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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1901
Page
26
A survey of dress trends highlights reduced fur trimming yet lavish garniture on cloth, velvet, and lace gowns. It covers skirts, collars, and sleeves with examples of colored wraps, hats, and the evolving styles for evening ensembles and street wear.
A Brooklyn Eagle column urges women to avoid overwork during the holiday season. It cautions against excessive Christmas demands, advises trimming gift lists and meals, and stresses the spirit of giving over material cost. It notes ongoing financial strain and urges sensible, self care to preserve Christmas spirit.
A Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph meditation on male preferences in women. It contrasts social grace with independence, favoring cheerful, practical, sympathetic qualities while disliking high strung or overtly dramatic traits. The piece hints at enduring appeal of repose and steadiness.
A New York Evening Sun piece urges reform of wedding presents and doll culture. It argues bridal gifts are wasted on unchanged formats and endorses educational dolls reflecting diverse nationalities, while cautioning against luxurious, impractical dolls that shape vanity and class bias.
A Philadelphia Telegraph column rants about the city streets showing baggy coats, unkempt hair, tilted hats, and boasted styles. The piece mocks three quarter bags and feather boas with comic inferences about self image and fashion excess. The author notes many imitate a rapturous boa craze and even recycles household items as accessories.
The dining room should express the house idea through design and furnishings. Rich heavy rooms spoil the aim, while For Colonial or Old English styles, balance and restraint are essential. Use dark wood frames, select wall spaces, and consider Indian baskets, plaques, and plaster reliefs to add color and harmony.
Fragmentary verse proclaims that love drives the stars and the world and vows to spread more love this Christmas. The speaker asks a beloved for mutual affection while rejecting material goods and vows to share a heartfelt union.
A guide to arranging a modest dining room with oak furnishings, moss green walls, and a cream or ivory ceiling. It advises avoiding bare wall spaces, using sheer white muslin curtains, green outer drapes, and green cushions. Highlights colonial, mulberry red, and Gobelin blue palette examples with oak furniture and green accents.
A naive celebration of weddings creates clutter and storage troubles as couples face mounting gifts and platters and the burden of safekeeping. The piece argues for wedding gift reform, noting envy of overindulgence, hoarding, and fashion excess.
The Englewood Woman's Club met yesterday to discuss "The Value of Child Study" amid a longer debate on doll ethics and holiday gifts. Members noted dolls and gifts dominated the session as they explored child welfare topics.
A cyclist in Ireland was bitten by a dog and wrote to the local paper. His letter ends with a blunt remark that the dog belongs to a magistrate who lives nearby and is allowed to wander unmaimed, yet sits on the bench in judgment on others.
A line of nostalgic verse from Cora A. Matson Dolson in Country Life in America laments forgotten graves and lingering memories. The text paints mounded earth, fallen joys, and a cradle song beneath a maple as a robin bird circles above a quiet graveyard.
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