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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1906
Page
7
Women who do their own housework can preserve hands with rubber and chamois gloves, cold cream, and a nightly anointing routine. Practical tips cover soaps, lotions, and manicure basics to keep skin smooth, prevent redness, and maintain healthy nails.
The article describes smart furs for street and opera with lace velvet and gold embroidery on vests revers and cuffs. Noting three puff sleeves and fur trims on hats muffs and neckpieces, it cites mink dyed to resemble sable and urges en suite fur use. It also guides nail care using cold cream orangewood stick white chalk and natural gloss instead of liquid enamel.
Octagonal luncheon cloths and matching plate doilies of hand woven Italian linen replace oblong pieces. The two and a half yard, twenty two inch wide textiles feature Reticella and Punto Riccio embroidery, geometric and floral motifs, with raised work and tassel borders, evoking antique handwork revived for rich table napery.
A recipe describes simmering a small pork leg with onion bay leaf and peppercorns until tender then shredding the meat. It adds boiled eggs parsley mace sage salt bread crumbs and enough liquor to moisten the mix. The pork is packed into a mold and chilled before serving in slices.
The piece notes chic turbans toques and close fitting hats as smart for street and business wear and gaining popularity. It highlights velvet trims bright ribbons pheasant feathers and velvet over wire frames with dramatic draping and decorative silver tapestry accents and plush gray turbans.
A throat specialist says many women suffer chronic hoarseness from rheumatism in the vocal cords. He recommends daily pineapple, apples, and careful diet, avoiding tomatoes strawberries lettuce and sweets. Proper teeth care and regular rest and light meals support voice improvement.
A clipped prosaic note advises that social success comes from talking about things rather than people and warns against highlighting personal pride among acquaintances. The fragment stresses avoiding personalities and maintaining modest, unobtrusive conduct.
The article discusses unpainted and decorative wall panels as a practical, stylish choice for average homes. It argues panels, even with plain backgrounds, enhance rooms without heavy wallpaper, and suggests combining plain backgrounds with striped, floral, or scroll panels to carry color schemes.
The article explains paneling walls by covering with plain paper from baseboard to ceiling and adding panels cut from rolls. Panels sit about twelve inches above baseboard and reach near the ceiling, forming a frieze and a dado. Wide or narrow panel widths affect paper waste and cost, with bands of paper used as mouldings to finish raw edges.
The article explains finishing walls with square round or oval figures between stripes, using inexpensive bindings and rolls. It notes preferred soft cream blue or pink backgrounds with floral panels, advises two narrow panels flanking a wide one, and cites prices from fifteen to twenty cents a roll for bedroom papers and cartridge paper at eighteen to twenty cents per roll.
Damask paper panels in green tan or gold create two tone living room walls. Prices range from thirty five cents to one dollar per roll with plain background options from twenty five cents. Border mouldings imitate leather with antique brass nail heads costing about a cent and a half. Silk like papers with Louis or Empire patterns start at one dollar per roll for reception rooms. Narrow striped backgrounds and hardwood bead moulding cost three to four cents per foot. Also mentions Man Zan relief remedy to piles sold by Rhoads.
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