Paris novelty lorgnette mirror for fashionable maids
From Paris comes a novelty in a tiny lorgnette style mirror that fits a gilt case. Worn from a chain, the readout helps a wearer check hat arrangement and grooming with quick, discreet checks. Fashion notes discuss new shirt and skirt silhouettes, girdles, and velvet trims for a coordinated look.
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Practical Household Hints and Frilled Blouse Details
A collection of domestic tips on preserving food and cleaning methods, including storing milk and vegetables, cleaning pots and mirrors, and polishing brass. It mentions using salt for coffee pots, vinegar with tea leaves for vases, and proper onion storage, followed by a description of a theater waist blouse made of poppy red silk with ruched trims and mousseline yoke.
Paris fashions feature embroidery and new trims
The latest Paris ideas highlight embroidery in gowns and bodices with shoulder emphasis, braids and tassels on hats and dresses, long nap plush for evening wear, drop shoulder designs, and dark green plaid street looks. A homemade Mexican panocha fudge recipe uses brown sugar and milk. cook, test in cold water, add vanilla, then mix in butter and nuts.
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Paris
Farewell to Caucasus Through a Difficult Passage
The narrative details a painful departure from a hotel in Batoum, the mishaps with letters of credit and insufficient identification, and the long voyage past the blue Asian mountains. A Corsican captain and multilingual crew aid a small party as they endure a harsh, wind driven transit with little shelter and language barriers.
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Caucasne
Batoum
Asia Minor
Corsica
Carleton's Lecture Tour in Alliance Ends in Comic Meet
An Alliance Ohio audience awaits poet Carleton on his delivery night. A conversation with a Hebrew-clad man outside the hall reveals a comic ruse about obtaining admission and the manager's favors. The tale ends with the Jew’s stunned reaction as the poet appears on stage, crediting the encounter to a high-roller misadventure.
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Ohio
Carleton
Carlot
New York
Repli Carleton
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Republic of Goust A Tiny Mountain Kingdom
A fragment describes Goust a small republic on a flat top mountain south of France. It claims 1% square miles and about 1 140 residents with a president chosen by elders. The region has no church and burials occur in a valley below after churches beg the limits of their country.
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France
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Laurus
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Neil
The Ethica of Honesty in a Mouse Speech
A con man speaks on motives and honesty during a Mouse speech. Ike Hill, Democratic whip, listens and reflects on him. The monologue contrasts small bribes with large ones and questions voter integrity in a free American citizen.
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House
Hudson River Discovery Celebration Committee Forms
A Holland Society committee outlines plans for a 360th anniversary tribute to the Hudson River discovery. Members including Van Dyke Van Norden Van Tijvenvelt and Banta back a world’s fair idea, with New York City officials weighing Central Park as the site amid public opinion.
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New Winto
Holland Society
van Dyke
van Norden
van Tijvenvelt
Banta
Ett
New York City
Central Park
Kitchen Ladies Cookery Contest Awards Prizes
Forty women entered a cookery camp competition organized in an evil hour. Five prizes were awarded for excellence in cookery, while thirtyfive ladies who failed to win were left to reflect on their results.
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