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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1918
Page
2
A vintage sewing piece describes a two color two fabric three piece suit with a waist length jacket option. It guides making a one piece dress that appears as separate pieces, detailing satin and georgette usage, girdle drapery, and ostrich plumage trims for hats.
The New York Sun notes the return of satin hats and pussy willow accents as winter mood lightens. Designers welcome satin and straw reappearances with a range of shapes, including flat crowns and high straight bands, featuring machine and hand quilting, chenille trimmings, and bold color embroidery.
Vogue notes a shift in Paris fashion away from stiff corsets toward delicate lace undertakings. Irish crochet trims, embroidered silks, and chiffon dominate, while petticoats disappear and crepe chine combinations take their place. Narrow skirts demand minimal folds and the thinnest lingerie fabrics.
A historic fashion note advises women to avoid shiny satin and heavy fabrics as they draw derisive glances. It recommends dull finished goods with strict censoring of neckwear hair and style to flatter body type and lengthen the silhouette. It cautions against puffed hair on short faces and warns stout figures to favor pale gray in tatting and fabrics while embracing personal type.
A historic home remedy describes bleaching light or medium color dresses by placing chloride of lime in small cotton bags, soaking in hot water overnight, and using two to three bags depending on color. If needed, boil briefly in clear water and sun dry. The method claims no harm to cotton or mercerized fabrics.
A note about visitors going South to escape Northern winter rigors, describing light summer clothes worn in a snowy scene. It highlights a maize tone straw hat with velvet-stitch details as an elegant, dainty accessory for warm climate outfits.
The United States Shipping Board reports a surge of interest in navigation studies conducted by its recruiting service. Classes on the coasts and Great Lakes train officers for the new merchant marine as hiring targets exceed 12,000 officers and 85,000 crew members. It notes advances in navigation aids, explains latitude and longitude methods, and traces the evolution from dead reckoning to sextant and chronometer aided by Greenwich time.
The piece notes black velveteen is less suitable for street frocks than dark blue gray or brown. It observes gray is the season’s fashion while most people prefer blue and need no persuasion to wear a color they know well.
Pat O'Brien of Momence Illinois returns from the fighting front after 72 days and 250 miles of travel to reach Folland. He recounts swimming the Meuse with clothes on and dodging German guards, ending with escape into Holland and a long interview with a king.
An Alabama note quotes former Auburn football star Tom McClure praising trench warfare in France. In a letter from the front he says going over the top with U S engineers four times produced more impact than football, amid recent hostilities and U S casualties.
A girl recalls migrating from Jerusalem to Denver with her mother to escape raids in Austria. She describes witnessing crumbling scenes of hunger, disability, and rumors of peasants refusing to sell scarce food at high prices to travelers.
Chicago manufacturers report renewed demand as bicycles are built for American and allied forces used behind trenches by soldiers. More wheels are also being sold domestically as part of wartime supply.
In Piedmont W V a special election decided the issue of keeping pigs within borough limits. The measure passed by a majority of 39 ensuring pigs may thrive inside the city.
A. B. Westbrook, director of the Kansas State Agricultural Choral, praises music's power to equalize and unify men through quality choral singing. He says good music offers new insight, fosters sympathy within neighborhoods, and urges leaders to select the best works to expand local singing efforts.
Consul General Robert P. Skinner reports that popular coal heating preparations lack scientific evidence of benefit. The director of fuel research notes these proprietary substances have existed long, but are unlikely to affect coal combustion in the quantities sold.
The fragment quotes Hawkesworth linking economy as parent of integrity liberty ease temperance cheerfulness health and warns how independence and debts enslave with iron fetters. It frames economy as shaping public virtue and freedom versus financial bondage.
A description of grape honey made by Professor Moutt using a special process. Grapes are pressed to avoid fermentation then frozen in a rotating cylinder to remove ice crystals. Further concentration heats under low pressure until grape crystals form for use in preserved fruits marmalades and flavoring syrups.
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