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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1911
Page
8
Helen, newly married, faces fear as she attempts a resort horseback ride with Warren and Mrs. Stevens. A spooked horse and passing traffic trigger a tumble. Warren rushes in, shields her, and later consoles her with tenderness, revealing deeper care.
Harper's Bazaar notes a shift from black and white to vivid hues including coronation red royal blue emerald green royal purple turquoise and golden yellow. The article highlights deeper coronation red and trends toward combining contrasting materials in a single gown.
Sunday meals listed include breakfast with grapes eggs muffins and coffee dinner features cream of corn soup roast chicken potato puff string beans Bavarian cream with cherries supper offers kidney stew lobster salad cheese sticks pineapple cake and tea. Europe reports 465451 schools 1119413 teachers and 45400000 pupils in the same note.
A humorous spoof by Francis Garside presents Lysander John Appleton as Kin Commissioner General of the United States. He issues mock rulings on kin visits, family hierarchy, estate disputes, and Thanksgiving dinners, noting how kin influence social life and pride within families.
The Manicure Lady recalls Normandy and a French short story writer De Mopasaw, while discussing writerly mania. Brother Wilfred labors on a new blank verse tragedy Babylon causing sleepless nights and suspicion of mental strain amid curious neighbors.
Fashion notes from Harper’s Bazar describe Sarah silk and soft finished taffeta returning to favor for light weight seasonally adaptable robes. Silk serge, voiles, henrietta cloth, printed chiffons, and soft messalines feature in new dressy models with rich bejeweled trims and strong coronation colors dominating overdrapery or underlays.
Scientists suggest additional lands are forming in the China Sea toward the south, possibly linking to Australia. The theory notes all continents reach a southern point except Australia, which sinks beneath the sea, with the Philippines and Borneo potentially forming the trunk of a future supercontinent.
A 1911 essay by Ella Wheeler Wilcox urges married women to cultivate themselves as an art and science. It argues modern wives must combine loyalty and housekeeping with education, physical culture, and social accomplishment to attract and keep a devoted husband, and to find personal happiness even if love wanes.
Harper's Bazar notes practical dress rules with long skirts for house gowns and evening trains, recommending short street skirts about two inches from the floor. The Missouri river is described as draining 580000 square miles with an estimated mean discharge of 20 cubic miles annually, about 94000 cubic feet per second, exceeding the Upper Mississippi.
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