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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1922
Page
14
A discussion on combinations in intimate wear and general use garments. It extols charm originality dignity and individualized simplicity as fundamentals of smart dressing. The piece notes that many combinations are delicate yet enduring in fashion.
A long household guide describes home dressmaking for negligees and nightgowns. It details cutting layouts for crepe fabrics, front and back gore arrangements, collar placement, and sleeve construction, with options in nainsook and satin trimmings. It notes empire necklines, lace, embroidery, and decorative bands, plus color notes like Tangerine and tomato and Paris influence.
Fragmentary sewing advice appears instructional with steps to baste sleeves set into armholes join gores and skirt panels. It mentions folding edges topstitching and hemming pockets with adjustments to align center backs and fronts as illustrated.
A fragmented guide offers methods for removing scorch marks with hydrogen peroxide and methods for stains ink rust fruit and clothes care tricks. It includes tips to improvise a mop from old stockings and to polish metals with simple mixtures.
A vintage catalog-style feature highlights three embroidery pillow designs. It describes cross stitch Czech Slavic motifs on linen backgrounds with color schemes of red, old rose, yellow, blue, white, and greens. Patterns fit boudoir living rooms or baby carriages and include finished edges, eyelets, and scalloped borders.
A craft item describes assembling a decorative figure named Miss Peachy Six-in-One. Use a soap shaker as head with cheesecloth for a face and mop fibers for hair, plus a linen towel tunic and dish towel waist. An iron holder forms the body and a pleated holder creates a tam o shanter hat.
A muddled recipe outlines a chocolate cake without eggs using cream and melted butter, sour milk, vanilla, baking soda, and boiling water. It calls for pastry flour sifted with sugar and improvised mixing steps before baking until done.
A fragment describes sour milk cake options with cocoa and flavoring ideas. It notes using venillan when cocoa is included and suggests clove and cassia when cocoa is omitted, presenting an alt as gin style flavoring.
Fragmentary OCR text references baking terms such as eggs sugar and tartar but lacks coherent context. The readable bits suggest a recipe note or kitchen shorthand with measurements and steps missing. No identifiable person, place, or event present.
Fashions shown on this page are Pictorial Review designs with numbers and sizes listed. Prices are 30 cents for each item including Wishbone 8841 and several others like 9129 9556 9750. Transfer notes and center illustration labeled Lesson: Ibhre 1928 accompany the page.
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