Household Tips From a Vintage Page
Practical, era specific hints cover bottle care with glycerine, glass cleanup using cotton, plant care for philodendron, odor removal with mustard, leather binding renewal, pork roast topping with applesauce and spices, celery top powder as flavoring, stuffing loosely for fowl to allow expansion.
Reward for Efforts Requires Planting More Trees
A George Eliot quotation reflects on effort and future growth, noting rain and roses depend on planting trees to harvest more blooms. The saying emphasizes patience, nurturing actions, and long term rewards.
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George Eliot
New Elegance in Current Mode Calls for Quality Kind Silks
Cherie Nicholas surveys post 1939 40 fashion notes on silk fabrics and silhouettes. She notes a revival of heirloom quality silks from bengalines to faille with sculptural draping and self fabric details, praising silk jersey for its form and ease and highlighting jackets and tailored suits in black bengaline silk and faille.
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Union
Suits in the Newest Modes Feature Fur Trimmed Coats
The article notes suits as key in the latest styles with dress and jacket or skirt jacket combos. Short fitted peplum jackets and long fitted coats are shown, many furred and paired with fur muffs hats and pelts on umbrella handles. Persian lamb beaver seal leopard fox marten and mink provide rich trims.
Velvet Turbans Brighten Winter Fashion Color Spree
Milliners design whimsical velvet turbans in colors for winter wear and evening gowns. From old gold to teal blue and fireman red they pair with furs and blue gemstone jewelry. Most styles feature a snood and a rose like velvet pouf that sits jauntily over the brow.
Air-Travel Fashion Goes Nautical with Stiebel Suit
London designer Victor Stiebel pioneers airship wardrobes with a daytime clipper suit. The ensemble uses rabbit hair crepe of napticalated wool in a slim straight model with self-colored stitching. A mist green hat completes the look.
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Victor Stiebel
London
Rabbit
Child Would Love These Dutch Dolls Pattern 6475
Pattern 6475 provides two piece dolls with a head band and clothes patterns. Sends 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. in New York for pattern and directions and includes a request for name and address. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets advertised as a sugar coated laxative for children.
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Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept
W. 14Th St
New York
N. Y
Dr. Caldwell
Isolated in Poverty Amid Prosperity Storms
A reflective line quotes Ovid on loneliness when wealth fails and friendships fade. It contrasts social abundance with personal isolation during hard times.
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