A Stunning Hat and New Fashions From Variata
A detailed description highlights a pappy red chiffon hat with a coquelin shape, pale gray ostrich feather, black Chantilly lace, and velvet bow accents. It pairs with a two shade gray crepe de chine carriage costume, long velvet streamers, and bonnet-like features. Also showcased are new Tongee jackets with black lace medallions and flowing sleeves, plus Paris platted jackets in black crepe de chine and other hues with lavish embroideries. Lace slippers, black and white satin options, and gowns featuring lace overlays complete the footwear and dress set.
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Variata
Bos
Paris
Delicate fabrics and evolving color tones in fashion
The piece notes popular wool and silk materials for spring garments. It highlights embroidery friendly yellows and creams, dove gray, and a brown purplish shade in vogue. It describes a theater bodice in pale blue sherry silk over taffeta, with bolero styling, plaited chiffon and a chiffon jabot, all stitched with Corticelli silk.
To Perfume Tresses
A guidance note on scenting hair using water lily incense from Japanese stores. Light incense and waft fumes over hair until burned out to leave a lasting fragrance. Warns against heavily perfumed locks and cheap perfume damaging hair. A touch of violet toilet water adds a golden sheen in sunlight.
Charming Afternoon Toilettes Show Lace and Tucks
A late spring costume described with cream voile and Corticelli silk. The outfit features a horizontal yoke of tucks, inset black lace, lengthwise lace and tucks, and a left side satin ribbon rosette. Elbow sleeves are trimmed with raffles, reflecting a graceful art deco silhouette.
Variety of Washable Gloves on the Market This Season
A range of washable gloves is offered this season with high satisfaction. Washable gloves are pricey at two dollars per pair, while white and yellow chamois-skin options cost about half. Silk and lisle washable gloves perform closely to kid and cotton rag gloves, plus a white glace kid coaching glove with a military cuff and pearl button is among novelties.
Cherry Sherbet Recipe Instruction
Prepare by mashing two quarts of pitted cherries with one pound sugar and lemon juice. Soak gelatin in cold water, dissolve in boiling water, cool, mix with the fruit, and freeze or pack in the freezer. Stir in half a pint of cream after initial freezing.
Timely Fashion Hints and Millinery Notes
Fashion notes describe Etamine tailors hats with Magpie Combinations in favor. Hats feature lace Insets velvet or embroidered dots. Alexandrite priced at 1900, moire satin taffeta Louisine ribbons trim hats. Cloth bands on Jaca day wear dresses. broad plaits on tailor rigs.
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Etamine
Realism and Romanticism clash in a kitchen conversation
In a twilight gallery discussion, The Woman Who Wrote and The Newspaper Man debate realism versus romanticism. They sketch two scenes with a couple, one ordinary and one storm torn, showing intimate tension, weathered by memory and a past kiss. The exchange turns to a bread knife and a shared past, illustrating stark contrasts between plausible daily life and heightened feeling.
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F. H. Lancaster
Daily Story Pub. Co
Polly
Llears
Repairing Longfellow Home in Portland Maine
Repairs begin on the exterior of the Longfellow house in Portland Maine with a new roof painting of woodwork and blinds and restoration of the entry floor and front doorstep. The stone step once stood Zilpah Longfellow in 1798 mother of the poet and is tied to early Maine militia history.
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Longfellow
Portland
Zilpah Longfellow
Portland Federal Volunteers
Maine
Portland Light Infantry
Boston Transcript
Little Farmers Plant in Eggshelle
An eggshell farming classroom activity describes children planting seeds in shells. Each child writes their name on the shell and fills it with soil after a lesson on polls. The seed grows, then the plant is taken home to be planted in a garden, teaching the full life history of the plant.
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Vogie
Edith M Thomas
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Genevieve Trevallion
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Genevieve Trevallon
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