Fashions of Time Show Velvet Cloth and Rich Trimmings
The latest season favors deep tailored shapes with close fitting sleeves. Velvet and velveteen share the spotlight with cloth, offering gowns, capes, and coats rich in color from plum purples to begonia pinks. Fringes return, swallowtail cuts refine the silhouette, and bold contrasts in lapels and fabrics define a stylish look for winter attire. Salmon loaf with parsley sauce provides a practical, detailed recipe.
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Louis Evi
Dauphin
Thesa
The Griddle Cakes of Buckwheat and More
A discussion of hot breads and cake varieties, from buckwheat and hominy griddle cakes to old ash cake. Instructions cover batter ratios, rising times, soda additions, and proper griddle care, plus a note on economical flour choices and craft gift baskets featuring thistle motifs.
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Ropean
New York Tribune
South
New England
Fashion’s Echoes and the English Style for Morning Wear
Fashion notes describe the season with fairy bangs extending ear to ear and 18 heralded as coming fashion. Indies pets, white and colored mice, and cloth traveling bags with leather reinforcements appear among novelties. Violet shades from pale mauve to papery hues, white silk with endless tacks, plaid skirts, cashmere for children, and mantles dominate. Millinery features velvet colors, black wings, steel buckles, traveling toque sets, and evening hats with brown velvet, poppies, ribbons.
Fashionable Polonaise Styles Shift in Gowns and Sleeves
The article notes a major change in women’s dress with tighter bodices and longer sleeves, minimal petticoats, and a move toward the polonaise silhouette. Evening wear follows the same trend with compact tea jackets and newly styled demitoilet polonaises in silk grenadine, lace trim, and satin ribbon accents.
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Fashionaire
Day Without Breakfast Diet Gains Followers
The New York Evening Post reports a surprising trend of households skipping breakfast. A woman described a daily routine where no meal is prepared until noon, with family members proceeding to work and school on a fast, theorizing that energy from the dinner sustains the forenoon.
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New York Evening Post
Wowan
Nile
Cardenase For Christmas Cardcase Pattern
A cardcase makes a pretty Christmas gift. The embroidered design uses gold bullion on white kid, featuring a four leaf motif.
Catpcase Design Vets for Good Luck Display
A New York Tribune note describes a case featuring an 18 inch detail in natural size showing the sitter. The embroidery haf is surrounded by fold beads and a gold paillette marks the center.
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Catpcase
New York Tribune
Foot Tool Christmas Gift from Old Boston Globe Text
A quirky item described as a foot tool serves as a Christmas gift for a man. It combines a small wooden box on casters with a padded quilt top and fabric outer cover. Inside lines suggest storing slippers and lining with textiles for comfort and convenience.
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Boston Globe
Ribbon Embroidery Ideas and Craft Frames Featured
A mixed feature describes ribbon embroidery for decorating small objects like frames sachets and gifts. It outlines frame designs with satin foundations and colored ribbons, a sachet concept, and a charity craft sales angle at fairs. It also covers cider making, matron of honor trends, and visiting card typography with a New York Herald note.
Furnishings and fashion notes from a bygone home era
A discussion on rug designs, lighting fixtures, and linen sets highlights 19th century taste. It critiques oriental style imitations, praises brassy lamps and ironwork, covers tapestry, ingrain carpets, and the Dewey rug failure. It also notes Paris blouse trends and a portrait of Duse, underscoring refined color gradations and decorative embroidery.
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Admiral Dewey
Roast Turkey In Turkish Style From Boston Cooking School Magazine
Turkish style stuffing for Thanksgiving turkey includes rice, French chestnuts, currants and almonds seasoned with salt pepper and cinnamon, butter melted and mixed, then baked with basting and flour dusting for a rich gravy. Green stuffing combines stale crumbs lemon rind thyme marjoram parsley pepper paprika butter or beef suet eggs and binding.
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Guise
Boston Cocking School
Cooka
Stuffed Duck and Goose Stuffing from Old Recipe
A vintage recipe describes stuffing for ducks geese and pork using spinach pulp herbs and bread crumbs. It details parboiling onions sage leaves and mixing with butter eggs and seasonings for a rich filling. A separate roast duck stuffing uses liver onions bread butter hot water parsley and egg yolk for binding.
Widower Plans Fourth Honeymoon In Pacific Union Club
A humorous sketch notes a middle aged member known as the Widower in the Pacific Union club. He has outlived three wives and curates memories of each from spots around San Francisco and Berkeley, expressing a plan to marry again and visit cherished locales with his next wife.
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Pacific Union
Elub
San Francisco
New York
Berkeley
Elizabeth
Katharine
Sutro Heights
Caroline
South Pacific
Brig
Maryland
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Paris
Wilton
Spane Kklenma
Establishra
Mather
Harper’s Bazar
New York Herald
ETS AN
Skaere
Good Housekeeping
Brussels
Lineaeus
Duse
Dr Todd
London Spectator
Dublin
Trinity College
Todd
Vollege
Hart
Perbome
Washington Star
China
Tent Asiatic
HRCHI
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