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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1923
Page
3
Hemstitching grows popular as a delicate trim for summer dresses linen outfits and lingerie. Machines handle lace work to cut costs while preserving dainty effects. Linen towels and handkerchiefs gain value from hemstitched hems and inserted lace details. The craft suits linen voile and silk though silk demands greater skill.
Jayhawk Camp Fire at the University held a week of varied sessions led by Miss Nadine Morrison. Topics included symbolism in Camp Fire and its use in daily life such as trademarks and trail markers. The group worked on crafts, stencils, woodblocks, and design principles. Workshops covered planning Camp Fire programs, hiking care, and health charts. Evelyn Pierce led storytelling, Esther Brown dramatized, and Essie Pumphrey demonstrated silk tying and dyeing. A ceremonial stay party closed the week with star stories and myths to be dramatized.
Princess Ros chglosi appears at a Southampton Long Island street fair running an art booth for hospital benefit. The event echoes a page from a social register with gle ikers and managers in attendance.
Mr and Mrs S B Katherman completed a summer journey starting May 15 and returning Monday totaling 6000 miles by rail 1400 by car and 200 by boat visiting relatives in Kansas City Sioux City Duluth St Paul Winnipeg Calvary and the Brethren national convention. They also visited Lake Louise Santa Monica and spent time in California visiting N C Paine and saw giant forests in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Household tips mention soaking and salt in water before cooking cauliflower. The article lists local visits and trips from Lecompton and nearby towns, including T Glenn Walter Brown Frank Lin McClanahan Will Brown John Matney Opal, Starr Glenn and Mrs Glenn to Topeka and Lecompton, plus Marion Quusewell and families. Other notes cover wheat stacking, alfalfa, and a recent rain benefiting crops and gardens.
In New York Aug 4 flapper brides supposedly end old housewifery and fuel a delicatessen boom. Kitchens shrink to kitchenette apartments as wives work or go to movies, stopping at delis for meals while husbands labor downtown. Delicatessen shops multiply, with owners noting rising costs and changing lifestyles driving the trend.
The column includes a chocolate cream dessert recipe tested in the home economics department at E Elisabeth Ticker and a vanilla ice cream recipe by Hazel Stapleton, each with ingredients and method. It also reports on a local sale attended by Mr and Mrs Mae Watts, plus several short notes on visits, foot injury, and a harvest-related task in Lecompton and Greenwood Valley with residents named: Robt Watts, Gerald Holloway, Eugene Harding, Doris, Dr C H Marst, W H Birtel, John Bahnmaier, Will Glenn, Geo Bahnraier Jr, and Ralph Baker.
Mr and Mrs Charlie Sanders visited Lawrence Tuesday while many Lone Star residents hosted and attended gatherings at friends homes. Families from Lone Star and Lawrence enjoyed a July picnic at Sigel grove with forty for dinner and ice cream. Several neighbors moved, traveled to Topeka and Lawrence, and ongoing farm tasks were noted along with a busy schedule of visits and chores.
A farewell note indicates a couple will relocate to Lawrence in days. Fred Gilbert returned Saturday from Joliet to spend time with his family at home.
The everyday dress is essential for durable use in school. A middy dress with a pleated skirt fits most regulations, with a galatea or stout washable blouse and a serge or tricotine skirt. It can be made in cotton or wool, emphasizing practicality and modest style.
Eastern swimming stars Betty Becker and George Pawling plan to switch clubs, signaling a likely AAU rule revision. Becker, 20, left Philadelphia Turnermeinde for Ambassador Swimming Club and aims to swim in Paris 1924. Pawling, 20, will join Hygeia Swimming Club, holding the junior national 440 yard crown and one mile title.
Alv and Earl Bohnsack escaped serious injury when their Ford touring car tipped over a 13 foot embankment while passing a wagon loaded with potatoes near the Wakarusa bridge by John Moody's house. The vehicle was only slightly damaged and the brothers were unhurt. The report notes local social events and community notices following the incident, including a Douglas County Sunday school picnic plans and several visits and gatherings among area residents.
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