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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1898
Page
6
A simple waist suitable for gingham lawn or fine material features a plain back without a yoke. The front is laid in with tucks arranged like the skirt, using the ornamentation to trim the small leg o mutton sleeves.
A husband returns from a trip with only two fruits after his wife slips a shopping list into his pocket. She scolds that he did not fetch the remaining items, noting she could have bought them in ten minutes, highlighting a domestic miscommunication.
Monday meals listed include breakfast with strawberries shredded wheat milk and cream boiled eggs rolls coffee luncheon featuring dried beef oatmeal muffins cake rhubarb jelly tea and dinner with tomato soup leg of lamb roasted new turnips scalloped potatoes lettuce and tomato salad banana cream and coffee.
Practical tips cover oiling leather saddles with castor oil to protect clothing, using a cologne and quinine lotion as a skin tonic and muscle relief, and removing rust from plated bicycle parts after winter storage with sweet oil then whiting.
Fashion notes tucking remains a popular technique with gowns ranging from ecloth to lawn. Designers emphasize originality through varied tucking effects, shaping a trend across many dress styles this season.
The menu lists Tuesday meals with breakfast featuring oranges oatmeal sugar milk sweetbread sauté muf fins coffee. Luncheon offers omelet with bacon bread and butter preserves cake tea. Dinner includes cream of onion soup broiled sirloin steak mashed potatoes white onions in cream sauce watercress salad strawberries and cream cake coffee.
A plain oak box housing an ice chest for soda-water and assorted fruit syrups is showcased as a simple country home setup. The piece contrasts with distant lime and lemon dispensers, noting the home-made syrup option with a siphon of plain soda for rural use.
Burlaps gain popularity as a wall covering especially in old rooms with cracked walls. Manufacturers offer burlap with a special backing that accepts paste or glue easily, goes on smoothly, and cleans with a brush. Available in plain tints, baronial designs, and tapestry patterns, its use is expected to grow.
A fashion notes on white fabrics including barege and taffeta. A girllike model features a white barege dress with a slim gored skirt and round waist blending barege, chiffon, and satin ribbon. Centre front and back bands, shoulder loops, waist folds, and back buckles complete the design.
The schedule lists meals: Breakfast includes Baked Bananas Hominy Grits sugar and cream Veal Cutlets Bread Coffee. Luncheon features Curry of Lamb Boiled Rice French Bread and Butter Lemon Pie Cocoa. Dinner offers Vegetable Soup Stewed Chicken Mashed Potatoes Green Peas Radishes Pineapple Salad.
A detailed description of a white china silk hood with lace cape and accordion chiffon frill. Includes meal suggestions for breakfast luncheon and dinner courses with lamb, beans, rhubarb, and strawberry short cake.
Every man in the regiment D'Al sace shaved his moustache and used the hair to fill a decorative cushion. On parade they presented it to the commander with a short dedicatory speech, praising the officer as the finest-looking among them.
A quaint popular Kate Greenaway style frock for a four or five year old features white lawn dotted with blue. The description highlights a sweet little gown with a dainty, timeless charm.
A plain front frock features a short waisted bodice laced part way up the front worn over a white lawn guimp. Sleeves are cuffed at the wrist and slashed to display the guimp. A large sun hat completes the ensemble.
A historic account explains a top level US State Department cipher named the Sphinx. Invented by an official, it functions like a changing safe combination and has reportedly protected hundreds of messages from deciphering by outsiders.
The article recalls lavish gifts at christenings, noting a king's son gaining a province, a duke, a town, and a large revenue. It mentions an American millionaire gifting a godchild a gold cup with £206000, and highlights Bavaria’s King Ludwig I receiving the hereditary command of D Alsace from Louis XVI. The piece ends describing a unique baptism gift for the future Bavarian sovereign.
On the Russian steppes cows wear smoke colored spectacles to guard their eyes from snow glare. The sun reflecting off snow caused blindness, so a kind helper produced eye protection for cattle. Now over 40,000 cattle wear the spectacles and suffer no more from snow blindness.
Lace patterns in black white and cream adorn gowns capes jackets and millinery. Guipure in Venetian Flemish styles decorates vests yokes and collars while cream thread patterns over velvet add ceremony ready touches.
The article lists materials for travelling and walking costumes including whipcords and silk wool blends in blue gray tobacco brown tan hyacinth blue and related stripe patterns. Width is forty eight inches and prices run ninety cents a yard for full double width fabrics in browns greens blues reds and navy with pale army blue options.
In conversations with his family the King of Greece uses only English. The habit underscores a formal custom within royal circles.
A home tatting guide details a pincushion edging using 10 double knots and picots, plus star motifs and satin cushion finishing. It also previews a white pique outing suit with a plain skirt and basque-style jacket, paired with pale pink or blue lawn waist.
Friday meals list oranges wheatlet sugar cream codfish balls boiled eggs for breakfast. Luncheon features plain lobster with lettuce, biscuit, cream cakes, and coffee. Dinner offers potato soup planked shad roe croquettes mashed potatoes green peas lettuce salad and ice cream.
The Mount Morgan gold collection is described as a mountain of gold formed by a hot water spring. Nature allegedly dissolved and precipitated the gold within ironstone, leaving a golden flour-like deposit already mined in ages past.
Paris outfits feature new satin filled sheens and Louis XIV inspired designs in natural shades. The front bodice gains a shoulder to belt box pleat with lace or passementerie overlay. Turn-back revers, contrasting facings, and a net or chiffon chemisette create a slimmer waist with reduced pouch effect.
A charming simplicity marks summer fashions with varied options. One youthful house gown in cream batiste features a round skirt with a cheap flounce at the foot and a full blouse, reflecting affordable, plain styling.
The article describes taffeta foulards and light silks gaining popularity with soft Oriental designs on light grounds and fewer blue and white patterns. It details a striped green and white taffeta dress with cream guipure, cream lace insertions, embroidered bastiste sleeves, and green velvet trimming. It ends with a humorous classroom exchange about King Alfred and Napoleon.
In Austria and Hungary it has been customary for schoolchildren to kiss wands as part of a longstanding ritual now forbidden by public schools in a move to standardize decorum and curb traditional practices among pupils.
The Neroutsos Bey, Brougsch Pascha and modern scholars uncover lavish Egyptian royal routines. Palace rooms included boudoirs baths and bedrooms with a dressing maid and manicure. jewelry combs and mirrors showcased luxury. Attendants fanned her neck water heated baths flowers and exotic pets marked daily life.
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