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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1917
Page
5
A guide urges apportioning vacant school-adjacent land for children to garden, stressing outdoor instruction and community benefits. It lists colorful border ideas and hardy perennials, warns on color clashes, and stresses neatness to preserve garden charm and foster healthier, engaged youths.
Unity of color in the garden yields a pleasing effect with careful planting for a continuous color display from spring to fall. White predominates to contrast night and day, with varieties like lily, peony, rose, spirea, phlox, and hydrangea forming the core, and annuals such as candytuft and petunia filling in for seasonal beauty.
Guidance on planning a home garden by size and cost, using mixed perennial seeds, and arranging borders with tall plants at the rear in east to west rows to maximize sun and visual appeal. Keep a notebook to note past mistakes in plant grouping and color harmony.
Good plants for sandy soil include verbenas asters and phlox, all annuals that thrive in this soil. Latrix blazing star or gay feather is a hardy perennial with purple spikes, flowering July to September and reaching three to four feet high, suited to sandy or any good soil.
The heliotrope needs a bigger pot as roots fill the current ball. Roots are dense and may clog watering holes, so insert a fine skewer at the base to keep water penetrating to the heart of the root ball. Preserve open holes for irrigation.
Support sweet pea vines on a temporary fence of poultry netting. This neat netting provides an ideal support and lasts for years in garden use.
The Gridiron club hosts dinners for national figures in Washington. A Corwin poem traces seven stages from infant to senator, lampooning political rise with sharp satire and the meal rituals at the yearly event.
George Matthew Adams extols elimination as a tool for success. He urges dropping time wasters bitter words worry and unnecessary spending and stresses carrying only essential gear. A Western surgeon jokes about preferring local anesthesia and patronizing home industry.
A New York judge rules that wives may frisk their sleeping husbands if the men withhold a fair weekly portion of wages, a decision noted by the Milwaukee Sentinel as challenging the notion of a man’s world.
A vintage recipe feature extols pineapple for year round use. It describes a pineapple cress salad with cream cheese, a fruit salad with orange banana and marshmallows, a gelatin mold with pineapple and cream, and pineapple as cake filling and waffle syrup. Also urges practical canning notes and dressing ideas.
Line an ice cream mold half an inch thick with ice cream. Fill the center with sweetened chopped pineapple and lemon juice. Cover with ice cream, pack in ice and salt. Top with oiled paper and lid. Serve shredded pineapple, blanched almonds, and marshmallows in sherbet cups, then add whipped cream and a cherry.
E H Forbush recounts how ancient Egyptians trained cats to catch and retrieve birds, shown in wall paintings and mosaics. References span Numidian cat populations, Pompeii mosaics, and literary condemnations like Skelton’s Anathema Maranatha, denouncing felines for bird killing.
The item gathers disparate facts from 1916 era world events and social notes including the Norwegian Bible society's centennial, Schiller's poem link to a bell factory, a disproved claim about South African birds, England's Woman's Co-operative Guild's 40 000 members, European production shutdown shifting potash leadership to Nebraska, compass and magnetic pole remarks, Algonquin name meaning father of waters, Dutch milk supply from Het Loo, Nova Scotia miners wage rise and bonuses, Harold K Goodrich's hunting tale, and a Norfolk library scene with a dog and owner handling books.
A device improves note taking for writers by providing an electrically lit memorandum pad. A hooded lamp with battery powers a slide controlled light that shields the eyes and drops rags onto the paper sheet, aiding quick jotting of ideas during the day or night.
Private Davis, a Loos veteran who lost speech and hearing to shell shock, regained his voice after a kiss from a London friend in Aberdeen. The incident, witnessed by companions, prompted laughter and surprised everyone as Davis spoke clearly, addressing a friend as Corporal and asking about his wellbeing.
A patient quotes a doctor advising complete rest and no worry while awaiting a week's test results on whether he will live. The exchange reflects a grim, uncertain medical moment and the emphasis on calm, rest, and absence of stress.
The article notes a dull February Paris fashion output with American buyers pushing for new lines. It highlights the rise of the oval silhouette and the hobble skirt, held to under two yards at the hem, with various French techniques to achieve the look. It mentions Paris’ influence on American designers and the shift toward one piece frocks over coat suits.
A feature on satin made from root fibers sold in the United States. It mimics duchesse silk in gloss and drape yet reveals its rough reverse. Available in gold black ivory rose green and tan at 40 inches wide priced at 4.50 per yard.
Fashionable meeting places show women in Grecian Japanese Russian Turkish directoire or empire gowns. Diversity in silhouettes ranges from extreme barrel shapes to straight line slipovers. A young miss in empire dress and a matron in semi fitted directoire add to the variety.
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