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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1898
Page
6
A new season innovation features all over guipure lace yokes paired with dainty summer frocks. Chic silks trimmed with lace and muslin create an elegant effect using a soft pink rose pattern on white silk. The bodice emphasizes a simple pouched silhouette.
The article describes elaborate teagowns and matinees suitable for dressy occasions at summer resorts. It notes fabrics such as crepe de Chine and satin foulard, with open fronts, blouses, and petticoats. A cream crepe de Chine gown features guipure yoke, two ruffled front details, and a black satin belt. A second negligee style robe uses almond Foucard and geranium red velvet with pale blue faille ribbon.
The excerpt presents a full daily menu for Monday including breakfast with oatmeal berries veal cutlets rolls and coffee luncheon with cold meat sliced tomatoes toast raspberries and cream and iced tea and dinner featuring cream of pea soup lamb chops mashed potatoes string beans lettuce salad wafers cheese and pineapple pie with coffee.
Silk and crepe de Chine dresses gain subtle three ribbon frills. The ribbon frills, newer than the dress goods, use two toned or double faced ribbons and must stay under three inches wide to preserve the effect.
The article highlights elegant gowns for summer featuring French and India muslins and batiste for dressy afternoon wear. It notes flowered crepe white fabrics with cream lace trims and describes layered skirt designs with organ die underskirts, lace edging, and silk underslips for lighter, airy looks.
A handkerchief sachet described as moss green velvet embroidered in narcissus and white satin offers a pretty, triflingly priced craft item for bazaars and fairs. The article notes such sachets are always saleable and can be made by a woman skilled with a needle.
Tuesday breakfast features Wheatina, Sugar and Milk with Bacon and Eggs and muffins. Luncheon offers Curry of Cold Lamb, Boiled Rice, Wuckleberry Pudding and Cocoa. Dinner includes Vegetable Soup, Stewed Chicken with Dumplings, Asparagus on Toast, Rice Potatoes and Cress Salad with Lemon Sherbet and Coffee.
A native woman bathing in a New Guinea creek was seized by a crocodile. She twisted her arm within the throat and tickled the predator, causing nausea and release. The crocodile spit out her arm and she escaped, later bound for the mission-house and healing, though scarred for life.
A cooking teacher describes a makeshift cream using the whites of two eggs beaten until light, a practical emergency substitute when real cream is unavailable. It highlights simple ingredients and quick preparation for immediate use.
Describes making a sachet with green satin trim and green white ribbons. It details lining with white silk and scented wadding, quilting, and chenille edging. Mixture of sugar, cornstarch, milk, and eggs is beaten, heated, and folded into the egg base.
The text explains a cream variant thickened to the consistency of thick cream, then strained and cooled. It may be served with fresh or preserved fruits but will not whip.
The schedule shows breakfast with blackberries hominy cakes liver and bacon johnny cake coffee and luncheon of salt fish cream potatoes cucumbers peaches and cream chocolate then dinner featuring roast lamb mashed potatoes green peas lettuce and tomato salad berry pudding and hard sauce with iced coffee.
Bewitching French capotes appear again, worn without strings to frame the face. They pair with summer church gowns in lace foliage and flowers. Milliners show stylish plaited straw bonnets with tulle details and striking passemen terie straw pieces.
Velvet or satin ribbon two inches wide is arranged in straight rows on new French skirts and bodices. It passes through lines of narrow perpendicular tucking in clusters of three or five. The trimming tops the Spanish flounce and finishes the collar and sleeves with fine lingerie tucks.
A dust cloak is advised for travelers to keep gowns clean on journeys. Alpaca beige silk or linen cloaks are practical, with a black silk example featuring a pleated yoke and three lace trimmed capes. Flounces should be fuller to avoid a flat look, especially in foulard muslin or lawn fabrics.
The Norwegian Parliament enacted a cremation law allowing individuals over fifteen to be cremated with a two witness declaration. Those under fifteen require parental declaration. Police, medical registrar, and attending doctors must provide written testimony on the cause of death before incineration.
Thursday menu offerings feature breakfast items like oranges shredded wheat and broiled sweetbreads. Luncheon includes smoked salmon scalloped potatoes radishes cherries cake tea. Dinner offers bread soup lamb souffle mashed potatoes beets string bean salad and watermelon with coffee.
A dainty white muslin dress with black pin dots worn by a fashionable young woman at a patriotic gathering. Describes velvet collars and bands in colors like scarlet turquoise violet green nasturtium and yellow. Also notes French bread buying and professional laundering practices.
The text argues that digestion benefits from energetic mastication rather than slow eating. It warns that anxiety can disrupt secretions and that slow eating leads to minimal chewing, while hurried eating risks insufficient mastication. Rapid mastication concentrates effort and promotes saliva production, countering common misconceptions.
Paris fashion favors the Spanish coiffure with a high jewelled comb and a crimson or yellow rose near the ear. A second look features a high compact knot on top with loose, wavy hair surrounding it. Jewelled side combs, tortoise-shell pins, and glittering ornaments such as crescents, wings, and dragonflies complete the style.
A recent writer estimates that among Mexico's native population about 150,000 individuals remain as survivors of the Aztec race. The claim reflects a viewpoint on indigenous lineage and cultural endurance within modern Mexican society.
Describes summer gowns for the maid set with sheathlike skirts small sleeves and elaborate garnitures. Highlights many original outfits with emphasis on a fancy style where the bottom is over a cord of wadded padding and a contrasting color cord with ribbon finishes the sides.
The menu lists Breakfast items including Stewed Cherries Rice Cakes Smoked Finnan Haddie Toast Coffee for Saturday. Luncheon features Sliced Cold Tongue Mustard Sauce Brown Bread and a description of a bodice with elbow sleeves and turquoise muslin waist. Dinner features Roast Beef Mashed Potatoes Green Peas White Onions Lettuce Salad Strawberry Ice Coffee.
The record lists a Friday meal plan with breakfast items Canteloupe steamed rice sugar and cream scrambled eggs French fried potatoes muffins coffee. Luncheon features puked codfish in cream baked potatoes sliced tomatoes currant pie iced tea. Dinner includes clam broth broiled white fish cauliflower mashed potatoes lettuce and eye salad blackberry shortcake cafe noir.
A call to daily kindness urges readers to help others with a kind word, a helping hand, or a smile. It stresses selflessness and lifting the fortunes of the less fortunate to ease one’s own burdens and increase happiness.
A noted French designer uses basket woven silks in small checks of rose color, cream, green, fawn, geranium pink, violet, ecru, petunia, and wood brown for smart gowns. Guimpe matches a color in the check and is covered with silk net with puff sleeves. Skirts feature pinked frills from hem to hips.
A summer dessert from a cooking school uses eggs and maple syrup beaten into a light mixture. Thick cream is folded in, then the mixture is set in a mould with wrapping paper, chilled in ice and salt for four hours, and served as a clear, simple delicacy.
A guide describes crafting a work or card basket with a circular cardboard or wicker base and a silk or satin exterior. It includes a playful anecdote about a clumsy dancer apologizing after every misstep, and notes that white or colored duck costumes remain stylish this year.
The article explains using hot fat rather than hot water to baste roasts. Start with butter or drippings, then rely on juices to continue the baste. Begin with an initial oven heat and then temper the heat as the roast cooks.
The article outlines summer bodices featuring fitted backs and slightly pouched fronts, with revers and bretelles, a ribbon collar, and a lace jabot. Sleeves are typically small mutton-leg or puffed from wrist to shoulder over a straight inner sleeve of sheer fabric.
A contractor watches laborers slow to haul bricks then pays an Italian street musician to play lively tunes. The music sparks the workers to finish a half days work in half an hour. The ruse is repeated with a second Italian the next day, leaving the men unaware of the trick.
A dialogue centers on the saying Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Papa explains an old saw is a proverb and a gift horse should not be examined for age. Johnny and Papa discuss taste, gratitude, and the giver while the topic sparks a lively exchange.
Suinen offers dresses and suits for young children with current summer styles. Boys favor kilts and white pique outfits for dress wear, while girls’ readymade three piece dresses feature skirt bodice and trimmed Eton jacket.
The article notes grey as the fashionable color for walking and visiting toilets this year. It describes choosing materials to match individual style, with fawn tints and light browns also popular, and details a pale gray corsage with quimp and shirted tuck sleeves in corn colored liberty silk, accented by black velvet rosettes, lace, and a coordinated collar and belt.
A substantial farmer with five daughters hosted a wedding breakfast for the eldest daughter. A neighboring young farmer, invited as a guest speaker, complimented the bridegroom by saying you have got the pick of the batch. The four unmarried sisters’ expressions were notable.
The speaker reflects that the best part of a summer holiday is meeting many new people and showcasing one’s ability to be agreeable and entertaining with familiar ideas.
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