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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1898
Page
3
A fragment from a Frank L. Stanton verse published in Judge recalls a traveler who pilots a flying balloon toward the moon and Mars. The quixotic voyage features careers from jeweler to fireman and a refrain about ditching canals, ending with longing for home and earthly love.
Vi Bamford dies after confessing a vow of vengeance against Guy Charter. Ellice Stormont travels Europe and uncovers a double life revealing two Sir Kenelm Charter nephews named Guy. In a twist of fate Ellice discovers the real Guy and, struck by illness, finds forgiveness and love with him in Shoreport.
The Kaiser favors only five mufti suits and rejects swallow tails and umbrellas. His Berlin castle wardrobe spans five rooms with a tailor on site, eighteen pairs of gloves, and strict fitting rules. Orders and decorations sit in an iron safe worth about 1.5 million marks.
A survey of hints from old notes covers rose varieties La Reine 1843 General Jacqueminot 1859 Marechal Niel 1864 La France 1868 Palm Sunday branches in Madrid as protection from lightning and the origin of Peace with honor linked to Burke and Washington speeches.
The Pennsylvania Audubon Society for the Protection of Birds held an exhibition in Philadelphia of ladies bonnets trimmed without bird plumage. The Record praises the bonnets as beautiful and notes they are called Audubon nets.
A dun colored corduroy jacket with blouse effect and added basque is shown as a comfortable Norfolk alternative. It features a center front closure, outside plaits meeting at the shoulder, black velvet ribbon decoration, and a velvet hat in spring style. requires 3 1/4 yards of 44 inch fabric for a medium size.
Mrs Susan L Rose of Granville Ohio marks her 100th anniversary. Born in Vermont she is the sole survivor of nine children. She reads the Bible two hours daily and remains vigorous with full faculties.
Hints suggest straws will be worn unusually early this season as novelties appear in many styles. The TM notes new clogel 7 plaited coarse straws in fashionable colors, with fine straw hats and panamas remaining popular. Coarse straws will suit dressy toques for spring and early summer, while lighter styles cover mid summer casual wear.
Paris fashion notes report yellow pervasive in pale and deep shades close to orange. Milliners add reddish orange accents with cream white and gray. A theater toque uses steel-gray gauze with a single black prime and gray flowers. A Rue de la Paix workshop shows a poke bonnet of gray velvet with yellow touch for children.
A fashion note describes the empress skirt as a modestly full undergarment called a foundation petticoat. It uses pliable bones along the sateen to distend dress folds and support the outer skirt. Some spring costumes feature back reeds and a tuft of haircloth in the placket hole, signaling evolving silhouettes.
A Detroit Free Press snippet describes two interval dress details. It notes narrow flounce, bias flutings, and a blue check skirt with narrow solid blue folds stitched in lines from the front width. It mentions trimming figured cotton with tight flat folds as a popular practice and similar use on white muslin frocks.
The article praises regimental gray stationery with blue or silver monograms and crests as refined writing paper. It notes the blue gray, heavy stock with a touch of roughness, pale yellow and straw colored papers, and describes envelopes as longer than wide with slender or pointed flaps providing a fashionable finish.
A New York Tribune letter argues hats should use turkey and pheasant feathers instead of killing singing birds. The author, a Audubon Society member, cites a Cochin China chicken skin feather hat, urging laws to stop bird slaughter for fashion and promote ethical sourcing.
The pattern describes a ladies waist in natural colored linen with brown dots. It features a yoke with back plaits, a blouse front, stay stitched upper fullness, and a smooth underarm join. Enamel initial buckle belt and brown tie complete the accessory set. Sizes 32 to 40 bust. 8 14 yards of 36 inch material.
Storekeepers predict spring fashion trends for men and boys with double and single breasted skeleton coats in blue and black serge. High collars turned down at corners appear, along with round cornered and turnover collars. Small boys will wear checks and short trousers buckled at the knees with vests buttoned to the throat and sailor collar jackets. Trimming for collars will be braid.
A fragment describes a novelty bathing suit styled as a Roman stripe. The garment is noted as made from silk and wool, highlighting a unique fabric blend for summer wear.
Spring fashion centers on sleeves and ball gowns with silks velvets and fancy dress goods in silk and wool blends. French weaves and new neck and shoulder effects appear under the princess dress while chiffons tulle and mousselin de soie shape hats and bonnets for summer. Black taffeta dresses feature ruffled hems and Chantilly lace while Scotch ginghams and French zephyrs rival silks in color. Chiffon muffs in dark shades with jewel-toned linings complete the season’s stylish notes.
A nobleman’s family in a bygone era uses playful traps to uncover the maid Susan’s age. The tale centers on a boy who, by reading a Book of Useful Knowledge, believes the aloe flower’s silence will reveal when Susan has truly aged.
The North China Herald reports the works board in Peking has produced hundreds of steel shields for field forces. Each shield, the size of a native war shield, is said to be bulletproof and hides a spring-extended bayonet. A charging column could allegedly strike with impunity.
A paragraph notes electric light baths, claimed to aid cur tism asthma anaémia nervous corpulence and gout due to lack of accommodations. The brief highlights their proposed medical benefits and unspecified availability.
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