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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1898
Page
6
A fashionable blazer returns as a popular summer wrap. The tight back, snug underarms, and front opening over a vest or shirt waist are paired with a corsage of nun's veiling and green silk yoke. The gown shows cadet blue serge with white braid.
A Monday menu lists breakfast with strawberries and cream bacon and eggs hominy cakes and coffee. Luncheon features creamed toast cottage cheese orange omelet and cocoa. Dinner offers onion soup cold roast lamb riced potatoes butterbeans dress salad pineapple ice and cake.
The article discusses how women’s dress budgets often vanish in frillings cape collars and hair ornaments. It counsels wise selection to avoid dingy laces and worn ribbons and suggests neat neck rubes and fine pleated fabrics as stylish, practical garnitures that flatter with less risk of soil or wear.
A brief note highlights nun's veiling as a favored material for corsages this season. The item is described as fashionable and in demand among shoppers seeking delicate floral accents and refined accessories.
At many importing houses the sun bon nets appear in fanciful forms of shirred silk muslin chif fon and fine organdie with lace-edged frills ruches and strings. They suit not only maidens but young golfers and tennis players and serve as boating and picnic wear for girls with tan freckles. The bonnets resemble Kate Greenaway styles and are seen in city showers though summer mountain stream and sea popularity is uncertain.
The article notes runaways using improvised rings such as string, paper, or door keys to validate marriage. It describes Danish brides wearing myrtle crowns and storing linens in a carved oak chest, while Thibet marriage is a costly, patriarchal practice where elder sons marry first and junior brothers often become dissatisfied and depart.
The article warns dried fruits like figs dates and prunes often arrive unwashed and unsafe to eat. It advises thorough cleaning with water, discarding the very black parts, drying in a colander, and prefers using a fruit brush for meticulous washing before serving.
A short note on dark gingham school dresses for children highlighting their practicality and colorfastness. It also discusses health food fads, urging sane eating habits and avoiding excessive fear of food while noting a bias cut blouse waist and white linen details.
The record lists a Wednesday meals schedule featuring breakfast with Shredded Wheat bananas and cream, calves liver and bacon, muffins, and coffee. Luncheon offers corn fritters, brown bread, stewed rhubarb, cookies and cocoa. Dinner presents cream of asparagus, hamburg steak, new carrots, potatoes, cucumber salad, tapioca with strawberries, and coffee.
A garment urged for every woman and girl, offering neat appearance and a safety option to slip on at night in case of fire or accident. Light guidance follows on suitability and use.
The article discusses popular hats including the toque and turban, favoring the French toque for its versatility and fit. It notes that youths and the elderly suit bonnets, with a dark red chalice dotted with white as a recommended young girl's model featuring gathered fabric, a lace-edged neck ruffle, and lace-trimmed elbow frills.
The article outlines summer fashion trends featuring dress and shirt-waists with basque bodices and scarf fronts, praise for neat draping, and the return of refined trims. It notes the continued use of neglige styles in gowns for ceremonies, with careful attention to ribbon loops and garment lines. It discusses middle aged women favoring plain style toques and round hats with fair brims, advising suitable color and contour for older wearers and endorsing the toque as a practical in-between head-covering.
The menu lists breakfast with oranges rice flakes sugar and cream veal cutlets brown bread coffee. Luncheon features cream sweetbreads potato salad bread and butter tea. Dinner offers tomato soup shoulder of lamb mashed potatoes onions in cream sauce tomato salad strawberry short cake coffee.
Cerise colored silk prices rise as demand keeps fashion users buying. The color remains popular among designers increasing market value and fueling broader textile trends.
A brief note describes plain covert cloths becoming common in tailor-mode gowns. The trend highlights fabric choices and styling shifts in garments. No additional figures or locations are given.
A neat gift idea details making a shaving paper case from two cardboard pieces. One side is embroidered linen and the other plain, joined by a ribbon with colored tissue paper inside for razor wiping.
Friday breakfast features baked bananas oatmeal sugar and cream with corned beef in cream sauce and rolls. Luncheon offers clam chowder crackers pickles apple pie tea. Dinner serves clam broth mackerel baked mashed potatoes baked macaroni crackers cheese and chocolate pudding with coffee.
A simple method for iced chocolate uses cocoa mixed with boiling water, cooked briefly, sweetened, cooled, and then cream stirred in. When cold, the mixture is beaten light and served in tall glasses with crushed ice.
A cream colored batiste blouse features a tucked yoke with the torso joined by two pointed revers of cream insertion. The joins are trimmed with shirred satin ribbon and two epaulets of embroidery extend across the garment.
Remarks on couture describe mousseline de sole Lyons tulle and white chiffons with abundant lace garniture. Dresses feature fairy frills from neck to waist, with lace flouncing draped into shape. Net garments in burncose styles are lined in rose, mauve, or yellow satin.
A note from a French influenced dining practice explains why high class chefs leave the radish greens on. The greens are said to aid digestion, a belief less common among average household workers who trim the tops off as if they were potatoes.
Breakfast items feature oranges oatmeal scrambled eggs and toast with coffee. Luncheon lists chicken salad bread and sliced tomatoes while noting new evening appropriate waist designs and refined confections. Dinner offers vegetable soup corned beef boiled potatoes cabbage green peas string bean salad lemon jelly and coffee.
The article describes a white barege gown with a white taffeta silk base, trimmed with a frill or ruches on a gored skirt and demi-train. It highlights a round waist adorned with chiffon pleatings in surplice form, a narrow lace vest, belt and shoulder bows, and satin ribbon ends. Sleeves are small mutton-leg with lace cuffs and satin bows, a pleated chiffon frill over the hand, and a neck matching the ribbon bows with lace points and chiffon frill.
The article notes cream-white and colored nun veilings are popular with high class modistes drafting summer outfits. Heavier wools and cashmere blends, Venetian cloths, white satin, and gold braiding dominate costumes from bodice to skirt. Colors like iris, lavender-blue, heather, fawn, gray, and a green shade are in favor, with velvet ribbons, piping, and corded trim accenting dresses for day and evening wear.
Summer accessories described include Herthas and Fichus in Canton crepe and crepe lisse fabrics. Various styles are presented to pair with light summer dresses.
A nurse prepares a delicate toast dish named meringue or meriniue for an invalid. She toasts bread in oil or dry heat, dips it in salted boiling water, then tops with warm butter milk and softly heated beaten egg whites. Quick service and precise timing are essential for success.
Fashion commentary notes many women favor simple hung silk lined tailor skirts over elaborate gingerbread decorations. While frills and lace remain for light fabrics, the standout trend favors individuality in tailored ensembles with chocolate colored taffeta and burnt orange ribbon velvet accents.
The article describes fashionable evening toilettes with embroidered gauze and chiffon, spangled effects, and rose color chiffon paired with black pean de soie. A silk skirt remains plain while a youthful chiffon bodice features a round decolletage edged in black velvet, lace yoke, black tips on the left shoulder, and a black satin sash at the waist.
A gentleman voices surprise at widespread illiteracy amid cheap education while a spectator mocks a sign read by women in the audience. A short sighted woman removes her hat to read and the man behind her resumes watching the performance.
A South Carolina tea farm sent a package of tea to a Boston club member at its annual breakfast. The brew was prepared and served to the members who pronounced it excellent.
Instructions describe mixing raw umber stained with boiled linseed oil to a paint-like consistency. Floors are scrubbed and dried, rubbed with funnel, then finished with beeswax turpentine polish. Beeswax is shredded and melted into turpentine to create a polishing compound.
An exquisitely made dress features cream white etamine with a silky diaphanous look. It is built over mauve silk with a cream guipure yoke and a skirt showing three inch sections of etamine spaced apart. Mauve satin belt ribbons shoulder loops and a lace drapery complete the bodice trimming.
Authorities claim crinoline is regaining favor amid public debate. Some observers dismiss the trend as another “wolf” call, while others fear the revival of the ugly mode.
A brief on embroidered doyleys in blue and white. White Japanese linen works with china blue wash silks to recreate an old English porcelain plate design. Five or six sizes suit dinner and evening table use under finger bowls pie and water bottles and other accessories.
A large woman’s hat features braided straw with a crown encircled by three flounces of turquoise taffeta ribbon. A tight band runs around the crown, and a spiral of ribbon with a bunch of morning glories decorates the side.
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