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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1915
Page
18
A 1916 spring bonnet feature previews top millinery trends with Betty Brown's notes from Beach model sightings. Hats include a black satin tiny brimmed style, a green kid sailor, a brown straw tower topper, and a Palm Beach white maline design with white fox trim and silver rose accents.
A fragment listing dining room etiquette tips for proper behavior at meals. It advises arriving on time, keeping elbows off the table, sitting erect, chewing with closed lips, speaking only when not mouthful, not gulping drinks, and paying attention to all guests. It cautions against overeating and leaving chairs improperly, and reminds readers to reciprocate invitations.
An unidentified guest remarks that after frequent visits to a host he feels almost ashamed to return. The note advises against inviting friends to join the meals.
Ammonia cleans everything and is essential for households. It nourishes plants, whitens jam-stained linen, and does not harm hands. Use in laundry, dishwashing, and cleaning tools. it is cheap and mild compared to bleaching powders.
Dame Fashion packs summer hats and bright dresses for winter playgrounds. Spring jackets trend long and straight as Mme Phair showcases a Samovari silk beach frock in deep rose with gray chenille trim and marabou accents. Home study also cuts the light bill.
Classic dessert guide traces Yankee Apple Pie and Pumpkin Pie methods from old grandmothers. It explains crust rules, caramel notes, spice choices, and slow oven methods for rich, deeply flavored pies.
American designers create and export the new Spanish gown to Paris. Mme. Alla Ripley, president of the Fashion Art League of America, designs the Carmencita style, now appearing in Paris as a made in America gown with a heavy silk stripe, cerise velvet waist, black Span lace over silver lace, and a hip drape skirt with a black satin sash.
The coming season will showcase hats built from ribbon and velvet ribbon accents. Sailor hats gain ribbon edging while chenille embroidery fades for delicate ribbon trims. Velvet, velour and felt sport hats display pale yellow and hunter green shades as ostrich feathers decline.
A dated health column suggests medicinal foods to improve well being. It recommends celery for nervousness and rheumatism, spinach for kidney tonic effects, tomatoes for bilious symptoms, beets, lettuce, and cucumbers as everyday options, with ten day plans.
The piece previews child fashion for spring with sketches of poke bonnets and tams approved by the Fashion Art League of America. It describes four notable hats No 1 poke bonnet in rose hemp, No 2 white milan braid on white satin with pom poms, No 3 shoulder scarf hat in white satin and rose satin, No 4 Chin Chin from East India in white milan with gold cloth trim.
Mrs A B Myers delightfully entertained Monday afternoon from 4 to 6 with a progressive bean party in Byers Texas reported by the Byers Herald.
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