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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1914
Page
1
The article notes dainty summer negligee robes and sacks are popular as Women sewers can copy simple designs. Plain white voile and white dotted swiss are shown with lace and insertion detailing. Luxe options in crepe de chine silk and shadow lace feature apricot charmeuse and pale pink crepe with tunics, boleros, and gowns.
The article describes a summer girl who loves the outdoors and tennis. It notes morning routines and lightweight linen outfits chosen for comfort and style. It highlights short tennis skirts that allow free movement, plaited white serge skirts, and loose fitting blouses with tied sleeves.
The article describes old techniques such as a gin and water cure for satin or silk and flagellation with a leather cat to dust woolen street wear. It also notes cleaning white kid gloves with white castile soap and using French chalk on white cloth or serge before storage.
An old Cherokee tale recalls the Little People and wild pigs in a winter feast. Hunters fix sickness by burning pig tails, then the Yunwi Tsunshi counsel to sew up pig feet to protect animals from humans. Despite vows, next winter pigs beg for food and feet split again, with rare adherents keeping mule feet as proof.
A Kansas City Star note warns that slouching, favored by fashion, injures posture and potentially harms organs. It offers a sequence of three exercises to restore an upright pose, including shoulder rolls and back stretches, and cites seasonal fashion as a risky influence.
Robert Giles of North Carolina offers a detailed guide for crafting a box kite. He specifies straight-grained wood sticks three-eighths inch square and forty-two inches long, diagonal strips one fourth by one-half inch about twenty-six inches long, longitudinal cloth bands as spines, and one ounce tacks. He notes bands should lap ends half an inch and be sewn double for strength, with lightweight fabrics suitable for bands and coarse harness-maker thread for string.
A young person shown interest in farming tends to stay engaged. Denying any pleasure or stake in the work risks dampening enthusiasm for farming over time.
A cryptic fragment describes a linen tag with a ball and a candle. Light the candle, take it outside, and it will burn away even in strong wind.
A lesson on Matthew 21 33 to 46 discusses Jesus with the chief priests in the temple. It compares Israel to a vineyard and cites the stone rejected by builders becoming the head of the corner. The lesson links God’s kingdom to believers and notes judgment on Israel’s leaders.
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