Dancing Frocks: Taffeta Styles Dominate Afternoon and Evening Wear
Mary Dean outlines fashionable dance frocks with taffeta as the popular fabric for afternoon dresses and evening gowns. She notes short or long sleeves, bouffant hips, low corsages with white tulle, vivid color varieties, and the rise of tailored costumes. The article highlights exclusive soft silk shawl chic, changeable silver and pink silks, and slim, slashed skirts for freedom of movement on the dance floor.
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Mary Dean
Greenery for the Table from Grape Fruit Seeds
The article explains growing greenery for the dining table by planting grape fruit seeds and sowing them thickly. Soon tiny shoots appear leaves unfold and a mass of glossy green forms that resists heat, is inexpensive and lasts longer than many ferns.
Choosing the right veil for smart fashion and fit
The article advises selecting a fine silk veil over cheap cotton, noting silk lasts longer and outfits better. It warns on fit and pattern, arms readers to match veil size to hat type, and suggests practical tying and pinning for facial ease.
Wind wagon with rear propeller makes winter runs
A wind powered wagon with an eight foot wooden propeller at the rear has been tested on snow and river ice around Indianapolis. No drive shaft, motor linked by a chain to the propeller, six inch clearance from ice limits road use, but it offers winter skating like sport when ice is thick enough.
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Indianapolis
Embroidery Touches on Paris Models Delight Fans
The article highlights embroidery as a key trend on the latest Paris fashions. Designers place delicate embroidery on tunics, bodices, waistcoats, and sashes to add color and elevate otherwise simple frocks. It suggests moderately skilled girls can enhance their gowns to match exclusive French designs.
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Paris
Make-up of Monorail Sled From Simple Wooden Parts
A monorail sled with a tandem runner setup can be built from a one inch plank for the runners shod with strap iron. The top plank attaches to rear and front runners via blocks and screws creating a stable steering platform. The rider lies along the board to lower the center of gravity and ease steering.
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Harry Hardy
Whitby
Ont
Construction of Ice Boat by Moses La Bombe
An illustrated description explains building an ice boat with a square sail, possible three-cornered sail, and two intersecting two-inch planks braced with wire. It details the steering runner, mast six feet long, sail four by six feet, and a wooden handle bar control. Three boys can build it quickly.
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Moses la Bom
Spit Curls Return as 1914 Fashion Jokes Begin
The piece mocks the reappearance of spit curls in 1914 fashion. It notes Parisiennes and New York theatergoers adopting the style as a foolish relic of the past, despite contemporary views on femininity and emancipation.
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New York
Girl's party frock with St Gall embroidery
A French organdie party frock features sheer batiste or organdie, eyeletted St Gall embroidery, narrow lace accents, and a blue ribbon sash. The design uses a blue silk slip beneath the sheer foundation and pointed tab details to showcase the embroidery.
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St. Gall
Dictates of Fashion in Velvet and Fur Garb
Fashion notes describe velvet collars edged with fur on suits, tartan braids and silks as novel trims, and gathered ruffles flattering slim figures. Fur hats with animal pelts or bands accompany tailored coats, artificial flowers on hats gain popularity, and the hinge fastening replaces single-stone rings with intricate multi stone settings.
Silk Gloves and Dainty Dancer Frocks Adorn Ball Attire
Roving imprecise prose describes delicate evening wear with silk gloves airy tulle gowns and feathered accessories. The fragment hints at fashion notes for dances emphasizing light fabrics and refined adornments.
Simple Steering Principles for Sled and Bicycle Balance
A description explains how small weight shifts and front runner adjustments steer a double runner sled and restore balance. It notes mechanical maintenance of balance similar to skilled bicycle riding.
Willie’s Father Refuses Whipping Over Rheumatics
In London Answers a school repeats Willie’s misconduct led to suspension and a plan to tell his father. The next day the inquiry about his health reveals the father’s response a licking would hurt him more than Willie. The father cites rheumatics in both arms as the reason.
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Willie
London
Polite Police Etiquette In Montevideo Tale
A Spanish speaking American asks a Montevideo police officer for directions to Calla Rincon. The officer ignores him due to lacking manners. A nearby Spanish youth helps, explaining the man did not remove his hat, a sign of respect in that setting.
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Montevideo
Plaza Independeia
Calla Rincon
Calla. Rincon
Beer Rule Brings Curious Midday Beer Run
At a Manhattan office building site foremen restricted beer to noon only. A worker defied the rule by carrying four beer cans and a butter tub from near the nearly finished structure, returning fifteen minutes later with the tub full and the cans overflowing.
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Manhattan
Church Street
Aunt Rosa Pleads for Bail After Rastus Arrest
In a tense scene Aunt Rosa, a longtime kitchen matriarch, enters the library asking Mister Willie for $15 bail after her nephew Rastus is arrested. She insists the boy did nothing wrong, claiming he was sitting on the steps with a knife when another man attacked and wounded himself.
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Rosa
Willie
Rastus
Queen's Close Friend and Confidence of Queen Mary
Lady Mount Stephen is described as Queen Mary's oldest intimate friend and possibly the next high commissioner for Canada. Before her 1897 marriage to the Canadian peer, she was Miss Gian Tufnell and served as lady-in-waiting and favored companion of the late duchess of Teck. She has long been a confidante of the queen and highly regarded by the Teck family.
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Mount Stephen
Lord Strathcona
Canada
London
Queen Mary
Gian Tufnell
Duchess of Teck
Teck
Eczema Cleared From Two-Week-Old Boy Body
Mrs John White of Roxbury claims Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured its eczema spread from cheeks to full body. She describes sleepless nights and rapid itching before nightly baths and ointment application. Advertisement notes Cuticura sold worldwide with a Skin Book offer.
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Roxbury
Ohio
John White
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
What She Wanted
A new saleswoman asks if the shopper wants a suit to please her husband. The shopper rejects that idea and instead seeks a suit to make her next door neighbor turn pale green with envy.
A Wise Youth Prompted by Quiet Reproach
A brief exchange depicts a young couple where the girl admits temperament and the man retorts that she is suited for a husband earning 25 plunks a week, then heads for his hat. The dialogue highlights social expectations and class cues through terse humor.
Mexican Signs Through City Streets In The Capital
A fragment notes Mexican street names reflecting romance and religion. Mentions streets named Love of God Holy Ghost and mentions odd spellings and signs seen in the capital streets.
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God
Origin of Magnet Word Traced to Magnesia or Magnes
The article discusses two theories for the origin of magnet. One ties it to Magnesia in Lydia Asia Minor where lodestone was first known to have magnetic properties. Another claims the name derives from Magnes a shepherd stranded on Mount Ida by iron in his shoes.
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Magnesia
Lydia
Asia Minor
Magnes
Mount Ida
Happiness as a Duty and Social Benefit in Ralph Waldo Trine
The passage asserts happiness is a duty and a sign of living in harmony with universal laws. It argues cheerfulness benefits others, as happiness begets happiness and unrest breeds anger, citing Ralph Waldo Trine on living righteously and kindly affecting those around us.
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Wwe
Ralph Waldo Trine
Muffler trouble on a cold day prompts odd exchange
The line reads a quirky dialogue where a character complains about a muffler and the other replies I cut it out, reflecting a humorous domestic moment in a period setting. The exchange captures everyday banter and a hint of practical improvisation.
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William
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