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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1901
Page
3
A memoir style dispatch from Newport discusses wedding pomp, car culture, and elaborate preparations. It notes Mrs Astor’s era influence, dress trends with trousers gaining favor, and a dress exhibition featuring pink mille frills, chenille edging, and bold color schemes.
The writer discusses chic women in Yellow chrysanthemum accents, skunk fur collars, velvet sailor hats, and new hat shapes like eaglet and marquise styles. They note autumn availability, Paris fashion influence, and political undercurrents shaping style as they prepare for Madam's and a trousers purchase in New York.
Barnabas Henman a retired businessman voices old fashioned family rule. His regime extends to door duty and budgets with mirrors pasted with spending limits. He boasts vigilance over all household transactions and pegs value by precise measurements of his daughter Maud Margie's weight and activities.
A domestic turmoil unfolds as a maid Susan rebels against an overbearing elder in the house. She narrates the strain of male interference, from constant meddling to reading letters, culminating in her decision to quit. The scene reveals a strained household dynamic and female defiance.
In Mexico the courting scene unfolds openly among the lower classes with pocket telephones harnessing private wires from a person to a street level window. Lovers unable to pay for private devices improvise a Romeo by mounting boxes or barrels to woo from a win dow, then retreat until ears stop listening.
Elizabeth Akers Allen, author of Rock Me to Sleep Mother, 1832 born in Strong Maine, later Portland editor, famed poet of The Forest Buds From the Woods of Maine. Her poem Rock Me to Sleep Mother gained national fame and translations. Details trace her youth, marriage to Paul Akers, and recognition as a distinguished American poetess in the Bronx scene.
The late Queen Dowager Margherita of Italy distributed her personal effects after King Humbert's death. She gave away over 500 costumes and divided her pearl collection among intimate associates. Museums received costly items, and embroideries shown at Florence's museum were sent after King Humbert's funeral.
A valued talisman is the pen used to sign a murderer's reprieve. It is believed that many great singers seek possession of these pens for luck. It is said Queen Victoria kept a small collection of reprieve pens.
The item describes silver wallet belts and buttons crafted in this winter season. It notes distinctive silver finish and design, emphasizing winter styling cues and accessory coherence for garments.
Store vendors exhibit diverse silver ware with embossed and openwork designs. The assortment ranges from facelike motifs to raised and chased ornamentation, including decorative chenille embroidery as an added embellishment on fabrics.
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