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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1898
Page
13
A detailed description of a green cashmere home dress lined with satin and trimmed with black mohair braid. The bodice features white convolvulus embroidery, corded stitches, and a damp-dried finish. Lid construction includes satin piping, pleated silk frill, and elastic button loop closure.
A fragmented bakery or household menu lists meals for Monday. Breakfast includes oranges cracked wheat smoked haddock stewed potatoes muffing coffer. Luncheon offers cemeteries cold slaw hot ginger bread preserves tea. Dinner features vermicelli soup roast mutton mashed potatoes tarnins tomato seed binne mangee coffee.
A brief note extols a fruit diet as curative for many ailments once deemed hopeless. It claims arthritis, rheumatism, lumbago, gravel and digestive troubles improve under a fruit based regimen, and asserts numerous illnesses stem from poor diet, removable by a proper fruit rich diet.
A Victorian style note describes making a dainty wooden box with brass corners, linen lining, and silk embroidery for gifting. It mentions teeth whitening customs across various cultures, followed by fashion remarks on lace, satin, and Venice point embroidery on gowns. It also cites autographs and inscriptions by European royals and nobles on fans and garments.
The menu lists meals for Tuesday including baked apples oatmeal toast coffee and cream baked hash waffles with maple syrup and coffee plus chicken curry herbs. Lunch and dinner feature vegetable soup pot roast spinach lima beans potatoes celery salad crackers cheese and tapioca pudding with coffee.
A renowned professor surveyed 1,701 children and found they feared 6,456 things. Leading anxieties included lightning, reptiles, strangers, the dark, death, domestic animals, water, ghosts, insects, rats, mice, and loud words.
The text notes that in one district sixteen poor children feared the end of the world, yet none were frightened into obedience by the devil. It argues that modern parenting favors affection over terror, contrasting with past eras when fear governed behavior.
Experiments show color influences heat perception with red rooms feeling warmer than blue rooms at the same temperature. Red appears stimulating while blue is depressing. The “new thought” movement opposes black as mourning wear, arguing it reduces receptiveness, and black mourning attire is being worn and discarded more quickly now.
The article notes a shift from white cut glass to French gold and white in fashionable table settings. It clarifies that cut glass remains in use but a change in preference has brought new wares to the fore.
A full chiffon skirt gown with accordion pleatwork over silk lining. The ciie evening dress features an accordion pleated bodice under a cream guipure band, belted at the waist with pale blue velvet, completing a youthful and dainty silhouette.
The article describes a wall mounted mail panel for large families. A 15 by 18 inch white enamel board is stretched with strong ribbons to form a grid, fastened with gold headed nails. Optional painted sprays and a ribbon bow finish the dainty, decorative piece.
Breakfast includes oatmeal with sugar and cream and pork chops with fried potatoes rolls and coffee. Luncheon offers curry of veal corn cakes grape jam plain cake and tea. Dinner features tomato soup roast chicken mashed potatoes spaghetti with tomato sauce peas canned crackers olives chocolate layer cake and coffee.
Adelaine Patti is linked to a rare fan crafted with vellum leaves and ornate decoration. The artifact reflects 19th century artistry, showcasing fragile materials and delicate detailing.
The menu lists Breakfast items including Shredded Wheat Biscuit bananas sugar and cream ham and stegs coffee cake and coffee. Lunch features canned salmon cream biscuit pickles apples cookies coca. Dinner offers Cream of Cetery Soup broiled porterhouse steak mashed potatoes creamed parsnips lettuce salad with mayonnaise crackers cheese and Brown Betty pudding plus coffee.
The German FEE emperor and Empress are the earliest risers among European sovereigns, waking at five in summer and six in winter and retiring by ten. They start the day with coffee rituals for the master, while their children are raised to imitate their schedule. The Emperor of Austria is noted for breakfasts with the park.
Early spring costumes favor a blouse with a flat basque and no darts. Fronts are diagonally lapped with a large drooping rever. Basque may be dispensed with or cut in tabs. One in two cloths uses a light yoke and vest with black braid and satin belt details.
In Paris fashion tailors offer handsome tailor cloth skirts paired with lace blouses satin colored to match. Belts and matching cloth collars complete the outfit worn at small dinners and theatres. Some tailors send home silk lined skirts with two to three waists, including chiffon over silk and satin brocade options in violet cerise orange or other colors to suit the cloth skirt.
Friday meals include breakfast with grits and broiled bluefish. luncheon features broiled lobster and tea. dinner offers clam chowder black bass with baked potato succotash watercress salad wafers cheese and homemade apple pie plus coffee and tea.
A stylish afternoon dress features royal purple cloth with nile green chiffon waist details. The skirt and bodice use the purple fabric, a chiffon front forms the waist, and green silk trim lines the edges. Line lace adds finishing accents.
The description highlights two gowns with velvet and cashmere trims, a purple velvet choker, and a white satin net pattern. Verdi, aged eighty two, rides daily, composes a little each morning, plays cards with family, and enjoys reading poetry and philosophy in the evening.
The article notes the guimpe bodice trend for prom dresses this season with blue figured foulard and soft materials. A sample gown features a white chiffon guimpe mounted on silk, with shoulder tabs lined for emphasis.
A turquoise blue bayoadere silk dress features three rows of dark blue velvet on the blouse front and a blue velvet bolero with cream guipine and white satin edging. Epaulettes edged in silk, chiffon collar, blue velvet ceinture, and a black silk waist with Roman stripes accompany a brocade shirt waist and velvet-trimmed skirt. Turquoise blue straw hat is covered with flowers.
The excerpt notes Miss Linley became the author's wife after life in the stage play. It also claims Thomas Moore valued love, claiming sixteen different ladies to whom he pledged eternal fidelity in his poems.
The article extols lace collars with violet velvet bands and fur trimmed coats as stylish. It details a cream lace collar with velvet band, pleating at back, and lace folds around the sides and front, plus a three frill jabot on net with two rosettes on the band flanking the front.
The Seatch ginghams and French zephyrs rival taffeta silks in pattern and color. A summer girl wearing a gown of these fabrics with dainty ribbons and a matching parasol will appear equally attractive at half the cost as one in silk attire.
Celebrated Laotters Heinrich Heine is described as jealous in a true story about his courtship. He allegedly poisoned a parrot belonging to his beloved to keep her attention. The tale centers on Lydia and the scandals of love.
Sunday menu lists consommé roast beef green peas mashed potatoes browned sweet potatoes lettuce salad mayonnaise dressing wafers cheese fruit nuts coconut cream coffee.
A terse reflection notes that people with average insight express the desired thought effortlessly, a quality long sought after yet often wasted in vain. The piece muses on the ease of saying the right thing when true understanding is lacking.
The article describes dainty striped figured taffetas for dressy waists, styled with a black or contrasting skirt for theater or church wear. A pale violet and green striped bodice opens over a plain tucked vest, with tucks and insertion on blouse and sleeves, and a green amazon cloth skirt. White taffeta with colored polka dots is a new waist novelty paired with white mohair skirts.
Army reports recount Private John M. Jones of Battery I saving comrades during a 50 pound powder charge at Lime Point. He extinguished a smoldering bag with bare hands as a 21 gun jubilee saluted, then saluted his superior officer.
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