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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 21, 1912
Page
3
A 1912 fashion overview outlines spring children's wear with home stitching tips. It covers fabrics like otto man, white butcher linen, wool and silk blends, and open work embroidery. Styles include frocks with side buttonholes, piping, smocking, velvet ribbons, and decorative fits with lace, sashes, and short waists.
Two sisters sustain their home with a parlor based kinder mart. They dress dolls and knit for children to earn pin money and build a growing business from word of mouth. They avoid making children’s dresses and focus on doll clothing, stocking caps, sweaters, and similar items.
The article argues women misuse the looking glass and urges proper, multi angle use. It recommends a full length, multi sided mirror and practicing walking and standing to assess dress from various distances and angles. It emphasizes natural posture, correct back and hat views, and using a hand mirror for back view to ensure balanced appearance.
An old article advocates frugal reuse of worn stockings and scraps. It suggests replacing worn hosiery rather than prolonging life, using black socks for cleaning with ammonia, weaving rag carpets, and repurposing stockings to create floor mops and spiral rug strips.
The article describes a simple girlish costume in white serge for summer. It highlights a white pearl button trim and new fat fashion sleeves set into armholes. The piece notes summer dress trends and suggests making a note of the style when found.
The pocketbook is out of fashion with the tiny change purse the only seen accessory. New bags stretch over a foot in length and six inches wide with long silken cords and tassels. Round and flat styles grow popular, some with seven compartments and large side flaps. The card case now lives in the bag during calls.
A laundry tip advises finishing the sleeves before ironing the waist of a shirtwaist. Push sleeves aside to iron the body without interference. This avoids redoing work, unlike damp sleeves left to the end.
A fashion note introduces a very new skirt style with a front opening and a wide flap, mirroring the design in the back. The concept emphasizes a bold silhouette and coordinated detailing across the garment.
The silver casserole sets provide a gleaming surround for the pottery dish loved by housewives. Silver smiths have created extra silver dishes to fit the casserole, overcoming the unseemly appearance and enhancing the table setting as shown in the illustration.
Among travel accessories a woman starting a trip abroad received six wash cloths. They are made of four layers of white tarlatan bound with old blue washable cotton. The cloths dry faster than ordinary washcloths, offering great convenience to travelers.
Recipes for Italian dishes include Spaghetti Romana with butter cheese and tomato puree Semolina Gnochchi and Nova Parmigiana with hard boiled eggs and white sauce Provide step by step guidance on boiling pasta making tomato puree and baking portions in a home kitchen tone with measurements and kitchen tips.
A bed is richly dressed featuring a brocaded velvet center, a wide point devenise band, seal border, and a large old rose taffeta bow with fringed ends laid across the foot, illustrating lavish bedding style.
A flannel dipped in spirits of turpentine will be found very useful in cleaning the porcelain tub or sink. Kerogene will answer almost as well.
A homemaker designs humorous broom costumes to conceal unattractive whisk brooms in bedrooms. Illustrations show a plantation mammy broom, a Parisian nurse maid broom, and a hunting broom with a cloth dog head, painted features, beads, and a padded handle for the head and coat.
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