The Rocky Weekly Advance (Rocky, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1906 Page: 3 of 8
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ERICAN^ [SCHOOLGIRL'S DRESS
HOME
SHOULD NOT THINK TOO MUCH
ABOUT THIS VEXATIOUS
MATTER.
IIIIKHillJini
BRADFORD
EDITOR
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Most Schoolgirls Too Yeung and Too
Pretty to Require Much Ornament
in Their Dress—Don’t Worry About
Your Figure If Your Dress Is Com-
fortable—Health Is the Great Beau-
tlfler.
Mr. William A Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST' on all subjects pertaining to the
Bubject of building for the readers of this
paper. On account of his wide expe-
rience as Editor, Author and Manufac-
turer, he Is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
all Inquiries to William A. Radford. No.
194 Fifth Ave., Chicago, 111., and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
The building of a fireplace In the
front hall is English. English people
understand the art of hospitality bet-
ter than we do. It seems perfectly
easy and natural for them to give the
coming guest a hearty welcome to
their castle be it ever so humble.
They have made a study of entertain-
ing. It has often been said that an
Englishman is more considerate ot
strangers than he is of the members
of his own family. Be this as it may
we certainly could learn a few point-
ers in hospitality from our English
relatives.
The open fire in the hall offers a
glow of warmth and a cheery wel-
come to the Incoming guest as he en-
ters the front hall. A bright cheerful
lire quickly seconds the pleasant
greeting of the host and hostess at the
front door. But English hallways
are different from ours. They are
larger and often are used for many
purposes that would not be at all
suitable in halls the way they are
built in this country. There is, how-
ever, an advantage In having the fire-
place in a hallway constructed like
the one in this plan. Because of the
open stairway the heat goes upstairs
to make the upper rooms comfortable.
A good many fireplaces are not used
because there are other means of
heating the house and the additional
fire in the grate is too much. Amer-
icans have never learned the art of
choking the furnace off to give the
grate a chance. Our abominable
habit of heating the house entirely
by the fire in the cellar has been
worked to the extreme. The grate
In the hallway by sending its heat
partly upstairs is not oppressive even
cost of material is reasonable and
carpenter work not excessive. This
price provides for the ordinaiy fin-
ish in a medium priced house, but it
may easily be increased by the more
expensive tastes of some builders.
There are persons who like to have
a building more elaborate and are
willing to put on the necessary ex-
pense to have it to their liking, and
there are others who prefer to cut
down the size in order to have the
SECOND FLOOR PLAN.
quality of wood and finish necessary
to meet their ideas. A great deal de-
pends on the size of the family.
There is a great deal in the way
the business end of the house is ar-
ranged to help the housewife in her
work. The kitchen is the woman's
workshop. It should be large enough
for convenience and comfort and it
should be of the proper shape so
that the stoves and necessary belong-
in our dry super heated house atmos- ings may be properly placed for con-
phere. When used as it should be an venience and the entrance to the othei
open fire also is economical. j rooms planned to save steps. How
In this plan the combination stair- j often we see a small little kitchen
way leading up from the front hall | somewhere in the back of the house
and from the kitchen offers a means ; with no pantry worth the name anc
of carrying heat upstairs both from j without light or
the kitchen range and the hall fire- ,trast such kitchens with the one in
place, so that the house may be made
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comfortable in mild weather without
starting up the furnace at all. This
plan of heating the house also fur-
nishes ventilation. Ventilation in
fact is part of the heating business.
Unleas air circulates we cannot heat
a house.
This house is 2(1 feet fclx inches
Wide and 80 feet (l Inches long ex-
clusive of the porch, and the archi-
tect estimates that It may be built
lor from $1,500 to $1,61)0 where the
ventilation. Con
one
this plan. Here is a room 12 feet
across the smallest way. The sink
is in front of the window, with a
good drain board leading into it from
the corner of the room. It is next tc
the door opening onto the back porch
where the garbage can usually is kept.
After each meal numerous trips are
taken to get rid of the refuse. This
is a little matter that often is passed
over without a thought. There is a
blank wall opposite the big double
window for the range and it is in-
tended to place it between the cellar
way and the pantry because while the
cooking is going on a great many
trips are made in both directions.
The large front parlor window of-
fers an excellent opportunity to dis-
play good taste in the selection of
curtains. Windows as wide as this
show to advantage or disadvantage
according to the way they are dressed,
but it is easier to dress a big window
than a little one, only you have to
consider the size and proportion's.
The old-fashioned way of hanging
curtains that were several yards too
long has passed into history. Cur-
tains now are cut just the right length
to reach the rod at the top to the sill
at the bottom of the window, and it
Is intended that the pattern at the
bottom of the curtain shall show to
the best possible advantage. In for-
mer years the elaborate corner work
on expensive lace curtains either re-
posed in darkness near the floor or
wns looped back in folds to waute
Its beauty In utter oblivion. The
modern housewife discovered that
this was a mistake. She now selects
a pretty corner pattern and hangs It
directly In front of the glass, where
It may he observed and admired by
her gentlemen friends and criticised
by her women acquaintances.
BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
"Jessie has reached the age when
she fusses and fidgets about her
dress, looks at herself in the glass,
worries bemuse her cloak or her hat
or her Jacket or something else, is
last year's style, and altogether be-
haves like a vain and silly girl,” ex-
claimed Jessie’s aunt Marlon, who had
no patience with such frivolous con-
duct.
“If Jessie had been the fourth
daughter in a large family," said Mary
Elizabeth, looking up with a smile,
"she would have learned to be thank-
ful for small favors. Until I had
passed my thirteenth birthday I never
once went out of the house with a
costume every bit of which had been
made for me. I usually wore Susan’s
last year’s frocks and Mildred’s last
year’s hats, retrimmed and freshened
up, and when I had a jacket It had
been worn before me by Ethel. Moth-
er always bought good things that
would last and they lasted until sev-
eral children wore them out. I was
cured of fussiness before so much as
a wee leaf of it cropped up in my
character. Generally speaking I had
new shoes and that was a comfort.”
Jessie had listened to both speak-
ers with an air of serious attention.
“I love pretty things,” said she,
“and I hate ugly ones. Why shall sis-
ter Louise, who is a young lady, wear
a corset that gives her a good figure
while I who have no figure at all am
obliged to wear a corded waist and
button my skirts to it?”
By this time I was so stirred up
that I was compelled to intrude my
views on the girls.
“What on earth can you be thinking
of, Jessie? A school girl’s first duty
to herself is to wear healthful dress
and although corsets are excellent
and suitable in their place for grown
up young women, they are not parts
of hygienic dress for you. I hope
that you spend a good many hours
every day out of doors, and that your
director of physical culture superin-
tends your calisthenics and your ex-
ercises in the gymnasium. The gym is
as much an educational place for you
as the Latin class or the recitation
room where you study and present
any other abstruse subject In the
school. For daily use a school girl
needs well-made loosely fitting blouses
and skirts, and the weight of her
clothing should hang not from the
hips but from the shoulder.
“Deep breathing Is your great ne-
cessity; your lungs should be filled
daily and often with the purest air
and your chest have abundant room
to expand. As for 6hoes, you must
have common sense lasts broad
enough in the sole and low enough in
the heel to enable you to walk with
ease and grace. A school girl must
not wear a tight shoe nor a high heel.
You are too young and too pretty to
require much ornament in your dress,
and there is no sense in your fussing
over shirt-waists and simple stocks,
hair ribbons and belts.
“Once your wardrobe is supplied
with what is comfortable and you
have equipped yourself with a golf
cape, a rain-coat and a sailor hat, you
are ready for every occasion.”
“For receptions and commence-
ments and Sunday evenings at home?”
queried Jessie, her dimples playing
hide and seek as she archly glanced
at me.
"I beg your pardon,” I answered.
"A girl does need one or two dainty
frocks for evening wear and they
Bhould preferably be white. The
Bimpler they are the more suitable
they are sure to be. A great many
tucks, puffs, ruffles and lace Inser-
tions are misplaced in a girl’s dress
while she is yet in her teens. There
may be, of course, some unobtrusive
decorations, but not very much is
needed for she herself sets off her
gown. I like to think, too, that a girl
who Is growing up takes a little time
now and then to bestow attention on
the laundress who has to wash and
iron the .dainty muslins that are so
elaborate and so beautifully finished
with lace edges and delicate
broideries.
“A girl who has once or twice done
her own laundry work, washed and
ironed a white muslin gown, or a duck
skirt, will know by experience that
it la far from easy work, and she will
be somewhat more careful about fre-
quently sending it to the tub, than
her friend who has had no such per-
sonal knowledge of the labor in-
volved.”
No young girl has the slightest oc-
casion to worry about her figure if
only she has a dress that fits her
comfortably, if she stands up straight
throwing back her shoulders and hold-
ing up her head. The figure will take
care of itself. Health is the great
beautlfler and sensible dress Is for
young people its best ally.
Fortunately for young girls, there Is
no question about the length of their
skirts, for everyday wear frocks
that reach the ankle, are comfortable
and Insure ease in walking, and im-
munity from contact with mud and
dirt. For functions such ns Jessie re-
ferred to in her naive question about
receptions and Spndny evenings, a
girl’s best t iwn while she is in her
teens may be Instep length. Girls
never wear trailing skirts in these
days. An excellent adjunct to clean-
liness, comfort and health is a whisk
broom or a clothes-brush scrupulous-
ly used every time a dress is taken off.
If we would carefully brush our
clothes and shake them out of an open
window before hanging them in clos-
ets or wardrobes, we should rid our-
selves of the danger of germs that
may have lurked In outside dust.
Girls should be grateful that theit
lot is cast in the twentieth century.
An.eighteenth century girl, or one born
In the early nineteenth, wore a short-
walsted frock with the skirt beginning
under the arm-pits. It was of cling-
ing stuff ahd swept the floor as she
walked. Her shoes were thin slip-
pers without heels held on by strings
crossed over the instep and around the
ankles. On her head she often wore
a construction of muslin and wire that
was half turban and half cap. Her
sleeves were short and her dresses
half low at the neck, as a rule. Do you
not think that you are much better
dressed than she was, both for health
and beauty?
(Copyright, 1900, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
JOHN HENRY
IN A STREET CAR
BY HUGH McHUGH
(George V. Hobart)
ADVICE ABOUT THE TEETH
Select the Brush with Care, Consult
a Dentist Whenever Certain
Symptoms Appear.
So many people show little discrim-
ination in the choice of tooth brushes.
It 1b equally wrong to have them too
soft or too hard. This ought to be as-
certainable by the touch, and they
should not be used for any length of
time, but at once discarded. Cheap
brushes with which the market is now
flooded are an abomination, for the
hairs are sure to come out and lodge
between the teetb, causing much dis-
comfort, nnd, moreover, the bristles
are often secured in such a way with
wire that it becomes dislodged, and
pricks the gums. Teeth Bhould always
be closely watched, and if the gums
recede or any decay is perceived, re-
course should be had at once to a
dentist, for in dentistry a stitch in
time does not save nine but ninety.
Once let decay get any deep hold little
can be done, but it is easy to arrest it
at the beginning.
Parents cannot be too careful in in-
stilling into their children early the
necessity of care and t.ttentlon to the
teeth. It seems quite a weakness in
the young to shirk tooth cleaning, and,
moreover, mothers should watch the
growth of the second teeth, that there
is no overcrowding. In early youth
many defects can be cured by proper
treatment. Teeth that are growing far
apart can be brought together easily;
it would be a far more difficult matter
later on when the gums are harder
and the teeth have attained their full
growth, but care should begin before
the first teeth have been exchanged.
It Indicates something wrong if they
decay, and it is a state of things that
would be likely to repeat Itself.
The writer remembers how as a
child an old nurse who had been in
the same post for two generations
took infinite pains to teach her charges
exactly how they should clean their
teetb. She always said that pastes
and liquid dentifrices were all very
well In their way, but that powder
Bhould be used once a week at least,
and that there was a great art in
using a proper brush, whiJh should be
small and soft, and not too big for
the mouth. It should be not only
passed from one side to the other, but
up and down, and great care taken
to clean the back teeth as well as the
front: finally It was essential to wash
out the mouth with water, to which
a few drops of fragrant dentifrice
liquid should be added.
ME,’ IN THE STREET CAR.”
Throw ne In the cellar and batten
down the hatches.
I’m a wreck In the key of G flat.
I side-stepped In among a bunch of
language-heavers yesterday and ever
since I’ve been sitting on the ragged
edge with my feet hanging over.
1 was on my way down to Wall
“Oh, yes; I think It will look per-
fectly sweet! It is a foulard in one*
of those new nellotrope tints, made
with a crepe de chine chemisette, with*
a second vest peeping out on either
side of the front over an embroidered
satin vest and cut in scallops on the
edge, finished with a lull ruche of
street to help J. Pierpont Morgan buy white chiffon, and the sleeves are Just
a couple of railroads and all the world too tight for any use, and the skirt la
seemed as blithe and gay as a love too long for any good, and I declare*
clinch from Laura Jean Llbbey's the lining is too sweet! and I just hate
latest. to wear It out on the street and get it
When I climbed Into the cable-car I 1 soiled, and I was going to have It madr
felt like a man who had mailed money with a tunic, and Mrs. Wigwag—
to himself the night before. that’s my brother-in-law s first cousin
I was aces. | —she had her’s made to wear with
And then somebody blew out my
gas.
At the next corner two society flash-
lights flopped In and sat next to me.
They had a lot of words they wanted
to use and they started In.
The car stopped and two more of
the 400’s leading ladies jumped the
hurdles and came down the aisle.
They sat on the other side of me.
In a mlqute they began to bite the
dictionary.
Their efforts aroused the energies
of three women who sat opposite me,
and they proceeded to beat the Eng-
lish language black and blue.
In a minute the air was so full of
talk that the grip germs had to pull
out on the platform and chew the con-
ductor.
The next one to me on my left
started in:
"Oh, yes; we discharged our cook
day before yesterday, but there’s an-
other coming this evening, and
so-”
| gulmpes—and they are so economical!
and-”
Think of a guy having to ride four
miles and get nls forehead fanned all
Her friend broke away and was up
and back to the center with this:
“I was coming down Broadway
this morning and I saw Julia Mar-
lowe’s leading man. I’m sure It was
him, because I saw the show once in
WITH HIS MANDOLIN.
?b‘c“g° a"dbe bas tbe lovellest eyes I the while wlta talk about foulard and
i ever looked at! I-------- -Mne and gulmpeB,
It lead you to a padded
YVeT^Lt was my cue to I Cr^u?den.fne aDd BU,mpe8t
walk out, kick the motorman in the
, ,, iceH?
knuckles, upset the car and send in a Say! I was down and out-no kid-
fire call, but I passed It up. ding'
One of the conversationalists waa
had
ton’s ten, twen, thlr dramas.
That "loveliest eyes” speech
me groggy.
Whenever I hear a woman turn on
that "loveliest eyes” gag about an
actor I always feel that a swift slap
from a wet dish-rag would look well
on her back hair.
sitting on my overcoat.
I felt that if i got up and called my
coat back to Papa she might lose the
thread of her story, and the Jar would'
be something frightful.
So I sat still and saved her life.
The one on my right must have been
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
4BTh«n the bunch acr0BS the aIale got the Lady President of The Hammer
me nag. club.
wLynU.Hkf0W’" 8ayB *he „broad 8he talking about some other
lady who paid for one seat and was | g|rl and she didn’t do a thing to ti.*
absent one.
One Can Put Great Deal of Money In-
to Tiny Turn-Overs of Ex-
quisite Make.
It Is strange what a little extra thrill
of delight one has In possessing a
dainty article of wearing apparel that
came from a long, long distance, writes
a lady In the Ohio Farmer.
The upper one of these three col-
lars shown In the cut came from Ar-
em-
THREE EXQUISITE TURN-OVERS.
A COUI’LE
menla. It Is made of the tiny thread
wheels for which Armenians are so
celebrated.
The second, or Hardanger, Is from
Sweden, and the third, or drawn-
work, from Mexico. But any of them
could he imitated by a skilful needle-
woman.
OF SOCIETY
LIGHTS.
She said she was svelte.
I suppose that's Dago for a shin*.
That’s the way with some women.
They can’t come right out and call an-
other woman a polish. They have to,
beat around the bush and chase their*
friends to the swamps by throwing]
things like "svelte” at them. Tush!
I tried to due., the foreign tattle on
my right ana by so doing I’m next to,
this on my left;
“Oh, yes; I think politics is just too
lovely! I don’t know whether I’d'
rather be a Democrat or a Republi-
can, but I think—oh! Just look at the
hat that woman has on! Isn’t that a
fright? Wonder If she trimmed It
herself. Of course she did; you can
tell by-”
I’m gasping for breath when the
broad lady across the a.sle gets the
floor:
"No, indeed! I didn’t have Eliza
vaccinated. Why, she's too small yet,
and don't you know my sister’s hus-
band's brother’s child was vaccinated,
and she Is younger than our Eliza, but
I don’t Just care, I don’t want-’*
Then the eweet girlish thing on my
left gave me the corascrew jab.
It was the finish:
"Isn’t that lovely? Well, as I was
telling you, Charlie came last night
to use three, and brought Mr. Storeclose with him.
In our | Mr. Storeclose is awfully nice. He
FLASH-
Vlrglnia Beauties.
In Virginia the beauties sleep upon
herb pillows. They begin at this time
of the year to gather the garden herbs
and to dry them. They never bury
the face in a feather pillow for they
believe it makes wrinkles. But they
Bleep on herbs, powdered and softened
with rose lenves and the buds of spring
flowers.
compelled by Nature
"you know there’s only five _____________ __ „„
family, and so 1 take just five slices I plays the'mVndoTinTust 'too sweet for
or stale bread and have a bowl or anything, and__”
water ready in which I’ve dropped a Me!—to the oyster beds! No mala
pinch of Buit. Then I take a piece of impersonators garroting a mandolin-
butter aoout the sizo of a walnut, and not any In mine!
thoroughly grease the bottom of a When I want to tase a course In
frying-pan; then beat five eggs to a music I’ll climb Into a public library,
froth, an< and read how Baldy Sloane wrote the
1 m hoping the conductor will come Tiger Lily with one hand tied behind
In and give us all a tip to take to him and his feet on the piano,
he limber because the cops are going so I fell off the car and crawled
to pinch the room, but there’s nothing home to mother,
doing.
For the Hands,
A fow drops of cider vinegar rubbed
Into the hands after washing clothes
will keep them smooth anil take away
the spongy feeling they alwayB have
after being In the water a good while.
One of the dames on my right finds
her voice nnd passeti It around: —
"Oh, I think it’s a perfect frlghtl
I always did detest electric blue, any-
way. It Is so unbecoming, and
then-”
I’ve Just decided that this lady
ought to make up as a Swede servant
Klrl and play the part, when her friend
books in:
(Copyright, 1901, by G. W. Dillingham Co.)
Defenseless.
Clarence Klnkby—Ain’t seen nothin’
o' Mose Johnsing lately. Anythin'
done happen to him, huh?
G. Washington Cole—Yessah, Mose
done sufferin' from a fit ob absent,
minded ness; he came around to de
club las' week wlf only a safety ra«ai.
—Puok.
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