Masked Courtship Blazes From Pontoon to Mountain Home
Miss Gladys Helmerton of Newport and in season Manhattan ends up in Challoner under a changed name Susanna Brown. A lumberman Mark Sedgewick woos and wins her, with Helmerton revealing her departure and a plan for a city future as the couple heads toward a shared honeymoon with Helmerton’s blessing and a nod to Helmerton as a backer.
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Challoner
Gladys Helmerton
Newport
Narragansett
Manhattan
Miss Helmerton
West Virginia
Eben Jackson
Eben
Alleghanies
Jackson Homestead
Fifth Avenue
Susanna Brown
Susanna
Ohio
Jackson
Helmerton
Mark Sedgewick
Mark
Wilds
Bosa
Migs Helmerton
Masquerade Wardrobe Notes for Uritan and Marguerite
Describes Masquerade costumes for URITAN gray cashmere short skirt and bodice with a white muslin chemisette among white cambric adornments. Marguerite dress from Faust features a gray princess gown with a low square bodice, black velvet trims, slashed sleeves with white silk puffing, a white muslin chemisette, tasselled gray cashmere bag, and a white lace cap. Materials: URITAN six yards 46 in, cambric two and a half yards 36 in, muslin half yard. Marguerite six and a half yards cashmere, silk one and a half yards, muslin half yard 36 in, ribbon velvet about eight yards.
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Marguerite
Faust
Red Ears a Beauty Handicap
An aging beauty tip piece explains red ears come from diet and weather. It advises avoiding overseasoned foods and hot cold shifts, protecting ears with veils in wind, and careful powdering. It also notes turquoise screw earrings can lessen redness and create a pallid look.
Making a Window Seat and Fashion Tips
A practical wooden window seat box is described with dimensions five feet by two and a half by two feet deep and a hinged lid plus cushions for a cozy corner. Also guidance on dark hair styling, button sewing, and punctured cloth trimming with stiletto holes for revers and waistcoats.
Soft gray cashmere gown with satin bow and net yoke
Garment description details a soft gray cashmere gown with a satin ribbon waist-band bow, tucked net yoke edged in silk, silk undersleeves, and over sleeves cut to a point. Materials listed include 7 yards cashmere 48 inches wide, 3 yards ribbon, 1 yard silk, 6 yards insertion and other trims.
Crocheted Sleeves and Quick Fixes for Dress Harbors
A fashion note on crocheted silk sleeves for indoor gowns using a wide open pattern and double silk floss in colors matching or contrasting gowns. Instructions suggest safe wear of sleeves to elbow or wrist and advise a safety pin as a substitute needle for threading ribbon through tape.
New Blouse Trends Feature Silk and Lace Fashions
A 1900s style notice describes silk and lace blouses with soft velvet or silk ties, ribbon trims, and rosettes. It covers decorative methods like fringe knots, shoulder rosettes, bertha-style rims, and ornate cuffs. It notes washable white silk blouses, and a designer copy with Irish lace tabs and pearl accents.
Changing the Piano: Placement Tips for Tone Preservation
A guide on piano placement warns against near windows, radiators, or drafts as cold heat and dampness harm the soundboard and wires. It advises keeping the instrument unencumbered by bric a brac to preserve tone and avoid moisture damage from rain or humidity.
Correct Mourning Fashions Embrace Waterproof Crepe
Mourning attire has changed greatly with waterproofed crepe replacing extravagant trims. Soft finish crepe suits modern picturesque gowns with empire and empress styles returning to simplicity. Millinery uses long crepe welts to drape large and small shapes, with Paris and Vienna adopting the material for mourning items.
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Paris
Vienna
Lace Coats for Evening and Day Wear Describe Lace Styles
The article describes lace coats for evening and day use with forms resembling paletots. Irish lace belts feature V-shaped velvet trims at the sleeves. Lace gowns sometimes add velvet to the bodice and back, with the lace appliqued over it.
Taking Up Carpets In House Cleaning
Step by step guide to removing carpets to minimize dust. Loosen tacks first, roll carpet side to side, carry outside, and burn removed papers. Sweep and dampen dust with paper piles, then mop floor with suds for a fresh finish. Two or three people help roll and lift ends to prevent dust clouds.
Domestic Tips for Cleaning and Cooking Malarkey
A collection of household hints covers removing pencil marks with lemon on paint, ironing dark calicoes inside out, steaming meat and using stock from reused cooking water, cleaning lamp burners with soap and boiling, and several stain and cleaning tricks. It also suggests potato preparation, careful boiling of delicate eggs, brass cleaning with ammonia, soot removal with salt, milk for ink stains, treacle handling in baking, and using fresh grass to sweep carpets instead of tea leaves.
Orange Pudding From Oranges and Milk
A historic recipe outlines a layered orange pudding. It uses three oranges with milk corn starch butter sugar and eggs. The dish bakes with a meringue topping and orange segments for garnish, served hot or cold.
Pretty Lamp Shade From Wire Net And Beads
A craft note describes shaping a circular net into a funnel shade to fit a lamp chimney. Beads on each stitch with gold thread form a bright fringe at the bottom and a row of large beads at the top. Heavy wires across the top prevent contact with the chimney.
Apple Omelet for Pork and Spare Ribs
Pure and core six or eight large cooking apples stew until soft then mash with one cupful of sugar an ounce of butter and cinnamon. Fold in beaten yolks then stiffly whipped whites, bake in a shallow pudding basin until browned.
Foretastes of Heaven Foretastes of Heaven
The article reflects on Revelation 7 9 17 as a guide to earthly foretaste of heaven. It highlights the multitude of saved from all nations clothed in white robes with palms, public worship, victorious life through Christ, cleansing by his blood, and Christ presence guiding the faithful with safe provisions and leading to living waters. It treats tribulation as refining, and sees God as Emmanuel guiding believers toward heavenly realities on earth.
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Heaven
Earth
Gates of Pearl
Christ
L'm
God
Nicodemus
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Emmanuel
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Ford Pub, Co
Puritan
Apple
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