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Newspaper
Mexia Evening Ledger
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1899
Page
5
A fashion sketch describes the season’s styles with overskirts, long princess robes, and sashes. Soft gray blue and black and white remain popular, with mauve and glacier blue tones and rose flames. Silk, muslin, and delicate embroidery dominate, featuring lace, chenille, and decorative patterns in a wide range of fabrics and trims.
The article surveys delicate summer dress details including silk guipure with black velvet ribbons and beading, lace accents, and embroidered trains. It also recalls a Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers tribute to Edward Kennar, who savingly warned trains with a dying shout “Flag No. 6” before dying in a Batavia landslide incident.
London Telegraph excerpt presents Miss Mary E J Hezlet offering beginner tips for golf. Advice covers starting with one club, eye on the ball, practicing to develop a full swing, and learning from watching professionals and amateurs. Hezlet notes she learned mainly by observation.
A narrator recalls a man in a tail coat walking with a serene cadence while a bulging pocket reveals a loaf of bread. The scene highlights a restraint in staring at the man’s loaf as a metaphor for a spendthrift who takes all and wastes nothing.
The article argues education should follow natural growth stages, training large shoulder and arm muscles before fine finger muscles to avoid hindering development. It notes children use broad arm motions early, needing ample space, and criticizes early emphasis on delicate handwriting. It advocates larger classroom implements in kindergartens to suit growing bodies.
The London Chronicle reports M. Doumer presented Cherie, a so called white elephant, to Parisians in Siam a state entry at the Garde de Lyon. Observers note her skin is patchy red with grayish tones and pink eyelids while praising her polite kneeling to the public.
In Dublin years ago Sir Henry Irving faced three heavy roles with a missing actor and two vacancies. The gallery boy across from Irving shouted to another that the young man in the clothes would be shoved out later. The anecdote captures the lively gallery commentary and Irving’s slender figure.
A village near Oxford recounts Lord Abingdon meeting a boy dragging a calf. The boy answers his lordship correctly when asked his name and is told to take off his hat. The lad replies he will, if told, leaving a humorous, brief exchange.
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