Velvet and lace fashions at ARIS Christmas season showpieces
ARIS December notes lace resembling velvet trims vests and gowns with openwork silk embroidery. Crepe de chine and paillettes highlight gowns while bolero jackets cross plaits and blue grace blouses gain attention. Royal wedding coverage details attire of Isabelle de France, Jean d Orleans, Duchess d Aosta, and Princesses amid Paris fashion scene.
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ARIS
Mohsschine de Sole
Isabelle de France
Prince Jean d'Orleans
France
England
London
St. Raphael
Kingston-on-Thames
Helen
Duc d'Aosta
Duchess de Chartres
Comtesse de Paris
Duchess d'Orleans
Duchess d'Aosta
Christmas Decor and Entertainments in Sunday Schools
Frances Hyde describes inexpensive yet effective Christmas decorations and program ideas for school entertainments. Methods include a winter scene backdrop, lantern-like lighting, a toy sleigh with artificial deer, and a primitive house with cotton icicles. Other ideas feature stereopticon shows of Puritan Christmases and open fireplace dioramas using simple materials.
Newberg Lobster Dish Steps and Ingredients
A recipe note describes boiling lobster, cutting meat into large dice, and combining with butter sherry and cream. It calls for egg yolks to enrich the mixture and a glass of sauterne, directing preparation steps to finish the dish.
Uses for stale bread and a festive Christmas tableau
An economist notes wasted bread could be repurposed into appealing dishes such as hot toast or buttered bread. A Christmas program features Santa Claus entering a room through a chimney as helpers distribute gifts and candy while children sing hymns. The decor includes potted ferns and palms as tableaux depict Christmas scenes.
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Santa Claus
Christmas Dining And Decor Ideas From A Diner’s Guide
This fragment outlines festive table decor with cotton figures and softly sung carols, referencing classics like Bob Cratchit and Scrooge. It then gives a long, practical culinary section on lobster with butter and sherry cream sauce, water toast, milk toast, toast dishes, and crouton uses, ending with tips on stale bread storage and broader kitchen pointers.
Banpy's Clothing for Infants and Safe Dressing
The guide advises infant garments based on season using flannel and wool. For delicate babies wear wool only and avoid tight binders. Ensure binders are not tight, use safety pins carefully, and keep feet warm with a long flannel barrow. Heavily embroidered robes are discouraged. simple dresses and woolly shawls suit all budgets.
A Bran Bag for the Bath
A recipe for bran bags to enhance baths with a soothing odor. It describes using cheesecloth bags filled with oatmeal castile soap orm s root and borax, sewn shut, to create washing pads that soften skin and leave a pleasant scent.
Book care cautions against improper stacking
Advice warns books last longer when properly treated and stored. It notes neglect leads to wear, advises against piling on a pier or leaning diagonally, and explains binding weakening and edges becoming worn and soiled.
Figures in Fashion: Corset and Petticoat Trends Rise
The piece argues nine of ten so called defects in a figure stem from ill fitting undergarments and guides readers toward tight bodices and coats. It notes skirts cling to hips and stresses seams and creases show through fabric. It highlights gores up to the waist and waist reduction using drawstrings and figure shaping combinations in wool or silk.
Capeline Hats Trend in Pele White Felt with Black Accents
Capeline hats in pele feature white felt with an elegant droop over the eyes and hair. Trimmed crowns use black panne and a front bow, ends curling back, pins secure the brim, some with jeweled bars. Blue turquoise accents return to complement the white hats.
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Catherine Talbot
Frivolities For Men Embrace Embroidered Waistcoats
Frivolities for men challenge old ideas of masculine dress as they adopt embroidered waistcoats for golf and country wear in tan or colored linens with sprigs of flowers. Evening dress shows white satin or black mette waistcoats with light embroidery.
Timely Menus Breakfast and Dinner Traditions
A historical menu lists breakfast items such as oatmeal with cream, lamb chops, Swiss fritters, browned potatoes, Rolla coffee, and orange. dinner includes Jenny Lind Soup, boned ribs of beef, stewed corn, roast potatoes, cabbage, and rice pudding with coffee. The Jenny Lind Soup recipe details sage infusion, bouillon, cream, and eggs to create a throat friendly broth.
Banana Cream Jelly Mold For Dessert Luncheon Tea
A banana cream dessert recipe with two colored banana cream layers, lemon jelly, and vanilla cream. The dish is set in a jelly-lined mold, then unmolded onto a marble surface, garnished with grapes and served chilled.
Lemon Buns Recipe From A Biscuit Guide
A simple method for lemon buns: rub half a pound of flour with a quarter pound of butter then mix in four ounces of sugar and the grated rind of one and a half lemons. Whisk an egg until light and frothy and moisten the dry ingredients with it plus enough milk to make a stiff paste. Shape into small buns bake in a hot oven and glaze with egg white then dust with powdered sugar.
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Rue de la Paix
Duchess d'Uzes
Orleans
Kid
Princess of Wales
Holy
Victoria
d'Aosta
Jean
Clementine
Saxe-Coburg
House of Orleans
America
Frances Hyde
Newberg
Bob Cratchit
Scrooge
Valley Forge
Philippines
Banpy
Capeline
Pele
Jenny Lind
Lemon Buns
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