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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1906
Page
5
A collection of notes on dress trims, verbena perfume trends, and social norms. It cites a Daughters of the Confederacy debate on life membership age and comments on polite behavior in boarding house life, urging kindness and discretion.
The piece argues that age does not fix ability, and growth continues as long as ambition and attitude stay strong. It cites Beecher as an example of persistent striving. It emphasizes that a vanquished bearing signals defeat to employers and that stale brains die by mental attitude rather than age.
A short article extols daily needlework shaping a dress into haute couture quality. A black broadcloth gown stamped with a daisy pattern uses eyelet embroidery for an English eyelet effect, showing neat work and patience can rival Paris fashion.
A New York Press quip suggests a humorous thumb test to judge a future wife. By noting which thumb folds over the other during prayer, a man could predict if she will be fiery or submissive in marriage, framing matrimony with light satire.
A Chicago trip reawakens the notion that the kimono has supplanted the traditional mother Hubbard dress. A middle aged man recalls his wife’s wedding journey attire and a sleeper car sighting of a kimono style with lobsters and birds prompting thoughts on changing fashion from Japan versus the old surah mother hubbard.
Mrs D C Johnson of Maxwell is described as Iowa’s chicken queen by the Minneapolis Tribune. After tough times including a $14,000 mortgage and the death of her husband, she turned to incubation, achieving high hatch rates and building a large flock. Her innovations led to a patent and she now sells chickens by the carload, paying off debt and expanding her farm.
The passage details spring fashion with broad shouldered gowns, Neapolitan and Milan straws, and smart braids. It notes woven embroideries on hats, Japanese straw accents, bold red Japanese straw hats, leafing capes to the elbow, and elaborate white shirt waists in mourning. It highlights beading, Venetian lace, gold girdles, and Cornelian beads in necklaces as accessories.
A six year old Bowdoinham lad explains his preference for home over Paris to John Wanamaker. He says he enjoys playing with pigs at Uncle John’s in Bowdoinham and heard none in Paris, revealing family ties to Bowdoinham via John Gray.
A well known St Louis politician famed for wit and girth returns from Indiana baths lighter by twenty pounds. At a butcher shop he orders twenty pounds of pork to gauge his loss, then reveals he has no use for pork and only wanted to see how it looked.
In the Bellevue hospital ward the presence of an elderly woman at one end has calmed delirious patients. Dr. Armstrong’s method of sensing disturbance by a softly spoken prompt works: a passerby gently touching a patient and saying there is a lady up there makes them bow and quiet.
A collection of short items including A Fable about a giraffe and an ass feeding famine, notes on Chinese New Year lilies and luck, and Ernest Thompson Seton’s observations on caribou hoof cracking explaining its mechanism and possible purpose.
Real book lovers prize leather bound volumes and suggest protective chamois cases or light boxes to shield bindings from scratches. Even noble bindings like white vellum need guarding, as a sturdy, cleanable wrap helps preserve beauty and value for younger readers.
A boy on a southern England coast used a crab and candle trap to lure rabbits. After coercion, he revealed the method: place crabs at burrow openings and light a candle to drive rabbits into entangling coatings where he could seize them.
A lively vignette from Laren shows Dutch children learning to knit while a family meal unfolds. A mother explains language puzzles to Bobbie, turning a misheard term into a lesson. The piece blends humor with daily life and a famous windmill setting.
A new hygienic idea uses a hinged window pole with a catch at the end, forming a swinging crane that hangs curtains as usual but pivots outward to improve ventilation, especially for casement windows.
The blanching of nuts is explained with practical steps. Soak walnuts in boiling water for ten minutes to heat without cooking, then drain and chill in cold water. Use a knife for English walnuts due to serrated shells. Pistachios are tough to blanch. keep the soaking water at a rolling boil without allowing the nuts to cook.
A writer in the National Magazine says pineapple toughness is reduced by slicing from blossom end to stem rather than through the core. Hold the fruit with a fork in the blossom end and slice to the hard core, which is discarded. A pineapple grower taught me this, greatly improving tenderness compared with slicing with the grain.
The Washington Star notes that saving kitchen fats and oils reduces waste and costs. It praises the French approach of reclaiming every bit of fat, using top of the pot fat for cookies and gingerbread, chicken fat as olive oil substitute, and cautions against butter as a costly, burning option. It suggests a mix of lard and drippings or suet for frying and warns against wasteful practices by servants and some housewives.
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