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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1912
Page
13
A newspaper page highlights topics of interest to women with features on domestic life fashion homemaking and community notices. The section showcases advice articles lifestyle tips and practical guides aimed at female readers.
Fresh from great lace centers, cobwebby edgings and all-overs flood the market. Paris decrees approval as laces swing into Fall and Winter styles with heavy and sheer varieties, chantilly and shadow patterns, venise trims, and ornate edgings for blouses, frocks, neckwear, and guimpes.
This collection offers practical domestic hacks such as cooling flat irons to avoid loss of heat, cleaning pewter with hot water and sand, heating knives to slice bread, paraffin for porcelain sinks, starching lace curtains sparingly, removing jar labels with applied heat, salt and vinegar for decanters, repurposing velvet fabric as boot polish and chamois, making newspaper useful for gas stoves, and encouraging daily newspaper cleaning to protect pots pans and hands.
Many young and long married wives complain to others about their husbands faults. The text argues that open airing of defects harms relationships and praises protecting and screening loved ones. Suffering in silence and patience are presented as heroic. Outside advice is deemed ineffective in resolving matrimonial disputes.
The piece advises women over 30 on earring choices to avoid pink coral and favor jet and freshwater pearls. It highlights long coats to add height and elegance for stout and middle aged figures, and praises Paris evening gowns with draped, pliable fabrics, delicate trimmings, and two tone or sharply divided silks as the latest fashion notes.
French physicians debate causes of gray and hair loss. Metchnikoff cites a microbe attacked by heat. Lucien Jacques links nervous overstimulation from digestion. Guelpa recommends grease. Plentiful theories reflect ongoing search for cure among Parisians.
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