Salad and dressings from garden to table
The article extols fresh salad greens and proper dressing, noting crisp lettuce and lettuce foundation as essentials. It details French dressing with olive oil and vinegar, adds tips for chives mint garnish, and presents recipes for Mutton With Peas salad chips and Pimento Egg and Tuna Salad with mayonnaise and gelatin binding.
Versatile Offal Dishes Show Simple Tenderness and Frugal Flavor
The article extols sweetbreads brains liver kidneys and other offal as wholesome tasty options when cooked properly. It notes liver and kidneys require careful preparation, hearts benefit from slow cooking or quick frying, and tripe with a spiced sauce is easy to digest. Spare ribs greens and cabbage pair well with these dishes and country markets price offal more affordably.
A Summer Dinner Fruit Cocktail Idea
A pleasant start for four diners features a fruit cocktail served chilled in stemmed glasses with mint or cherry. The article suggests using ripe watermelon balls and orange juice for a refreshing summer drink, highlighting seasonal fruit variety and simple presentation.
Old Time Animal Dishes Recipes Instructive Cookery
A vintage collection describes preparing heart, kidney, peas puree and ox tail soup. Procedures cover cleaning, parboiling, sauteing in butter, and simmering with rice, raisins, walnuts, or milk to finish. Includes volumes for spices, vegetables, and sauces.
Rubberized Silks in Bathing Suits
A fashion note details rubberized silk bathing outfits in rose tones with black white trim. It describes an over dress, wide skirt fullness, black satin knickers with matching vestee, black stockings and slippers, rose cap, and a striped parasol for sun protection.
Pile fabrics top fur imitation in cloak trade
Pile fabric producers report strong demand in fall cloak markets. The most expensive pile maxes are selling well as buyers prefer the look of pile to furs. Imitation fur quality and wearability are cited as key factors reducing price sensitivity to real fur.
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How to Wash Colored Embroidery and Ironing Tips
Instructions for whitening garments with colored embroidery without fading. Also guidance on preserving smoothing irons, heating methods, pressing black lace, ironing ribbon, and using protective papers to keep ribbons stiff and glossy.
Skirt Demand Drives Summer Fashion Rush
Pali Shimby notes strong demand for summer skirts has depleted stocks and forced duplicate orders. Plannels and gabardines lead, with linens and crepes in high demand. White remains desired while pastels draw growing interest from merchants and customers amid silk shortages and high fabric prices.
Rug care and cleaning method from a vintage guide
A reader describes treating a rug with a face down position on a flat surface, applying a thin cooked mixture of powdered gum arabic dissolved in water to the back, using parchment paper and a rubber brush, then letting the rug dry to remove odor and looseness. The result is a stiff but clean rug ready for airing.
His Idea of Bigness in a Fourth Grade Test
During end of year exams a fourth grade class names the five most important men of the recent war. A student lists General Pershing President Wilson General Foch and two local brothers as the top figures.
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Wilson
Foch
Tom
Andy Sullivan
Pat
The Last Word and Lonely Job Dialogues
The Last Word features Bridget arguing over dish preparation with Mistress Now in a brisk domestic scene. The Lonely Job presents a night watchman insisting he seeks solitude despite the doctor recommending isolation for a nervous condition.
Deduction and Parrot Polyclinic Quote
A quip imagines a polyclinic as a hospital for parrots. The line plays on the unfamiliar term and the speaker jokes about medical facilities for birds.
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Jim
Modern Girl's Heart and the Apartment Boom
A Kansas City Star quip notes the modern girl's residence as an apartment house with many young men occupying corners. As demand drives rent up, living conditions worsen until a new building rises and most renters move out, often followed by marriage after unpaid rents accumulate.
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Kansas City Star
The Albatross Lifelong At Sea and Nesting Habits
The albatross spends most of its life at sea and flies without constant wing strokes, soaring with little effort. Nesting occurs briefly each year on isolated islands like Crozet or Tristan da Cunha, with the quietest people sometimes making the biggest noise.
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Crozet Islands
Indian Ocean
Tristan da Cunha
South Atlatic Ocean
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