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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1915
Page
2
A Chicago essay argues boys face scarce good occupations as industrial expansion widens the gap between trades apprenticeships and learned professions. It laments limited prospects in trades and mercantile work and urges action to prepare youth for productive manhood amid looming career bottlenecks.
Washington columnist G S Clyde argues for compulsory school dental exams in public schools. He cites war hospital data linking poor oral health to disease and notes benefits to discipline, efficiency, and overall development of children, urging clinics and coordinated dentist physician efforts.
Capt. E. R. Monfort of Cincinnati discusses the future of the Grand Army of the Republic after the Civil War veterans pass away. He notes debate on letting sons or the Spanish American Veterans carry on the memory and duties of the organization. The piece reflects shifting views toward preserving the G A R through younger generations.
John Brown of Atchison Kansas extols buttermilk as a healthful beverage. He notes high casein for meals, extensive lactic acid producing bacteria, and benefits for humans and livestock. Sour milk is similarly recommended to prevent hog cholera.
The text muses on the value of health and the limits of licensing skill. It contrasts a hunter's license with true marksmanship and warns that missteps may harm unintended targets. It laments the fading of plain spoken honesty in daily life.
Fur displays show that simple neckpieces and muffs remain popular with flat scarfs and short collars leading the market. The common muff shapes include moderate to small round forms, with some barrel styles, often without tails. "Small furs" like wide collars and neck bands paired with matching round muffs appear for novelty, while fur turbans and collarettes complement sets. Seals, squirrel, chinchilla, kolinsky, cony and beaver remain favored, and home-made fur sets offer affordable alternatives.
A fighting man avoids a punch from a smaller opponent and walks away, illustrating superior self control. The piece argues leaders master their impulses, while others would react, and suggests self discipline separates leaders from followers.
The period features gilt trims on gowns and evening wraps, with new season silks dominated by metal brocades interwoven with gold silver or iridescent threads. Used alone or with other silks, gilt braids appear on military style suits, marking a glittering fashion trend.
A discussion on tooth decay describing decayed tooth matter as a breeding ground for disease germs. Swallowing transfers germs to the stomach and blood, potentially causing tuberculosis pneumonia sore throat appendicitis and other illnesses. It also notes impaired chewing from decayed teeth leads to malnutrition and broader physical and moral decline.
A tale from southwest Kansas recalls a well shooter’s accident when his wagon toppled from a bridge, scattering man and team. A friend phoned the wife to soften the blow, saying the husband would not return for supper and that he was headed roughly northeast.
The text notes Kagdad as the old Persian capital Ctesiphon near Mansur's builders, with Persian advisers under Harun al Rashid and the Barmacid family. It recounts Harun’s cruel end of the Barmecid line at a supposedly lavish feast, a history cited by William Warfeld in Harpers Magazine.
The article discusses washable silk and lace underbodices designed to match winter blouses. It notes their easy laundering, durability, and elegance, with examples showing val insertion, narrow lace edging, and silk yokes. Home sewing tips include hand whip stitching for neater edges.
New silk gloves for long sleeved coats and frocks feature tiny contrasting color frills at the top and along the wrist. White gloves display navy blue or black frills in sand and putty shades and a pale champagne tint, with frills woven from the glove fabric plaited in fine side plaits.
A persistent rumor claims autumn fashion will be a l Italienne. Importers visited Italy this summer returning with fabrics lace beads ribbons and striped textiles for new skirts. The piece notes shifting tastes away from Russian Balkan oriental and Spanish trends toward Italian influences.
Steel is to be a feature in winter millinery. Not only are steel buckles used but also beaded ornaments showing the jeweler’s art. The beads are threaded lightly and a steel tassel adds scarcely more weight than silk. These ornaments pair well with fur or to lift a flirting hat brim.
A witty boast from the New York Sun about football psychology, noting that the only colors that always win are black and blue.
The springbok, chosen by Dutch settlers as the emblem for South African forces in Europe, is the Union’s iconic antelope. Vast herds roam from the Cape to Rhodesia, sometimes sweeping through farms and even moving lions. Their migrations follow rains that trigger fresh grass growth.
A tiny amount of radium, one seven hundredth part of a grain per ton of soil, is claimed to fertilize land and accelerate grain growth. In trials, plants show very dark leaves and radishes and carrots grown in this soil reportedly reach six times their normal weight.
A handsome man meets a common fate among natural scenes. admired but barred from influencing practical enterprises. The piece frames beauty as symbolic yet powerless against utilitarian demands and urban expansion.
In Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s Indian Memories Sir Baker Russell known as Bakers Dozen is praised as a fighting teacher and beloved by troops. A tale shows Ben Hagan using stale morning beer as his nerve preservative, a practice the colonel notes with a mix of humor and critique.
An aged porter near eighty is arrested on a trivial charge and later discharged. During trial he, unfamiliar with court procedure, confuses the judge and clerk and asks permission to testify in a more relaxed, informal manner. The piece notes his daze and humorous misunderstanding.
An anecdotal tale traces ale conners in Shakespearean times testing sugar in ale by dramatic tavern methods. It mentions a tester sitting in a puddle, the danger to tapsters if leather breeches stuck, and hints at Harman Gansevoort in Albany using a feather breeches wash to test brews.
A boastful hunter Snooks claims lions in Africa fear him until an audience member contradicts with a bold joke about sleeping among lions. The exchange ends with the punchline that the lions were not real but dandelions, playing on misdirection and humor.
The U S Geological Survey notes staurolite or fairy stone is an iron aluminum silicate found only in Virginia and North Carolina. Its reddish brown to brownish black crystals form single and double crosses and command demand as curios worn as watch charms or lavalieres linked to legend of fairies who made them after Christ’s death.
Frank Alvah Parsons argues that art is governed by lasting laws, not transient whims, and that its principles apply equally to interior decoration as to painting and sculpture. He emphasizes timeless design fundamentals guiding all artistic expression.
Fifty women take active part in municipal governments of Swedish cities. Seven are busy in Stockholm, reflecting a growing female presence in Swedish civic leadership.
Larry and Marty observe a romance forming with Alice Carlson, a New York woman from Lexington Avenue. Larry woos her after a fall on icy stairs and weekly trains, while a rival salesman hints at tension. She meets his mother’s social circle, and Larry believes fate joined them.
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