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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1900
Page
12
Fashions from Paris at the Salon des Lumieres captivate women at the exposition. Worth leads in a diverse display with gowns in duchesse satin and mousseline de soie, featuring empire robes and robe ensembles. Doucet Laferriere Taudnitz and Paquin contribute ornate outfits with lace, embroidery, and velvet trims.
A Paris exposition display features a Parisian matron in a tailored autumn gown with gray cloth embellishments and buttoned bolero. Black roses mix with pale tones in millinery as fashion trends are outlined. Elysee garden party attracts many distinguished foreign visitors amid warm weather.
Viola Allison offers practical guidance on selecting, cutting, and shipping fresh flowers. She explains how to trim stems, plunge into water, use salt, and store in a cool room, plus methods to preserve woody stems, protect blooms in bowls or boxes, and choose compatible jars and decorations for home arrangements.
Mme Louvet wife of the president greeted guests in a pale green satin gown with lace appliqué and a black retichet toque. The garden scene under chandeliers featured the Garde Republicaine and First engineers bands playing all afternoon with uniforms from many nations. Ballroom dancing thrived beneath the Bourbon coat of arms as republicans and civilians mingled in bright summer attire.
An article describes charming afternoon gowns worn at Newport summer resorts. A gray silk muslin afternoon suit features layered underskirts with gray and blue embroidery and chenille accents. A pouched bodice, matching fringe, elbow sleeves with fine embroidery, and pale coats with bold collars are noted. An evening wrap in blue gray and sea green hints at coastal weather.
Fashion notes describe lighter cloth gowns in ice color peach and soft green hues with subtle folds and pannierlike hips. Gowns use tucked and corded materials, silver clasps, bodice openings over vests, and boleros with guipure lace or diagonal lace insertions.
A charming bathing dress may be made of fine black serge piped with pale blue silk and trimmed with tiny white and blue tassels and cords. The peignoir des bains de mer is an indispensable adjunct, possibly fashioned of white scouring cloth deeply hemmed and ornamented with dots in black and pale blue flax thread.
A detailed preparation of a chocolate cream dessert. It instructs mixing cocoa with milk, simmering lemon rind, combining with beaten egg yolk, vanilla, gelatin, and white egg foam. The mix is cooled, whisked to a spongy texture, set in a mold, and served with wafer biscuits.
Jugged Pireonn and preparation details describe selecting pigeons, cleaning, and grinding liver yolks and suet with bread crumbs and seasonings. Birds are braced with lemon rind, parsley, pepper, nutmeg, and butter, then stuffed, trussed, and cooked in a stewing jar submerged in boiling water for three hours. Gravy is strained, thickened, and served over the birds with potato straws and lemon slices.
Instructions advise treating fruit stains on table linen with kerosene as soon as possible, then washing with kerosene, followed by soap and water in the ordinary manner. The guidance emphasizes prompt action and standard washing steps.
The article discusses versatile gowns and components that let a single dress serve many roles. It highlights black gowns with various skirts and color linings, removable sleeves, chemisettes, and lace bodices as stylish options. It notes the appeal of white lace bodices and Louis XIV coats for current fashion. It ends by noting transformation dresses must evolve continually.
Description from a royal column outlines a new bathing tunic for 13 to 17 year olds as worn by Queen Victoria’s granddaughter. The outfit features a seamless back design, a vest sewn to the left, a right side button system, neat binding, scarlet braid trim, navy serge fabric, and banded knee-length drawstring-like sections.
A bridesmaid gown suited for garden fetes features soft Japanese silk with a semi transparent large yoke of tucked silk and lace. Green monasseline de sole drapes around the shoulders in a rosette, sleeves and skirt show lace vandykes and flowing folds. An underpert coat in grass green silk completes the ensemble.
Readable fragments describe a buttermilk pancake recipe with eggs and buttermilk and butter portions. Also listed are luncheon items including Krust Rice Wales Potted Beef and Ham Beet Salad with tea and sherbet. A method for meat loaf or pâté steps shredding meat, beating with butter, and passing through a machine to smooth the paste.
Dinner items include Mock Hisque Soup Mock Goose Apple Sauce Onion Boned in Cream Celery Creamed Potatoes Dandelion Lemon Water Ice Coffee and extensive instructions for preparing a Mock Goose with veal breast. detailed steps describe trimming rolling binding and timing for a final dish with brown gravy and apple sauce. The text reflects archaic culinary directions and fragmentary phrasing.
A dated kitchen instruction describes cutting beefsteak into pieces and browning with dripping. It directs adding sliced onions and simmering until tender, then thickening the gravy with half and half and more dripping. Serve with boiled cabbage when ready.
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