Tulle Skirts and Toilets In Spring Fashion Notes
An analysis by Jenny June on affordable spring outfits and the thrifty woman. Beads and rosary motifs lead the season with tulles over satin, carved wood buttons, and new Ulster jackets. Five costumes outline cost-effective wardrobes using low-priced materials and ready-to-wear trims while noting imports and fabrics.
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Oberstein
Switzerland
Lyon
Delaine
Paris
Jenny June
Fashion Notes Preview of Spring Style Fabrics and Trends
Mixaposateen and Gixcuams appear in many colors with Japanesque and tufted spot designs. Jers and beaded adornments remain popular, PensiAN embroidery decorates wool costumes, velvet trims wool silk and cotton dresses, BaReEcE fabrics show in fine weave and lace effects. Velvet is highlighted for grand ball elegance and ribbons remain a key novelty. A note on style contrasts with a stray line questioning progressive taste.
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Europe
Worth
Contested Massachusetts seat settled by one vote
The Third District race between Walbridge Field and Benjamin Dean ended with Dean seated by a single vote after extensive committee evidence and party pressure. Gen. Butler backed Dean, while Democrats shifted votes. Georgia’s Alexander Stephens and others flipped as the final roll determined Dean’s seating.
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Benjamin W. Dean
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Springer
Gen. Butler
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Dean
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Georgia
Wilson
West Virginia
Chapman ‘Freeman
Philadelphia
Jones
Sumner
Alaska
Department of State
Congressional
Washington
Navy
Smithsonian Institution
Stoeckel
Seward
Monsieur Delfosse
Halifax
Alabama
Wish
Edward Thornton
M. Delfosse
Newport
Mr. Fish
London
Count Beust
Pair Of Humorists Dialog Highlights Humorous Advice
A humorist-in-training asks for tips from an editor about writing comedy. The editor tests him by asking if he is married and suggests reading his work to his wife for critique. The writer recounts that his wife slept and snored, prompting the editor to declare him a genuine humorist.
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H. B. Claflin
Claflin House
Claflin & Co
Claflin
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E.cali-Fornic
Maverick
Balarchus
Christ
Zeuxis
Parrhasus
Balachus
Zeusis
Pairhasius
Parrhasius
Aeuxis
You Did Not Dare Speak to Me in That Manner Before I Married
A collage of comic and risqué vignettes on English and American girls, bouquets, and skating rink encounters. It blends humorous anecdotes with sly social commentary about marriage, money, flirtation, and gender roles from late 19th to early 20th century sensibilities.
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Chicago Tribune
Overworked Women and the Burden of Too Much
A fragment discusses the idea that American women strive to do everything, while nature protests against excess. It invokes the notion that no one can manage all tasks and hints at a limited personal capacity like Micawber’s income-expenditure balance, suggesting unsustainable overcommitment.
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Micawber
Too much house women overwork and its toll
A long reflection on women overwork caused by valuing luxury and material goods over peace and rest. It argues women must simplify, reduce drudgery, and assert individuality to escape fatigue, with examples of household waste and the burden of ornament. It ends with a medieval art anecdote.
Dear Semanthy in a Salted Letter from Basswood
The letter details a rambling confession by G Basswoop about stubborn misfortunes with electricity a failed attempted theft of a cast iron box and a dramatic fire alarm scene that ends with arrest a court appearance and a mood to quit. It portrays rural dialect humor and a chaotic misadventure in city life with vivid locals and comical mishaps.
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Basswood
Semanthy
Isaker
Muskeeter
Ime Reddy
Steddy
York
Sumbody
Daddy Pronesuckers
Widder Gillyputs
Gabe Jonsons
Daniel
Lyons
Evan
Nnl
Ciderville Nursery
Chicago Firemen
Sadilish Pardner
G. Basswoop
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Chicago
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