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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1898
Page
6
A fashionable small girl bathing suit is described with as much care and style as a debutante’s outfit. It uses dainty shades and options like white serge or fine flannels, showing youthful color and material choices. The article compares youthfully bold color usage to adult fashion.
A fragment describes a large, ornate summer garment with a very frilled berthag or fichus of muslin and lace, highlighting its decorative charm and fabric details. The text emphasizes elaborate styling and delicate textile work typical of the period.
A discussion of light summer attire features patriotic fabrics like red and blue plaid flannel, white bloomers under gathered skirts, and a sailor collar blouse with a plaid bow. The Marie Antoinette sleeve remains popular, paired with long white or tinted silk gloves and wide-brim hats adorned with roses, offering a poetic, picturesque look for sultry days.
Monday meals listed feature breakfast with sliced tomatoes hamburg steak rolls and coffee. Luncheon offers smoked salmon brown bread butter gooseberry pie. Dinner includes cream of potato soup cold roast lamb mashed potatoes string beans tomato and lettuce salad and peach shortcake.
A matinee style gown in pale blue sarah is described as becoming and graceful. It features a decollete neck, accordion pleated chiffon trim, lace inserts, and a base border of a deep ruffle. The fabric hangs in straight folds and includes chiffon sleeves with lace details.
The article notes enashionable glossy materials like silk and cashmere returning to popularity after dull textures waned. It highlights pale pink China silk with lace yoke, surplice tunic shapes, lace sleeves, and finer lustrous wools, with embroidered dress lengths remaining elegant though not truly new.
The article notes 12 to 14 year old girls now wear regulation shirt waists with standing collars and ties while stores offer fancier waists. It describes a pretty middy or blouse of lawn or dimity gathered at the waist and trimmed with ruffles.
The article describes skirt fashions with straight and curved flounces, large or small sailor collars, cuffs, and a center front narrow ruffle. It also covers metal bed valances with headings and tapes, plus bedspreads in cretonne or organdy for summer. It notes gored skirts with deep Spanish flounces, used in silk, sheer wool, and wash fabrics, with various trimmings.
The passage describes robe patterns that combine plain and embroidered material to allow variety and express artistic taste in fabric creation. It notes how time lapse elevates their novelty and appeals to makers seeking distinctive garments.
The document lists a Wednesday meal plan with Breakfast items including raspberries bread and coffee Luncheon offerings of meat balls salad and plums and Wafers Dinner features Cream of Onion Soup Roast Beef mashed potatoes spinach lettuce and egg salad with Cherry Souffle and Cafe Noir
Fashion commentary notes that the polonaise offers a slender silhouette and practical appeal for women of small means. The princesse robe remains graceful but impractical for outdoor wear and wraps, while the polonaise is praised for versatility and potential popularity in tailor gowns for early autumn.
The article notes bold color combinations in French and American millinery. It discusses the trimmer's skill to avoid flashy or dowdy results and the appeal of beauty through uncommon ugliness. It observes that fashionable hats achieve harmony from previously hostile color pairings.
The passage describes light spreading across the bed and pillow as it covers the linens, ensuring cleanliness and tidiness of the bed coverings.
A woman, owner of a rare mahogany table, contemplates adding a glass top to preserve its beauty while keeping it visible. She plans to consult her cabinet maker about the feasibility, noting the glass would stay polished and flawless. Other housekeepers may consider the suggestion, though its practicality remains uncertain.
Thursday meals listed include Breakfast with hominy milk and scrambled eggs, muffins with coffee. Luncheon features cold roast beef with tomato ketchup and creamed potatoes followed by gooseberry tarts and iced cocoa. Dinner offers lamb stew with green peas potatoes summer squash and salad plus raspberries with sugar and cream and cake coffee.
A humorous exchange unfolds as He asks for a kiss inversion and She refuses, causing He to press for a count. The playful dialogue highlights flirtation and witty deflection in a lighthearted moment.
A brief guide describes a tatting and crochet edging for children's undergarments. It explains starting with crochet cotton, forming a closed eye of 11 double knots with a picot, then adding sequences of double knots and picots, repeating steps to create interconnected rings and picots for the decorative edging.
Crochet heading pattern describes two chain and a sequence of picots and trebles across scallops. It outlines chaining, drawing through picots, and repeated segments forming upper rows of three chains and treble stitches into specific picot positions across the preceding row.
A vivid note on daily new waist designs highlighting a corsage upper part cut low in a V shape worn over a plastron. The look gives a jaunty, fetching appearance. The example mentions a bayadere striped gingham waist as a dainty variant.
Sanitary wall papers enter living rooms and bedrooms in effective shades. Designers shift from limited patterns to fashionable choices with shielded front panels and top openings. A pink and white dotted mull vest and soft silk tie appear in styling, while a denim style paper debuts as a versatile dull background for floors and walls.
Saturday menu lists breakfast items as Wheated Milk and Sugar Lamb Chops Rolls Coffee Luncheon Sardines in Brown Sauce Bread and Butter Radishes Crackers Cherries Iced Tea Dinner Roiled Ham Potatoes Spinach String Beans Tomatoes Mayonnaise Dressing Crackers Peaches and Cream Coffee
Friday meals list includes breakfast with hominy cakes salt mackerel corn bread luncheon shredded codfish with cream sauce sliced tomatoes bread and butter blackberries cocoa dinner little neck clams broiled bluefish mashed potatoes butter beans tomatoes stuffed with green peas watermelon cafe noir.
In Summer Anyway Dame Fashion sinks into midsummer lethargy. Stagnation describes the scene as causes are manifold. The fashionable woman has laid in gowns of every description for a summer campaign.
Fashion commentary notes tints that vanish from the face and warns that the newest skirt style extends at least an inch beyond the wearer’s height on the front and sides. It urges caution for safe walking, suggesting a mercy gesture to keep the skirt from catching and to leave the parasol at home.
Short feature discusses devilled tomatoes as a versatile dish for mountain or seaside settings. It also notes fashion trends with gowns hats and parasols, and then gives a quick recipe using fresh tomatoes olive oil sugar mustard cayenne and vinegar. Tomatoes may be served hot in a chafing dish or roasted with melted butter.
An open air preacher addressed young men on The Prodigal Son and urged the depth of paternal love. He grew enthusiastic and proclaimed that the father kept that fatted calf for years awaiting his son's return.
A historical fragment discusses animals and insects that purportedly survive severe injuries. It notes a headless fowl running for minutes, a bear with a bullet in the brain retaliating, reptiles frozen in spine injury, and sea creatures like starfish and jellyfish persisting when divided. The piece highlights the English death moth producing eggs after decapitation or scalding.
The Sultan of Turkey has built at Mecca the largest house in the world intended for pilgrims. It can shelter 6,000 people. The next largest is a Vienna suburb house for 2,112, followed by three Rowton houses in London housing 800, 677 and 500 tenants respectively.
A quaint Kate Greenaway style dress for a young girl crafted from sprigged lawn features a short bodice that fastens at the back and a slight fullness in front. Three large mother of pearl buttons detail the front and a silk cord weaves side to side. A Tharrow ruffle edges the neck.
The garment features a full skirt attached to a short waist with three narrow ruffles at the base. A sash encircles the waist concealing the join between skirt and top. The ensemble includes a white straw hat trimmed with white ribbon and two fluffy tips.
A Siberian pigmy mouse is identified as the smallest quadruped in the world. Scientists note its diminutive size among mammals and discuss its habitat in remote Siberian regions.
Miss Laura asks for quiet as Willie toys near Hankison. A youth, flushed and tremulous, asks Miss Kajones a question about an earlier plan. She dismisses Willie as Hankison speaks of a headache and an unremembered reminder.
A professor planned to use laughing gas for a demonstration after overhearing a student brag about no one being responsible under its influence. The student volunteered to be gasged, and the professor allowed him to rant while the class watched, revealing the gas had not yet been turned on.
Sponge cake baskets are baked in deep round muffin pans and their centers removed after cooling. Fill with crumbed centers mixed with whipped cream or pile fruit inside for an appealing presentation suitable for children's gatherings.
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