Colonial Antiques Scene Reflects Old World Charm
Fragmentary notes describe antique items and domestic memories from a bygone era. Mentions of grand dames and furnishings hint at an enduring fascination with classic furniture and colonial era decor.
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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1900
Page
12
Fragmentary notes describe antique items and domestic memories from a bygone era. Mentions of grand dames and furnishings hint at an enduring fascination with classic furniture and colonial era decor.
A nostalgic survey traces early salad origins from meat and herbs to sea water flavoring. It outlines simple and compound salads, lists health benefits of vegetables, and gives classic recipes such as Lettuce Salad Polish Salad Dutch Salad and Spanish Salad with detailed preparation and dressings. It shifts to a fashion section on coiffure trends and hair ornaments, then briefly mentions remedies for hard corns.
A reading list of breakfast and luncheon items with detailed recipes for anchovy omelet and apricot tarts. Includes salads from French to Japanese styles, mayonnaise and salad dressings, corn cures, and a meat dish of ham and rice cutlets plus serving suggestions for beverages and sides.
Fashion notes describe holes dressing as soft and natural with irregular waves. rigid frizzy effects from hot irons are rejected for a Greuze like distingue look. pompadours abound but proper style favors a three part hair division with an invisible side part and a central deep wave.
A fashion blurb notes embroidered holland and pique as favored fabrics for summer, with light weight piques and eyelet dots. Silk waists with pique skirts remain popular, while white blouses paired with lace, wash silk, or embroidered muslin are preferred, layered under bolero or Eton jackets of pique.
Advice on proper glove care instructs folding them flat in a glove box, mending holes and replacing buttons, using violet powder to prevent odor, airing on fine days, and cleaning often rather than buying new pairs.
Velvet ribbons are widely used to trim thin frocks with black preferred. Lace inserts feature narrow velvet borders along lace edges. If skirts are self trimmed velvet rosettes and a broad girdle adorn the bodice. Velvet stocks return with a lace frill softening the harsh line about the face.
An advertising notice invites readers to request a booklet describing Okoboji and Spirit Lakes with hotel and boarding house rates. It touts private cottages and commodious hotels as the finest outing location and urges sending for the booklet before it runs out.
The Iowa Holiness Association holds its annual camp meeting in Des Moines from June 8 to 18. The Chicago Great Western Railway offers excursion tickets on the certificate plan for June 6 to 11, valid for return by June 21 at one and a half fare. Inquiries to F Roas, City Ticket Agent, 690 Main Street, Dubuque, Iowa.
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