Garment Instructions for Lace Yoke and Crepe De Chine
A fashion note describes two 1920s style garments. The first features a lace yoke with point detailing at back front and shoulders, black satin edging, triple tucked front and back panels, and sleeve lace trim. Required materials include two yards of 22 inch wide fabric and satin and lace amounts. The second design uses crepe de chine with three narrow tucks and a central box plait with buttoned front, a plain collar and cuffs with satin trim. Materials listed are two yards crepe de chine and twelve buttons.
Cleaning Coat Collars With An Old Toothbrush
Use an old toothbrush dipped in naphtha to rub spots on coat collars. The method quickly lifts grime without leaving rings, though avoid brushing velvet and never use on satin.
Crepe Fabrics Prominent in Lingerie Use
Cotton and silk crepe fabrics gain favor for all lingerie articles. They wash well and show admirable qualities. Finest cotton crepe offers attractive appearance and suits hand work to strong advantage.
Fine Neckwear Shapes from Bibs of Net and Lace
The latest neckwear resembles bibs of fine net and lace woven into a stock. A broad lace insertion keeps a flat shoulder by joining the bib front to the back.
Made Pretty Frock at French Fashion Show
Sheer white linen frock elaborately embroidered with eyelets and trimmed with black velvet ribbon drew praise as one of the prettiest outfits at a recent French fashion show.
Pleasant Lavender Fragrance Sachet for Linen
A method to make a fragrant sachet layer for sheets and pillowcases. Use pale lavender, Japanese crepe, and dried lavender blossoms to create a scented wadding wrapped in crepe with raw edges folded in. Bind edges with criss crossed lavender ribbon to resemble lacing while keeping the filling intact.
Improves the Flower Pot with Artistic Paper Covers
A practical earthenware pot can be dressed up with a changeable paper cover. The design uses color cut for top and bottom, fitted with dome fasteners or hooks and eyes. Narrow ribbons are simplified by removable girdles, creating a neater, firmer finish than a tied ribbon.
Tunic Fashionable Reigns In Vogue This Season
The tunic remains popular this enews season and is said to become more fashionable with each trend. Designers note its flattering effect on many figures while showcasing a charming house dress with a black and white striped skirt and petunia colored tunic edged in dull silver fringe.
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L. Nasset
Vary Consanson
Pene Hanson
Miss Josief
Grea
New Veils Rock Local Shops With Fancy Mesh Designs
White mesh veils with black thread patterns attract attention in shop windows while flesh colored grounds feature elaborate black over designs. Local retailers showcase these veils as the next popular accessory.
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Shetlands
Origin and Many Redeeming Features of Mulefoot Hog
John H. Dunlap, president of the American Mulefoot Hog Record Association, outlines the mulefoot hog lineage from ancient writers to modern times. He notes its solid foot, hardy nature, prolific sows, and high meat quality while warning against overbreeding and inbreeding. The association in Columbus, Ohio, records purebred hogs to aid buyers and breeders.
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John H. Dunlap
Williamsport
Ohio
Aristotle
B. C
Linnaeus
Sweden
Holland
Scotland
Norway
Turkey
Taft
Cually
Spillman
United States Department of Agriculture
Excellent Hints for Vegetables and Garden Care
Warm soil favors tender vegetables. Keys include beans corn cucumbers eggplants melons okra peppers pumpkins squash sweet potatoes and tomatoes. Transplant tender crops from hotbeds to the garden and label spacing. Watch for Jack Frost cabbage pests and orchard bloom petals. Keep paths neat mulch strawberries before bloom weed control.
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Jack Frost
Rolls for Lunch or Tea From White Mountain
Instructions describe making milk and butter enriched rolls. Gather flour salt sugar milk and butter. Yeast dissolved in lukewarm water, whites beaten stiff folded in. Rise overnight then shape into rolls bake thirty minutes with brown paper cover to prevent over browning.
Electrically Heated Tray Keeps Food Warm During Service
An innovative tray uses a water filled pan heated by an electric coil. The tray nests on the pan and vents steam to maintain warmth for dishes shortly before serving. A brief connection to the circuit heats the water and sustains temperature.
The Self Reliant Homemaker Pays in Quiet Mastery
The text extols the value of a housewife who cooks and manages the home herself. It contrasts her control and peace with reliance on a maid and notes the independence, order, and refined table she maintains despite the demanding nature of domestic labor.
Peanut Cookies Plain Oven Baked Snack
A simple recipe describes mixing sugar eggs butter peanuts flour baking powder salt and milk to form a soft dough. Roll out, cut oblong shapes, place on a greased pan and bake in a moderate oven about eight minutes.
Cleaning velvet with a toothbrush and naphtha
Use an old toothbrush dipped in naphtha to rub the spot on fabrics, leaving grime behind. Delicate velvet can be cleaned this way, but satin should not be brushed.
Sand Tarte Recipe From Historic Biscuits
Sand Tarte instructs to mix two eggs reserve one white two cups sugar one cup butter or drippings three cups flour beat eggs cream shortening and sugar roll thin top with egg white sprinkle sugar and cinnamon press almond or raisin center bake in a hot oven.
Pineapple Pie Recipe Yields Several Desserts
A simple pineapple pie recipe uses one can pineapple one cup sugar two cups water two eggs two heap ing tablespode corn starch and a little salt. Makes three large pies or four small pies.
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Walt
Recipes Worth Trying with Leftovers and Desserts
Leftover vegetables can be used in a Russian salad with optional nuts bacon or fish, served on lettuce with French dressing. Orange pudding uses bread crumbs and orange flavors, baked in a water bath with meringue topping. Apricot Brown Betty layers fruit bread crumbs sugar and butter, baked slowly and served with cream.
Flavorful kitchen notes for soups and turnips
The guide suggests a kitchen bouquet of parsley peppercorns cloves bay leaf and herbs for soups. It advises adding potato to mashed turnips or dredging flour before seasoning and changing pickle water for flavor. It also recommends saving pickle vinegar for salad dressing.
Anise Seed Cookies from Simple Kitchen Guide
A basic recipe instructs mixing butter and two thirds cup sugar with two beaten eggs, add anise seed, two cups flour with baking powder and milk. Form a soft dough, roll to a thickness slightly more than pie crust, cut shapes, bake on a greased pan for seven to eight minutes in a moderate oven.
Old-Time Ginger Snaps
A vintage recipe describes ginger snaps made with molasses, butter, soda, and ginger. The dough is rolled thin, cut with a cookie cutter, baked in a hot oven, and stored in a tin to stay fresh for a long time.
Stuffed Celery Recipe Instructions
Select tender stalks and prepare 60 curved stems for stuffing. Blend Roquefort with cream through a ricer if needed, then add thick cream to form a palatable mixture. Fill celery hollows, chill in the icebox, and serve with salad or French dressing when desired. Relish without dressing.
Cheese Omelet Sauce Proportions
A cheese omelet may be served with a cheese sauce made from one and a half tablespoons flour one quarter cup grated cheese and one cup milk. The sauce can be added to omelets that include boiled rice minced meat or other nutritious ingredients.
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Chicago
Mulefoot Low
White Mountain
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