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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1930
Page
7
In the Twenties era column Dame Fashion notes how hot days push women toward sleeveless, spectator sports attire with white hats and sun tan beauty. A luncheon of 60 women at a country club showcases fashion focus on comfort, rhythm, and coordinated accessories. A reader’s alphabet of shopping lists reflects current style trends.
Gray dominates in woolen tweed and flannel as travel wardrobes from Paris show gray dress ensembles. Vionnet introduces a gray flat crepe dress with gray velvet jacket. Suits, coats, and dresses in gray wool blends appear with contrasting silk blouses or matching coat fabrics.
White flannel returns to fashion with skirts coats and suits for summer. Dark blouses accompany flannel outfits while nautical red and blue themes appear in blouses and patterns. A white suit with a blue white star blouse features a scarf like collar and silk trimmed sleeves.
The era features two evening hemline trends. Traditional styles reach within an inch or two of the floor, while Lanvin and Chanel introduce a ten inch from the floor look. Vionnet may reveal the knee in places, and Lelong shows narrow panel skirts exposing underskirt.
Capes, capelets, and the bolero shape the coat silhouette this season as a revival of past details. Designers blend variations conservatively to keep these elements stylish without overpowering the look.
The Organdie le Smart piece notes a revival of organdie fashion showing a shift from girlish simplicity to sophistication. Pastel organdie dresses feature a large bow in bold color while the white frock mixes black organdie skirt with a white bodice for a stark contrast.
A 1930 kitchen column offers recipes for Fruit Iced Tea Pineapple Lemonade Delicious Punch Ginger Ale Cream Chocolate Ice Cream Soda Ginger Ale Cobbler Mulled Cider and a hot lunch pairing. The piece mixes drink ideas with a Riley quotation and suggests serving details and presentation notes.
Fresh shrimp tips for canned varieties are wholesome and ready to eat. Rinse split and wash shrimps, chill on ice, and discard can juice. Shrimp Salad uses lettuce nest and five to six shrimps with snappy french dressing and celery. Shrimp Wiggle blends two cans with white sauce over toast with peas.
The text portrays a dispute where Mrs Pester scorns a French bull named Pinard as a blue blooded animal. A husband defends Pinard as gentle despite Mrs Pester’s repeated fault finding and snobbish attitude.
A fragment describes sleeplessness labeled insomnia neurotica paralaxitis by a doctor and a yearlong condition humorously called “baby” by another. The text contrasts two sufferers named The Thin One and The Fat One and their sleep issues.
Ida Dalton unveils her plan to achieve economic independence by selling hand crafted fire faggots made from soaked and sun dried paper with driftwood powder for color. She operates a small studio with Bert Bailey supplying a chestnut roaster as their romance unfolds in a tea party among friends.
William Lowell of Maplewood New Jersey created the first wooden golf tee to spare his hands from rough sand tees. He cut a piece from his lab table and began production, and his company now runs large factories in the United States Canada and Germany making over 10 million birchwood tees yearly.
In Amritsa 1918 rioters attacked a fodder factory Robinson inspected in Punjab. His Indian contractor Gopal Das urged the mob to spare the property, declaring it his own and calling out to the crowd as brothers. The mob dispersed after ten minutes, and Robinson holds letters from Das confirming the incident.
A veteran recalls survival cuisine in India and Ceylon during monsoon and arid marches. He notes dining on goat and bear meat, a polo pony roast substitute, and elk served under grand names. He praises French culinary skill and recounts a failed shoot of sacred pea fowl.
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