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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1898
Page
6
The latest fashion in dressing hair keeps it piled high. Start by waving the hair all around, section off the front, sweep the remainder up onto the crown, and secure it firmly. Then comb and style the front piece for a neat top emphasis.
The piece describes new girdles and chatelaines with real gems and mentions the enduring appeal of feudal era solid silver chatelaines. It contrasts genuine antique value with wide scale imitations and notes nickel silver versions as durable, affordable alternatives. Recipes for Monday and Tuesday meals accompany fashion notes.
The article describes blouses in cream batiste with velvet embroidery, cording and tucks. It notes varied waist designs from shirted tops to yokes and lace insertions, plus subtle embroidery to finish delicate, chic garments. It includes a reflection on subconscious imitation in behavior.
A cooking note describes making smooth drawn butter with flour and water, then shifts to an anecdote of a railway waiting room where businessmen and a doctor observe mass unconscious behavior. The physician notes higher intelligence correlates with susceptibility to subconscious influence and observes people unconsciously acting in unison.
A fragment notes an intelligent man who appears to lack practical sense or applicable skill, reflecting a skeptical view of intellect without real-world usefulness. The text hints at irony or social critique without detailing events or identities.
The circular flounce gains popularity in house and street wear, contrasting with tailor dresses. However it sags after wear in lightly woven fabrics like serge or etamine, and dressmakers prefer other styles. Many patrons regret choosing the circular flare.
A practical method using remains of mutton with lean slices layered with potatoes in a pie dish. Season with parsley savory herbs onion mace pepper and salt. Add a cupful of gravy before sealing with the crust for a simple, frugal dish.
A dainty collarette in cream silk muslin or thin silk makes a plain bodice look smart for evening wear. It is tucked perpendicularly within 244 inches of the edge, runs along the front and back, and its tucked edge forms a frill with a one inch chiffon ruche.
A youthful blue and cream frock described for a girl aged fourteen or fifteen. Text notes pale blue wool crepon, cream guipure yoke, pale blue satin, and blue taf feta girdle. Styling includes wide hat, jeweled guipure straps, chiffon ruche collar, and ruched epaulettes with floral trim.
The piece describes fashion details for young women including rose pink gowns with crepe de chine waists, velvet boleros, and guimpe necklines. It also offers health and housekeeping notes such as treating hair with tea, preserving paste, cleaning patent leather, and care for wood and fabrics. It closes with care tips for ringworm in children and proper saucepan storage to avoid lingering odors.
A travel ready outfit described in rough brown tweed features a five gore skirt with four yards hem and three rows of narrow black braid. The blouse jacket has back and front, double breasted fastening, scalloped edge, and three large buttons with a shaped collar and lined canvas. Sleeve and coat finish with machine stitching.
Wednesday meals list shredded wheat and bread omelet breakfast with muffins. Clam chowder with brown bread for lunch. Mixed nine cakes strawberry jam tea dinner features tomato soup curry mutton boiled rice red parsnips celery salad wafers cheese and chocolate.
A new fabric called elorinda appears in stores, a piece dyed material that is both plain and novelty. Duncan plaids move away from clan colors while keeping Scottish designs in favored fashion colors. Plaids come in six colorings with a blue-brown-tan-gold mix.
Silk shirts and ta f feta garments are popular this season with cotton style mirrored in construction. Heavier wash goods will lead before fine lawns and gingham appear. Waist garments in gale tea madras and pique are worn under jackets ahead of real warm weather. A plain cip ed gingham shirt waist features a white linen box pleat and matching linen collar and cuffs.
The day’s meals include breakfast of fruit hominy sugar and cream broiled ham griddle cakes coffee and fruit. Luncheon features ham omelet lyonnaise potatoes rice pudding cake cocoa. Dinner offers vegetable soup roast spare rib mashed potatoes baked sweet potatoes potato salad sweet pickles chocolate pudding and coffee.
The article notes tucks now in favor for summer gowns with many women using quiet home hours during Lent to prepare outfits. Tucks will appear in sleeves yokes panels and skirts in various widths and patterns including alternate rows of tucking and flouncing on organdy skirts and blouse vests.
Friday meals list offerings including oatmeal and syrup, codfish cakes, potato puffs, rolls, coffee, fried oysters with brown bread and cake, stewed prunes, chocolate, soup with boiled fish and parsley sauce, mashed potatoes, spinach, lettuce salad, peach tapioca, and coffee.
The piece discusses bridal gown features for home weddings and links walking styles to personality. It notes a fitted back bodice, vieated chiffon front, lace and orange blossoms as a possible heirloom touch, and compares strides to temperament while also describing weather-influenced mood changes and foot posture implications.
The piece describes cleaning Tremas and Combs with brushes to avoid splitting tortoiseshell. It offers a soothing lotion with borax camphor water and a dry hair root mixture of almonds glycerine lime water and cantharideus tincture. It recommends carbonate of soda for burns and notes prompt application provides relief and aids healing.
Saturday meals list breakfast options with shredded wheat sausages back wheat cakes luncheon baked beans brown bread mustard pickles plain cake chocolate dinner features celery soup beer stew with dumplings string beans mashed potatoes corn salad and cheese chocolate blanc mange coffee posted in a historic menu entry.
Instructions for preserving cut blossoms of trees and shrubs. Strip bark from ends so stems can take up water and keep the water warm to aid hydration.
A brief dictum asserts that worship cannot exist without joy, linking joyful feeling to genuine religious observance and communal faith.
Sunday menu lists consommé roast ribs of beef with brown gravy mashed potatoes browned sweet potatoes spinach lettuce salad French dressing olives wafers cheese orange short cake and coffee.
The article highlights spring novelty prints featuring black and white checked wool with plain tones. It details a gown with a slender skirt, hollowed front to reveal black velvet underskirt, white broadcloth border, velvet buttons, and a black velvet belt with a cut steel buckle. Sleeves have shoulder wings and velvet buttons.
A white lawn apron trimmed with insertion and embroidery features a hemmed lower edge and lace frill beneath a band of insertion or narrow feather-stitched braid. Three tiny tucks sit above the edge, with a pocket finished by turned edges and lace, and a gathered waist attached to a double material band.
A bib forms a sailor collar at the back with lace trimming all around. The front features insertion lace straps and trimming. The quoted saying suggests that those who can take advice are superior to those who give it.
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