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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1925
Page
6
Henry Bendel of New York outlines spring fashion, noting material choice from chiffon to ash tweeds and versatile colors. He favors conservative satin and kasha coats, straight silhouettes, and coordinated wraps to create practical daytime and evening looks.
Pastel organdie appliques decorate sheer hosiery with motifs on the instep or sides. For Spring Costumes designers favor fairies and vibbed fabrics over satins, preferring hacked crepes for fresh ensembles.
Mrs George Abrams describes harsh restrictions on Jewish people in Tsarist Russia and Lithuania. She recalls limited schooling, censorship, passport controls, land restrictions, and anti Jewish bias, plus a move to Palestine and eventually the United States. She emphasizes persecution and the view of Russia as a promised land after emigration.
A school program on “The Ideal Girl” gathers male and university input. Letters favor a cross between Victorian simplicity and social butterfly traits, with world knowledge, independence, and kindness as core virtues. They prefer athletic, well dressed, non gossiping women who avoid petting parties, while cosmetics are debated. Ribbon hats and silk serge fashions loom as season shifts.
Lawrence girls become the first female textile designers in Marshall Field’s silk department. Eleanor Hackney left Chicago for a Kansas City firm seeking costume design work, and Ruth Smith, Lawrence native, succeeded her in Chicago. Their work has earned praise from the store’s silk buyer, who urged sending more like them from Lawrence.
The piece notes Mrs. Coolidge popularizing moonstone grey for inauguration attire signaling a shift from sand tones. Grey dominates accessories and outfits as fur trim moves to wide coat hems, coats shorten, scarves replace chokers, and peasant blouses with cross stitch embroidery lead the season. Bias silk roll collars slim the silhouette as spring styles favor long, narrow lines.
Milliners favor bobbed head looks while hairdressers note long hair options. A charming style features a loose braid wound over the head that can be detached for versatility. Detachable braids suit evening wear and offer pictorial effects not possible with short hair. Summer wear highlights georgette crepe and chiffon ensembles with fur-banded wraps. New capes in taffeta or soft satin feature back yokes and wide hems.
Thirteen candles mark Camp Fire Girls birthday on March 17 with 22 countries involved. Lawrence hosts fourteen groups and 183 members as church service, radio program, and guardian training courses fill the week.
The March Graphic Survey issue on race and social work attracts readers while Kansas leads with the College of the Air. Edith Wharton receives the National Institute of Arts and Letters gold medal as the first woman honored. New non fiction and fiction titles from Adams to Masefield await readers, with notes on publishers and authors such as Zane Grey and Harper’s.
A household tip suggests keeping soda fountain straws to entice children to drink milk. Using a straw may make milk feel more like a special drink and encourage consuming dairy.
A collection of household hints covers cake cooling, dusting ceilings with starch and water, and brushing dry starch after it dries. It notes cooking fruits before tarts and a MO fund giver who contributed $3000, highlighting archival reading of practical advice and donations.
A kitchen instruction detailing how to candy grape fruit peel. It covers overnight soaking in salted water, parboiling, simmering peel in sugar syrup, rolling in sugar, and drying until clear. The note attributes the recipe to Mrs. A. L. Kirchhoff of 830 Alabama Street.
The De Soto D R H S first basketball team beat Piper high school and will meet Stanley boys, while the second team lost to Argentine. A large crowd of teachers and students accompanied the teams to Shawnee. Also reports on local moves, social events, illnesses, a dynamite cap accident, and community notes from De Soto Kansas with names and places such as J F Hiddleston and Kraus farm. The Pleasant Hour club moved its meeting date to March 5 and the Loveless quartette performed under chamber support.
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