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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1912
Page
6
A fireless cooker is presented as highly valuable for housekeepers in hot weather, offering labor savings and safety. It enables long simmering with minimal heat, expands meat reuse options, creates rich soups from scraps, and improves nutrient retention for cereals and fruits through slow cooking and preserved flavors.
This piece offers home remedies and culinary hints such as drying lemon rinds to flavor pies, a pinch of salt removing bitterness, sauted potato balls with parsley, melting chocolate atop tea kettles, and quick reheating of cereals. It notes freshness tests for eggs and a method to judge egg quality by buoyancy.
Parasols and matching hats become a fashion requirement with new decrees. Designers unveil dome bell pagoda lampshade and palm leaf shapes in white green cerise purple and dark satin parasols with bold edge bands. Embroidered and striped parasols attract attention in mid season collections.
Catherine Talbot surveys chic Watteau style hats in nattier blue apricot pink and white with lace crowns and drooping brims. She notes the impact of angle and fabrication on fit and looks while detailing trims including chantilly lace roses velvet ribbons pompadour silk and jelly taffeta for morning to formal wear.
The article offers inexpensive home remedies for brightening hands, removing freckles and tan, and easing redness from windy weather. It prescribes a lemon juice lotion with vinegar rum elder flower water and explains orange stick nail care and gentle glove use to improve circulation and comfort.
Households should regularly clean mattresses by airing and beating to remove dust, brush edges, and inspect tick and ticking. Beatings extend to pillows and bedframes with damp cloths, turpentine or camphor use debated, and folded blankets washed weekly as weather warms.
Practical household hints on shoe cleaning with a coarse brush, using glycerin with a meat grinder, and removing stains from curtains with water soap and table salt. Includes tips on drying in sun and preserving flowers with borax and salt.
Striped fabrics surge in popularity this season with varying stripe widths and color pairings. Black and white stripes provide length and lightness, while blue cerise green and yellow combinations appear in new foulard silks, often paired with voile or marquisette.
Create a simple coat hanger style frame from a cardboard piece seventeen by eight inches with a centered top hole for a loop. Add two holes on the lower edge to hang skirts or gowns, using pins or hooks, and pad with cotton then cover with silk for a neat storage frame.
A fashion note describes new wraps for daily wear suitable for both summer and winter. The design, inspired by Italian peasant garments, hangs from the shoulders with a central point at the back and a cape cut. The fastenings are on the left side.
A guide for crafters to create lasting needlework centerpieces starting this summer. It describes white linen squares five to six inches, joined into a larger piece with lace borders, and worked in white mercerized cotton with eyelet stitches for butterflies and satin stitch for baskets. Designs include floral sprays, daisies, forget me nots, and decorative scrolls connected to basket motifs.
A new invention helps restless infants sleep on hot summer nights. The device provides a breeze to soothe the child in an outdoor cradle and is described as practical if not beautiful, yet a joy to the infant.
Advice on sartorial choices emphasizes timely wear of quality garments over hoarding. It notes women buy fine clothes but seldom wear them, wasting money on alterations and missing opportunities to look distinguished. Appearance influences success and social perception. prudent spending matters.
A kitchen fragment lists peach meringue dessert with sponge rounds and peach halves baked with meringue, plus a lemon custard style sauce and a corn starch custard. It also describes an eggplant Creole dish with onion, parsley, vinegar, and butter baked with crumbs.
Up to date summer wardrobe includes a mackinaw. The snappy Norfolk style outing coat looks best in green cloth. Wear with white linen or cloth skirts and white footwear for a polished look.
Ratine holds a strong allure beyond its rough surface and cost. The piece argues that true appeal lies in superfine wool quality, not in quantity, and credits ratine for simple elegant styles that suit today’s outfits. Observes debates over dress material prices while praising craftsmanship.
In Washington the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, hosted a luncheon featuring cantaloupe with a center of frozen buttermilk. The dish, sometimes with cognac, illustrates oriental taste. Walnut and fruit paste accompanied the frozen buttermilk, served with lacquer and gold ware as attendants in flowing robes observe.
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