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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1901
Page
6
Fashion notes describe summer shirt waists as a peak of elegance with numerous varieties. The trend highlights tight fitting forms with lace yoke details and hand painted mousseline trims. Designers have invested much time and skill, making these waists a fashionable staple for the season.
The article discusses harmony in design and color, favoring embroidered details as the most successful and affordable fashion feature. It highlights blue gingham silk look shirts with hem stitched tucks, a white embroidery vest, Valenciennes lace, Colville collar, and a pale yellow dimity blouse with a lace yoke as stylish examples.
The waist features a pale pink seashell lining overlaid by a pale pink waist with white hand painted violets. It is gathered at the waist and fastened on the left, with lace appliques between the sprays. French batiste designs in two colors include a pale green version with white plaits and black polka dots.
A shirt waist is paired with a delicate boa worn around the neck when a scarf is omitted. The fluffy accessory is crafted from chiffon, mousseline, louisine and other soft silks, adorned with large gauze roses and long scarf ends that drape below the waist.
Combinations of two colors dominate neck trimmings and all dress departments, but harmony remains the guiding rule that yields many pretty results in outfits and styles.
May reports from Sweetland and Hopewell detail visits by relatives and neighbors, church meetings led by Miss Kate L. Ogborn, and family arrivals. Local farmers plant corn amid favorable weather while others travel to Muscatine for business.
Four cars of cattle were shipped from Riverside to Chicago on Tuesday. The Muscatine freight train brought 21 cars of stock from the west the same day. Various locals visitations and family news fill the week including births, visits from Kansas and Chicago, and a church meeting led by Rev. Lambert from Chicago lasting eight days.
In Orono on May 10 Mr and Mrs R E Babbitt were Junction visitors. Mr and Mrs J Marion Parmalee and children visited with her mother Mrs Brockway. Mrs Parmalee returned after illness last winter. Miss Lida Black and Mrs Bowlby called on Mrs D C McKee. A field of corn and melons grew well for Mr Knott. Two more grandchildren bring the Cecil tally to ten with a baby boy and a girl born to their sons Charles and Chester in Hedrick. Field and family news include travel to Orange County California for Field's father illness and Van Camp reportedly heading to Oklahoma. Glen Epperly and wife visited Sunday with her mother. Blanche, Guy and Fern Coulter took a Bowlby lake outing Saturday.
Showers refresh Pine Creek area and new chainless corn planters arrive. Ike Myers and wife attend son Bert's wedding in Muscatine. Daniel Grimm and sons pass through Metzville. Mrs. James Irwin and son James visit Davenport. Mrs. Otto Fitchner returns to chores. Roy Reeves and Carrie Schellhorn visit A. F. Sissel. Will Hartman shears sheep. Freeland family and others dine with James Irwin. Alteneder begins farming on high prairie.
Do-So protects you against blood poisoning lockjaw and proud flesh. Sprinkle on cuts wounds ulcers burns scalds and bites of any animal or insect. It forms an air tight germ proof covering seals quickly without a scar and does not grease stain or smell. 23 a box. Druggists.
Mrs. Alice Walcott returns home from visiting her ill mother as extra notes record improvements by E S Curtis near town and J F Lee’s new house. A baby born to Robi McDaniel and wife dies four hours after birth. Harry Shellabarger dies at 22 from consumption. Funeral held at Pleasant Grove Bethel. L W Kulp builds a new barn and plans improvements.
Luxuriously furnished ves tibuled sleeping parlor cars and day coaches offer speed and comfort for travel to New York or Philadelphia. Dining cars provide a la carte service.
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