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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1898
Page
6
The piece outlines summer garden party outfits. It notes yellow muslin with white embroidery and a dainty gown design. It also discusses boxing safety, body protection, and fashion elements like corsage and taffeta foundation skirt.
A fashion notes feature describes a tan denim seaside gown with a plain unlined skirt and embroidered corsage. It contrasts style details with a brief essay on why the right hand became dominant in early tool use and culture, followed by descriptions of elaborate blouses and varying bodice trims.
A delicate ensemble features a corsage built from embroidered crepe de chine with a Serres blue taffeta lining. The waist gathers at the left to a rosette of blue ribbon, with a lace yoke on blue taffeta. Sleeves are puffed at the top, secured by blue ribbon bands, and a Sevres blue satin straw hat trimmed with flowers completes the outfit.
Monday menu lists breakfast of strawberries granulated barley sugar cream broiled ham bread coffee luncheon cold roast beef creamed potatoes biscuits rhubarb iced tea dinner braised veal stuffed and roasted with mashed potatoes green peas lettuce tomato salad blanc mange with cooked cherries cafe noir
The description highlights white satin gowns trimmed with elegant appliqué including bolero fronts yokes and black lace bands. Guimpes and yokes extend onto sleeve tops with the sleeve starting below the shoulder, a look that flatters some figures and fabrics but not all.
A Tuesday menu lists Breakfast items: blueberries oatmeal milk and sugar scrambled eggs toast coffee. Luncheon includes lettuce and egg salad brown bread and butter radishes huckleberry pie iced chocolate ginner vegetable soup cold veal sliced thin mashed potatoes asparagus on toast with cream sauce watercress salad raspberries cream coffee.
The article notes gray as a fashionable color for summer wear with skirts in gray vigogne mohair canvas etamine and repped silk or wool replacing black. Paris shows feature gray outfits on varnishing day and horse show with white silk trims and gold or silver braids. Evening gowns include gray crepe de chine crepon nun's veiling silk gauze moire fabric paired with rose or bright red accents.
Wednesday meals list the sequence of dishes including boiled rice with cream muffins and coffee for breakfast sardines in brown sauce rye bread and butter raspberry shortcake tea sirloin steak riced potatoes butter beans tomatoes stuffed with green peas pineapple omelet and cafe noir
A woman packing for summer hangs two or three starched square linen doilies to create catch-alls in her farmhouse summer rooms. She knots two ends with ribbon to form a cornucopia, and may stitch eyelets with silk for a decorative finish. The largest will hang on arrival to collect torn paper and embroidery silk.
A new riding cushion attaches to the rider and inflates to firmness. A French woman patents a shoe scrubbing brush with a heel plate to clean floors while standing. A hollow brush handle stores soap, released into bristles when dipped in hot water. Russian Cossack regiments drill crossing rivers with improvised floating bridges made from lances and kettles, forming sections that support half a ton and assemble in 25 minutes.
A description of folding sachet crafting during warm weather. It notes a sachet nearly as long as the bed width, laid at the foot to hold a night gown and dressing gown. The text highlights delicate handiwork suitable for women with deft fingers.
Instructions describe cleaning fine lace with basing on muslin and chalk powder, pressing for days, and creating scented sachets. It notes decorative unsachets in households, showcases a pale blue satin sachet with marguerites, grass, and lace trim, and mentions orris powder as a scent.
Stole ends finish nearly all new shoulder capes and summer fichus with varied widths and fronts. Fabrics include net maile silk grenadine lace and chiffon pressed into new character. Lace scarfs with long fronts appear in Marie Antoinette and Spanish inspired styles enhance evening toilettes.
A Thursday menu outlines breakfast with Shredded Wheat strawberries and cream dried beef rolls luncheon with sliced tongue brown bread cucumbers tapiocha pudding strawberry sauce iced coffee dinner features chicken broth stewed chicken mashed potatoes spinach mushroom sauce lettuce and sweet pepper salad strawberry ice cream and coffee.
A household instruction extols bailed spinach as a blood purifier and outlines a simple method. Wash spinach, shake dry, cook briefly in a dry saucepan, press dry, chop finely, then heat with pepper salt and butter. Serve hot in a clean dish.
Garment styles remain popular as shirt waists in many fabrics. The current trend features a pouched front and an extended shoulder yoke. Sprigged organdie models showcase tucked fronts and central bands with narrow side borders.
Well preserved blossoms found at Dahsourh Egypt in tombs from the Pharaohs era have been transferred to the Cairo Museum. The commonest specimen among them is the white or pale variety.
A dress described with a gray washmere gown and watermelon pink taffeta accents. The skirt features a high fitted flounce over a gray taffeta foundation, paired with a fitted short jacket waist and a novel front. The collar uses gray cashmere tucked at the edge finishing with a subtle detail.
Many untitled Toiletten pieces show semi transparent outfits for the season. Over slips gowns and bodices Silk colors show through fine pleated rufile and plat taffeta. Details include black velvet ribbon bows jeweled buttons puff sleeves and rose and silver shot silk accents.
Fragments note that chrysanthemum flowers flourished long ago and some tomb-raided specimens, when soaked in water, appeared to revive. The lines imply ancient cultivation and remarkable preservation in burial contexts.
Saturday meals listed include breakfast with grape fruit hambura steak muffins coffee luncheon stewed cherries oatmeal cakes boiled eggs toast and a dinner of cream of rice lamb chops mashed potatoes beets green peas sliced tomatoes lettuce salad green currant pie coffee and cheese.
A paper firm demonstrated rapid production by turning felled trees into sheets in two hours. Three trees felled at 7:45 were cut to 12 inch pieces, decorticated and split, raised to five defibrators, pulped with chemicals, and finally formed into a sheet by 9:44 a.m. across the mill.
Friday menu lists breakfast with baked bananas tammy sugar cream salt cachsa balls toast coffee luncheon plain lobster lettuce steed pineapple cake iced tea dinner features steamed salmon with caper sauce potatoes new onions boiled string bean salad scalloped rhubarb plain cake cafe noir
A curious observation notes that tree roots and branches share similar nature. If a tree is uprooted and inverted the underground branches would assume root functions while exposed roots would sprout as new branches.
Cremation is more extensively practised in Italy than anywhere else. The first crematorium opened in Milan in 1876 and there are now fifty crematoria in operation across the country.
A man boasts of a grand plan to partner with meteorological authorities to obtain advance weather tips. He envisions a circular distribution system to cut out ordinary distributors and profit from sensational storms and wind events.
Two country visitors at a fine art exhibit examine a terra cotta statue of a young Greek. They joke about terra cotta while the alder notes the inscription. The speaker concludes the executed man is not the least to be pitied, wherever it may be.
A house gown in figured lawn features a front overskirt formed by two narrow flounces from the waist, widening to a back ruffle. The corsage uses crimped melted lawn fastened down the front under Irish Dainty lace that outlines the yoke, extends as epaulets, and ends at a belt of black velvet. Sleeves are close fitting.
A professor of Irish extraction presides over an English literature class debating the word impediment. He notes Latin roots meaning feet and in the way with humor, then challenges a sentence usage, prompting a quip about the man who never opened his mouth without putting his foot to it.
The piece recalls the Centennial celebrations with praise for William M. Evarts in Philadelphia Richard S. Storrs in New York and Charles Francis Adams in Boston. It notes Whittier and Bryant centennial tributes and urges deeds over words as the nation marks liberty and courage abroad.
A pretty summer fashion features black and white goods with velvet or silk trimming. A dotted mousseline dress shows a plain skirt over white taffeta lining and a tight corsage with subtle fullness at the front. The description highlights the yoke and refined detailing.
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