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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1902
Page
15
In New York fashion coverage, evening bodices push extremes from high necks to cut outs while princess lines offer vast room for lace and embellishment. Gowns feature white satin yokes, heavy trims, fringed hems, chenille embroidery, and daring sleeves. furs remain a strong current with wary notes on bold corded or see-through accents.
The United States consul at Nottingham reports that the American corset leads in grace and selling quality, surpassing European rivals. The piece surveys evening gowns, trimming, hats, and fur usage, praising American artistry while noting fashion trends and the enduring cultural role of corsetry across eras.
A Philadelphia Inquirer style column surveys evolving women’s speech and social display, noting the shift away from formal traits toward ease and humor. It cites Miss Dasham and Mrs. Blake on charm, manners, and citizenship, plus a Paris London bead fashion trend spreading to Philadelphia. It also highlights fruit remedies and health quirks, urging practical improvements over affectation.
A brief tale attributed to George Ade centers on Tobias and a prosperous New Year. The spoof humor highlights themes of misjudged luck, social expectations, and the ironies of success in early 20th century urban life.
A rambling portrait traces Tobias, a financial heavy in a small town, from rustic beginnings through years of work and social vices to a turn in fortune. He advances to affluence with a mortgage, a Bank Roll, a Boulevard house, and a wife and children, yet New Year celebrations reveal social gaps and moral irony as he observes others enjoying parties while he remains at the margins. The tale ends with a sober moral: one New Year is much like another.
The New York Legislative League, led by Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Blake, held a Pilgrim Mothers’ Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria with about 200 women in attendance. Speeches focused on the evolution of daughters, with Miss Josephine Dodge Pike urging balance between privilege and rights, and noting men’s traditional roles and influence remain.
Deshler Welsh argues that most household issues arise from mismanagement by wives historically starting from early duties. He proposes a national housekeepers' trust with credential cards, rating cooks and certifying character, to standardize hiring and set salaries, benefiting both employers and servants.
Lillian Bell critiques tolerance of pain and advocate for seeking relief. She rejects the idea that pain is good, favors seeking medical help and social support, and argues women should move toward happiness rather than endure discomfort.
The author argues nerves, not temper, fuel crabbedness in old maids and similar people. Sympathy is offered for those distressed by neighbors and noisy households, noting roosters as preferable to crabbiness. The piece remarks most crabbedness stems from others' children and roosters, not personal love disappointments.
Practical kitchen tips on using hot bread knives without damaging their temper, handling coal oil in winter, cleaning wallpaper with borax, flouring cakes to control icing, and using custard cups for baking. Also explores maple whipped cream, maple syrup gelatin method, and a trend of adding whole cloves to tea for aroma.
A recipe for a pink colored jelly blends apples quinces and cranberries cooked with water, strained, sugared, and processed like other jellies. Also notes on preparing dates for children lunches advise washing removing pits rolling in powdered sugar to make a tasty and healthy treat.
Professor Kittredge traces origins of suffixes -ly -dom and -hood. He explains -ly as abridged lie, and -dom and -hood as derivational endings from older words. Derivation by suffixes illustrates language evolution from compound to derivative form.
A fragmented item notes a chauffeur’s private opinion on speed over an hour and various miles cited, including figures like 12 and 14 miles, with unclear references to a “petooman” and an old lady’s opinion. The garbled OCR leaves the core idea of measured driving speed or opinions by witnesses.
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