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"What different materials do you use to accomplish this?"
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"How much does this really add to the weight of the skirt without any lining?"
"My dressmaker says that an entire skirt if it were made up as a separate skirt of seven yards would weigh but 12 ounces, and if one should use their 170/3 it is almost as light as air itself."
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"Either the 84/3, 146/3, 170/3, 184/4 or 200/4, is all right for thin sleeves, so that if the dealer has not all these styles he ought to have one surely."
"I am very glad for this information, for I confess that while I have been forced to follow the fashion. It has been at great discomfort, especially in the hot weather, with what I have had used for linings; and I had really no knowledge of these different grades, or in fact that Hair Cloth Crinoline was really the perfect thing to be used for both skirts and sleeves."
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A Calaveras Hold-Up.
By Roberta Littlehale.
A vivid account of an actual California stage robbery, linked with a touching love-story, told in the writer's graphic and individual style.
From a Trolley Post.
By Margaret Dodge.
A comedy-drama of the city streets, in which a pocket edition of a Texas cowboy and a hand-organ monkey are the chief actors.
An Andenken.
By Julia Magruder.
An absorbing and unusual story of artist life, love, and adventure, whose scene is laid in the Tyrolean Alps.
The Man from Maine.
By J. D. Ellsworth.
Some picturesque facts showing that prohibition doesn't always prohibit.
A Wedding Tombstone.
By Clarice Irene Clinghan.
A curiously fascinating tale of New England village life, showing the same unconventional charm as the author's prize story, "Six Months in Hades," for which she received $1.000.
The Other One.
By A. H. Gibson.
A gruesome but impressively interesting story of robbery, murder, and terrible retribution, whose startling ending cannot possibly be foreseen.
Stateroom Six.
By William Albert Lewis.
A dramatic incident of Mississippi steamboat travel twenty years ago, told just as it happened.
Her Eyes, Your Honor!
By M. D. Umbstaetter.
A famous criminal court trial, a mysterious woman whose life hinges on circumstantial evidence, and a legal trap resulting in an unparalleled climax are the features of this stirring tale.
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Important Announcements for the Fall of 1895.
The publishers take pleasure in announcing an unusual amount of good fiction. Early issues of the Atlantic will contain The Apparition of Gran'ther Hill, by Rowland E. Robinson; Pilgrim Station, by Mary Hallock Foote; Athenaise, a Creole Story, by Kate Chopin; The End of the Terror, by Robert Wilson, a Southern writer. Aside from these, there will be stories by Mrs. Wiggin, Henry James, L. Dougall, Ellen Mackubin, and others.
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