Simplicity in designing children’s dresses for casual wear
The article argues for simple, single tone garments in soft materials like linen or French batiste for children, criticizing overdressed looks. It outlines dress ideas using minimal trimmings, pleats, and yokes, with models from white pongee, Swedish embroidery, and Greek-inspired one-piece styles suitable for play and easy laundering. It emphasizes comfort, hygiene, and practicality over ostentation.
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Daticlns
Jones
Benng
Nott
No Clothes Dress for Infants Idealized in Early Methods
The article argues for dressing infants without underwear using a single even layer of fabric, gradually accustoming the body to less warmth. It details making romper dresses, wearing a knee-high sweater as needed, and emphasizes evenly distributed warmth. It also favors sandals and laced shoes while warning against tight or ill-fitting footwear and unsafe barefoot sandals.
Plaster Walls and How to Treat Them
A detailed guide on plaster wall types, choosing three coat over two coat work, and steps to repair cracks. Explains patching, lath prep, and best finishes, including brown coat, plaster of paris, and methods to avoid peeling. Discusses netting technique, acid washes, and canvas or muslin coverings to improve durability and decoration options.
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Paris
Cabbage With Fried Onions Recipe Steps
Cabbage is shredded and steamed with butter or oil and salt. An onion is diced and fried in butter until brown, then added to the cabbage and cooked to a golden brown.
Mustard Greens Prepared for Boiling Dish
A kitchen note instructs washing mustard greens thoroughly, shredding or chopping, and placing the leaves in a tightly covered saucepan over heat with dripping wet condition. If needed, add water to simmer to tenderness.
Cooking greens with corn meal method described
The text explains adding salt and cayenne to greens, stirring in a tablespoonful of corn meal, sprinkling and stirring to avoid lumps, and cooking until both greens and meal are fully done.
Rice as a Vegetable Wash and cook rice with carrots in broth
A recipe describes washing rice, boiling carrots, and frying rice in butter, then cooking with carrot water and curry powder. It suggests testing texture by pressing a grain and notes essence of vegetables can vary flavor when cooking rice as a vegetable.
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Clarence A. Martin
Department of Architecture
Cornell University
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