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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1898
Page
2
Advertorial on silk petticoats featuring Huf fea styles with Spanish inspired flounces, five yard wide ruffles, lace trimming, and color options. Also notes tight hip designs with pointed ruffles and overlapping clusters, plus black or white silk alternatives for street or house wear. Ends with advice on voice modulation and speech manners at home.
A brief cultural note discusses American women’s voice loudness versus European women. The piece acknowledges some truth in the stereotype and cites social exchange anecdotes about women ignoring good advice, likening the situation to Nereids with sieves as a metaphor for wasted efforts.
A friend in the Macon Telegraph explains that Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her daughter needed income beyond Beauvoir due to floods and low cotton prices. They pursued northern publishers, finding little market in the south, and moved to New York where their literary productions find demand, enabling a comfortable living.
A New York fashion writer notes large Gainsborough hats with delicate braids and soft drooping plumes in white pink mauve and black. Airy muslin and lace shoulder capes and tibus display in varied styles. Early hats avoid gaudy overchecks with minimal ribbons. later French flowers may dominate.
Frances Rolph Hayward of Chicago is the sole woman lecturer on the program. A noted student of Scandinavian folklore, her talk centers on the Kalevala, Finland’s epic, a subject she recently presented to Ohio audiences.
The text identifies Hayward as the daughter of John Rolph a British North America figure. It notes Rolph arraigned Sir Francis Bond Head during the 1837 troubles as a renowned oratory work. It adds Mrs Hayward taught for many years at Cincinnati Law School.
The piece condemns machine carved velvet treatments like puffing, waving, box plaiting, and accordion plaiting for ruining the fabric’s lustrous surface. It likens such manipulation to starching lace or cutting sable into bits and urges restraint, valuing unadorned beauty over many trims and decorations.
A Holyoke Transcript note praises Mary Lyon as progressive for her era and imagines she would support modern college developments. It also describes a quaint coffer, 18 by 8 by 5 inches, with brass trimmed edges and linen decoration, suitable for holding keepsakes.
Miss Janet Richards hosts a morning session for Washington’s intellectual set at the Wimodaughsis club. Official and social leaders attend as she briefs attendees on politics religion society and literature to enable informed discussion with priests laymen and politicians. A busy woman calls it a relief to keep posted despite many duties.
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