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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
10
Fashion notes in 1918 discuss reviving historical styles with new twists. Tea gowns and garden hats return, inspired by British and French influences, and American designers push tropical palettes and bowing to the rainbow theme. Japanese kimono inspired house robes join the trend.
Guimpes gain vogue this spring as undercoats for coat suits with finished cuffs and ornate fronts. They come in dimity white with colored details or in various fabrics. Washable fabrics dominate for summer wear and a paper pattern is available to make one at home.
The fragment suggests improvising a gulmpe with a shy recommendation to be active and include It in a homemade version. It hints at a playful, perhaps literary instruction rather than a concrete set of steps, leaving the reader to infer practical use.
The season embraces Premet ruffles and band trimming with enthusiasm. Day and evening dresses shown recently featured many ruffies and shirred bands of contrasting fabric, creating a captivating feminine effect. Skirts remain narrow and straight, with ruffles blending into the slender line.
The article describes frocks for young girls using organdie and net by the yard with ruchings and platings. Fabrics can form skirts suitable for current fashion, sometimes featuring a net foundation with tucked self colored organdie.
Colorado Agricultural College guidance warns against excessive loads on wagons with narrow tires and dragging cultivating tools on country roads. Tractors with cutting or digging implements should not travel roads. use a drag or stone boat when moving equipment. Damaging road surfaces accelerates disintegration.
A highway department engineer explains three main costs in road building the initial construction cost interest on invested funds and ongoing upkeep. He argues cheaper road types can be economical with proper maintenance and warns neglect for a single year can negate savings, urging public officials to consider maintenance when choosing pavement types.
An Atlanta accessory dealer notes that moving cars from northern manufacturing centers to the south has spurred road improvement interest. He says heavy traffic from cotton prosperity and influx of cars to southern distributors reflects rising regional activity and demand.
The piece recalls Andrew Carnegie’s quip about the three legs of industry and his witty response to aging. It features a London Tit-Bits anecdote where Carnegie contrasts past and present, joking about eyesight and changing times.
In a humorous vignette that plays on price and weight, Edith Wharton remarks on soaring meat costs in France. A French woman buys skewers and weighs them as beef, insisting on full value, prompting puzzled disbelief from the butcher.
A speaker condemns a man described as cruel and vindictive for locking his wife in a room filled with gowns and bonnets, preventing her from seeing anyone. The anecdote questions the sufficiency of his perceived misdeed and highlights the social outrage at such behavior.
An old advertisement extols Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments claiming widespread testimonials and benefits. It offers a sample bottle by parcel post for ten cents and urges readers to mention the paper.
A visitor mocks a colored Georgia household by noting the wife is hard working. Joe replies with a sly wish for more like her, illustrating thrift and irony in a midwestern satire tone.
LuMngton tells his wife he is ready for marriage as they discuss waiting and romance. He muses that matrimony does not fulfill all hopes, recalling the long wait before their union and how it has proven true to form.
Castoria is advertised as a safe, non narcotic remedy used for constipation wind colic and diarrhea. It claims over thirty years of use and over eighty years under Chas. H. Fletcher with his signature. Warns against counterfeits and imitators and stresses genuine Lane Genuino Castoria with the original signature.
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