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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1908
Page
8
Nelly endures a chaotic visit from the Gerney party at Mrs. Martins Luncheon. With a cook away and Emily in charge, pork pleases few, Burgundy lightens the mood, and a lesson on hospitality ends with a claret miscue and a family wink.
In a winter tale two sisters and their fox terrier Duke solve a missing ruby pin mystery. A visiting Cousin Gladys loses a treasured ruby, then a bubble playday reveals the pin hidden by a curtain in the spare room. The pin is recovered and Gladys invites the trio to the city to be bridesmaids at her wedding.
A fable asks which starting mouse lets the white mouse be the last eaten as the cat counts round a circle to the thirteenth. The second puzzle seeks the smallest count that still ends with the white mouse last when starting at it as one.
The article describes a simple shoe cabinet made from oblong boxes sourced from the grocer. Boxes are fastened together with adjustable partitions, putty-filled cracks, and a black paint finish. Optional front flaps can keep dust off the contents.
A curious trick suggests borrowing two knives to test if they can add them to reach a thousand. The illustration reveals the answer as the Roman numeral for one thousand. The note also calls out critic’s nerves and modesty in a playful line about flame burning.
The first figure shows a seven gore tweed costume with plaited outer seams from waist to knees, galloon trimming, velvet collar and cuffs, a straw hat with ribbon and feather, and a jacket fastened with front buttons. Materials listed include 14 1/2 yards of 48 inch fabric, galloon, buttons, tassels, and two dozen buttons. The second outfit uses drab fine serge with stitched skirt and tunic, side box-plaits, a blouse jacket with velvet buttons and collar, brown velvet hat with glace ribbon and ostrich tips. Materials include eight yards of 46 inch fabric, silk lining, and velvet for collar and buttons.
Filet net dominates Paris fashion this season offering a transparent square mesh ideal for embroidery. It can be patterned from a book picture or newspaper design, with outlines darned around the image using coarse wood fiber, then filled with silk floss or chenille.
A prune color voile gown worn by a well known matron dazzled onlookers with a thick brocaded velvet trimming and an overskirt effect. An artist sketch accompanies the design, featuring a round yoke and stock made from embroidered filet.
The Grecian tunic look brings new hair adornments in the form of filets. Designs include a single wide filet, three narrow strands, and coronet shaped bands narrowing to a slim back band in bands of gold silver and jet, pairing with Grecian gowns.
Readers get style guidance on belt width for different figures and occasions plus a humorous dig at male fashion influence. University of Chicago students petition Prof. Willard Waugh to ban picture hats in class for clearer sightlines, prompting a broad campus response.
A fastidious woman emerges from a telephone booth coughing as she complains the last patron wore strong perfume. The clerk explains an awful smell was spilled earlier and perfume was used to mask it. She notes a woman would have cleaned the area with disinfectant.
For a high school girl planning a spring outfit, a white and brown checked Panama skirt plaited from hips to knees pairs with a white and brown madras waist, white linen collar, brown attic throw-over tie, brown shoes and hose, and a brown chip sailor hat as a suitable ensemble.
Rev A C Dixon extols the Bible as a potent literary and moral force, citing silenced skeptics and eminent figures like Franklin Jefferson Webster Emerson Napoleon Renan and others. He argues that despite doubts, secular scholars acknowledge the Bible’s enduring power and influence on culture and morality.
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