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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1936
Page
3
A fashion feature details the season’s party dresses with halter necks, princess lines, capes, and ostrich feather trims. Gowns in silk mousseline and black satin showcase new square necklines, full hems, and jewel embroidery to suit social events and later college life.
Fall hats bring higher crowns and brimmed lines, with black leghorn and velvet options. An offset turned-up brim features a back slit and dark gray ostrich trim. Feathers enter fashion dialogue expanding vocabularies with terms like Cog feathers and quill, plus Palette and Satinette shine.
Seeker of the latest accessories for the well dressed woman should watch the button market. Stores offer hundreds of drawers of colorful buttons in vivid scarlets blues emerald greens and lemon yellows. Colorful buttons can revive last year’s clothing with a fresh touch.
The piece traces the dark horse concept in U.S. politics from its racing slang origins to its use in presidential nominations. It cites Polk, Pierce, Hayes, Garfield, and Harding as examples of unexpected winners after convention deadlocks, noting the rarity of dark horse success.
A Western Newspaper Union brief recalls printer T B Dowden who in 1884 faced a deadline at the Cincinnati Gazette. He abbreviated Grand Old Party to GOP on the front page and during Blaine's remarks someone asked for GOP's meaning. Blaine explained it stands for the Grand Old Party, a name that stuck.
A vivid portraits of Algiers as a lovely French port city, its white buildings and blue bay, markets and native quarters, coffee houses, street trades, and nightly music. It contrasts European districts with the crowded Moorish lanes, mosques, traders, and the bustling waterfront.
An appeal to stitch lovers offers a quick busywork project. The pattern 5604 provides a 13 by 14 inch transfer of kittens with a color chart and stitch instructions. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. in New York for the pattern.
Delbert Sitwell notes in London Daily Telegraph that modern height has grown due to improved diets. He contrasts cave dwellers and medieval elites whose diets lacked fruits and vegetables. He cites that postwar French stature reportedly fell by about two inches.
A compact reflection notes that moral balance never tips toward good in moments of error. It argues many praise virtue yet commit wrong, and that those who observe wrong may forget, but those who suffer it remember. It concludes that two wrongs do not create justice.
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