Fashionable Style Shown Without Ostentation
A fragment notes a call to precision in style and taste without flashiness. It emphasizes refined presentation and measured elegance as a guiding approach for observers seeking tasteful attire and conduct.
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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1909
Page
91
A fragment notes a call to precision in style and taste without flashiness. It emphasizes refined presentation and measured elegance as a guiding approach for observers seeking tasteful attire and conduct.
A sale of one of a kind fur samples offers Isabella fox and sable squirrel pieces, black fox, black raccoon, opossum, Japanese mink, and more. Muffs and scarfs priced below regular values with marked discounts. items include Isabella Fox Rug Muffs 15 dollars and Japanese Mink Rug Muffs 25 dollars, wolf seals and other luxurious pieces.
Special sale continuation from last week offers one piece dresses in French and English serges broad cloths and cashmeres in gray brown navy green and other colors. Three lots include $15.00 dresses $40.00 value at $22.50 and $15.00 each and $22.50 dresses at $20.08 each. dl floor st
Fashionable sweaters for women and misses show many styles from three-quarter coats to front-fastened designs with pockets. Available are all-wool women and misses sweaters in plain and fancy weaves, with navy blues, cardinal and dark red hues, priced from 1.25 to 4.50 dollars.
A social column records Mr and Mrs Butler hosting a dinner for American ambassador to Germany and others at their II Street home. Epiphany Church holds the wedding of Miss Louiga Conrad Fauntleroy to Mr Henry Hamilton Seabrook with a formal ceremony and attendants. Mrs Lennox hosts a tea for Baroness von Paumsgarten and Baroness Marie von Paumgarten in Toronto. Eleanor Slater and Borla de Beruve announce an upcoming Paris wedding with plans for a European winter.
Miss Vandergrift and Mr Seabrook wed with a reception at the bridegroom s mother Mrs Phoebe Seabrook s home 107 H Street NW Delegates and relatives attend including Mrs H Clay Miller of Baltimore and Miss Sally Fauntleroy of Winchester VA The British ambassador hosted a dinner and a large Washington house party accompanies the event.
Catalog notes describe extra large fox fur pelerine sets with head and tail, satin lining, valued at 46 dollars, plus Russian Coney and Lynx sets including long throw ties, rug muff with 14 tails, shirred satin, priced at 10 dollars, and an exceptional extra large Lynx set with two natural heads and square pillow muff valued at 160 dollars.
The article recalls a historic belief that milk was the sole nourishing food during typhoid fever because it was thought easy to digest. It notes this view was a serious error still held by some, claiming milk feeds the fever while suggesting grape juice or lemon, plus water slowly, to aid recovery and blood purification.
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