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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
3
The article surveys summer fabrics including a lightweight pique with figures and stripes. It highlights tailored coats with odd collar seams and prettily shaped collars, noting the soft pliable fabrics of Figured Pique distinct from heavy rib bed textures.
The article notes silk as a leading fabric across garments from suits and frocks to coats and underwear. It highlights satin and silk for cooler climates, black streetwear, simple overtrimming, narrow skirts, and belted coats. Redfern and Poiret are cited for the belted blouse style.
The article contrasts the Pierrot Lafayette collars with the high directoire collar, noting its straight back, small front opening, and wide flaring turnover. It describes directoire coats with short front and elaborate buttons and twin rolls at the back, worn in colored taffeta, satin, or striped fabrics with matching skirts.
A Minnesota inventor introduces a hanging device for storm sashes and fly screens with corner hooks and lower bolts for easy installation. The piece also includes several kitchen recipes: Strawberry Roll Pudding, a cucumber pickle method, and potatoes with cheese sauce with step by step preparation and quantities.
Recipe notes for rhubarb marmalade using diced rhubarb walnuts raisins sugar lemons and water then cooked to orange marmalade consistency and bottled. Also instructions for broiled beefs liver and bacon including scalding bacon scalding liver removing membranes broiling in bacon fat and serving with bacon garnish.
Fried turnips: peel dice boil in salted water until tender then fry in butter until golden. Apple lemon pie: grate three large apples with lemon rind and juice, add sugar and beaten egg, mix and bake between two crusts.
Odd shaped collars with scalloped edges are in fashion worn with one piece dresses or separate blouses. A morning hat features sapphire blue straw with lime green feathers, minimal trim. Another model uses a steel gray beret shape.
The May Manton pattern showcases a blazer coat with a flat rose and leaf motif on the crown. Made for summer wear in striped wool, sizes 34 to 44 bust. order 10 cents plus coupon 7408, add 2 cents for mail if in haste.
The column notes matching taffeta gowns hats and parasols in good taste. It highlights large feathered hats and plume trimmed bonnets with a May Manton pattern for waists 2 4 M and BS. Readers are urged to send 10 cents for pattern 7409 with an extra stamp for mailing.
Hawkins trespasses into a country estate to pluck roses for a girl. They are confronted by the owner who turns the scene into a comic marriage trap. The owner teases a legal bond, then publicly marries the couple to legitimize their actions, leaving Hawkins in a humorous predicament.
A father answers why stars appear to twinkle to his child Jack. The exchange frames a bedtime moment about perception and imagination as the story recalls a familiar rhyme of a little star.
A collection of cornstarch based desserts and fruit dishes. Recipes include caramel corn starch and custard meringue and strawberry banana combos with custard. Also provides chocolate pudding and strawberry omelet ideas with serving suggestions.
The breezy coat offers smart comfort for outing wear with a striped reverse side visible on the turned back collar and cuffs. It buttons snugly to the throat, showcasing the new fashion.
A traveler's packing method uses a sturdy partition for hats a sawdust filled box for medicines rolled shoes with contents inside them six to eight custom sized linen covered cardboard envelopes for dresses and skirts flat packing to prevent shifting a top tray for laces ribbons veils and gloves and rolled underwear around edges for efficient space use.
An evening gown of white messaline was repurposed into a dainty bathing suit. The skirt was widened with panels of striped taffeta, and the white messaline forms a bib over a bodice of striped silk.
The article explains making an asbestos pad by covering a table with double thickness asbestos paper cut from old shorts. Sew a quilted sandwich to prevent ripping, then place the pad under a silence cloth to protect the table from hot dishes.
The article advises washing kitchen pewter in hot water, rubbing with fine sand, and polishing with leather when dry. It notes matting splinters easily from a bare broom and suggests cleaning with a soft brush or covering the broom with a gray canton flannel bag to protect it.
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