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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1903
Page
6
A guide to decorating a Christmas tree on a budget from 1 cent to $25. Suggestions include inexpensive toppers like Santa figures or cardboard miniatures, popped corn, cranberries, cotton “snow,” tarlatan stockings, colored candies, and tin holders. For pricier versions use foil frost, icicles, and gilt stars with eligible ornaments.
The article advises dainty gift wrapping to please the recipient. It suggests using plain white wrapping paper and small baby ribbons costing around 10 cents per piece. An upscale option is cracker bonbon style with crape tissue paper, which is more costly but can be DIY with craping and ribbon.
Recipe steps describe mixing dry ingredients including baking powder flour candied peel currants raisins almonds mace and salt. Cream butter and sugar with eggs wine and brandy then fold dry into wet until batter forms. Flavor with lemon or preferred essence and bake to fruit cake consistency.
The article notes the abundance of apple trees yet the need for mistletoe from Normandy. It explains mistletoe as a parasite harmful to trees but coverts steps to grow it by lifting bark and inserting seed out of bird reach. It warns that success requires many planted seeds and refers to berries not roasted by heat.
Instructions describe gay themed candy bags for Christmas crafted from tarlahin in red blue pink and green. They are cut into square oblong stocking shaped or circular forms, embroidered tinsed, with a drawing string of baby ribbon or colored worsted.
Pall Malt Crazette recalls a voyage toward Tristan da Cunha, a remote island mid Atlantic. The 8000 foot cone rests on a table land, settlers number about twenty under governor Joseph Beetham. They trade with ships for food and goods but money has no use, while soap and tobacco spark keen exchanges. The islanders seek relocation to South Africa after a century of British occupation and isolation.
A Brooklyn school room packed with sixty five children in space for twenty. A young woman steadies a sleeping baby while the others recite. Two foreign children, labeled as Cubiang and Giuseppi Vagnotti, blend into the class as names adapt to English spelling. The report notes children from Swedish, Norwegian, and Italian backgrounds becoming Americanized, with a photographer seeking types illustrating uniformity among upper grade pupils.
The London Chronicle notes a third century contract of a shorthand teacher and a man who freed a slave for fees totaling 120 drachma, with staged payments. Other Oxyrhynchus papyri detail a fatal accident investigated by a coroner with a public physician, reflecting dated social practices.
A feature on substituting beef marrow for suet in plum pudding includes sourcing marrow from the hind leg, preparing a rich mix of dried fruits, bread crumbs, milk, sugar and liqueurs, and methods for boiling in molds or bowls. It also covers shaping leftover pudding into puits d amour with brandied butter icing, holly garnish, and festive appeal for holiday children’s parties.
Dancing fairy ornaments brighten the tree and can be reused yearly. Purchase a dozen small dolls, include some Japanese and colored ones, and dress them in bright gauze or tissue to resemble fairies. Attach wings from spangled tissue with concealed wires, using broom wires for motion.
A simple guide to starting a log fire using a double sheet of newspaper with edges loose. Place the largest backlog against the back wall, split logs turned front, and three logs suffice to begin. Avoid overhandling to prevent smoke and keep the fire steady.
A holiday favored English pastry filling. Six large lemons yield juice and grated rind, with two pounds each of chopped apples seedless raisins currants and sugar, one and a half pounds of finely chopped beef suet, and a quarter pound of candied lemon orange and citron.
Instructions describe building a decorative bell using two muzzies as a foundation with one fitted into the center of the other. Fill with moss, trim with holly berries and mistletoe, add a calla lily as a clapper, and suspend the bell with scarlet ribbons.
A simple household note suggests boiling white garments with a tablespoonful of turpentine to enhance whitening. The tip emphasizes practical heat and chemical aiding for laundry.
Farm Journal offers guidance for women workers detailing efficient kitchen and housekeeping practices. Advice covers planning ahead, dual-purpose cooking, reheating leftovers, using a food chopper, keeping bread crumbs, organizing chores, and doing as much mending at the sewing machine as possible to save steps and labor.
A 1908 guide from the Philadelphia Times describes hall as the first decorating target and urges holly mistletoe and ribbon bows. It recommends center hall placement, mirrors framed by holly, a tall jar of holly and spruce, and festive wreaths with red berries.central dining table centerpieces and mistletoe under the parlor chandelier are noted alongside gift etiquette and cranberry jelly recipe.
Florida woman submits a revolving nut stand for canned fruit in Good Housekeeping. The device uses four circular shelves on a central shaft set in the sarin pivot in the ceiling. Shelves hold ten jars each and rotate to allow quick inspection in a dim storeroom.
The piece notes that women in Glend who want to keep light hair tones should avoid refreshing egg shampoo. It says raw egg wash can darken hair, especially brunettes, with dangerous sulfur causing golden tones to fade over time. A quoted woman reports a golden haired acquaintance seeing years of darkening reverse after learning the science from a chemist friend.
A compact cooking tip advises salt on hot coals when broiling teak to curb blaze from fat. If pot contents boil over or spill, salt should be thrown on immediately to prevent a disagreeable odor and aid easier stove cleanup.
Fashion's Echoes describes fall dress trends with a focus on fabrics, prints, and accessories. It notes early partisan cloth models, fine gray with white stripe, leaf and flower wreaths, jeweled accents, and elegant hat trimmings with wings and quills. Yokes shape coats and yoke designs, boleros suit two piece outfits, and tailor made gowns show fine stitchery.
Instructions explain preserving honey by storing in a dry warm place. Heat up to about 100 degrees is fine. If extracted honey is too thin, cover the vessel loosely to allow air and warmth to thicken it. Many housekeepers store honey in the cellar, noting its tendency to attract moisture.
A quirky recipe describes making Christmas lemon fart using sugar, butter, two lemons, brandy, nutmeg, and egg whites. The method combines bent butter and sugar, whipped yolks with lemon juice and rind, then adds brandy and stiffly beaten whites before baking in small pastry shells.
Extracted from a historic kitchen note detailing rasor paste preparation using tin oxide and powdered acids, then forming a stiff paste with water. It also outlines a method to bake split mackerel with veal stuffing in a moderate oven, removing the backbone prior to cooking.
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