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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1898
Page
4
A young woman abandoned stage life after initial chorus work, sewed to survive, then built a fashion business. She rented a stylish home near Fifth Avenue, employed thirty seamstresses, and earned $600 in two months in Newport. Her gowns attract theatrical clients, and she foresees a bright future as a self-made success.
A guide asserts a girl’s future as wife and professional hinges on neatness and order. A tidy room, hung clothes, and personal grooming predict better outcomes, while sloppiness signals likely poor housekeeping and marital trouble. It urges self reliance in making beds and maintaining standards.
A long handled yellow wood spoon serves as a wall rack for children's clothes. The bowl features a painted land of fairies and nursery figures such as Simple Simon Little Boy Blue and Little Nan Etticoat. Brass hooks along the handle convert the piece into a decorative and functional nursery shelf.
The Woman's Journal notes that among 451 U S colleges and universities only forty one are closed to women indicating limited access for female students.
The article notes a shift to leather suede corsets among contemporary women, contrasting with centuries of steel whalebone and cotton. It highlights claims of unyielding shape, heat, and a stiff silhouette while pointing to varied opinions. It also describes wide color options and decorative trims, with ongoing talk about overly tight stays.
The article notes the guimpe keeps its place amid seasonal novelties and mothers favor it for light-weight fabrics like cashmere and sage summer materials. It describes an embroidered Swiss dress with lace trimming and a Persian lawn guimpe, a full skirt with a gathered yoke, lace bands, epaulettes, and short puffed sleeves. For a four year old child two and a half yards of thirty six inch material are needed.
The article notes relaxations in formal tea etiquette with fewer attendants, no digestion visit, no hostess cards, and now no need to send reply cards for informal invitations in New York. It describes a shift toward more casual social conduct and invitations being ignored if informal.
Large lace ties appear in day and evening outfits, praised as highly becoming to women of all ages and styles.
A stylish young woman rode a chestnut horse along Beacon Street in Boston with a brisk canter. She wore a tailor-made jacket and divided skirt, a jaunty derby, and carried a crop. She guided the horse gracefully and disappeared toward the reservoir.
Lorgnettes use larger glasses than old eyeglasses and are fitted to the user’s distance needs. No single glass can bring a theater stage closer. two glasses must be hit and focused separately. These glasses aid only near-sighted or far-sighted users, and are not a universal solution.
The President's niece Miss Mabel McKinley at a White House tea wore a lavender decollete gown with chiffon frills while other guests in pink and white gowns dressed for the occasion. The style sparks chatter as daylight decollete becomes a new trend amid Capitol society influence.
In Washington D C Miss Janet Richards hosts a weekly session at the Wimodots Club on New York Avenue where the official set gathers to discuss daily topics political religious social and literary behind closed doors. The crowd includes many official women who find it a relief to stay informed and ready for discussions with priests laymen and politicians.
Baltimore Rainy Day Club members wear boots leggings and dresses five inches above the ground. Committees push the club's objects among workingwomen led by president Miss Mc Ilvain who has earned physician praise urging short dresses as a safeguard against disease germs.
The current trend features a white broadtail toque trimmed with white feathers. Hats favor a low broad trimming arrangement and avoid high one sided decorations, signaling a new midwinter millinery novelty.
A father comments at breakfast that his daughter's suitor would suit a dime museum after he noticed the young man has two heads on his shoulders. The daughter protests the remark in a humorous social moment.
The King of Siam, fresh from a Europe trip, has to keep a special box to hold all the insignia from the distinguished orders conferred by fellow monarchs.
Vera Caldwell three year old sings in the Presbyterian church choir of Maryland Missouri. The St. Louis Republic notes her voice can be heard in every part of the church.
The article notes orderly life in Alaska and Klondike with strict Canadian policing. Rossland near Spokane had 7,000 miners and one policeman yet minimal trouble. Canadian law enforces hotel liquor rules and bans native alcohol access, with severe penalties for violations.
A Kansas baggageman on the Santa Fe to Kansas City, nightly carries two to three coops of five ducks. Sleep disrupted by quacking leads him to muzzle each duck with a rubber band, silencing them and earning protests from commission men when released.
A Spokane letter recounts how Klondike seekers rely on pack dogs and native porters to haul supplies. It notes a small but powerful dog capable of carrying 75 pounds and describes women and men carrying heavy loads across harsh winter routes. The piece argues Indian labor made gold transport possible.
The manager explains the hat trade's costs from design to trimming and reveals the piracy practice of copying designs. A renowned London pirate, often a stylish woman, memorizes and sketches items to sell to rival firms, evading shop displays with careful deception.
Aluminum camping outfits marketed as Klondike sets boast light weight and compact packing. A six person kit has thirty nine pieces including four pots, coffee pot, frying pans, cups, cutlery, plates and condiments, weighing thirteen pounds. Smaller three and two person versions weigh six and one and a half pounds respectively.
A discussion notes women surpass men in color perception while men often show sharp taste in dress for their women. It cites training in dress details as a factor and mentions a lecturer advising women to wear street gowns matching hair color, house gowns matching eye color, and evening wear matching complexion tone.
A Brooklyn resident accounts for trolley fatigue amid 1,000,000 city riders and recalls a boyhood ride to Beeswinger’s Corners on a new line. The piece also notes a reader’s lesson in thrift through a simple reversing trick for sewn goods.
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