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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1915
Page
7
A collage of society items, including poetry stanzas, personal notices, and cultural news. Highlights Jerome Simon’s success as a violinist after study in Berlin and a San Francisco festival debut. Elsie Mae Roland’s feature in the Montgomery Journal. and Lent observance trends among New York and Philadelphia society, plus marriage announcements and dinner etiquette musings.
Daily Fashion Talks notes a shift from fancy blouses to plainer shirtswaists for spring. Crepe de chine models adapt to linen and muslin. new four piece skirts promise comfort for busy women. Long sleeves may return but lighter skirts suit hot summers. guidance urged for summer wardrobe planning.
Saturday’s Damrell home recital featured Miss Emma Hayes winning the advanced class while Miss Leonora Camrell tied Miss Lucille Clarke in the beginners class with Clarke succeeding on a draw. Audrey Lockler claimed third prize as all pupils competed for two classes amid a social program with refreshments.
Personal mentions list Mr. and Mrs. EB Krause visiting in Ashland Place while D W Lang and son Dudley Walton Lang Jr return to Montgomery after carnival season with Madame Emile Tacon in Mobile. Other entries note Mrs C B Hervey returning home to Mobile after visiting Miss Faust, and Miss Ethel Frederic of Mobile visiting cousin Mrs D W Lang.
A smart bodice features the season’s newest and prettiest details. This stylish over blouse showcases refined tailoring and decorative elements favored in current women’s fashion.
The article describes attractive bodice designs using satin charmeuse and chine varieties with silk crepe, serge, and chiffon velvet options. It notes bishop sleeves, military collar guimpe, and beaded embroidery as rich features, plus yardage for patterns and mail order details.
The Mobile Item announces a new department titled Women's World and Work to archive and publish news on women and home topics. It invites women's organizations church groups and philanthropic and fraternal bodies to send meeting notices and stories by weekday noon and Saturday 1 pm.
Rabbi Alfred G. Moses received a telegram about the sudden death of David Laser son of the late Abraham Laser rabbi of Mobile. Laser died Sunday night from heart trouble. He helped found Leo M. Levi Hospital in Hot Springs and was active in Bnai B’rith. News will be received with sorrow in Mobile and Southern cities.
An advertisement touts Dr. Bell Pine-Tar-Honey for throat and mucous relief with a spring tonic claim. Also reported are several birth notices and social visits, including Jay Pollock Altmeyer born March 1 to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin C. Altmeyer and Madeline Louise born to Mr. and Mrs. Tisdale Touart.
Poem from the Pittsburgh Dispatch extols a woman as a mystery yet praise her heart led mind and influence. It frames women as indispensable, loving, and central to life, noting their intuition and enduring presence through years as the misread yet deeply loved figure.
Monday schedule lists Charity Ladies meeting at Conti Street Asylum and Clara Schumann Club at Scottish Rite cathedral. Various groups such as the Woman's Musical Club, Octagon Chapter, Grace Inge Bible Class, Female Benevolent Society, All Saints Altar Guild, Euterpean Fraternity, Mobile Ceramic Club, W CTU, Polymnia Circle, Alabama Crop Diversification mass meeting, Century Book Club, Graduate Nurses, and more appear with times and venues including the Battle House, McGill Institute, Cawthon Hotel, and Central Presbyterian Church. Events run March 1 through March 6 with many afternoon and evening sessions.
In Chicago Mrs May Belle McArthur begins a five week beauty fast aiming to drop 40 pounds from 153. New York donors Mrs William K Vanderbilt and Mrs Elizabeth Milbank Anderson contribute 94500 to mental hygiene totals. Cincinnati plans a Women’s City Club modeled after Chicago Los Angeles and Boston efforts with a March 6 mass meeting. Chicago reports Mrs F W Priester, sister of Alderman Jacob A Hey, will be the woman linked to Priester’s recent actions.
Mrs Pennypacker argues social obligations of federation units should involve husbands and young people. She praises the Philomusian Club for inclining men to social life and laments hosting away from home. She urges simpler, refined entertainments at home to preserve Southern hospitality and community dignity.
The item notes a postponed wedding on primary day February 23 in San Francisco. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst joins the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and will assist at the Panama Pacific Exposition with visitors like Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Astor and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who plan a yachting cruise through the Panama Canal to the Jewel City. It also mentions Helen Keller pursuing voice training and a lecture tour, Luzelda Mary Adamson’s odd dead photograph, a Quebec bar examination case, Mrs. Mary C. at 98 enjoying daily motor spins, and Miss Maurine Daly linked to J Daly’s wealth in Denver.
An early notice lists fabric lengths for a military style coat for misses and small women. Measurements include 334 yards of 27 inch wide, 256 yards of 36 inch, 236 yards of 44 inch, 234 yards of 54 inch, and 34 yards of velvet, with departure of pattern references.
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