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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
2
A fashion minded piece on decorative cushion embroidery emphasizing practical, washable pillow covers. It contrasts elaborate needlepoint with simpler printed designs and notes trends toward launderable, artistically simple cushions and interchangeable white cases with embroidery motifs.
The article describes how to apply Christmas cuff designs to blouses and leg o menson sleeves with padding to achieve bold relief. It urges starting on holiday preparations early, sewing doll outfits, making jelly or wine for invalids, and shopping year round to aid those less fortunate. It encourages thoughtful acts for the needy and timely gift gathering.
Advice on using pineapple year round for a fall luncheon. Describes selecting medium fruit, slicing thin, refrigerating, and presenting with sugar and optional toppings like vanilla ice cream. Includes guidance on serving large rounds and composing a decorative dessert plate.
A woman learns to shop for two by asking guidance from butchers and grocers. The salesmen teach economical cuts and proper quantities, helping her avoid waste. Her honesty and persistence forge trusted relationships, turning initial ignorance into confident buying.
The essay outlines how selfishness appears in three classes: innate selfishness, learned selfishness from hardship, and selfishness born of abundance or loneliness. It cites examples of child, parent, and adult behavior, including a frail woman living alone who resists companionship, and households where the dominant male viewpoint shapes daily life. It discusses how loneliness and isolation foster self-centered habits, with observations on women living alone and the dynamics of a masculine dominated household.
A girl seizes on a conventionalized flower spray from a bedspread to inspire an embroidery pattern for a shirtwaist. She traces the design with pencil, earning praise for originality, while damask patterns yield additional motifs.
A kitchen pin cushion tea-trainer is depicted as a woven wire frame lined with silk and stuffed with bran. A silk coverlet encloses the cushion, a ribbon bow decorates the handle and provides a hanging loop. The wire is densely seeded with Bing and the cushion is set in place.
The text argues against greasier fried foods and favors French fries fried in boiling lard with no grease absorption. It recommends testing fat temperature with bread turning golden and using brown paper to reduce greasiness and improve serving.
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