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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1913
Page
2
A reader offers a century old guessing game listing stones linked to fruits and objects from keystone to tombstone. The trivia hints at puns and wordplay with stones and mentions edible stone shaped candies as the prize.
A hostess famed for originality invited twenty guests to arrive in costumes representing their professions or aspirations. At the half hour past eight, guests appeared in amusing outfits, including a camera fiend wearing a black paper cambric suit covered with pasted snapshots blueprints and spoiled prints.
A social night featured guests with a miniature camera watch charm and a real camera for party snapshots. A astronomy loving guest displayed a telescope and celestial sights while a suffragette wore a votes for women gown and placard. The hostess arranged symbolic favors and guests discussed the merits of their professions before a formal dancing spread.
A hostess with ample entertaining uses stationery with a top or left corner monogram in gold silver red blue pink or violet to match any floral table scheme. Cards serve as name cards at each place and can mark table number or couple on the back after events.
A bride-to-be received a memorable lingerie shower where close friends crafted intimate gifts. The event featured bits of lingerie, ribbons, and a set of twelve sachets edged in lace, each with a tiny gilt safety pin, all made in a forget me not pattern. A boudoir cap and pillow in pink completed the presentation for Madame Merri.
The pattern describes a blue crape dress with white front and back panels, lavender silk trims, and white lace. a lavender silk hat with pale pink roses complements the outfit. Materials include 4.5 yards of 40 inch crape, 0.5 yard silk, 3 yards lace, about 12 buttons, plus white voile and seee fabric for variations.
A simple entertaining menu lists peanut butter sandwiches salmon cups and coffee. Plate ideas include salmon cups on lettuce and four-piece pickles. Detailed peanut butter mix uses roasted peanuts butter or cream sugar salt and bread. Salmon cups use mashed potatoes salmon white sauce and a single spoonful atop each potato cup.
Directions for spiced blackberry preparation use seven pounds fruit half a pound vinegar half a pint blackberry juice three pounds five ounces sugar one ounce cinnamon half ounce cloves one ounce allspice. Jam recipe blends three quarters pound sugar per pound fruit and notes cooking and jar sealing steps.
A simple method cools water by overnight exposure in coarse porous pottery jars kept outdoors. Water oozes through the porous walls while remaining quite cool. Use glazed pots only for decoration. cover jars with fine wire, mosquito netting, or cheesecloth to keep contents clean while allowing airflow.
When a lamp burns dimly it signals the burner needs boiling. Take apart remove the wick boil burner and wick in hot water with washing soda. Thoroughly clean and dry then reassemble trim wick fill with oil and it will burn well again.
Boil water and add baking soda then molae ses. Stir in melted butter milk and flour until smooth. Add cinnamon cloves nutmeg and salt. Bag and let swell then boil about three hours. Serve hot with sauce.
Wash peppers and soak overnight in salted cold water. Make a brine with one cup salt per gallon water. In the morning scald enough vinegar to cover peppers and dissolve a small piece of alum in it. Add a few whole spices and celery seed to a stone jar, pack peppers, and cover with vinegar. Use a plate to keep peppers under the liquid.
Instructions advise keeping shoe tops after wear to create iron holders. Cut to shape and line to form a heat protecting tool for handling hot irons. Includes tips on effectiveness and reuse.
To Pollch Brass. Wet a cloth in sour milk and sprin kle it liberally with dairy salt, rub bing the brass with it. Then riase of the 'salt with more of the milk and poach with a dry, soft cloth.
Interior fashion in Vienna favors black rooms with gray white figures and bold floral wallpapers. White enamel furniture, black jars, and sun exposure are advised to make color pop. hair care emphasizes sun baths, frequent washing for blondes, and caution with ammonia or soda in water.
The article warns against peroxide for blonde hair due to scalp drying brittleness and unnatural yellow tones. It advises diagnosing the cause of dull lifeless hair such as nightly washing and bed degeneration before attempting remedies.
The article describes two ways to play Croes Questions and Crook Ed Answers. Players in a circle ask and answer, or pair up in two rows with a guiding couple. The gentleman whispers ridiculous replies to the ladies questions, then the lines re enact. laughter incurs penalties.
A fishing hat band holds an oiled ankle bag and pad for leaders in a central pocket. Files are carried on either side making pockets for fly books unnecessary.
A collection of riddle style quips with puns. It includes lines about a mud road command a postman danger a statue fig an eminent religious country Danish kings Neptune and an ocean ownership of names happiness in the dictionary and curious comparisons of butcher shop pawnbrokers ships and women.
A mother recalls her usually restless son Donald sitting still with hands clasped during a long church prayer. He humorously notes that a fly kept wandering in and out of his hands, a memory that brings pleasant recollection of that Sunday.
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