Ribbon Belts Highlight Season Styles for Women
A fashion note praises two ribbon belt looks for women, one mannish and one sporty, contrasting plain businesslike garments with frills. The belts, shown in the illustration, are smart accessories, easy to sew at home, and add dainty detail to dresses.
Timely Table Talk on Cooking Tips
Practical kitchen notes on batter standing times, soups not cleared early, sweet sandwiches, fruit syrups, pies with bottom crusts brushed with egg, fruit salad method with sugar and wine, ice storage, quick cheese soufflé, and butter waste in warm weather with wrapper removal tip.
Late Marriages Explain Shifting Age for Brides
The piece argues that modern brides marry later than grandmothers did, often in their late twenties to mid thirties. It notes that older brides bring maturity and stability, adapting to circumstances, and that personal blossoming can occur after youth, with some women thriving at thirty.
Ice Cream In Flowerpots Served At Dinner
One novel serving idea for luncheons uses small boiled and dried flowerpots filled with chocolate ice cream topped by a geranium leaf spring. Pots rest on china plates heaped with geranium leaves and pansies for a decorative presentation.
How to Prepare Trout for Frying and Boiling
How to prepare trout for frying with beads left on and cooked in plenty of fat. They may be rubbed with flour or dipped in egg and breadcrumbs and fry in six to ten minutes. Boiled trout are cooked by size but not longer than necessary and served with lobster sauce.
Dogs Get Diamond Earrings And Red Coats For Fashion
Fashion notes praise dogs as the new style stars with red boots and colored feather collars. luxury jewelry for pets appears in society circles, with the Marchioness of Dufferin and Mrs Clittincey reported as jewelry enthusiasts for their dachshunds. Municipal drummers in women’s hands are pictured in a Paris-area town.
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Marchioness of
Dufferin
Mrs. Clittincey
Paris
Women Drummers Take Small Town Administrative Roles
In France women are filling minor municipal posts as official drum mers whose duties include reporting. The article notes a shift toward female participation in local government across small towns.
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France
Menciin
Dress Tableaux display at local dressmaking shop
Maud Robinson notes a new dressmaking shop presents three stage tableaux with models posing in society gowns. The audience consists of prospective buyers who can judge gown effects on the spot.
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Maud Robinson
Homemade Furniture From Boxes Hints for Clever Housekeepers
The article suggests crafting furniture from packing boxes as a fashionable home craft. It describes toilet tables from covered boxes with cretonne, a kitchen cabinet from a planed box, a bookcase from the same box, shirt waist boxes made of pasteboard in wooden frames, and jewelry boxes from cigar boxes. It also notes shoe boxes repurposed into window seats and lists simple finishing ideas.
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Cretonne
Three Popular Colors This Season Color Trends and Sales
A New York authority notes brilliancy and experimentation define this season. Mignonette green Ryme pink and iris blue are reported as selling well across fabrics.
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New York
Life Reflections on Youth and Time
Dialog shows characters debating life brevity and youthfulness as one insists youth seems eternal while others affirm life passes quickly. Subtext hints at aging, memory, and philosophical tension between perception and reality.
How fast can that horse go depends on setup
The dialogue humorously questions speed by weighing feeding and how the horse is used. It contrasts speed with conditions, noting that hitching to a cart or placing in a box cart changes the pace.