Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1902 — The July Designer. [ARTICLE]

The July Designer.

Charming Fashions and Millinery, designed especially for the summer season, are given prominent place in The Designer for July, but not to the exclusion of other features of feminine interest, such as Fancy Work, which in this issue embraces “Sofa Cushions,” “Toilet Table Chat,” “Etiquette Hints,” suggestions for the mother, the housekeeper and the gardener. “Some Outdoor Decorations,” by Mary Kilsyth, and “Seaside Frolics,” by Dr. Sarah A. French Battey, give delightful and new ideas to those who wish for closer acquaintance with nature, while patriotism is paid due homage in “July,” by John DeMorgan, “Menus in Patriotic Garb” by Sarah W. Landes, and “Selections for the Recitationist,” “The Late Lamented,” by Leigh Gordon Giltner; “A Morning in Midsummer,” by Edward A. Morris; “Ralph’s Successful Experiment,” by A. J. Johnson, and several chapters of Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk’s charming love story, “The Apology of Ayliffe,” supply the fiction. The notes on current literature are exceedingly interesting this month. So, too, is “What Women are Doing.” The latter department, by the way, beginning with the September number, will be edited by the women readers of The Designer, with monetary reward for those who among them show marked aptness in this novel, entertaining and instructive line of work. Worthy of especial note among the fashion features are Outing Costumes of every description for ladies, and “Summer Apparel for Little Lads.” From the Hammond Daily Republican we learn that Mayor-elect Knotts has succeeded in bringing about peace in the divided G. A. R. ranks in Hammond. The Major Genera} had better go over to Rensselaer and try bis hand in that line on the fractious “boys” and “girls” of that burg Lowell Tribune.