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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1914
Page
5
A guide to affordable personal presents from festive sachets to scented boudoir caps and perfumed linens. It urges tailoring gifts to the recipient, using common materials like cotton crepe and scrap fabrics, with careful attention to usefulness and thoughtfulness amid hard times.
A fragment shows a boastful remark about a young man demanding cash down for debts. The overheard line emphasizes quick payment and confidence in covering obligations. The text is incomplete and lacks clear event or context details.
A collection of hats for adults and a child, featuring velvet, fur, and white ribbon trims. Describes shapes such as a velvet gaiter, a white ermine trimmed bonnet, and a black velvet dress hat with pink trimming, plus a popular small velvet bonnet with white roses. Also includes a long moral on prudent use of credit and finances.
A description of a Chinese boudoir style featuring rooms with Celestial and Chippendale influences. A lady wears a Chinese negligee with a loose coatee and trousers, hair styled simply, rosettes behind the ears, set in a room with pagodas, carved furniture, and lacquered tea service. Mentions sugar production in the United States and its global context.
Elizabeth Ley discusses two types of red haired blondes and the colors that suit them. She outlines which fabrics and shades enhance or diminish complexion, hair tone, and eye color, stressing the importance of avoiding yellow browns and pinks while recommending deep browns, blacks, and certain cool tones for contrast.
An eight room frame base with economical construction and a cottage appearance. First story features wide siding, a front piazza with French doors, a large wing room and den opening to the piazza. Dining room, kitchen, pantry, and basement stairs noted. Second story in pine with varnished floors. Roof treatment limits attic space. Estimated cost between 2500 and 4200 dollars, heating and plumbing excluded.
A fashion piece urges converting old coats into modern long wraps for winter wear. It outlines materials from broadcloth to zibeline, suggests reviving long wraps and old gowns, and offers sewing tips to transform skirts and coats into stylish two piece outfits with velvet trims, fur accents, and decorative linings.
The upper portions of worn gloves should not be discarded. They can protect a nail buffer by being rolled into finger shaped covers from old white gloves. Use flannel or soft cotton rags rolled tight, sew edges, and slip over the buffer. Tie with ribbon or elastic for easy removal and reuse.
Instructions describe tinting ostrich feathers using tube paints with benzine to create light shades. Dissolve paint in benzine, test shade, then dip feathers and dry quickly. Warns benzine is highly flammable and to avoid fire or light in the workspace.
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