Summer Dance Frock and Fashion Notes for Era
A fashion paragraph describes summer dance frocks in silk and cotton grenadines with pinks blues and greens, trimmed with satin ribbons and lace. It discusses color choices for young women and matrons, outdoor silk coats matching gown tones, and the appeal of black accents on pale or white fabrics in Paris-influenced style. It notes a widow's pale gray gown with black dots and gray velvet trims, and observes evolving use of velvet ribbons and piquant touches in textiles.
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Rome Desien
ITA Tagown
Fashion notes and homecraft tips from a vintage column
A mixed menagerie of fashion trends and domestic how tos. Greens in new shades and lace elbow details frame a charming dress while summer coats feature practical pockets. Embroidery hints for linen suits, card cases, handkerchief bags, and matching accessories mix with tips on candles, jars, and dry goods care.
Real Mint Sauce and Stocks in Plain Terms
A practical note on mint sauce for lamb, including mint leaf prep, soaking, and a mint flavored sauce made with hot water and gravy. Also discusses fashionably simple stocks and affordable soft linen neckpieces with stand-up collars and lace or embroidery options.
Pelerines Show Refined Ribbon Fashions in Silk Foundations
In Pelerines, pelerines visites victor ines and similar trims display on silk foundations. Manufacturers embrace new ribbon pulls where draw threads in ribbons reduce labor. Pull the thread and the ribbon shapes itself, creating shirred effects with minimal effort.
Practical kitchen tips from old text
Aged advice notes lemon juice in water to brighten pastry and suggests storing eggs on the small end for longevity. Mentions reusing paraffin to cover jelly and jam if available, though details are unclear and fragmented.
Bead Collarette Makes Fashion Quiet Revolution
A striking novelty beadwork collarette captivates the most exclusive modistes. These quaint accessories are eminently successful when rightly applied, but must be worn with utmost discretion to avoid recalling the bead work cushions that haunted fashion in the prior decade.
Lightweight sleeve laces described for delicate draping
The piece notes that heavy stir laces are rarely used on sleeves or sleeve flounces. It explains sleeve lace typically is transparent, appearing as point applique. It mentions specific filmy laces such as Hout ton, Lierre Valenciennes and oriental styles for a misty, frothy sleeve effect.
Tea gowns and matinees define distinct daywear styles
Tea gowns should be long and graceful, suited to afternoon use and at home dinners, with low necklines and elbow sleeves following current elaborate lines. Matinees, by contrast, are morning wear, even when ornate, and cannot extend past noon.
Denver Y M C A Health Farm a Tuberculosis Hope
A visitor details the Denver Association Health Farm run by the Y M C A near Denver, describing its open air regime, tents, orchards, and staff. It covers operations, costs, resident work, and two year outcomes with 165 admissions and 69 recovered, while noting limits and needs like a heating plant and infirmary.
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New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Hoston
Homer
W. M. Danner
General Secreary
Denver
Colorado
The Canon's Joke at Windsor Ball
Dr Goodall of Eton, soon to be provost, gains a Windsor stall. A young lady asks for a ball for Eton and Windsor ladies during vacation. He replies with a pun about powder from the cane, saying you can get powder out of the cane but not the ball.
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Goodall
Eton
Windsor
Sam Afmid
Butterflies Beautified by Heat and Cold Experiments
New York scientist Dr Otin Settert exposes local butterflies to extreme temperatures to induce artificial arctic and tropical forms. He notes cold dulls color while heat intensifies brilliance, creating butterfly varieties that may not exist in nature, suggesting possible futures or pasts for these insects.
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Otin Settert
New York
Seifert
The Record in Chimneys Tallest in World Tacoma
The tallest chimney in the world has just been completed at Tacoma Washington. It is built entirely of concrete with steel rods, rising to ninety feet with an inner diameter of 18 feet and outer diameter of 21 feet. The wall thickness ranges from four to seven inches with a five inch air space between shells and a reinforced network of rods throughout. The structure was erected in three sections by hoisting material from within aided by a steel cable.
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Tacoma
Wash
Broadway collector houses a world of cigar lore
A longtime Broadway shopkeeper preserves an eclectic museum of tobacco paraphernalia. Visitors encounter cigars and tobaccos from around the globe, forgotten brands, rare pipes, ignition devices from tinder to electricity, and a curious stockpile of cigar tips accumulated over thirty years in business.
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Broadway
Fiat
New York Sun
Costly Accident for State of Massachusetts
A Massachusetts resident, a silk grower, lost a large sum after an experiment with France sent silk moths went awry. He kept the moths under a glass shade near an open window, and a draft blew them into the street. Eighteen months later the area swarmed with gypsy moths destroying leaves and fruit trees for miles.
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Massachusetts
Boston
France
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