Paris novelty lorgnette mirror for fashion maid readers
From Paris comes a novelty aiding fashion readers to check hat alignment and overall look. The item is a tiny mirror in a gilt case resembling a lorgnette worn on a chain, pretty and functional for quick checking. fashion notes discuss shirts, bodices, and skirt silhouettes with emphasis on hip lines and chic underlayers.
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Practical Homemaking and Fashion Fragments
Practical tips on food preservation and cleaning include milk, potatoes, onions, cabbage, and brass care. A fashion description follows, detailing a poppy red silk blouse with mousseline de soie yoke and mousquetaire sleeves with lace appliqué and velvet bows.
Paris Fashion Notes Highlight Embroidery Trends
The latest ideas from Paris showcase embroidery prominence in gowns and gowns. Sleeves and shoulder emphasis appear, with Panne crepe de chine popular for evening wear. Broad braids trim dresses and hats, while tassels remain in fashion. A drop shoulder bodice defines modern style. Brown sugar fudge recipe, including Mexican panocha, appears as a homemade treat with detailed steps.
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Paris
Farewell to the Caucasus on a Turbulent Voyage
The narrator recounts departure frustrations in a Russian travel tale. Delays with passports and letters of credit spark confusion at a Batoum bank. Weather strains a voyage across blue seas as two Germanlike clerks fail to identify. The ship crew, especially a Corsican captain, impress with multilingual prowess while a restless night at sea tests nerves.
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Caucasne
Batoum
Asia Minor
Corsica
Carleton Higes Goes On Stage in Alliance Tale
A humorous Alliance Ohio scene features poet Carleton entering a hall to lecture. An unseen Hebrew vendor, posing as a high-roller, offers to cover admission and clothes bills in exchange for a seat and connection, ultimately recognizing the lecturer as they venture to the platform in front of the audience.
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Ohio
Carleton
Carlot
New York
Repli Carleton
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Republic of Goust: A Tiny Mountain Republic in France
A remote republic on a flat top mountain in the Basque region near France claims to be the smallest. It has a population around 1 140 and endured a unique system where a peasant senate elects a president. The churchless society relies on the bishop of Laurus for jurisdiction, and deaths are buried in a valley cemetery with baptisms and marriages performed there.
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Basses Pyr
France
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Neil
The Ethica of Honesty in a Mouse Speech
A recent Mouse speech sparks reflections on honesty from Ike Hill the House Democratic whip. The speaker warns that ostentatious virtue masks betrayal and contrasts small bribes with large ones to expose self deception in voters and public figures.
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Ike” Hill
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Celebration plan for Hudson River discovery anniversary
A Hudson River anniversary marks 360 years since discovery with Holland Society members proposing a national celebration. The Holland Society committee outlines a scheme featuring prominent old Dutch families like Van Dyke Van Norden Van Tijvenvelt and Banta. A public Row! of members back a world’s fair at a central New York City site, amid city debate over suitable locale beyond Central Park.
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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
A fragment recounts a kitchen queens cookery camp competition with forty ladies entering and five prizes for excellence. Thirty five failed contestants faced the outcome as prizes were awarded to the top cooks, noting communal rivalry and the event’s timing in a local setting.
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