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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1941)
Rent Land Under Water? It’s Quite the Thing Here! IVoter, water, all around! Here's lesson So. 1 on how to "get away from it all!” Visitors are renting ground under water at $1 per acre in Miami's Biscayne bay, 11 miles off shore, and building 44tumbledown' shacks with all the comforts of home except a tele• phone. These pictures show some of those with a Robinson Crusoe complex who can reach their "summer homes” only via boat. The picture above show» Miss liar barn IT ells calmly pulling in a fish through her bedroom window, caught while she was napping in the afternoon at one of Mi ami’s “tumbledowns.” If this isn’t the, last word in piscatorial comfort then we’re missing our guess by a mile. Left: All water is either carried to the houses via boat or caught off the roof tops. Here Miss Iluth Fay collects some fresh rainwa ter for the household Above: Host Leo Ed wards, prominent Miami auto dealer, right, gives a fish fry for his friends. A room in one of the luxurious houseboats near the swanky, $250,000 Quarterdeck club which has just been opened in the area, featuring the last word in life aboard ship. This room, which has been redecorated, is tastefully designed and furnished. View from the deck of the new Quarterdeck club dur ing a “Miami Flyer” boat race. When the oteners want a change in marine tempo they whizz over to the club in their speedboats. An aerial view taken while flying over a typical “tumbledown” thack in the Quarterdeck club area of Biscayne bay. hf CJjHO SctUt WoUoH (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Valentine to U. S. Women ON FEBRUARY 14. 1842. a Bos tonian. named Corson, and his wife presented a valentine to the women of America—although at the time they had no way of knowing they had done so. For on that date theCorsons became the parents of a daughter to whom they gave the name of Juliet. And it was this little girl who was destined to establish the first cooking school and thereby have a far-reaching effect upon the diet of future generations, not only of Americans but of people all over the world. Juliet Corson’s parents moved to New York when she was six years v "l - V old and, because she was a sickly child and denied the joy of taking part in most chil dren's pastimes, she became an avid reader and devoted most of her time to her studies. Forced to make her own living at the age of 20, she became librarian of the Working Women’s library for which she was paid $4 a week. However, she raised that to $9 by writing a weekly article for the New York Leader. This led to her being asked to prepare the semi-annual index of the National Quarterly Review and later to her becoming a member of the editorial staff of that publica tion. In those days most Americans still believed that “women's place is in the home” and the nearest thing to a career open to them was em ployment as a seamstress. In or der to make them more efficient in this oecupation. Miss Corson in 1873 started in her own home a free training school for the young women of New York city. The school grew so rapidly that she was forced to seek larger quarters and these were provided by Wheeler and Wilson, manufacturers of sewing machines in their building. They lent ma chines for the use of the school, as did other manufacturers, and with in a year more than 1,000 girls had been taught how to sew and at least three-fourths of them immediately found employment. Trained Stenographers. By this time Miss Corson had also added stenography and bookkeeping to the curriculum of her school and soon afterwards began giving train ing for domestic service. As her school grew she took a large house, used the top floor as a dormitory for her students, the first floor for class rooms where sewing, laundering and other household work was taught and the basement for a kitchen where meals were served at cost to many girls employed in the neighborhood. Out of the latter grew her belief that "diet can make men strong or weak, intelligent or stupid” and she began her life-work of teaching both the rich and the poor the proper way to prepare foods. She did this through public lectures and through articles which she wrote for the newspa pers. In 1876 Miss Corson established in New York a “cooking school for la dies." the first of its kind in Ameri ca. and within a short time 1.000 women were receiving instruction there annually. She charged rich women high fees to attend the school but asked only 50 cents a lesson from women of the middle class and gave instruction free to poor girls. The next year, during the railroad strikes, when there was great dis tress among the poorer classes she wrote a valuable little book, "Fif teen-Cent Dinners for Workingmen's Families." It cost $6,000 to print and distribute this booklet, free of charge, to workingmen earning $1.50 a day or less, but all but $100 of this sum was provided by Miss Cor son out of the earnings from her school. Incidentally, her booklet was translated into several foreign lan guages and soon had a world-wide circulation. It was a boon to the poor people of every nation. After the success of this booklet, Miss Corson became a lecturer on diet and founded many other cook ing schools. She also began cam paigning for the introduction of the study of cooking into the public schools and because of this she was asked by the United States commis sioner of education to prepare a "Dietary for Schools" which was published and distributed by the de partment of the interior. Her long career of usefulness, especially to the laboring classes, came to an end with her death in 1B97. * * • Another Claim to Fame. Another of Juliet Corson's claims to fame rests upon her pioneer work in preparing “concentrated foods" for soldiers and explorers, and medicated foods for invalids. At the Chicago World’s fair of 1893 she was the only person who was given an award for “scientific cookery and ! sanitary dietetics.” She was also chosen as a member of the commit tee of judges of food products at the i exposition, was twice elected to that position and was finally asked to j serve permanently. Matching Hat, Handbag Give Chic Accent to Spring Costume By CHERIE NICHOLAS PW TV. ^PPPPPHBPI IF YOU want to b< fashion - wise this spring, it is absolute ly necessary that you become thor oughly and wholeheartedly acces sory-minded. From the very start in assembling your new wardrobe, keep firmly implanted in your mind that accessories, above all else, are cast to play the dramatic role in fashion this season. Do this and you will find yourself safely charted in the right course through both spring and summer. It is a matter of tradition that a new and becoming hat ever has and ever will prove the most effective first aid in sounding the first joyous note of spring. This season fashion goes the idea “one better” with the insistence that a matching handbag complete the picture by way of add ing drama to the occasion. Try the hat-and-matching-handbag-way and you will find that it works like magic in broadcasting the glad tidings of spring. Note the quartette of fetching hat and-bag ensembles shown in the il lustration. Twosomes of this sort are typically "first fashion” news for spring. At the upper right of the group a navy blue stucco braid beret is shown which claims distinc tion because of the bright patriotic colored strips which detail the beret and are repeated in the “nautical knots” which enliven the navy felt handbag. By the wray, navy will be tremendously smart again this sea son. To the upper left the problem of matching hats and handbags has been eliminated by two well-known American designers. Clear synthet ic strips laced through the Howard Hodge hat and the Nat Lewis hand bag subtly emphasize harmony ol colors and materials. In the popu lar South American manner the hat of artichoke straw has a high pleat ed crow'n of the same flame red felt used for the handbag. Below to the right black felt and spaghetti braiding is manipulated into a new version of the fashionable oflf-the-face pillbox with its low-tied bow of the braid, repeated in the laced handbag. For the handsome hat and bag set pictured on the figure seated, bright green silk petal-shirred gros grain ribbon is used by Lilly Dache. A matching petal-shirred envelope bag completes this distinctive ac cessory ensemble. The supremacy of accessories in the spring mode carries courage and inspiration in the thought that the movement is being aided and abetted by the very highest style creative talent in all industries that pertain to fashion in women’s ap parel. The whole trend is to cor relate and to co-ordinate costume detail. To this end designers, man ufacturers and merchants are en thusiastically working together to co-ordinate color, material and style motif. By way of suggestion when you go accessory seeking, look up the new tiger yellows and browns, the many smart greens, the beiges, Peruvian pink, the new pastel jewel colors, and reds are bolder and brighter than ever. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) New ilalf Hat’ Of all the exciting fashion news for spring, 1941, what is more exciting than the novel "half hat” recently turned out by Lilly Dache! There will no doubt be a rush for these flattering flowery hats when the sea son gets into full swing, for they are not only charming but practical. Unusual Fabrics Enhance Dresses Unusual fabrics frequently add to the attractiveness of evening gowns. A little use of the imagination will often produce satisfactory results. If you are a smart young person you might consider going to the up holstery department next time you need material for a new evening dress. You will be doubly smart if you choose material with a gray background. Heavy gray rayon taffeta has great possibilities, as d> J 0,ay sat in with tiny motifs aoId or striped i^ns. This material is so wide that i. takes only a few yards to make a bec'tiful dress. Jewelry Innovation Adds Chic to Frocks A new development in the jewelry realm is clips that come in series from two to three, four or five. They vary in size and are worn along a neckline or are clipped or pinned to sweep down one side of the bodice like a flock of little birds. Another version of the jewel series is interpreted in several clips that may be worn singly, in a series or fastened together to form one im portant individual-looking piece. Such is the new lotus flfewer clip. One clip may be the flower, an other the bud still another the fo liage. Wear them separately and they serve many purposes, fasten them together (they are made to do just that) and you have one impos ing piece of jewelry to wear with your evening gown. The idea is carried on in some in stances to include matching finger ring and earrings. Main Street Gone From Fashion World ‘‘There is no more Main Street in Fashion,” declared Mrs. Wilhela Cushman, fashion editor of Ladies Home Journal, before a conven tion of retailers and manufacturers who recently held their spring na tional shoe fair in Chicago. Mrs. Cushman says she has found in her travels of 20,000 miles in the past that Main street and Fifth avenue meet and now launch simultaneously the same advance fashions. Declaring that this season “a cos tume will be made by its acces sories,” Mrs. Cushman said that bags will be bigger, softer qnd more -nW'.il, In footwear, the news is of softer shoes. There is a new softness about the leailier used. The seamless glove will also be featured this season, she added. tfTERN h * r'.w Department 8814 IF YOU’RE taking a midwinter * vacation, you’ll certainly want this tailored frock, in white sharx skin or luscious pastel flannel. And it’s an excellent style to fit into town wardrobes, too—made up in bright flat crepe or a tailored print. Design No. 8814 is one of those slick, immaculately tailored styles that form the backbone of a busy woman’s wardrobe the year round. And the lines of stitching, the turned-down corners of the pockets, make this an unusually interesting version of your favorite button-front classic. There’s mighty little to the making, as you can see. Just a few long seams, a few simple darts, to create a tailored effect of faultless chic. And this is a style becoming alike to misses and to women. Sew chart included. • • • Pattern No 8814 is designed for sires 12. 14. 16. IB, 20 : 40. 42. 44 . 46 and 48. Size 14 requires 4*,i yards of 39-incb ma terial without nap. Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 211 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose IS cents in coins for Pattern No. Size. Name . Address . HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS To keep muslin curtains even when laundering, put two curtains together and iron as one curtain. • * • Before hanging clothes on the line in freezing weather, put pins on the clothes in the house, then snap on line with double clothes pins. * • • To prevent the odor of cooking cabbage, broccoli or onions from permeating the house, cook these vegetables uncovered with two pieces of bread on the cooking water. You will find that fresh bread will cut easier if you heat the knife. » • * A Towel Tip—Instead of making kitchen towels roller shape, put a deep hem on each end and slip ro’Jer through. When one end be comes damp reverse the towel. Less toweling is needed and it will dry much quicker. * * * Whenever possible add flavoring extracts to a food when it is cool. If the food is hot, much of the flavoring will vanish in steam. 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