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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1898
Page
3
A poetic exhortation urging small acts of kindness and care to brighten others lives. It asks readers to speak kind thoughts and share hopeful deeds to ease burdens and spread cheerful influence. The verse emphasizes love, strength, and generosity in daily life.
In the Zermatt valley a party of five English visitors, including Robert Barton and Mary Jeffreys, plan a major ascent on the Unter Gabelhorn after a mountain-heavy holiday. Pollard, torn between laziness and ambition, faces his romance with Mary as Barton and Jeffreys push a two-party climb led by Kaufmann, beginning at dawn and culminating in a perilous the ascent on icy couloirs.
A mountaineering accident near Zermatt unfolds as Kaufmann, Pollard, and Miss Jeffreys traverse a dangerous snow ledge. Kaufmann slips, Pollard fights to pull free, and Kaufmann sacrifices himself to save others, revealing a tragic rope severing by the dying victim.
A column highlights Austrian girl orchestras in new morning dress and a fashion sketch about a ring and a slipper. The piece mixes social notes with light society fashion items and a playful tone.
The Bohemian town of Presnitz hosts the conservatory that trains young girls for Austrian orchestras. The program secures engagements across many groups and a concert tour typically lasts three years, with students mainly daughters of professionals.
Creponette is shown as a popular crinkled material for house dresses. A plain creponette dress with full gathers, a silk yoke and braid trim is described, with a silk ruffle around the yoke. Scarlet is suggested as the main color and black trim, or bright green, as alternatives.
Instructions detail making black collar bands at home from velvet satin or grosgrain ribbon. Cut one yard and a half, reduce by a quarter yard, form a two loop bow through a buckle, trim ends, stitch bow to buckle, finish by tying ends in back for a polished look.
A wealthy Hill resident’s daughter gave a friend slippers containing a diamond ring in one toe. The recipient wore or did not notice the ring, returned the slippers to the store, and staff later found the slippers and the ring in the shelf stock after a shopper reported missing jewelry.
A Chicago Record piece extols daintiness as a virtue beyond mere beauty. It lists daily habits for the dainty woman, from baths and scrupulous grooming to boot care and glove upkeep, warning against primness while praising refined self-care.
In Spain fashionable women wear the mantilla at festivals and mass, while churchgoing and shopping habits mix. The mantilla, an oblong lace piece about a yard and a half long and two thirds of a yard wide, features a bordered edge and a decorative bottom trim.
A Harper's Bazaar guide describes shaping a mantilla with a flounce a quarter yard deep and seven inches at the edges. It explains pinning at the hairline and crown, lifting the lace to the crown, and securing the flounce at the breast to create a chic, theatre ready look.
A country girl arrives in New York five years ago with fashion sense and sewing skill. After years of rejections she builds a dressmaking business, rents a stylish house near Fifth Avenue, and employs thirty seamstresses. Her Newport summer earnings reach six hundred dollars, and theatrical clients remain her main patrons.
Cloth and corded silk and double-faced cashmere with moire will define next season. The small pad bustle returns with day costumes and evening gowns, while larger pro portions are announced. Dog collars of jewels or velvet bands studded with pearls or jet rise in vogue this winter. Bandana stocks suit the proper wearer. White suede dress gowns feature elaborate white braid, gold buckles, and cream lace trim.
A New Mexico incident shows an Indian widow paying $3,000 for her husband’s death in a railroad accident. An agent counted bags of Mexican silver, gradually increasing the offered amount to test her resolve. She finally accepted the settlement, declaring “heap plenty” at $348 while the total remained $3,000.
A brief note from Nature describes frost affecting garden blooms. Red cactus dahlias edge toward orange and yellow as petals fade toward a single form. Myosotis blue shifts to rosy pink, and white phlox begins pale, with some blooms turning yellowish green.
A fragmented note describes a pleasant menu item for invalids. It mentions pesthes as a dish, milk scalding point, and soaking toast before serving. A reference to permanganate ash aims to create diginfec ant, though details are unclear and garbled.
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