Lace Returns in Evening Gowns and Suit Revival
Fashion notes predict a comeback of all lace gowns with square necklines and elbow sleeves, paired with blue velvet bows. Old lace frocks reappear with flounces and silver gauze flowers, while patent leather accents and khaki fabrics dominate new outfits. Military buttoning and insignia ideas appear across street suits and jackets as warlooms influence style.
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Beer
Callot
Europe
Irland
Dainty Model For Spring Fashion Show
The image features a dainty Spring model in Parisian and American fashion. A fawn cloth suit with a circular skirt, three quarter length jacket, suede belt, standing collar, white corduroy tam, and white kid shoes with side lacing and a rosette detail on top.
Lace Trimmed Hats Dominate Spring Fashions
Lace trimmed hats feature prominently in spring headwear with delicate laces and broad brims. Designers emphasize vintage charm and versatile styling for urban and garden looks.
Blouses and fashion notes echoing Paris braid trends
The article describes beige pongee silk blouses with tailored lines and convertible collars, matching waistlines with lace, and embroidered options. It notes back of frilled blouses in cotton voile georgette or striped marquisette with jabots, plus braid ornamentation inspired by Paris, and mentions ornamental laces and gold soutache being experimented with.
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Paris
Atlantic
The Side of the Skirt Changes in Garment Making
The article notes major alterations at skirt sides with gathers plaits circular insets and even pock introduced as key style developments.
The Spring Bride of the Earth Verses on Hope
The text praises spring as the earth’s bride and a time of renewal. It contrasts spring’s charm with autumn’s fulfillment and notes resilience amid grief and sorrow. It acknowledges friends, love, and hope as compensation for hardships.
LUNCHEON COURSES AND A SWIMMING PUSH
A menu section outlines Sulphcon of Fruit and Larded Beef Tenderloin With Bananas with a rich sauce, plus lunch box tips for mothers stressing nourishing, simple foods. A call by G H Corsan of Toronto urges a public school swimming course, praising swimming for health, relaxation, and postural benefits.
Reading as Gym for the Mind and Virtue
An aphorism linking reading to mental health and exercise to physical vigor. It compares reading to exercise, claiming health of the mind depends on it and virtue is preserved and strengthened through reading.
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Addison
Good Cooking Recipes for Macaroni Tongue and Desserts
A vintage recipe excerpt outlines dishes including Macaroni with ham and rich sauce baked in a dish, Spiced Tongue with onion, butter, vinegar and dried fruit sauce, Fig Tapioca with figs walnuts and vanilla, and Hickories a brown sugar nut cake batter with hickory nuts baked until done.
Favorite Dishes of Other Nations
A short feature presents international favorites. Cock-a-leekie uses veal broth with capon, leeks, and simmered fowl. Spanish Macaroni blends onions, Worcestershire, chili, and tomatoes baked with cheese. English-Stuffed Ham details stuffing, wrapping, boiling, then roasting for a crisp crust.
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America
New Coin and Card Trick Demonstrates Inertia
A reader explains a card on the finger with a coin on top and a quick card flick that launches the card away while the coin stays put due to inertia. The note adds other inertia demonstrations including striking sticks and a famed Japanese brick trick with balancing bricks on a stick.
A Dangerous Doctrine At School Leaves Boy Crying
A visiting woman spoke to students after dismissal on the decline of juvenile chastisement in the American home. After she finished, a boy cried and said his father would pound him for staying after school.
Note to Mr Jones Reveals Reading Challenge
A jest from the Chicago Scout News recounts a conversation about politeness and a man who cannot read due to vision. The joke centers on miscommunication when asked about a note and a hat.
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John
Chicago Scout News
Ready to Please. Tommy-Man Bread Exchange
A fragment shows a terse exchange about bread and butter between Tommy-Man and Mrs Figg with a promise to provide Jess bread. The snippet hints at a rural or domestic market scene with minimal dialogue.
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Tommy
Mrs. Figg
Jess
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New York
Evangeline
G. H. Corsan
University of Toronto
Washington
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