In fashion and home notes for coming seasons
The column outlines upcoming fashion trends with graceful, swathed frocks in leather, chiffons and diaphanous fabrics. It advises tailored frill details, cape sleeves, tiered frills, and hem lengths above the knee. It also envisions matching hats and short coats for smart daywear and dance-friendly ensembles. The home section urges efficient kitchen use without sacrificing sitting-room comfort, noting a housewife’s work is never done.
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The Comfort Of Cushions In The Home
An article on making and choosing cushions for warmth and comfort in winter homes. It explains decorative value, fabric choices from lining to velvet, cost considerations, and practical sewing tips such as piping backs and separate stuffing covers. It discusses economy, fabric widths, and simple pleated or ruched cushion designs.
Have a Horsy- Some Woman's Housekeeping Obsession
A satirical piece argues that a wife overfixated on housekeeping harms her wellbeing and family. It urges women to seek outside interests beyond the kitchen to avoid becoming a drudge. It recommends meals in separate rooms for better atmosphere and stresses keeping the kitchen attractive.
Household Hints From A Dated Domestic Column
Practical tips on kitchen tasks and housekeeping include crisp salad vegetables by steeping in borax water, lemon juice in yolks for mayonnaise, sour milk for pastry, and methods to speed beef pudding preparation. Also covered are stroking raisins with butter, nutmeg in turkey stuffing, freshening velvet coats with ammonia and methylated spirits, cleaning kid gloves, preserving rubber hot water bags, saving soap, copper cleaning with hot soap, and a belled pudding preparation method.
Date Based Confections From Classic Recipes
A set of dated dessert and bread recipes using dates includes Date Cream Pie Rich Date Cake Date Roll Economical Date Cake Date Pudding Date Crackers Date Muffins Date Coffee Rolls and a note about advertising value. The items provide method and ingredients such as dates flour butter eggs sugar milk and spices for baking and serving.
Eggs Restore Health Says Woman After Kruschen Cure
A reader recalls years of indigestion until Kruschen Salts eased her condition allowing eggs and potatoes without after-trouble. She notes her brother, 70, is healthy and praises the morning dose. The ad hails Kruschen salts as stimulating stomach liver and kidneys to relieve indigestion headaches and fatigue.
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