Paris Fashions Embrace Khaki and Lavish Silks
Paris reports outing gowns in khaki cloth praised for durability and weather masking. Styles range from Eton and bolero jackets to tile coats, with stitched bands and plaited skirts. Lace, petticoats, and corset covers shape silhouettes while decorative hats, dog outfits, and Chantilly lace mark luxury.
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Paris
Itchina
Paquin
Legion of Honor
Napoleon the Great
Papain
Handsome Table Linen Care and Embroidery Trends
The article outlines preserving fine table linens in dry storage with organized shelves, proper ironing and testing irons, and avoiding heavy pressing. It covers monograms, raised embroidered motifs, and drawn thread work, plus tips on selecting durable fabrics, hems, sideboard cloths, and washing methods for white and linen pieces.
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Stry
Stotth
Arabelkt Tompking
Mr. Smith
Reginald
Timely Menu Breakfast Fried Trout and Yeast Rolls
A breakfast menu lists fried trout, French rolls, radishes, stewed tomatoes, stewed rhubarb and chocolate. It provides a detailed yeast roll recipe: Vienna flour, salt, compressed yeast, sugar, milk, butter. steps include warming, mixing, kneading, rising, shaping into eight or nine rolls, proofing, baking, and finishing with warmed milk and butter.
Luncheon Or Tea Menu With Shrimp Paste Sandwiches
A luncheon or tea feature lists boiled shrimps sliced tomatoes water cress potatoes creamed sliced oranges sponge cake and tea or cocoa. A cream sandwich recipe instructs whipping cream and folding in salmon or shrimp paste with parsley salt and pepper, spread on bread rounds and dusted with coraline pepper for presentation.
Calf's Head a la Madeire Dinner Menu Item
Dinner features Calf's Head a la Madeire with onion puree celery fried potatoes Brussels sprouts and French tarts. The head is prepared with celery shallot lemon juice herbs pepper and salt then cut and glazed with madeira before stewing with mushrooms olives and tongue.
Odd Brain Dish and Home Furniture Polish Mix
The text describes boiling brains, tying them in a muslin bag, and serving with fried bread and sauce. It also gives a furniture polish recipe using half a pint of vinegar, spirits with half a pint each of vinegar, spirits of wine, linseed oil, and turpentine, shaken in a bottle and applied with flannel then dried.
The Skirt of 1900 Fashion Trends
A fashion note discusses the shift toward trimmed skirts and new spring fabrics. It notes skirts preserve figures, favor short hip basques and tailored coats, and mentions bolero decline and color tones like pate biscuit and slate gray. Readers are urged to wear colors that suit them despite trends.
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Simpke
Chantilly Jace
Chick
S.art
Catherine Talbot
Hong
Louis
New Pullman Tourist Sleepers For California Routes
One new Pullman tourist sleeper train runs Mondays from 2:55 p m via Chicago Great Western to Los Angeles and Southern California with wide vestibules steam heat and gas light. A second sleeper departs weekly with guided staff to destination. Cars offer long journey comfort at about half the standard sleeper price. Res City ticket agent 763 Main Street provides details.
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California
Chicago
F. B. Res City Ticket
Main Street
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