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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1898
Page
10
A petite blonde wore a blue accordeon pleated crepon summer frock with silk lining in the first act of a popular play. The skirt bore a fashionable train and cream guiture trimming while the tight bodice featured a plain back and slim fronts.
The latest sleeve trends favor close coats with varied trim options. Wing-like dress fabric pieces, guipure corsage, lace edged bands, and a blue silk waist sash create decorative finishes. Sleeves show slight shoulder fullness, contrasting satin linings, and bird wing inspired tying. Wide ribbons and mutton-leg sleeve tucks remain popular.
The schedule lists breakfast with oranges fried mush boiled eggs Vienna rolls coffee followed by luncheon of minced ham on toast a dress salad soda biscuit ginger bread tea and a dinner of pea soup baked lamb tenderloin mashed potatoes scalloped tomatoes canned peas wafers cheese and chocolate pudding with coffee.
A fashion description highlights a draped bodice with G aimed front folds and a seam under the arm. An effective model uses steel blue taffeta with a silk crepe de chine yoke and sleeves. The draped fabric finishes with a flap velvet edge and a large accent.
The excerpt lists a Tuesday meal sequence with breakfast items bananas oatmeal sugar and cream hash coffee cake coffee luncheon baked potatoes with cream cold sliced lamb preserved plums cake tea dinner vegetable soup meat pie riced potatoes canned beans lettuce with French dressing wafers cheese prune pudding and coffee.
A fragment describes thin textiles used to beautify a gown, noting the dreamlike quality of the fabric and its light, graceful appearance. The passage highlights the material’s aesthetic appeal and potential for elegant attire.
The piece describes velvet trimmed crepe de chine sleeves and a yellow straw hat, with a velvet rosette on the chair. It includes a White Vegetable Soup recipe with vegetables, dripping, milk, water, and herbs, plus commentary on French organdies and the cost of new gowns versus budget wear.
A vivid warning against yielding to temptations now spread across the city’s malls and muslin departments, urging restraint amid lavish displays and consumer pressure.
A fashion note highlights the ongoing craze for neckties with new designs each week. The piece notes the popularity of these dress accessories and the belief that one can never own too many.
Weathered fashion briefing describes scarves tied twice around the neck forming a large bow to complement tailor made suits. A cream mousseline model with fine lace suits afternoon or evening wear, laid over a stiff foundation and closed at the back. A simpler silk model with chiffon frills and a central gold ring pairs with shirt waists.
Bright tulip colors and red in Roman, geranium and other dyes lead millinery trends. Violets velvet and Venetian lace trim hats in Paris styles sent to this country. French violets imitate real flowers with soft petals and perfumed clusters, appealing to all ages.
The schedule lists breakfast with grape fruit hominy sugar and cream broiled fish and wheat croquettes coffee. Luncheon includes canned salmon rice muffins toast and rice pudding with coffee. Dinner features potato soup baked shad stuffed stewed corn parsnips with cream sauce celery salad mayonnaise wafers cheese and chocolate éclairs with coffee.
A soup method lists ingredients including tomatoes onion celery bay leaf mace ham pepper salt water and tapioca. The procedure slices vegetables, simmers with spices and ham, then sieves, returns to boil, adds tapioca and cooks until clear.
A dressy light blue silk waist with spangled embroidery and chiffon sleeves suits party or theater wear. The bodice features a seam-free pleated front yoke, back hook closure, spangled blouse joined to the yoke, ribbon banded waist with a left side bow, and silk epaulettes with chiffon trim. Silk waists hold a prominent place in a woman’s wardrobe.
A recipe outlines Brown Soup using bones carrots onions barley and dripping simmered three hours then thickened and strained. The text adds comments on the Japanese being strong and beautiful and describes swordfish and blouse trimming with tucks and ruffles.
The article describes new frocks for girls aged four to sixteen using silk cashmere and cotton with velvet ribbon edging. Frocks feature tucked silk yokes, profuse ribbon, belts of Nos. 12 ribbon with rosettes, and back tied sashes. Black and fancy ribbons favored with square yokes and rosettes or donkey-ear bows.
The Invalid and other readers with simple knitting skill can profit from the golf craze by making knitted scarves. The scarves feature Scotch plaids on dark blue red or green grounds and measure about one and a half yards by a half yard. Women on the links wear them knotted at the waist or across the breast as an ornament, or shifted to serve as a kerchief or muffler for warmth on cold days.
The menu lists breakfast items including Baked Apples Shredded Wheat Sugar and Cream Broiled Bacon Baked Potatoes Rolls Coffee Luncheon features Curry of Veal Lettuce Sandwiches Biscuits Honey Tea Dinner offers Clear Soup Chicken Friendssee Mashed Potatoes Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce Watercress Salad Wafers Cheese Coconut Charlotte Coffee
The passage extols hot milk as a potent stimulant for bodily and mental fatigue. It claims milk, heated to the tolerable limit, is easily digested and provides rapid refreshing effects, noting many people do not recognize its energizing qualities.
Tailors craft new cloth gowns in gray green and Roman blue featuring a close braidwork over the front of the skirt to imitate an overskirt. The open jacket is densely braided with an odd silk vest in pale blue, cherry red, or violet laid in tucks and fastened with jeweled studs.
The piece notes Sally Lunn as a famed Bath pastry cook from around 1776 and explains the origins of terms like charlotte russe and macaroni, linking them to historic dining customs and language evolution.
Step by step directions describe making a teapot cosy with a nine inch top, fourteen inch lower section, and ninety one percent inch depth using muslin prints and silk trims. The process covers acid treatment, fabric layering, velvet and silk arrangements, sewing, lining, edge finishing with silk and cord, bow accents, and stain removal guidance.
A Swiss physician states that a symmetrically worn heel and sole indicate an energetic, faithful, well balanced character. Saturday menu lists breakfast with hominy croquettes and baked hash, luncheon with veal patties and potatoes, and dinner featuring sirloin steak, lima bean puree, and dessert.
The Friday meals include breakfast with oatmeal scrambled eggs fried potatoes hot graham biscuits and coffee followed by luncheon of fried scallops potato salad baked bananas cream cake and chocolate then dinner of clam broth baked haddock melted butter turnips dressed lettuce wafers cheese and peach pudding with coffee.
Mr A F Howes of Weymouth Massachusetts secures patents for a portable aluminium house weighing 130 pounds with kitchen units. The Klondike Home folds into three bundles for easy transport and storage, aimed at Arctic explorers and campers seeking compact, fire resistant shelter.
A historical formula lists four ounces of precipitated chalk three ounces of orris root one ounce of white soap half an ounce of cuttle fish two drams of carmine half an ounce of coca leaf tincture thirty drops oil of clove aloe thirty drops peppermint five drops oil of castor oil and glycerine to bind into a paste.
A simple green pea soup made with shelled peas, pods, parsley, shalots, mint, lettuce, stock, and cream. Melt butter, simmer peas and aromatics gently, strain, reheat, and adjust with cream or cornflour for budget option.
Braidine, braiding in vermicelli and Greek key patterns decorate imported costumes including redingotes jackets and small pelerines. Purely conventional devices join the fancy braids, with new effects arousing admiration as if the trend were fresh.
A brief note introduces scarpology as the art of interpreting character from shoe soles. It hints at a playful or esoteric method without detailing specific techniques or examples.
A Western State woman living near Boston faced a third tax on income from Massachusetts laws while her property, held by a trustee in Indiana, was taxed there and another state taxed the residence. The author argues such taxes provoke evasion and compare to colonial resistance to taxation as obedience to God. Ocean waves have often dashed over lighthouse tops in storms.
A dainty waist features violet and green foulard worn over a white mousseline guimpe. The sheer fabric trims sleeves and bodice, with green ribbon straps over the shoulders and a ceinture of green velvet.
A simple home wear blouse in cadet blue dotted chal ile features a fitted lining waist with an invisible hook edge and a velvety cadet blue collar. The revers matches the fabric and is trimmed with three lace rows, tight sleeves with a small puff, and a ceinture collar. The pouched front completes the design, adaptable with or without basgone, the universal belt visible on all styles.
A mouth waah. Half an ounce of salts of tartar, four ounces of honey aug. apt., thirty drops peppermint oil, thirty drops wintergreen oil, two ounces spirits of wine, ten ounces triple rose water, enough squid cochineal to color. Mix well. To be used morning and evening.
The piece highlights silk and taffeta embroidery in a historic fashion feature. It lists fabric requirements including four yards of plain taffeta for a tucked yoke collar and sash ends, and notes turquoise burnet orange pink white cherry and black as popular colors.
Sunday menu lists consommé roast duck and green peas with mashed and browned potatoes. Includes lettuce salad mayonnaise wafers cheese fruit nuts and ice cream plus coffee.
A Kansas City Journal quip notes Gomer Davies of Concordia and A D Campbell of Wanover both lost a leg and share the same shoe size. Davies sends a left shoe to Campbell while Campbell returns a right shoe, a singular coincidence the Mail and Express highlights.
The eye of the vulture is described as a ulgbri powered tel escape enabling the bird to see objects at an almost incredible distance.
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