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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1898
Page
6
A guide to seaside dressing emphasizes navy serge sailor suits with pleated skirts and white pique collars for children. It warns against heavy friezes and fashionable but impractical ceiling hangings, advising practical, timeless styles and wall treatments that stay fresh. It also covers casual wear such as light leather straps and durable undergarments for travel, noting cost and practicality.
Travelers seek bonnet bags and sponge bags to shield hats from dust and cinders on journeys. Women sometimes cover husbands hats and even wrap travel suits in long light bags. A passenger showcased a bag with a jacket inside and a gold monogram on a black cloth cover for a seat bag.
Breakfast featured raspberries bacon and eggs toast and coffee Luncheon included cold roast lamb with mint sauce watercress salad wafers huckleberries and iced tea Dinner offered cream of spinach soup porterhouse steak mashed potatoes string beans lettuce salad and watermelon iced coffee
A simple country house dining room features a square deal table with long legs. The tabletop is covered by four plush squares, each edged and reaching to the ground, creating a decorative but practical side table.
Before summer closure an expert urges flushing all traps and bowls with clear water and adding glycerine or oil to prevent water evaporation. Use enough glycerine to fit traps, safeguarding family health in autumn. Do not close a house completely from sunlight where fabrics can fade and interior shutters are unnecessary.
A fragment describes a fine linen cloth on a "Pope's table" as a facsimile of Vatican form and decoration. It notes cheaper materials for a breakfast table, mentions ajar windows, sunlit disinfectant benefits, and the idea of keeping marauders out with shaded upper windows.
An envelope to keep boiled eggs warm features a white linen square with folded triangle flaps meeting at the center. Each flap is embroidered in crewel stitch with blue wash silks and poultry designs including a cock, hen, basket of eggs and a chick on a nest.
The article discusses how the proportions of dado, wall, and frieze in halls, dining rooms, and libraries are to be measured by the height of the space. It notes standard practices for determining molding dimensions in interior design.
Money belts for men and women are available from twenty five cents to three dollars. The items share a similar design with three pouches and three flaps that button over for secure closure.
The menu lists breakfast with cantaloupe oatmeal sugar milk johnny cake fried eggs coffee. Luncheon features meatballs rice potatoes olives plain cake raspberries chocolate. Dinner offers cream of corn soup stewed chicken potatoes shelled beans tomato salad huckleberry pudding hard sauce coffee.
The article surveys fashion shifts from arkansas traveller shoes to Derby hats and Ulster coats, noting the fleeting nature of styles. It reflects on the rise and fall of shoes with tall heels, V shaped footwear, top hats, and other era driven garments as they rise and fade with each season.
The article outlines fashion items including a watermelon pink and white striped taffeta blouse waist with pink satin trimming, lace yoke, and sheer effects. It describes various waist and dress silhouettes such as princesse, surplice folds, jabots, and bertha styles, all part of the new Arcadian gowns for summer 98.
The article discusses odors from city laundries and the risks of unpleasant flavors in laundered linen. It urges housekeepers to supervise washing, especially when using outside laundresses, and to communicate clearly to ensure better results despite crowded tenement conditions.
Fashion advances replace the traditional fawn, brown, and tan gloves with conspicuous shades such as green purple orange dahlia and begonia for daywear and evening wear. Buttons on day gloves grow larger and stitch work more contrasting while evening gloves show pale stitching.
The day’s meals include breakfast with grapes, broiled chicken, rolls, potato balls, and coffee. Luncheon features cold sliced tongue, sweet pickles, soda crackers, plums, apricots, and tea. Dinner offers mock bisque soup, roast beef, riced potatoes, green peas, cauliflower, dress salad, wafers, pineapple layer cake, and coffee.
A practical guide to creaming cod to mimic pricier fish. marinate cod half an hour before cooking. Boil and flake, remove bones and skin, then mix olive oil onion juice lemon juice salt paprika and celery salt, pour over fish, fold in gently, and cream as usual.
Low cut blouses and waists feature guimpes a la Russe and numerous yoke effects. Sashes are tied and loops add decorative detail in this summer fashion recap.
The column highlights dotted Swiss gowns with white grounds and pink rosebud motifs tied by pale blue ribbon, and corset waists with lace yokes. It also previewed new wool travel fabrics with wide diagonals in gray blue or fawn, featuring tiny shoulder tucks and jabots in lace, plus color contrasts and laced borders.
The menu lists breakfast with cantaloupe broiled bluefish toast graham gems coffee. Luncheon includes fried clams cold roast beef baked potatoes pears cherries tea. Dinner offers green pea soup broiled shad potatoes asparagus sliced tomatoes cake frozen peaches coffee.
A tasteful hostess hosted a green and white dinner with fourteen covers. Centerpiece ferns wrapped in white crepe paper and ribbons rested amid mirrored miniatures and cut glass goblets each holding an olive oil taper, creating an elegant, unified display.
A traditional matzoth wafers dish enjoyed in Jewish homes for children. Delicately brushed with beaten egg yolk, dusted with sugar, and finished with cinnamon. Wafers are layered and baked to crisp, creating a wholesome luncheon favorite for youngsters.
Saturday meals feature Blueberries Bread Omelet Potato Cakes Toast Lamb Chops Potato Salad Sliced Tomatoes Peaches and Cream Tea Dinner offers Vegetable Soup Braised Beef Potatoes Tomatoes Stuffed with Green Peas Dress Salad Watermelon Coffee.
Many beautiful dresses for summer are created from partly worn silk gowns of past seasons. Outer dresses use muslin net grenadine and other diaphanous textiles. Black and white silks plaids brocades and striped silks are reused, yielding renovated gowns that many fashion makers say look prettier and daintier than when new.
In Russia, each minister's departure and return triggers dozens of official notices. Beyond the Council of the Empire and Cabinet, various bodies and governors are alerted, making each trip a paper parade. With eighteen ministers and three journeys per year, about 10 800 official papers are produced annually.
Lovely lingerie notes a shift in style as delicate muslin undergarments replace silk for summer wear. Bridal lingerie sets are highlighted as exquisite offerings in large stores.
Wednesday meals include breakfast with blackberries wheat biscuit sugar and cream lambs liver sauté corn bread coffee luncheon chicken sandwiches sliced tomatoes bread and butter cherry pie iced cocoa dinner features green pea soup breaded veal cutlets with tomato sauce mashed potatoes green drn lettuce and cucumber salad peaches and cream coffee
The article warns that kitchen odors from broiled fish steak and strong vegetables cling to clothes, especially when laundry and kitchen share space. It notes odors can be absorbed during sprinkling and when clothes are rolled and stored, affecting cleanliness upstairs.
The trimmed skirt is advancing faster than draped styles with more overskirt effects. Panels of silk on the sides of a skirt or princesse dress offer a flattering trimming for short women, adding height compared with frills or flounces.
A fragment notes a serviceable summer bicycle salt built from a heavy crash. The item reads like a compact note in a local column describing a makeshift repair or improvised equipment. The text hints at resilience and practical reuse without detailing people or places.
The CostHest Crown in Europe is worn by the Czar of Russia on state occasions. A cross of five large diamonds sits atop an immense uncut yet polished ruby. The ruby rests on eleven large diamonds and is supported by a mat of pearls.
The article notes many new blouses use material cut halfway between neck and waist due to a yoke or quimpe. It describes a white China silk blouse over a tucked guimpe with Poenss revers edged in gold thread as belt and cuffs. Sleeves feature rows of tucks.
A new bright-blue peppermint joins pink green chocolate and white cream in stores. The shade matches fashionable rib bons and silk and comes from a harmless vegetable coloring. The cream peppermint lozenges are large now about the size of a silver dollar.
A silk waist that compresses to baseball size and returns unrumpled is a novel travel friendly fashion trend of the season, praised for its lightness and practicality.
A novel carpet cleaner cleans without removing rugs from the floor. It uses metal strips inside a casing to beat the carpet as it moves. A top mounted fan draws dust into a water compartment with a moistened screen to trap particles.
A lemon bath is a near daily luxury in the West Indies. Slices of lime or lemon sit in warm water for half an hour to extract juice, leaving the skin feeling remarkably fresh and clean.
The article notes organdy dresses as fashionable for children this season with sheer fabrics. It highlights very full skirts that swing, numerous ruffles, and elaborately trimmed petticoats as key details of a party gown for girls.
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