Doings in the World of Fashion and Saffron Sleeves
A fashion column notes the return of varied sleeve lengths from long to elbow and three quarters, with Parisian designers avoiding a strict rule. It discusses guimpe styles in chiffon and lace, net and metallic trimmings, and colors, highlighting white or cream pieces amid sheer fabrics.
Howe 90th Birthday: Noted Author Julia Ward Howe
Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, celebrated her 90th birthday at her Beacon Street home in Boston surrounded by family. Though aged, she remains mentally sharp and engaged in public affairs, receiving letters and flowers and addressing kindergarten blind children recently in Jamaica Plain.
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Battle Hymn OF the Republic
Boston
Mass
Julia Ward Howe
Beacon Street
Onion rye poultice for chest relief
Household hints describe mixing six to ten onions with rye meal and vinegar to form a thick paste. The warm poultice is applied to the chest in a cotton bag, with repeated applications every ten minutes, to aid a patient and supposedly bring danger to an end in hours.
Fetching Gown for Summer Functions
For spring and summer horse shows and garden parties here is a charming model in flac chiffon cloth. The join ing of skirt and top part is made under a tuck just below hip line. The square yoke of bodice is tucked white silk mousseline bordered each side with a lapel of heavy white lace edged with a narrow quilling of purple velvet which continues across front as a heading to the scalloped panel. The latter is trimmed with crochet buttons in same shade as material. Long tight sleeves are finished in similar fashion, with a deep frill of white lace at hand. The chapeau work with this attrac tive gown is pale blue chiffon trimmed with shaded lilacs.
Cleaning Blankets With Borax Ammonia Mix
Cleaning method uses soap, borax, and ammonia. Soak blankets thirty minutes in a tub with cold water and borax and ammonia, then rinse with colder water containing borax and ammonia. Do not wring. Blankets come out like new.
How to Refinish a Chest with Enamel and Varnish
Instructions advise scrubbing with strong washing powder, drying thoroughly, applying a thick coat of white enamel, letting it dry overnight, adding a second coat including the interior top, then finishing the exterior with varnish.
Historic Pittsburgh Fruit Cake and Compendium of Spiced Cakes
A collection of 19th century bake house recipes detailing methods for Pitteburg Fruit Cake Blackberry Jam Cake Fig Fruit Cake and related batters. Instructions cover butter sugar eggs molasses sour milk flour spices soda cream icing and fruit additions with stepwise mixing and baking guidance.
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New Orleans
Gifts for the girl graduate long list and favors
A lengthy guide suggests many gift ideas for the girl graduate. Neckwear and jabots, dainty collars, handkerchiefs with Madeira edging, holsery, bags, chamois, ribbons, gloves, hats pins brooches watches hair ornaments, and jewelry. For college bound graduates, pennants, pictures, stationery, cretonne boxes, flowers, and bonbons are noted as fitting tokens.
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Pennanta
Attractive Headgear for Summertime Wear
The model showcases a millinery piece suitable for summer tub frocks. It features a pale yellow chip with black velvet trim and an arrangement around the crown. A spreading bow decorates the left side, with one end draping over the upturned brim.
Curing Sore Lips Remedies and Cautions
Cold creams keep sore lips soft but do not cure. Spirits of camphor and tincture of benzoin quicken a scab formation to heal. Camphor ice acts slower than camphor splits. Dilute tincture of benzoin with glycerin and cleanse with boracic acid solution before applying.
Do It Yourself Linseed Oil Polish Recipe
A simple home method uses a half pint of linseed oil mixed with a tablespoon of pure vinegar. Saturate a cloth with the mixture, rub furniture vigorously, then buff with a dry cloth until dry for a clean finish without stickiness.
Tomato Salad Recipe Notes
Peel and slice three tomatoes and layer with six celery stalks. Add a finely chopped small onion and a quarter of a green pepper. Top with a French dressing for a simple tomato salad.
Salad Recipes From a Vintage Home Kitchen
This excerpt details three classic salads Brick Salad Pineapple Salad and a tomato filling. It provides step by step mixing fillings with cream cheese panolas parsley mustard and French dressing for stuffed tomatoes and layered potato onion and egg mixtures plus a pineapple lettuce cup with walnuts celery pineapple and whipped cream for serving.
Cleaning Carpets With Boiled Soap and Soda Mixture
An effective carpet cleaning method suggests boiling one gallon of water with one pound of shaved yellow soap and half a pound of washing soda. Melt and mix thoroughly, then wash small sections at a time and rinse with clear water.
Care Tips for Cold Weather Manicuring
The guidance warns against going out with bare hands in frost conditions to prevent nail breakage and ridges. It advises gentle soil removal near rails, avoiding sticks to beat, using lemon juice or soap with water for dirty nalla, and minimal polishing powder to prevent excessive drying. It also suggests careful manicuring to avoid knife pressure, and keeping a house open only in morning and late evening for comfort.
Deaconesses Run 72 In German Methodist House
Miss Loulay Golder oversees 72 deaconesses at the German Methodist mother house in this country. Bethesda hospital in Cincinnati, a branch, cared for 726 patients last year and 66 deaconesses now reside in private families.
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Loulay Golder
German Methodiam
Bethesda Hospital
Cincinnati
Traditional Meat Dressings and Broth Preparations
Recipes describe rolling beef and chicken with a bread dressing and toothpicks, browning and simmering to form a gravy. A bean-sized bulking soda treated chicken is boiled to remove odor and simmered to tender broth for cream gravy. Veal pork loaf is seasoned with onion and bread crumb mixture, baked in a Peking pan in a moderate oven.
Appetizing Sandwiches From Mustard and Cheese Mix
A simple recipe describes mixing grated Parmesan into mustard until cohesive. Thin bread slices with crusts removed are buttered, then cheese mixture is spread and a second bread slice placed on top before pressing.
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Alice
Butternut Bread Recipe Steps Mixed with Warm Sponge
Instructions describe combining one and a half quarts of four with one cup of bread sponge, then adding two pints of lukewarm milk and chopped butternut meats. Ferment in a warm place, knead into loaves, and bake in an oven.
Cakes From Old Bread And Algerian Vineyards
The article suggests saving leftover bread by soaking it in tin cans with milk or water for half an hour. It then adds salt, one egg, flour to form batter and cooks on a hot griddle. Rye may use compressed yeast overnight. It also notes Algeria's vineyards yield the greatest per acre.
New Shaped Panama Favors Seashore and Mountain Outings
A new shaped Panama designed for seaside or mountain outings. It resembles the peach-basket models yet is simply trimmed with a large dotted silk scarf. Scarves come in a variety of shades for stylish variation.
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Panama
A Woman's Privilege From Judge
An excerpt mocks gender assumptions with a judge and a woman debating privilege and change as frequently as fashion. The piece satirizes social norms and perceptions of femininity and independence.
Practical rug care tips from a home housekeeping guide
A housekeeper’s primer on cleaning and maintaining rugs and carpets. It covers broom care via hot soapy rinses, beating rugs, stain removals using oxgall ammonia vinegar and salt, handling grease with absorbents, ink with milk salt and soap, moth prevention with benzine and sublimate, edge steaming for various carpets, and a floor cleaning rinse with red pepper and strychnia.
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Wilton
Spring Song Translation Fragments
Fragmentary verse mentions Pleomath and white violet blooming under rain. It refers to a beloved lady described as the fairest flower, Enchantment’s rose, with Meleager and a translator Walter Head noted.
Cabbies Square Off In Biting Exchange
Two London cabbies glare and exchange insults over a petty quarrel while a third voices a jab about a Narsty look cited in Tit Bits. France operates seven thousand eight hundred eighty three postal savings banks.
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London
Carnegie's Rival in Love Dies in Pittsburg Romance
The Pittsburgh story recalls Andrew Carnegie's old rival Col Negley who won the woman's favor over Carnegie in a wartime romance. The rival's later life as an East End alderman is noted while Carnegie faded from church attendance. The Miss Crawford involved is now Mrs Negley.
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Carnegie
Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
Squire
Edward Cox Negley
East End
Squire Negley
Negley
Central Presbyterian Church
Miss Crawford
Central Church
Miss
Ancient Stewing Method For Various Meats Described
The article outlines a simple method for cooking beef chicken or other meats. It instructs placing onions and pork ash in a kettle, layering the meat, adding minimal water, and simmering slowly until brown and tender. Gravy is strained and thickened afterward.
Bacon and Cheese sandwich recipe from old text
A compact recipe for a bacon and cheese sandwich using round bread. It describes trimming crusts, slicing, mixing cheese with egg, salt, and pepper, buttering bread, layering fried bacon, and broiling until cheese melts. Notes that white blossoms are fragrant.
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