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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1914
Page
14
Readable guide for holiday decor and sweets with steps for bell centerpieces, mirror trees, holly garlands, candlestick setups, and Christmas candy recipes. Includes holly ribbons, mossed mirrors, tinsel, and recipe basics for cocoanut balls stars holly balls mince bars and more.
A housewife favorite is embroidery on linens such as sheets pillowcases and towels. Hemstitching fades with wear while hand embroidery often lasts longer. Patterns for a pillowslip centerpiece and dollies show a tasteful linen gift idea with netting and edgings, with monograms adding elegance.
The display features pendants in jade quartz malachite and lapis and rhinestone drops on thin gold hat pins. Delicate enameled flowers in silver, brooches and pendants, garnets and jets return in new forms, with stockings and rhinestone buckles topping the fashion notes.
A penuwisier is crafted by dressing a small doll with a pretty face in black. The skirt is long and heavy so the doll stands on its own, with a white handkerchief pinned over the shoulder and a white apron and cap added. The result resembles a neat nurse, completed with a badge on the skirt.
A reflective Christmas message urges generosity and sharing rather than mere gift trading. It calls readers to reconnect with friends through warmth, letters, and heartfelt greetings, emphasizing the season as the birthday of Christ.
A fragment describes making scented beads by soaking allspice in water to create fragrant beads. It notes they are refined and can be polished with little effort, suggesting a simple home craft technique.
A tale links the Glastonbury thorn’s Christmas bloom to Joseph of Arimathea's tomb in England. Legends describe the staff sprouting leaves and flowers, patrons visiting Buckinghamshire cuttings, and historic calendar changes triggering mob actions over eleven days.
A festive recipe piece describes Yuletide baking with two Christmas cookie batches. It lists ingredients including almonds sugar ground hazel nuts eggs and lemon juice. The method covers beating whites with sugar shaping portions and baking until crisp in a cool oven.
Instructions describe darkening water with ink then threading beads through a string. It notes using colored beads and rose beads made from boiled flowers mixed with a dough-like substance, kneaded by hand to create flower beads.
A willow lamp complements willow chairs table and desk in a modern bedroom suggesting a summery, simple style. The article advocates minimal decor with essential items only and notes the lamp is electric and portable for use in multiple rooms.
A young reader outlines frugal gift ideas for a girl with little to spend. She suggests making nine handkerchiefs from a yard of fine linen, adding simple floss scallops in one corner, then stamping them. By time and effort, inexpensive yet thoughtful presents emerge from sewing and finishing tasks.
Adna Aikens 70, of Concord Junction, slipped on ice while at his home yard and fell onto a protruding spike, severing an artery and causing a fatal thigh wound. Despite aid, Dr Titcomb arrived too late. medical examiner said life could not be saved. Funeral at Help of Christians church. He had worked at Allen Chair Co. since moving from Albany Vermont in 1908.
Miss Mary Hoop er Dunbar will marry Roland Edson Howe at 8 30 this evening at the Shepley residence in Brookline. Rev Abbot Peterson will officiate and Ralph Waldo Howe will serve as best man. A reception follows with guests from several states and music by an instrumental trio.
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