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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1886
Page
3
Mitchell Capital reviews foreign innovations in tailored costumes and recreation suits. Paris and New York fashion notes show renewed interest in varied draping, bias cut skirts, and feminine tailoring with new corsage styles and decorative stitching enhancing plain tailored outfits for summer wear.
Jenny June notes plentiful pretty and new but low-cost materials, with stripes replacing solid tones and white laces giving way to simple embroidery. Open work on colors expands the look, while mothers Hubbard dresses fade from fashion and versatile velveteen and Arcadia fabrics offer durable seaside options.
The article details mid-century sports and race day attire including a gray and pale blue striped Hannel dress with scarf tunic and Bishop sleeves, a blue serge dress trimmed with extensive braid, boating outfits in woolen tones, brown velveteen racing dress with velvet collar, cream canvas fabrics with embroidery, and revival barege with bayadere stripes. It notes capes, hats, and silk canvases as draped, crease resistant options.
A fashion note explains skirts now feature strings or hooks along the sides allowing easy removal when desired. The change shifts control from rigid to adaptable wear, with the option to secure the garment quickly for practicality.
The article notes a shift from matching earrings and pins to new ornament styles. Mixapo silks and Canoric peasant dresses shape draping looks, while Pnerry gold cords with enameled flowers and natural flower sprays decorate hair. Tiny pins of flowers insects and other devices replace old bar designs, with up to six worn. A velvet or silk front belt creates a long slender silhouette, ending below the vest.
A collage of social notes and verses on courtship and marriage and a humorous warning about neglecting appearance. Includes poems, gossip, and a cartoonish moral about dressing to please.
A Brooklyn Magazine piece surveys changing views on women and marriage. It contrasts the modern old maid with lively social women, notes men seek strength and courtesy, and urges careful courtship and preparation for marriage as a life partnership.
A decisive buyer methodically weighs overstocked wares, calls them ugly at any price, and sets firm terms. She gathers value comparisons, then offers calmly with finality, rewarding sensible accepts and escaping rejects with clear self knowledge.
A proverb on female traders outlines how a seasoned businesswoman avoids theatrics. She calmly values goods, sets terms, and expects the world to understand what is fair without venting or shouting. The piece contrasts practiced bargaining with inexperienced outcry.
A St Louis newspaper piece warns that alcohol damages arteries heart liver kidneys and brain and weakens the heart after disease. It argues drinking in health undermines treatment of typhoid fever and pneumonia and claims alcohol discounts its usefulness as medicine. The essay calls habitual drinkers foolish and cites nature's method of selecting the fittest.
A Philadelphia News reader argues against the common belief that the term King’s English began under James I. The writer notes Elizabeth I’s reign and cites Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor as evidence the phrase existed before 1603, attributing origin to Shakespearean usage.
An examination contrasts American and English literary figures, arguing American writers like Cooper Hawthorne Longfellow Emerson Holmes and Twain enjoyed stable home lives while celebrated Englishmen faced domestic unhappiness. Climate and liberty differences are discussed as possible causes.
A composite piece surveys modern manias from walking to cycling and roller skating with social satire by Lizzie Snyder. It also covers infant fatigue causes and sleep needs, plus brief notes on insect smell, furnace dust control, and a wartime anecdote about Gen. Lee's generosity.
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