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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1907
Page
3
A mid-Atlantic style guide urges extreme simplicity for schoolgirl attire. It argues finery distracts and harms development, promoting ready to wear costumes in practical colors like blue serge, browns and yellows. It favors washable gowns, modest trims, and removable guimpes for comfort and neatness.
Practical advice from a historical guide advises warm tones like olive green brown red or yellow for northern rooms with little sun. Emphasize yellow on walls and ceiling, add pumpkin accents, use yellow silk cushions, plant in a dark corner, and brighten with brass mirrors and well polished gilded frames to create cheerful reflections.
Paris fashions show paradise plumes large aigrets and wreaths of leaves or flowers as chic hair decorations. Jewelry and feather ornaments with roses or coronets are popular along with simple morning wreaths and refined natural violet compositions. For tea hosts in Manhattan dainty lace aprons over afternoon gowns add homely charm, a Parisian import with cobweb lace bibs and bows.
The plain skirt pattern uses woolen material and dark plaids, with tabs attached to the front breadth crossing side pleats. Velvet buttons are placed on each front, and the cobbler back features double inverted pleats. Material required 41g yards 62 inches wide.
The New York Herald notes a novel duplex project at 750 and 752 Park Avenue where a steel reinforced hidden wall on the second floor will slide to combine two drawing rooms into one. The Colonial design houses feature granite facade and marble brick upper level, with decorative pillars and oriental lamps.
An article urges amateur carpenters to craft practical home pieces beyond ornament. It describes a narrow nine inch deep ironing cupboard with a foldable top ironing surface, sockets for wall mounting, and a frame for holding sewing and laundry tools. It notes two thirds of the space for the ironing board and includes details on hinges, clamps, and a date of use in a Montress Herald context.
Drilling holes in eyeglasses described using a sharpened old file as a drill with strap guidance, noting careful technique and lubrication options. Also mentions New York building laws specifying wind pressure allowances for tall structures, including different figures by height and terms for allowable wall areas.
A historical note describes adding lead with antimony to harden the alloy and a small amount of humuth to enable expansion at the moment of casting for a perfect mold fill. It also reports London motor omnibuses rising to over 700 owned by London companies, with 409 in service and about 200 undergoing repairs according to Commercial Met.
Paris sends over a refined dress detail as the folded fichu returns in new forms. The article notes the beguiling drape, sheer fabrics, and two scarflike panels shaping the neckline and belt, with guidance on matching materials, belts, and silhouettes for gowns from afternoon frocks to Princess styles.
A hostess hosts a game with a Mogart shaped card marked Who What, players guess tunes from a concealed piano and earn prizes for most selections or correct composers. The piece details candle themed Luncheon and Candlemass day rites with flowers, dollhouse candies, and a fortune from candle flames, ending with “MAME MRE.”
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