Thorns and Orange Blossoms Delivers A Desperate Farewell
Violet confronts the dowager over a potential annulment of her marriage to Ryvers’s son. She declares she will annul the union herself if necessary, denounces the ethics of inheritance and class, and vows to sever all ties. A final letter reveals Violet’s decision to leave forever, renouncing Ryvers and the life he offers.
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Violet
Tharls
Lao
Onion
Misia
Ryvaersdale
Ealied
Sermald
Ishail
Troth
Jfm
Ryversdale
London
Tani
Iancalph
Diplomacy and envy in a tight dressing room scene
In Harper's Bazar a quip on dressing room vanity surfaces. A character laments despair as the lead of the ballet is described as twelve inches wider than she is, prompting a sharp retort that the situation is manageable. The dialogue captures theatrical airs and social snobbery in a single witty exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Bazar
William G. Chaddick Dies in Louisville
Prominent southern steamboat man William G. Chaddick collapsed and died in Louisville. During the Civil War he served on noted gunboats on the Cumberland, Tennessee and Mississippi rivers.
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William G. Chaddick
South
Louisville
Cumberland
Tennessee
Mississippi
Romance of Four Tongues in a Regency Style
A garbled period piece describes a hero courting Amanda and Kate, with both women praised for beauty as he professes love and resolves his fate. The scene shifts to fashion tips, noting low-cut gowns, satin, and tulle to enhance the effect of a formal dress.
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Kate
Amanda
Kia
Modish Millinery Features in Spring Hats
The piece surveys spring millinery with black velvet brims and broad crowns, noting hats with multiple brims and arrangements of roses and ostrich plumes. It highlights wreaths and clusters of artificial flowers, black and white color schemes, and large white plumes as standout accents for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verli
Tips for the woman who gives formal dinners
Decorative guidance for arranging tulips in winter tablescapes. It describes puce and yellow tulip pairings, margins of foliage, and centerpieces to evoke spring light. The piece notes white china with yellow accents, candle shapes, and decorative boxes that resemble tulips to enhance the seasonal theme.
The Ornamental Value Of Airy Fairy Tulle
The article discusses tulle fashion for women, noting its versatile use around the neck in bows or rosettes. It states white tulle is more universally flattering than black, and suggests layering a tulle neckband under a Low-cut waist with a necklace or deweled collar.
Spring skirt fashions emphasize hip trimming and panels
A feature of the spring skirts is trimming at the hips with tucks and fullness in graduated lengths. Some designs use lace panels pointing upward and around the hem, while circular trim widens the appearance of the hips. Graduated pants appear as velvet bias bands and colored suède or satin bands, with taffeta accents and lace isertion. A gores style forms an inverted cone from the knees, and a yoke with straight front panels returns in thin gowns with feather stitched tucks.
One Boy’s Original Idea Of The Sistine Madonna
A Hull House association woman showed a street urchin pictures of classical works including the Sistine Madonna. When asked what it represents the boy replied that it is Jess and His mother. He noted the faces are beautiful but observed the rims around their heads give them away.
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Hull House
Chicago
Jess
Graceful Women and Notable Laurels Across Cities
June commencement at National University Law College grants LL B to Mi ith Mason daughter of Senator Mason. she plans Chicago partnership with her father. Traveler Isabella Bird Bishop heads to Morocco for rest. next expedition aims for Africa. Fraz Hedwig Heyl opens Berlin cooking school for factors. over a hundred physicians from France, Russia, Italy and Germany have joined. Gertrude Cutcheon, Lebanon Ohio high school graduate, years 1801, develops a new method for trigecting an angle. attracts top mathematicians. Paris banquet for the French mayor, staged by Mile Patel at age 26, tallies 23 466 guyats. other details incomplete.
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Miith Mason
W. R. Mason
National University Law College At
Washington
Chicago
Fraz Hedwig
Misa Gertrude Cutcheon
High School
Lebanon
Ohio
Miss Cutcheon
France
Australian banquet highlights historic hospital staff event
The report notes the employes tally at 24 080 including wagon drivers and service staff such as dishwashers waiters and cooks. Mile Potel presided on the ground in an elaborate costume directing a cadre of subordinates Lore on blereles. Dr Grace Fairley Robinson becomes a pioneer Australian medical graduate with bachelor of medicine and master of surgery from Syenty University.
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Mile Potel
Blereles
Grace Fairley Robinson
Syeman
Australia
Syenty University
Vanity Fair attractions at Pan American Exposition
Describes promise of the Midway Plaisance at Buffalo's Pan American Exposition opening next month. Highlights include four miniature lands like Streets of Cairo and Streets of Mexico, Venice in America, Nuremberg village, and a Dodge's Palace inspired skyline. Also mentions a topsy turvy house, palace of nations, glass factory, trip to the moon, and exhibits including a Johnstown flood display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffai
Cairo
Chicago
Mexico
Nuremberg
America
Palace of Nations
Johnstown
The Parable of Love and Marriage Across History
A meditation on love and marriage contrasting passion with lasting union. The text argues the need for continual warmth in marriage, warns against misplaced affairs, and recalls literary figures such as Leander, Hero, and Browning to illustrate enduring devotion and the sacred pull of wedlock.
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Leander
Hellespont
Ovid
Hero ‘Iegesling
Heroldes
Jove
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Auther
Inquirer
Lord Ryvers
Parl
Lester
Randolph
Atl
Monics
Houdair
Violat
Monica
Langesdly
Sam
Axxix
Rygers
Vollet
Lesto
Ryver
Lord Leste
Mothe
Countess of Lester
Sammons
Norrow
Amanda Habet
Anthropos
Kate Wevant
Tapis
Pucias Twain Coepit
Kate Daag
Attair
Virgo
Mike
Beth
Steal Aril Gould Puedes
Isabella Bird Bishop
Morocco
Africa
Vanity Fair
Iman
Earth
Heaven
Léaison
Dante Gabriel Rosgett
Browning
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