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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1911
Page
8
Winifred Black critiques a moral tale of a second wife and a flawed chivalry notion. She then highlights Madame Cavallazzi's dance school at the Metropolitan Opera House, noting twenty three graduates this year and the rise of American ballet talent in next season's grand opera.
An editorial urges parents to stop fixating on grades and graduation as the measure of a boy’s worth. It recounts a university student who took his life after failing to graduate, argues friends should have offered support, and warns against pressuring youth with academic standards. It calls for brains and balance over marks.
A reader, 18, engaged to a 32 year old she dislikes, asks for counsel. My Dear Winifred explains she cannot wed without love or risk misery, urges telling the fiancé the truth and breaking the engagement rather than marrying someone with no feelings.
Helen, recovering from illness, plans a second honeymoon with Warren. She orders and sews dainty summer dresses with help from Mrs Baker and relatives, aiming to appear younger and more alluring to rekindle his love. She studies her own images for subtle pursuit, hoping Warren will notice the renewed charm.
Paradise tail reappears as a dominant bonnet trim in Paris inspired styles. Designers place the long curved feathers forward on the crown with ostrich accents and satin bands concealed under folded ribbon rosettes over the ears.
The article notes colored ostrich feathers remain in high demand for fall headwear. It describes clusters, bands, and wired ends that curl upward, with black and colored plumes to complement hat color. Velvet hats brightened by ostrich plumes were popular last season and likely to continue.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox recounts advising a would be poet and condemns bad verse as an unpardonable sin. She argues talent seeks editors, not solicitations, and urges the writer to abandon poetry for prose or other crafts. She emphasizes issues of rhythm and expression and champions constructive guidance over flattery.
Retail milliners note that New Yorks upcoming law forbidding possession of egret and white heron plumage will spur demand. Women plan to import feathers from other states and even Paris to flaunt forbidden adornments, arguing they will not see feathers on every hat.
William H. Sarvies and Miss Ruth Pearl went from St. Louis to St. Charles for the Fourth. They saw an ad offering marriage and decided to try it. They called on Justice Frey at his residence in St. Charles and the marriage was solemnized.
Mrs Josephine Swanton of Chester England arrived in Boston chasing reports that her husband is pursued by Indian mystics who want the ring he possesses. A silver ring with a blue stone was given to him by an Indian doctor years ago and ever since he has vanished after leaving Bombay for America.
In Eastern Oregon coverage the Portlandian notes State Senator Bowerman known as Jay is a top defender in criminal trials. He aided a Fossil shooting participant with testimony from an elderly Tennessee witness who joked about distance and speed to the courtroom. A separate item mentions a new electrical insulator made by condensing phenol and formaldehyde resembling Japanese lacquer.
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