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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1909
Page
9
A brief item notes a fashion fad from Paris prompting women to wear tassels on hose with slippers and pumps. It predicts American uptake, contrasting with prior embroidered stockings and gauze fashions, and mentions rainy days as a setting where tassels become visible.
A fragmented ancient recipe collection describes lemonade with fruit juice add ins and shaved ice, plus marshmallow candy squares, apple eggnog, rice gems and pudding, meat pie with mashed potatoes, chocolate butter cake, and rice griddle cakes. It blends drink ideas with simple baked desserts and savory pies, naming ingredients like grape juice, English walnuts, cream, milk, and vanilla.
The New York Sun describes fashion and leisure options for women, from veiled evening gowns to practical outfits. It contrasts new fabrics like chenille and poplin with old fashioned styles and notes accessories and wearability for summer. It humorously lists activities women can perform, from driving to sports, while noting they cannot climb trees.
A humorous urban missive on women's roles in love and marriage urges self reflection, social conduct, and domestic skills. It contrasts love's fragility with expectations of return, advises observing other households, and notes how housekeeping prowess can influence marital success. The piece riffs through romance, jealousy, and practical wifely duties.
A defense of a daughter's sweetheart against universal parental criticism. The writer notes that courting partners face varied temperaments within one household and argues that open meal table critique harms a girl enjoying her first romance. The piece urges more understanding and restraint.
Lacie Helen Pearson secretary of the Wisconsin YWCA and niece to John B. Humphries of Seattle travels with Mies M. L. Robinson state secretary of Minnesota YWCA. They tour the west including an ascent of Mount Rainier and a trip through Oregon California and Yellowstone before returning home. Humphries declines the ascent this year citing senate race duties but says he might join next year.
A display highlights values in nainsook and cambric undergarments priced up to 1.95 dollars. Corset covers, circular drawers, two and three piece combinations, gowns, and long skirts are described with Valenciennes lace, Swiss embroidery, and hemstitched or beaded finishes. Numerous styles emphasize dainty edging, emroidery medallions, and ribbon lacing.
A lengthy catalog of discounted cosmetics and personal care items lists names like Colgate Toilet Water Lazard, Mennen Powder, Pinaud scents, Houbigant powders, Listerine, and many others with prices ranging from a few cents to several dollars. The list covers face creams, powders, soaps, toothpastes, perfumes, nail products, and bath items, reflecting a mid-20th century promotions page.
A catalog of lace trims and neckwear highlights numerous collars jabots and stocks. Items include Venise lace collars priced from 65 cents to 3 dollars 75 cents, jabots in various laces, tailored stocks, and white pique sailor collars with matching ties, all offered in multiple colors and sizes.
Feature on women's knit underwear with special price of 1.48 dollars. Includes pure thread-silk Knit Vests low neck sleeveless with crochet or plain-edge finishes and a deep hand-crochet yoke in various patterns. Some Knit Vests with Italian silk yoke also offered at the same price.
Special priced women’s union suits offered in varied styles and fabrics. Lisle thread, wool, and silk mixtures include low neck sleeveless knee length and high neck long sleeve ankle length options. Also plain Lisle and novelty yoke designs described as high quality.
Mercerized batiste in multiple colorways with embroidered silk dot and dot effects offered at 55¢ per yard for 48-inch width. 32-inch batiste on white ground with light blue maize or black stripe at 35¢ per yard. 27-inch medium-weight rep in tan cadet blue and white with satin stripe. 28-inch Irish dimity with polka-dot effects available in several choices.
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