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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1925
Page
8
The keynote notes a shift toward fine lines and sheer fabrics with chiffons, ruffles, and floral trims. Hats move away from elaborate felt crowns as buyers favor individual styles, while ribbons, jewelry, and new colors shape mid season dresses and evening wear.
In a spirited portrait of working attire the piece highlights a stripe model with balero cut and gun metal buttons. A front panel holds fullness with a self ribbon tie, describing clothing as practical and stylish enough to “actually get jobs.”
Miss Ines Pratt selects white crepe ta for inaugural recepty in Topeka, while fashion notes from Chicago outline prevailing styles. New dresses appear as waistlines, slender gowns and circular skirts dominate, with long tucks running lengthwise on some gowns.
The latest wearer on the campus is a set for gales in ss, made of flat bows of uy down the teont mi its body trimming. Panels create a bobbed hair look with sve and ehw styling. A favorite features a silk vibau at the very top, extremely higheruown.
A scanned recipe page lists Way 40 a2 Man's Heart Hickory Nut Cookies with sugar flour baking powder salt nuts vanilla lemon and a lemon-egg flavoring, plus a honey bread recipe with graham flour bran dates and sour milk, and a bread pudding method with stale crumbs evaporated milk eggs jelly and meringue. A note invites bringing a clock to Gustafson for cleaning.
Miss Pauline Richardson recounts life in Peking and contrasts Chinese family roles with U S norms. She notes women guide households while grandmothers set rules, foot binding fading, and Western influence on dress and education growing among urban and rural girls. Travel by rickshaw, temple lodging outside the city, and the ongoing civil unrest in Hankow are also described as context for daily life in 1920s China.
The report states a faculty member becomes dean of the pre medical school at Peking Union Medical College while Miss Charlotte Morrison of Lawrence attends Yenching College in the same city.
Miss Eva Hangen of Lawrence will chair the education committee for the Kansas A A U W. The state convention is planned in Topeka, with delegates expected from nine branches including Manhattan, Topeka, Lawrence, Salina, Junction City, Independence, Baldwin, Emporia, and Wichita. Miss Alice Mularland of Topeka named parliamentarian. nominating committee includes Miss Jane Atwood, Miss Rachel Pugh, and Miss Martha Pittman. Officers to be elected include a first vice president and a secretary treasurer.
The Women’s Relief Corps reports a busy year with member efforts aiding the needy. Donations amount to sixteen dollars in clothing for the poor and ten dollars for child welfare, along with contributions to National Nurses Fund and Southern Memorial Fund.
The year saw twenty one members added to the Order. The president and members have performed over 300 sick evils and conducted funeral services for eight Comrades and four Corps members. The 1925 prospects look very good with an efficiently installed corps of officers.
Camp Fire groups met at the junior high school with several units led by new guardians. They planned a New Year pledge to be kinder, prepared dues for next meeting, and arranged a ceremonial at Stella Melvie Adelaide's home. Additional meetings covered reports to National headquarters and community activities with guests and planned programs.
The World’s Fair aimed at showcasing women’s achievements in science law medicine arts and crafts will run April 18 to 23 1925 in Chicago under patronage including Mrs Edith Racke eCormick. Notables such as a society farming goat herder a northern heiress and women bank presidents will attend alongside writers painters aviators and diplomats in the American Exposition Palace building on the lakefront.
A long Camp Fire report details multiple groups, guardians and members across Akicho Minnchaha Wana Wentin Ikunukata Merenpo and Hashatuaga camps. It lists member rosters, guardian assignments, a rummage sale plan, a January Court of Honor, and upcoming meetings at Virginia Sterling’s home and other locations with activities and visits from Miss Eron Hawk and Miss Norma Syaith.
The piece highlights library reading during winter, noting magazines and newspapers as attractors. It cites January issues featuring Chancellor Lindley, Senator Charles Curtis coverage, presidential election totals from 1924, and book-related items from Century, Bookman, Literary Digest, Harpers, and Atlantic. It also promotes business education opportunities and librarian support for publishers.
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