18 Mar 1905
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1905
Page
1
White dominates summer shirtwaists with fine handwork and varying fabrics. Linen and mercerized materials lead, with lingerie styles praised for sheer linen and lavish trimming. Night gowns for ladies feature dainty values, soft durable fabrics, Dutch yokes, and lace edges for refined taste.
Spring tailoring trends emphasize bright colors like kowns nachos and lavenders with simple fitted silhouettes. Coats range from short bolero to long redingote, clearly defining the figure, featuring French dart seams and bosquines, often paired with waistcoats. wool tex suits show slightly less skirt fullness than prior models.
A pale yellow silk blouse is described with a draped bolero style, edged in black velvet with tiny buttons and buttonholes. It features a decorative applique of kicked bands and silk moths, a gul pure chemisette, and a black velvet girdle. Sleeves are double puffed and elbowed with lace ruffles.
In spring fashion notes, lightweight woolen gowns of voile etamines and similar fabrics regain popularity across sizes and styles. New little dress variations feature odd checks small dots checks and dot placements with invisible plaids, perfect for walking suit combos. Most skirts stretch to new hem lengths that skim the knee or just touch, though the short cut presents wearers with a constant adjusting challenge. Dame Fashion
The piece discusses light materials replacing heavy ones for shirtwaist suits, noting short costs favoring these fabrics. It predicts broad use of such fabrics, potential competition with silk, and forecasts spring colors with blue and brown as staples and violet in many shades arriving early in the season.
Practical advice covers preserving apples in tins, carpet sweeping direction, a glycerin tea glycerin glue cement for bonding various materials, Mik extinguishing oily flames by emulsifying oil, fried oysters fat absorption, and using a frying basket to improve frying efficiency.
Elegant social tableaux showcase elaborate white silk and lace shirt waists paired with three quarter length coats and matching skirts. Notable outfits include a pink matron in purl cloth with ermine and pale blue taffeta trim, and a white serge ensemble with a black velvet turban and lynx furs.
A fragment outlines Fancy and redingote styles with lace frills and upward cuff flare. It notes colored embroideries on white dresses and praises Mamony accents from hat to shoe as a key point, predicting princess gowns as spring and summer smartest frocks. Soft, fluffy, dainty touches finish the excerpt.
The note lists three garments: a palest green silk crepe house dress with embroidered wreaths and white ribbons over changeable green taffeta, a brick red broadcloth fashionably trimmed redingote with sable trim, and a heavy corded visiting toilette with a shirred bodice, cream lace vest and collar, and a gathered skirt.
Fashion notes describe washable silk fabrics dominating summer wear, with emphasis on wash silk undergarments and garments. Frocks feature waistlines and surplice cuts, long close fitting gowns with trims, lace and embroidery. New theater waist blouse described with soft silk, crepe de chine, lace, velvet girdle, and velvet-edged sleeves.
The article discusses the vogue for lingerie blouses as a practical, year round garment, notes that modern dresses require more fabric due to fuller sleeves and plaited skirts, and touches on Huckaback usage for crafts and Mercerized thread decoration. It highlights the appeal of delicate materials and practical sewing trends.
The author argues milk should be strained in clean air to avoid infection and odor. Straining cloth hygiene matters as soil bacteria can contaminate strained milk and reduce keeping quality. Proper strainer care and steam washing reduce bacterial carryover. ripening cream and butter flavor depend on milk quality and timely acid development.
C F Hostetter states that cream fat around 30 to 35 percent yields better ripening, lighter flavor, and easier churning, especially in summer when ripening is slower. Cream under 20 to 25 percent fat risks overripe cream and poorer butter flavor, while summer conditions heighten the challenge of acid development.
Dairymen and milk shippers around Chicago held a Feb 10 convention to form The Milk Producers Institute. The aim is mutual exchange of ideas to raise sanitary and economic standards, with an organizing committee of twenty five. Debates covered wet malt feeding and carrier discrimination, urging better city enforcement and broader cooperation among shippers to improve the industry.
The oleomargarine manufacturers press to reduce the tax from ten to three or four cents per pound claiming revenue laws exist to raise revenue and a prohibitive tax harms consumption. They argue a smaller tax would raise more revenue though Congress is unlikely to adopt this view.
The article discusses cream washing as a less common method, noting that diluted, water-washed cream can rise purer on the surface after regathering. It emphasizes the lack of a rigid rule for ripening due to varying prices and cream richness, and urges good buttermaker judgment in spring plans.
Ralph M Walcott of Erie County Pa explains a practical method to combat cabbage club foot. He recommends deep plowing, thorough soil preparation, barnyard manure or commercial fertilizer, furrow fertilization, and thorough mixing with a tight cultivator and plank drag to create a decoiled row depressions for set plants. He asserts the insect sting initiates the knot and that his method improves nutrient availability for early maturity.
Advice urges farmers to allocate a larger garden for home produce and share with friends. Emphasizes selecting rich ground, annual manure, and phosphorus supply via bone meal or ground bone. Notes phosphorus as a scarce nutrient and recommends timing bone-based applications months before sowing.
Inventors market a bicycle style sled for boys and men featuring a saddle and pedals that push alternately. Pedals are toothed to bite ice, driving forward as one pedal moves back the other. Steering is achieved by applying pressure to steer right or left, with speed tied to rider effort.
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