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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1898
Page
6
Short reefer jackets in blue or red serge with brass buttons appeal for bicycling, golf and other sports. Styles are notably short with sailor or round collars and small revers, showcased by a military blue model.
A homemaker adapts the china closet by adding two deep fourteen inch drawers under the bottom shelf lined with tin. One stores bread, the other cake, with a locking feature for cake. The piece suggests retrofit ideas for housekeepers with existing china closets.
Breakfast features roiled rice with milk oatmeal cakes and scrambled eggs with coffee. Luncheon serves dried beef sliced cucumbers biscuit lemon jelly and iced tea. Dinner offers roast lamb mint sauce mashed potatoes string beans lettuce and tomato salad wafers cheese and cherry pie with coffee.
A visit to an English silversmith reveals useful dishes for the American home. Jam pots with glass bowls and silver lids, mince-dishes on silver standards with warming lamps, and silver twine balls for dressing tables are described as ornamental and practical items.
Patiste frock and guimpe showcase yoke effects as daily fashions shift. Each new summer gown unveils a novel, dainty charm in bodice accessories. A cream colored batiste gown with prettily trimmed inser.
The passage surveys bizarre beverages from blood of live horses in Tartars lore to lamb milk pulp wine in China and Tonquinese arrack with chickens’ blood. It notes fashion details of a gown and mentions absinthe as France’s famed spirit amid a sweeping, sensational catalog of intoxicants.
The schedule lists breakfast with strawberries shredded wheat and cream bacon and eggs buns coffee luncheon featuring cold lamb sliced French fried potatoes brown bread apricots cocoa and dinner with clear soup broiled porter house steak green peas potatoes cucumber salad and chocolate blanc mange and coffee.
A dietetic teacher urges the elderly to avoid stimulating foods as they age past fifty five. They should return to simple childhood fare, with bread and milk praised though excessive bread is warned as dangerous after sixty, likened to the staff of death.
The text labels a potent drink made from alcohol anise coriander fennel wormwood indigo and copper sulfate as a strong moral and physical poison. It emphasizes its danger to health and society and warns against its use.
The article urges parents to give children a pet to foster responsibility and kindness. It suggests birds or cats in small spaces, with adult supervision as needed, and a variety of pets in larger homes. Owning and caring for a pet teaches regular habits, love of nature, and practical learning.
Breakfast features bananas cornmeal mush milk cream toast coffee. Luncheon includes loin chops bread and butter baked rhubarb ginger snaps tea. Dinner offers mushroom soup roast beef riced potatoes asparagus on toast with cream sauce string bean salad strawberry short cake and coffee.
The article surveys a fashion season featuring elaborate parasols with heavy materials in vivid contrast to delicate fabrics. It notes new effects in frilling and tucking, ornate handles, and a wide range of fabrics and trimmings from brocade to guipure, marking plain silk parasols as now sun umbrellas.
The article notes each year brings more variety and extravagance in fashionable lingerie. Hand-made undergarments in fine nainsook with delicate embroidery and lace appeal to refined tastes and wealth, while machine-made pieces match in fineness using cambrics lawns and similar laces. Point de Paris remains a favored finish for lingerie.
The article describes outing suits in pink, cream, tan, blue, and eerie pique with seven gore or circular skirts and a pleated Norfolk waist. Accessories include belts with solid silver or gold filigree buckles, and several jacket options such as short Eton jackets with embroidered blouses, a smart cutaway with a braided vest, or mull over tinted silk in pink.
The passage describes recent French corsages for slender matrons and young women. Designs feature back hooks or invisible fastenings, draped fronts, V-shaped lace-edged plastrons, narrow borders, and a large lace jachet from neck to belt.
Quip suggests the Brown couple’s honeymoon lingers as routine mischief. The husband Brown is seen in town daily, never forgetting to post his wife’s letters first thing each morning, a small domestic detail turned running joke.
The article highlights light weight blue and pink taffeta gowns ideal for summer wear with Sevres blue taffeta embroidery and refined bodices. It also critiques heavy trimmed straw hats, praising simple Neapolitans Leghorns and zephyr braids adorned with orchids ribbons and pastel roses for hot weather.
Thursday meals show breakfast with hominy grits veal cutlets hashed potatoes and corn muffins followed by luncheon grape fruit sweet breads breaded radishes cake cocoa and dinner tomato soup cold roast beef mashed potatoes spinach butter beans cucumber and tomato salad strawberry mousse coffee described as a complete daily hospital or institutional menu.
The Newest Dorset notes French women move with easy grace and that tightness is avoided. Parisians say the secret is a snug waist with freedom elsewhere, a low top corset and front long cut. American imports trend toward reproducing this shape for the coming season.
In the heat of summer, dotted swiss waist styles grow in favor as women favor daintier shirt waists over stiff tailored looks. White dotted swiss is described as a particularly pretty option for the season.
Os trich feather boas have changed with new color mixtures like mauve and green violet and white green and rose. They suit beach driving hotel piazzas and cool evenings and will coordinate with gown or hat color blends.
To lengthen summer skirts for the new season remove the skirt binding and add inches to the hem by piecing with curved strips of dress goods. Stitch firmly, rebind, and cover with overlapping frills matching or contrasting the skirt fabric. Ensure curved piecing to avoid excess fullness at the edge.
New indoor hairstyles rise high on the crown and back of the head with empire loops and jewel accents. Designs include a round yoke with three insertion rows and blouses attached in groups of three tiny tucks, with full sleeves gathered at the wrist.
A mechanical genius proposes a leak indication and stop system by partitioning a ship into airtight compartments with door packing and interconnecting tubes to a deck switch-room. A tune in the switch-room presumably signals the crew to seal compartments and halt the leak.
Friday meals listed include breakfast with grape fruit hominy cakes fried butterfish rolls and coffee luncheons items feature broiled mackerel creamed potatoes cucumber salad cake cherries tea and dinner offered white soup boiled sal
A fragmented meal listing shows items such as potatoes string beans peas lettuce salad pineapple ice and cake. The brief appears as a grocery or kitchen menu note from a past issue.
Many pretty duck suits are described in Madras linens piques and fancy crashes. They are tailored like summer tweeds and cheviots with gored skirts, open-front jackets, and fitted waistcoats or blouse vests. Bright braiding and cotton gimp trim appear in various colors.
Saturday meals list a full day menu with breakfast items oranges oatmeal sugar and cream. Lunch features lobster a la Newburg with brown bread and butter along with asparagus salad stewed rhubarb. Dinner offers beef broth Hamburg steak roasted potatoes asparagus butter beans lettuce and tomato salad plus a strawberry banana dessert.
In Smolensk Russia a quarterly lottery determines marriage partners. A 1 rouble ticket buys a chance at a prize of up to 5,000 rubles from ticket sales. The winner may marry the chosen partner or assign the prize to a friend if refused, with funds shared if the match fails.
The article notes challie wool as a popular, soft fabric for house and street gowns this year. It mentions a model that is somewhat out of the ordinary featuring an attached flounce.
An 1890 act bans sale of alcohol to enlisted men in posts within states where liquor is prohibited. Officers may run post exchanges in prohibition states. Several Southern counties operate local option laws affecting camps. no relief exists unless Congress repeals the old law. In regular canteens beer and light wines may be sold, with profits used to buy extra provisions for soldiers.
A fashion note notes blue black and brown covert tones as part of summer wardrobes. It emphasizes versatile colors that blend with various outfits and trends for the season.
A hot day remedy is seen in clean summer dresses for children. Tiny frocks in white lawn with pink sprigs feature a baby yoke and attached skirt, edged with a delicate ruffle and capped bishop sleeves with lace accents.
The latest French outfits emphasize thin waist lines with ribbons belts and sashes in velvet satin moire and other fabrics, contrasting with last year’s heavy crush girdles and deep ceintures.
A pale pink China silk corsage for evening wear features a round decolletage and top frill. It is full with material crossed from left to right and secured at the waist by a large rosette. Epaulets replace sleeves. A blue tulle girlish frock has a skirt with five flounces, a full shirted waist, and a white tulle sash with an enormous bow.
A humorous exchange unfolds as Mrs. Giddings frets over her husband’s cough while he reveals his best defense is work avoidance. Jones recounts a late night misadventure ending with a $10 heist by a veiled lady who turns out to be his wife.
Elegant gowns for morning and afternoon use feature foulard fabric in exquisite color combinations. Violet and white emerge as a popular color pairing in foulard this season.
The Belgian state railways have introduced a cycle van to transport bicycles safely amid frequent damage claims against railway companies. The move aims to protect cycles in transit and reduce liability through better handling and containerization.
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