Fashions Reviewed For Broad Cloth Costumes And Toques
A New York Post style survey details popular dress trends including broad cloth costumes, velvet trims, fur edgings, and toque models. It notes opal-gray broadcloth, zibeline, and silver embroidered fabrics, various vest fronts on Louis coats, French toques with sable fur, and beaver hats with fur and lace details. Evening gowns feature lustrous satins, embroidered florals, and chine silks with sequined net, while kid cloth reception gowns emphasize pliant folds and plaitings.
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New York Post
Louis XV
A Good Salad Dressing From Old Virginny Style
A vintage chicken salad recipe details meat preparation and a historic dressing called Old Virginny. It blends boiled chicken liquor fat with raw eggs, corn starch, mustard, sugar, pepper, mustard and Worcestershire, with a nostalgic nod to early mayonnaise.
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Betty
Christine Verhune Herrick
New Year Dreams From Saint and Childs Desire In Song
E Kiser reflects on childhood gifts and grown up duties in a poetic contrast. He recalls Jumping Jack, a monkey, fairy books, toy trains, and dollies, then shifts to adult prayers for blessings, strength, wealth, and responsibility as life moves forward. Chicago Record Herald.
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E. Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
Aunt Debby and the Christmas Eve Surprise
In a small village an elderly Aunt Debby, over 80 with a keen memory, hosts a Christmas Eve supper for six visiting girls to ease her straitened finances. They share stories of old fireplaces and church life, a coal delivery by Santa, and how the neighborhood later helps during a bitter snowstorm, ending with Aunt Debby’s generosity to orphans.
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Deborah Strayer
Debby
Aunt Debby
Sukey
Lukey
Mollie Gray
Isabel Rowell
Edith Brown
Edith
Santa Claus
Betty Jones
Isabel Howell
Fannie Stearns
Melinda Wyckoff
Alabama
Deacon van Brunt
Judge Howell
Isabel
de Jedge
Uncle's Santa Day Brings Mock Laughs From Nieces
A bachelor uncle cheerful in Santa role for his nieces and their children becomes the butt of mock laughter when the family jokes behind his back about his awkward, forced appearance.
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Santa
Prom Boat to Face When a Man Has an Acting Coxp
A brief, odd quotation from the Yonkers Statesman via the Observer of Events and Things notes that facial expression betrays a person’s inner state. The remark appears in a fragmentary context about a prom boat event or related scene.
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Yonkers Statesman
Parisian gifts spark Phyllis and Betty debate
Miss Phyllis blushes as she considers Betty from Paris and wonders what to send back. A subtle exchange hints at a fair trade, with a lighthearted reminder that sharing gifts should feel right to both.
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Miss Phyllis
Betty
Paris
Black
Dack
Christmas customs in the Hawaiian Islands
Katherine Pope describes a topsy turvy Hawaiian Christmas blending Portuguese, Hawaiian, Chinese, and Japanese influences. The sunlit streets glow with parades, floral garlands, and revelry as locals, in cottons and organdies, share pig and poi fare, gifts of cloth and trinkets, and a spirit of merry good will.
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Hawaii
Mer
Chris
Haeole
Hawaiii
Christ
Katherine
Pope
A Sage of the Track Surges Mid Race
A horse named A Sage of the Track showed early pace before Leo Jones shifted positions, leading halfway on Jeroun track then reversing course for another charge. Johnson remarks that betting on both directions might have paid off.
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Jones
Jeroun
Johnson
Tomi
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Jarvis
Frenin
Bry Ernest Gilmore
van Brunt
Schuyler
Chicago
Phyllis
Sally
Joe
TOLES
Pdith Kellogs
Dunton
Hawaiian Islands
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