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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1916
Page
9
Fashion notes discuss spring dresses using stiff taffeta and Georgette crepe with bias trims, avoiding small boleros, and graceful overskirts. Practical tips cover washing taffeta with borax and soap, plus a range of kitchen recipes including rice fritters, buttermilk biscuits, plain fritters, orange sauce, and cheese dishes with custard and circlets.
Inquiries to Miss Eros print advice on dating and parental limits for a 17 year old, plus a column on social norms. Also reports on Queen Victoria Eugenie as host, Liza Hibben as California deputy district attorney, fashion tips for stout women, spring styles, and counts of women’s clubs and notable women such as Frances Densmore and Lady Ralph Padgett.
Friday events include a called meeting of Octagon Chapter at Battle House in Mobile. Oakdale Baptist Church hosts a Spring Shop and Ladies' Aid at Central Presbyterian Church. An adjourned Southern Association of College Women meeting is at Parliament A Battle House at 3:30 p m. Y W C A House Committee meets at 4 p m Old Shell Road School Improvement Association at the school 7 30 p m and Government Street Methodist Church hosts a 11 a m Women s Missionary Society. Saturday features Ball Teen Age Girls of Sunday Schools at Government Street Presbyterian Church 11 a m Gymnasium Class of Y W C A at Moose Auditorium 10 30 a m.
Local notices report a 7 26 p m Thursday prayer meeting at the Toulminville Methodist church led by Rev D Y Register. Other items note church activities, visits by residents, carnival guests and a regular association meeting at the Indian Springs school.
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