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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1904
Page
3
A sensational nine hundred dollar paper gown worn by a princess at Brussels lights. crepe paper decor expands from bedroom canopies to wedding flowers and even kimonos. Paper fabrics, flowers, and brocade rolls offer durable, cost effective style with bold color and lamp shade uses.
A description of youth overalls and enamel craft items featuring glass cases with a narrow gold frame. The front is finished with a gold chain fringe and dangling emerald, blue, and gilt stones. The piece suggests mounting a girdle and wearing it as a decorative girdie. Real or artificial pansies mounted similarly would create a striking girdie.
A vintage sewing pattern study outlines soft green ensembles with violet accents and silver bowls for spring decor. It details a waist with a drop yoke, gathered sleeves, crushed belt, and back edges finished invisibly, plus yardage for sizes from 22 to 40 inches and all over lace requirements.
Ulysses S. Lutz recalls a college professor who answered idle questions with impatience. While teaching the difference between true and magnetic poles, the professor admitted he did not place the magnetic pole there, prompting a student’s astonished inquiry and the professor’s exasperated reply.
An elderly Bath seaman recalls how Japan once required foreign captains to leave their Bible and rudder with port officials before sailing. He notes how such controls allowed Japan to monitor ships and air currents in its harbors, contrasting past and present openness.
The article highlights waist finishes with two wide girdles and sheer white blouses trimmed with colored inset work. It notes hand labor in fashion, hat crown foliage, surplice waists for slender throats, bobbinet prints, and bridal bouquets. It observes trims moving toward skirt middles when applied horizontally.
A bewitching fad for the coming season features floral parasols built on chiffon and gauze foundations trimmed with artificial flowers. Daisy and orchid parasols highlight white daisies on green silk and violet chiffon bases, with violas and carnations prominent, worn only on very dressy occasions amid peacock feather accents in exclusive shows.
Practical advice on drying clothes with hot water to dampen evenly and keeping nickel silver bright with ammonia, plus fur cleaning with hot flour, and ironing tests. Then a Misses Blouse fashion sketch notes pale chambray gown with ribbon belt, sleeve style, and fabric yardage for sizes 12 to 16.
In toilet accessories there are many pretty notions such as necklets of Barrow velvet bands in yellow green and blue, studded with steel and fastened by a steel motif. Dainty centerpieces in fine muslin with hand painting and blossom tints appeal as the season arrives. The clever needlewoman can also decorate fishnet with applique work to achieve artistic results. Patterns and instructions available from Bartec & Co in Chicago.
A May Manton pattern No 4660 offers an ecru and white waist design in cream crepe with optional red sleeves. It details yardage by size and states patterns 2 to 10 will be mailed on receipt of two cents.
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