fat-forming foods to restore fullness and plumpness.
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