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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1898
Page
6
Crinkled goods and silk crepes for evening and theater wear attract buyers. Dainty materials come in many colors. A turquoise blue crepe model with a low neckline and décolletage outlined with a full design draws attention.
Instructions explain boiling water destroys typhoid and cholera germs and can be improved by filtering after cooling. Milk requires clean vessels, full boiling, and covered cooling to reduce skin and dust while avoiding contamination. Fashion notes describe dainty yoke collars, lace, ruffles, and feathered headpieces with floral accents and jeweled plumes.
This piece discusses dressing table construction and decor, choosing color schemes, and a DIY approach. It covers using canton flannel under silk, fabric choices for a young girl’s room, and table finishing options. It also shares care tips for goldfish bowls and basic feeding guidance.
The schedule lists breakfast with cracked wheat sugar and cream bacon and eggs rice muffins and coffee. Luncheon features cream of lamb rolls cold slaw cake tea. Dinner offers potato soup fricassee of chicken mashed potatoes spinach cream cheese tomato salad and chocolate laver cake with coffee.
A survey of historic fashion notes from France and Europe. It cites Catherine de Medici’s record train length, court dress restrictions on crimson and velvet, gold collars with padlocks, white wool gowns, purple cloaks, long braids, and mass of styles during the Revolution era.
The article praises the neat walking gown as ideal for bright weather yet durable in showers. It highlights a tailor-made gown as best for this purpose and notes its continued popularity for morning wear.
University of Pennsylvania professor Barker received several gallons of liquid air sent from New York in a milk can. The liquid is made by compressing air to two thousand pounds per square inch then cooling and expanding to create 512 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature at which air liquefies. Experiments show liquid boiling when a frozen egg is dropped in and when bits of tin platinum copper and rubber are added. tin and rubber become as brittle as glass after removal.
Thursday menu lists breakfast with oranges oatmeal sugar and milk poached eggs on toast and coffee. Luncheon features mutton chops fried potatoes mustard pickles currant cake prunes chocolate. Dinner includes vermicelli soup beef stew baked macaroni French peas celery salad wafers cheese waf burg cream and coffee.
Tuesday meals list features baked apples and hominy with sugar and milk, followed by broiled chops and baked potatoes. Toast and coffee complete the meal in a simple daily serving.
Serial wear can be repurposed by swapping shirts and fronts for various uses. A chiffon vest and a stylish hat upgrade plain coat and skirt for calls. A black and white cheviot outfit with white revers makes a neat suit. Luncheon options include Bread Omelet, Home Made Biscuits, Quince Preserves, Cookies, Cocoa. Dinner features Tomato Soup, Roast Lamb with Caper Sauce, Meshed Potatoes, Macaroni and Cheese, Watercress Salad, Snow Pudding, Coffee.
Readable text notes a growing fashion trend around a headdress with growing admiration. Mentions unidentified supporters and shoppers showing interest but lacks specific names or dates to anchor concrete facts.
Breakfast includes Shredded Wheat with bananas sugar and cream Veal sweetbreads Rolls Coffee Luncheon offers Veal croamettes and peas Cream toast Rice pudding Tea Dinner features Corn soup Porterhouse steak creamed potatoes Heats parsnips lettuce French dressing wafers cheese hosted lemon pie and coffee
A comfortable waist for cycling or ordinary wear in cream wash silk or pongee, fully lined with fine muslin.
The article urges confined individuals to exercise for health and suggests alternatives to dumb-bell routines. It highlights battledore and shuttlecock, dancing, and household tasks as beneficial activities, noting that such exercises can be fun and practical for women managing home duties.
Women now favor plain hot water with lemon or cordial as a sociable alternative to tea at social calls. Fresh warm bread and salty buns appear, along with miniature hot tea biscuits and butter. Sandwiches are largely omitted across studio afternoons.
Experimental notes describe curious tests with liquid air conducted recently by an unnamed researcher group. The brief report highlights early observations, potential cooling effects, and safety cautions while omitting specific dates institutions or personnel.
The article prescribes a hand care recipe using equal parts rose water and glycerine mixed warm and corked. For rough hands use two thirds glycerine to one part rose water, rub after washing, and apply before sleep while wearing loose gloves.
Ready for the theatre a chic corsage styled as a rose satin belt with flowered fabric features a fitted basque piece making a refined accessory for a brunette wearer.
The passage lists Saturday meals breakfast with hominy grits sausages buckwheat cakes and maple syrup then luncheon scrambled eggs on toast fried hominy cakes baked apples Johnny Cake chocolate and dinner with clear soup fricassee of chicken dumplings mashed potatoes succotash asparagus lettuce salad with mayonnaise brown Betty pudding and coffee. A front dress description notes a decolette bodice with white chiffon edged in black velvet ribbon and pink silk lining with a feather boa and satin cane.
The Spanish flounce features on many summer dresses on view. A mauve foulard gown shows a flounced skirt with three tiny ruchings. The blouse has a pouched front and a white satin yoke bordered by violet velvet ribbon. Straps of velvet with jeweled buttons. Lez motion sleeves with lace trimmed epaulettes. A mature satin sash and a large love hat mounted on wires trimmed to match.
Friday breakfast offers bananas Wheatena creamed potatoes rolls coffee. Luncheon features fried codfish cakes stewed potatoes beet salad rhubarb plain cake tea. Dinner serves clam broth planked shad mashed potatoes oyster plant spinach with eggs orange pudding coffee.
A quaint dress inspired by the princesse model worn by a girl at a children's party. The gown features old rose cashmere, white mull yoke, plain short body, and a gathered skirt with a narrow yoke edging.
A description of a spring suit in sage gray blue and brown fabrics featuring a blouse waist with a pinked ruffle hem, epaulettes, and a rose silk sash. The piece notes a house or school frock version in blue serge with a red silk guimp.
A historical recipe lists ingredients for Lettuce Soup including lettuce, herbs, butter, stock, eggs, cream, onions and lemon. The method describes simmering vegetables in butter then adding stock, thickening with eggs and cream, and straining. The text shifts to detailing a stylish black dress with vicuna underdress and gold cord trim and related accessories.
A fragment describes royal gestures during talk. The German Emperor is said to tug his moustache, King Humbert of Italy caresses his moustache, the Austrian Emperor puffs his cheeks, and the Price of Waites is noted to wink his left eye rapidly when anxious.
A description of distinctive skirt designs includes a tunic back and front in one material with an underskirt in satin. Lace tunic over satin underskirt creates a best effect. An alternate design features three overlapping handerchief point skirts in white glace silk mounted in cerise silk, producing a striking look.
French designers unveil gowns featuring narrowly gored skirts and carefully fitted sleeves. The new styles emphasize the hang of the skirt and draperies on the bodice, with subtle trimming and color blending creating an indescribable beauty.
The passage notes a recent fashion novelty featuring feathered boas with six ends, three on each side, fastened at the neck by a jeweled ornament set with rhinestones.
A 13 year old girl on a Charlestown plantation sheltered her wounded father and enslaved family as Tarleton's troopers burned barns and killed slaves. Marion returned through smoke to rescue a baby from the house, escaping into the swamp with the child while Raglon soldiers briefly paused to watch.
A compact guide extols aprons for a child's wardrobe noting protection of dresses and neat appearance. It recommends fine nainsook for a smart pinafore, with washable wear. linen offers serviceability and a white nainsook apron features a bodice with embroidered yoke, plaid ribbon susan, back tie, and embroidery edging.
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