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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1898
Page
8
A wall against cabinet design in oak or mahogany with copper or pewter hinges offers ornamental storage for pictures and engravings. The article also provides detailed cooking instructions for a turkey with chestnuts and a chestnut forcemeat, plus a sample menu and fashion notes on a burgundy cashmere bodice with velvet trim and ballooned sleeves.
Frederick the Great paid little heed to personal adornment or to those he spoke with. When Thiebault met him in travel dress, the king dismissed attire, saying he cared only for heads, not dress, and would be satisfied if attendees brought their heads.
A vintage note suggests placing a small picture to one side above a drape on the mantel. Add harmonious material above and arrange pretty fans or similar tasteful accents on the other side. Avoid stiff symmetry and do not crowd the shelf with pairs.
The piece describes a child pinafore of muslin or cambric with narrow edgings and lace, plus neckline and shoulder shaping and a decorative cabinet mantelpiece design. It then explains pencils as carbon not lead, tracing the history from medieval lead pencils to modern carbon pencils and the use of pigment in illumination.
The menu lists luncheon items including creamed corn beef pickles brown bread rice pudding chocolate and a dinner featuring tomato soup broiled sirloin steak mashed potatoes spinach celery salad crackers cheese home made apple pie and coffee.
The New Walk Society adopts a new stance and movement as men and women walk erect with slight forward incline, limp arms, correct footwear, and a light boundlike hop on the balls of the feet, a stylish gait with notable appeal.
A home made emollient for chapped hands combines white wax and spermaceti melted together with ecamphorized oil. The mixture is cooled in cold water and packed in small jars for use as a night cream under wash leather gloves for quick relief.
A chic rose colored silk bodice designed for theater or reception wear features soft draped silk over a smocked neck lining with single piece epaulettes over the shoulders.
The description details a piano setup with a pleated left top end, waterfall draping, and tightly drawn top across to the opposite corner. It notes two Indian kuskus and four leaf shaped Japanese fans on corners, a music rack with painted panels, a draj over one corner, a photo screen, a statuette, and a bamboo vase stand near the piano.
Vanelers say faille tulle will rival straw early this season. New uses include layered opaque tulle over a firm shape or beret forms with edges brushed by narrow satin ribbons. Filigree metallic tulles and gauzes decorate toques while plain tulle trims spring and summer hats with spangled borders.
Instructions describe making a chocolate cream dessert with gelatine and milk, plus fabric trimming and a waistcoat style outfit. Steps include dissolving gelatine in hot cream and milk, melting chocolate with leaf sugar, folding in whipped egg whites, and setting the mixture in a cold mould. Aesthetic garment notes accompany the recipe.
Breakfast features Whole Wheat Biscuit and Cream Sausages Apple Sauce Rolls Coffee Luncheon includes Scrambled Eggs Tomato Sauce Bread and Butter Cookies Preserved Peaches Tea Dinner offers Noodle Soup Chicken Fricassee with Dumplings Mashed Potatoes Sweet Potatoes Celery Wafers Nuts and Apples Custard Coffee
The menu lists breakfast items of hominy and milk bread omelet toast and coffee followed by luncheon creamed codfish Neufchatel cheese apple pie cocoa and dinner features oyster soup baked haddock potato balls cauliflower with cream sauce and spinach salad orange float coffee shown in a concise daily meal record.
A brief feature offers decorative corner ideas for homes. Four designs are described including a three cornered cabinet like an old time what not in stained white wood, an ornate doorway curtain with scroll work, and a decorative shelf.
Dish layers mincemeat and bread with butter to form a pudding. Combine eggs milk sugar and vanilla to soak the layers. Bake in a moderate oven for about an hour and a half. Serve hot with the old china door decoration for an artistic home touch.
Tuesday breakfast features bananas, oatmeal with sugar and cream, rolled eggs, brown bread and coffee.
The excerpt outlines a daily menu with breakfast options including Quaker Oats with milk and sugar, bacon and eggs, toast. Luncheon features baked beans brown bread cake raspberry jam cocoa. Dinner offers cream of celery soup corned beef boiled potatoes onions with cream sauce cold slaw lima beans wafers Rebecca pudding and coffee.
The palmistry craze continues to rise as people enjoy being discussed and analyzed, with newspapers showing diagrams of famous hands. Women in particular relish displaying a pretty hand and the entertainment value of the traits revealed by palm readings.
A teaspoonful of turpentine added to the tub used for soaking clothes will aid greatly in making them brilliantly white. This old-time domestic advice appears in period household columns and reflects practical whitening techniques of the era.
A decorative drapery for the back of a piano features Japanese printed silk or Oriental embroidery lined with plain silk. The piece should extend about two thirds longer than the piano to create a striking, elegant display in a room.
Pope completes Iliad translation and is invited to Lord Halifax's mansion where Addison Congreve and Garth attend a reading. The lord, solemn and preternaturally wise, interrupts the reading with polite phrases.
A dialogue shows Mr Pope and Mr Garth passing a set of passages to Lord Halifax. Garth counsels leaving them unchanged and presenting them later as altered. Halifax, after reading them again, pronounces them perfect and greatly pleased.
A pretty felt hat features a rolled tartan ribbon along the edge secured with fine silk cord at intervals. Use a large-eyed needle to pull the cord through without enlarging holes. The ribbon sits atop the felt to conceal any needle marks.
A historical recipe describes making wine jelly by soaking gelatine in water, adding citric acid and sugar, dissolving with boiling water, then blending in sherry and allowing the mix to cool before molding. It claims ease of preparation and strong flavor without straining.
A bright orange accordion-pleated chiffon bow with Valenciennes lace enhances a walking costume. Winter materials and fur are dark, so the lively accessory provides a desirable cheerful look.
Saturday meal list includes oatmeal with sugar and cream and liver and bacon for breakfast. Rolls and coffee accompany lunch items such as corn fod wash on toast and thin sliced bread with cake prunes. Roast pork with apple sauce mashed potatoes and browned sweet potatoes with baked squash cheese wafers and coconut pie served with coffee.
Victoria pudding is a dish common at English tables. Boil potatoes and pass hot through a sieve. Mix with butter sugar two eggs six potatoes three tablespoonfuls cream and lemon rind. Butter pudding dish place plums or peaches, pour pudding over, bake moderate oven, serve hot with powdered sugar.
The lace and chiffon collar forms an admirable adjunct to the plain or dark waist. A decidedly dainty affair is of unauve silk crossed by straps of black lace insertion with wide silk pieces edged by lace, a pleated black chiffon ruffle, and a full cravat bow in front.
A tired or nervous headache may ease with gentle combing of the hair. Five drops of tincture of myrrh in half a tumbler of water make a pleasant mouthwash.
The article describes a blue gigella blouse designed for morning wear or under a jacket for cycling. Features include shoulder to waist tucks, a central box-pleat with torchen lace edging, linen collar and cuffs, and a white ribbon cravat, presenting a comfortable yet practical garment.
A wry reflection on feeding the stomach and wisdom, urging prudent dining. The author notes poverty-driven health, the misfit balance of meals, and jokes about cooks’ wisdom versus heaven sent blessings. Fable Walk closes the piece with humor.
Dinner course list includes Consomme Roast Turkey with Cranberry Sauce, Mashed Potatoes, Baked Sweet Potatoes, Celery Salad, Crackers Cheese Olives Nuts Vanilla Ice Cream Coffee. The note reflects a traditional spread with multiple side dishes and beverages.
Describes making infant boots with cloth silk satin or kid materials, cardboard sole, quilted silk lining, back and front seams, edge binding, and ribbon trim. Details stitching sequence, turning, turning inside out, eyelet holes for lacing, and final binding indicates two boot styles with quilted sole options.
The article details novelty waists in white ta f ta a with black design pairing with any skirt and varied collars sashes belts or girdles. It notes fabrics like white grosgrain satin repp crystal silk glace ta f ta and sheer trimming. It highlights mauve figured watered silk corsages with velvet and lace accents and mentions transparent fabrics over sherry satin and old Venice lace in evening wear.
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