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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1901
Page
28
The piece surveys fall and winter styles led by black hues on gowns and hats, with French frocks featuring taffeta bands and lace, nets with velvet ribbons, striped foulard fabrics, and elaborate headpieces. Automobile coats, beaded laces, and jeweled trims dominate, while practical accessories and new walking outfits appear in Harper's Bazar and Ladies' Home Journal patterns.
The article notes London weather as cold damp and raw, while English women remain impervious to it wearing muslin dresses. Americans discuss woolen garments and jackets, but English women display calm unmoved fortitude despite the chill. It mentions a decorative transparent yoke lace and a fashion detail observed in the semi-ad state.
A vivid description of a black figured foulard costume featuring a tucked bodice fastened to the left with hooks and loops, silk collar, lace edged sleeves, and a separate zouave piece. The waist has silk trim, and the skirt shows a center back cut with three lace trimmed flounces.
A travelogue contrasts British aristocratic beauty with robust American vitality. It notes English women appear delicate and willowy, with slim figures and refined faces, while American women seem more robust. The piece mentions tall, pale London style and a March tented church service at All Hallows with a 7:30 am daily service.
A white marquee tent near All Hallows church London Wall opens at 6 30am to serve working girls who must travel early for trains. The shelter offers rest time with knitting sewing and reading while an organist plays music before business hours.
The piece discusses jewel care with air tight wool lined cases and silver tissue for diamonds. It describes cleaning methods using eau de cologne, soap, whiting, alcohol for turquoise, and drying in sawdust, plus pearl conditioning with sun baths and sea submersion to restore luster.
The Kansas City Times reports on Dr Ceresote who found 52 microbe types in celery and lettuce after washing in sterilized water. He advises washing then soaking in a 3 percent tartaric acid solution to reduce germs before consumption. Vegetables from manure fields and dusty stalls may carry diverse bacteria including bacilli and parasitic eggs.
Old straw hats are repurposed into lamp shades for summer houses and verandas. Leghorns or large garden hats work best with the crown top cut out and wired to shape. Trim with artificial flowers and grasses, adding green fringe along the lower edge for a floppy, decorative effect.
Fashion notes from the London Times describe evening and walking dress trends for modish women. Buff white lilac hues prevail with lace silk trims, crape turbans, and new straw hats mixed with floss silk.
Readers note new gastronomy trend with cucumber and cheese pairing as a garnish. Cheese omelets replace the standard cheese course at a Newport mansion dinner noted as very swell. Roman punch accompanied the soup during the fashionable event.
A 1920s style kitchen note describes novelties such as asparagus replacing beas with sweetbreads, small baked tomatoes as a roast fowl garnish, baked fish with mashed potato cakes, and fried pork or bacon garnishes. It suggests serving fried chicken with cream dressing and cauliflower and horseradish cream for roast beef.
From the London Globe, villagers along the Volga report a new sect of women in Samara province led by an elderly peasant called the Blessed Mother. The women live solitary, fasting in hillside holes, awaiting a world-ending conflagration. Ten Wise Virgins serve as their bodyguard. the group claims miraculous powers.
A smart deep blue mercerized sateen gown with scattered white pattern. It features flat lace at the skirt edge, a similarly ornamented bodice, and a white or pale vest. Sateen edges may be scalloped, with neckline and sleeve details described for cool summer wear.
Gooseberries simmered with sugar to taste in a jar until sweetened. Fold in custard and top with whipped cream to finish the dessert.
A method describes turning pulp into a glass dish layer, pouring custard over, chilling, then topping with whipped cream. Whipped cream should be prepared hours ahead for firmer texture, and green gooseberries are suggested as a garnish or ingredient.
Short sleeves bring a wide range of elbow length gloves. A costly novelty is the long fingerless glove made of duchesse and honizon lace. They fit the arm with a lace border at the top and over the hands, scallops preferred to points. Elbow gloves come in many silk shades and wash well with light fabrics.
If you lack a fish kettle tie the fish in coarse muslin to boil it without delay. A splash of vinegar in the water helps flavor and whiten the fish while firming the texture. never boil vigorously or the fish will become tough and flavorless.
Use a hot water damp cloth dipped in whiting to rub away dirt on paint then rinse dry and polish with a chamois. The method restores the surface and the whiting does not harm delicate colors.
Captain Hawkins of Atchison Kansas, a former Cuba veteran with the 23rd Kansas and later a commissioned officer in a Philippine colored regiment, did not return with his regiment. He owns two fine Luzon farms stocked with 2,000 sheep and has developed a tobacco plantation.
In a Chicago Record-Herald account a woman resists advances after an initial compliment, with the man’s groggy reaction giving way to him claiming he flatters angels. She, being a woman, does not strike out, and the confrontation passes.
The piece describes bead chains as tawdry and unsuited for a well dressed woman. It notes they attract only seekers of novelty and would spoil a handsome gown. The author expects the fad to be fleeting and soon forgotten.
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