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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1898
Page
11
An article explains a novel floral screen plan to brighten rooms with a five foot high framed bamboo or wood screen. Boxes on folds hold vines and flowering plants like morning glory and nasturtium, while window brackets display pots and trailing vines to soften window outlines. Tables and tabourets can feature palms and begonias with cut flowers for centers.
A tarouret described with a growing plantable lower drainer allows planting any flower suitable for partial shade. Pansies or delicate ferns are suggested as thriving choices in such a position.
Bright colors mark the new season with muslins and ba tistes, grass lawns, jeweled buttons in turquoise topaz emerald and ruby. Gowns feature silk velvet fabrics with many tucks and strappings, Mousseline de soie, and masquerading names in fashionable attire. embroidered handkerchiefs match blossoms in hats.
The article describes tea gown fashions, noting front fullness with blousing, waistline details, long shoulder stoles in lace chiffon or satin, and trims like ruchings and bows. It explains shoulder placement, back tacking, and the denmitrain feature enhancing grace and movement in the dress as reported by Women's Home Companion.
Colorado Governor Adams has received numerous inquiries on equal suffrage and has prepared a circular letter in response. The document outlines the state’s stance and anticipated steps in the suffrage dialogue.
The speaker asserts that women possess the same voting rights as men and that suffrage rests on justice. He contends no harm has arisen from the experiment, forecasts a higher moral and political life, and notes the Colorado test is too new for a unanimous verdict yet promising.
The New York Sun notes clever gimmick in women’s club programs as announcing a speaker as vice president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. It explains federation rules make each club president a vice president of the amalgamated body, a titular honor beloved by clubwomen.
A Dedham Transcript reader asks why a woman manager at Sherborn prison, Ellen Johnson, earns more than three times a man in Concord reformatory and more than twice a man in Charles Town prison. The answer points to her superior administrative ability.
Miss Belle Moshier of Matteawan N Y recently wowed a crowd by driving 20 tenpenny nails into a heavy joist in four minutes to win a large charity prize and a piece of silverware. Earlier she won a watch in a wood sawing contest. A new women’s office building is planned in St Louis offering rents to business women and female professionals.
A writer in Good Housekeeping prescribes proper card etiquette for returns from journeys engagements and marriages. Cards must accompany gifts and a visiting card should be left for the mother of a married woman. Doctors are addressed as Dr or M D and visiting cards are now often engraved in Roman letters on dull thin pasteboard.
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