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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1916
Page
8
Readers are invited to write or call the Women’s Editorial Staff Miss Alice Wheeler and Miss Cora M. Bangsberg for space in this department. The notice directs inquiries and submissions to the named editors.
Boston reports the formation of a movement framed as the first association dated March 3 1866. The article notes this entity organized law based activities and claims spreading influence to nearly all nations. It highlights its rapid global spread and enduring impact on legal and civic structures.
The Young Women's Christian Association marks its fiftieth anniversary with a pageant titled Girls of Yesterday and Today. February observances feature the national jubilee week across the country highlighting the Boston founded group begun on March 30 1856. The movement has grown to 966 associations and 342 948 members in America with properties valued in the millions. The Jubilee month starts with a rally and national membership drive.
A collage of humorous vignettes and quips from early 20th century papers. The tales range from a kissed boy to a comic prayer and social chatter, showing light domestic humor and newspaper jokes of the era.
Mrs. Helene H. Britton owner of the St Louis Cardinals is reportedly eager to sell after years of limited profits. A syndicate of former Federal league magnates is said to have made an offer for the club.
Little material but much art involved in the making of Milady's sleeping garments. A feature on the craft and design of intimate nightwear, highlighting detailed handiwork and fashion sensibility in the modern home.
New York fashion notes describe sleeveless nighties with empire waistlines in blush pinks of sheer fabrics. Designs feature narrow lace trimmings, briar stitches, and delicate embroidery, paired with cap styles that range from boudoir ribbons to swansdown trims.
The Women’s union of the Congregational church hosts a Thursday afternoon program at Mrs. C. C. Rowlison’s Main Street home with refreshments and new members. Several church groups including Immanuel Lutheran Young People and First German Methodist Missionary Society announce upcoming gatherings with hostesses and venues across the city.
About two hundred fifty people attended the Brotherhood of American Yeomen mask party on Thursday evening. Half the crowd appeared as dates, with many striking costumes. Prizes went to Rae Harley, Shamrock girl, and Will Brooks.
Members and friends gathered at the Tabernacle Baptist church parlors for an evening of music and recitations by the Young People's Society with refreshments served.
Sixty eight girls from the main department of the Sunday school were entertained at a banquet in the church parlors last evening. A similar banquet for the boys was held two weeks earlier.
The members and guests gathered at 2204 Cass Street for a Surprise party. Attendees included Mesdames Bodette Wilcox Boucher Olson Manning Boucher Taylor Edmond Schiffer Boucher Sr Steves Boucher Simkey. They spent the evening on fancy work and enjoyed a large birthday cake.
Blue Bell Card club honored Mrs G Schlicht with the head prize and Mrs Hess Jr with the second prize at a meeting hosted by Mrs David Muench on Seventh Street and Mormon Coulee road. Alberta Hemleben hosted Tuesday Five Hundred at 1608 Market Street with favors won by Mrs Ellis Langdon and Mrs T O Bergh.
Mrs Frank Winter hosted a birthday coffee at 1625 Madison Street for many friends including Rovlison Esch Herbst Brad ish Davis Coate Sanders Sanford Cowles Morris Millington Schwei ver Noble Soderberg Kleeber Cook Ratchelder Jones Brayton Montague Moss Oyen Parker White and Miss Alice Wheeler. Miss Viola Wright celebrated her seventeenth birthday with a yellow themed evening party and lunch after eleven o'clock. George Kraus performed piano selections for the guests Edna Meyers Bertha Meyers Bernice Wright George Kraus Vivian Marteau Leonard Meyers and Mr and Mrs R Mix and Mr and Mrs George Wright attended.
The Rev. A. E. Frederick, a Wisconsin assemblyman from Monroe County nicknamed the fighting parson, will address a Men’s Dinner at First Methodist Church on Tuesday evening. The event features a musical program and several talks, with dinner served at 6:30.
Mrs Gretchen Platz will entertain this evening with guests including Mr and Mrs John P Salter and family Mr and Mrs Max F Platz and family Dr and Mrs J G Egan and family and Mr and Mrs Howard Hundredmark Also mentioned is a Sunday dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Frank Fowler at the Stoddard and a Tuesday dinner for officers and non commissioned officers of Company M with thirteen guests.
Mrs Clara Knight hosted a birthday club gathering at 320 South Fourth Street last evening. Five hundred was played and refreshments served, with a list of attendees including Mesdames H Palmer A A Barr William Wimmer W Ennison D S Grieg Jay Ziegler E Young J Lier O Mattson A Searles and Nina Rindlaub.
The annual meeting of the Young Women’s Christian Association will be held Monday at seven forty five in the association building at Fourth and Cass street. Members friends contributors and anyone interested in the work are invited. Reports of officers and branches will be read and officers elected.
The Women's Municipal league opens a unique exhibit in Boston detailing its civic improvement work. Photographs illustrate housing conditions of the poor and catalog vocational training opportunities. The display also covers infant social service, household nursing, hygiene of occupation and noise abatement.
The Tribune previews a fashion outfit for active girls featuring a white serge middy blouse with self bands and silk braid loops, plus a black and white striped flannel skirt. Middy No. 6560 fits 36 to 49 inch bust, 16 to 20 years, priced 15 cents. Skirt No. 5978 fits 14 to 20 years, priced 15 cents. Fabric requirements listed for medium size.
A list of humorous rules for proposing, suggesting success or failure depends on physical features. It advises love for certain traits like full lips and a twinkle in the eye, while warning against men with thin lips or a stern forehead. It frames courting advice as character judgments.
Cleveland column quotes William J. Kibby offering phrenology based tips on love and marriage. Lips, forehead shape, jaw length and lip coloring supposedly reveal a man’s capacity for affection and suitability as a husband or lover for women seeking lasting bonds.
Mitch Ethel Monnette and Miss Rita La Beau form a "Girls' club to Live One Hundred Years" in Los Angeles. Seven members have joined to pursue a century of life with dawn rises, daily walks, buttermilk, light meals, outdoor work among flowers, and strict conduct including never getting mad or smoking.
Miss Mary Glide Griggs of St Paul will wed John Edward Varbey of Reading Pennsylvania a Yale graduate this evening at 639 in the House of Hope Presbyterian church. Attendants include Elizabeth Criggs Mary Withers Kansas City and Martha Wagner Tacoma best man Leonard Hanna Jr Cleveland with Yale classmates among the ushers.
Women in San Francisco attend the Law for Women class led by Louise Cleveland J D to study property rights state laws and business documents. A similar course is conducted in Oakland focusing on checks notes and legal instruments for women.
The 1916 spring season will mark the largest white shoe vogue the trade has seen, say Walk Over Shoe company men at Chicago’s Fashion Show. Light gray, dark gray, and brown tones will also be popular, with black and white polka dot tops displayed. Local Walk Over Store representatives A. E. Anderberg and A. Ki. Rice attended the event.
Destitute gentlewomen in England receive free training in housecraft as a response to wartime hardship. The program aims to equip women with practical domestic skills for employment and self sufficiency.
A townwide notice calls for a Parcel Post Sale to benefit the Y W C A. People may mail parcels by February 9 marked with sale price. gifts and coffee will be available for ten cents at the event on the designated day.
A brief roundup of fireless cooker methods for tender fried chicken and Boston Brown Bread. Instructions cover simmering poultry, slow-cooking, and finishing steps, plus baked custard and a March Mother's Magazine dessert recipe with ingredients and exact timing.
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