Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1902 — The June Designer. [ARTICLE]

The June Designer.

The Designee for Jane is permeated by an atmosphere of early summer. Prom the attractive cover, on which, amid a mass of midsummer daisies, stands a jannty girl inviting you to a game of tennis, to the fashions, millinery and miscellany, all is appropriate and delightfully suggestive of the lovely month of June “In Bridal White” offers toilet hints manifold to the prospective wife, while “Quaint Wedding Customs and Superstitions” will suppy her with food for laughter, if not deep thought. “Giving a Japanese Garden Party” will help out the perplexed woman who wants to give a social entertainment along original lines, while “The Triumph of the Rose” is just what is needed to make the Commencement Day ceremonies complete. The short stories of this number are “A Bit of Leaven,” by Ida Preston Robinson, and “The Waking Up of Zack,” by S. £. Benet. Additional chapters of “The Apology of AylifFe,” by Ellen Olney Kirk, show that this charming love story increases in human interest as it progresses. “Notes of New Books” and “What Women Are Doing”'add to the literary importance of this issue, and the latter department, by the way, is soon to be edited by the women readers of The Designee, notice to which effect appears in the “Answers to Correspondents” column. “Lace and Embroidery” and “Just Bags” supply the fancy work demand satisfactorily. “An Expert” in the millinery department tells how to make a stylish toque for summer wear, and “Points on Dressmaking,” as usual, brings timely assistance to the needlewoman. “Toilet Table Chat,” “Floriculture,” “All Around the House,” “Motherlahd” and “The Kitchen Kingdom” are valued departments, each, as usual, being intelligently and interestingly conducted. Newly married folks is all that makes riding on the cars a diversion.