Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1902 — The November Designer. [ARTICLE]

The November Designer.

The Designer for November sets forth a tempting array of fashions and millinery for early winter and late autumn wear. Coats of all kinds for ladies, misses and juveniles are prominent in the display. “Stylish Shirt Waists for Winter Wear” and ladies’ outing costumes are also given marked attention. “Old Fashioned Quilt Piecing,” by Jessie de Forest, is a quaint and interesting contribution to the literary part of the magazine. “American Cooking Schools,” by Waldon Fawcest, is of equal interest but in different vein. “The Babes in the Woods,” by Imogen A. Storey, Is a charming little play and drill for small children, while “Selections for the Recitationist” offers several excellent Thanksgiving poems culled from various sources. “What Women are Doing,” edited by the women readers of the Designer, increases in interest, the paragraphs this month recounting several odd and original ways by which some women make a living. The short stories are “Cinderella & Co., Limited,” by Ida Preston Robinson, and “How Nina Earned Her Camera,” by L. R. Ayers. “A Thanksgiving Turkey Party,” by Mary Dawson, furnishes hints for entertaining on that holiday, and Mary Kilsyth tells how to fit up “Stairways and Halls.” “Novelties in Knitting” plies directions for making several useful and acceptable articles, and a half-page is devoted to the fashionable dress decoration known as “French Knots.” Under “Millinery” are given directions for making an autumn bonnet, and “Points on Dressmaking” treats of fur trimming. “Book Notes,” “Toilet Table Chat,” “Etiquette Hints,” “In Motherland,” “Floriculture” and “The Kitchen Kingdom” are other helpful and entertaining departments which always are given place in this magazine for the house.