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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1898
Page
6
The description surveys dainty lingerie pieces and pocket handkerchiefs, noting how ornate embroidery on cambric and fine lace frills strain pecuniary resources. It mentions large flowers, guipure inserts, and ruffled collars as stylistic features.
The article describes gowns in black crepe de Chine with simple trims of narrow black lace and guipure. It notes blouse style waists for slender matron ages and describes accessories such as pocket handkerchiefs with lace stripes and decorative flowers to suit various figures.
Breakfast features baked apples with cream oatflakes poached eggs griddle cakes and coffee. Luncheon serves beef on toast brown bread and butter cold rice puddings cookies tea. Dinner offers tomato soup boiled leg of mutton caper sauce corn potatoes white onions coconut pie coffee and cheese.
A careful mistress should welcome workers in her kitchen and ease their hours. One employer transforms the space with red shades rugs a hanging lamp and a turkey cloth to create a cozy retreat. Moderate receiving with reasonable limits is seen as kind and polite.
Fashion notes highlight cashmere and French merino as favorite fabrics for girls. Home wear features pale blue cashmere with deep blue velvet trim, pale pink with moss green, or gray with amethyst. A repro blouse is shown in nun’s flowing style.
The article argues that fine cooking is poorly understood in most countries while France sets a national pride on culinary skill. It asserts only in France do households elevate cooking as a valued knowledge, suggesting other nations must improve their domestic culinary culture.
A long narrow pin cushion, called a pin cushion, becomes a popular fad in fashion. Linen versions are prized for quality and delicate single forge design, noted as among the prettiest examples.
The piece praises graceful pin cushions and textiles such as Valenciennes lace for home decor. It notes pin cushions are popular on tables and bureaus and suggests using richly tinted fabrics and carefully planned designs to extend beauty through washes.
Tuesday menu lists breakfast with oats and meat balls, luncheon includes lobster salad and baked apples, dinner features potato soup roast beef mashed potatoes spinach olives and brown Betty pudding with coffee dessert and beverages.
The text notes that outside great cities dainty food is rarely well presented. Villages have bakeries and a women's exchange but offer only a few cookies, leaf cake, tarts, biscuits, and bread. It laments the lack of varied dishes and questions when the area will utilize abundant provisions to gain culinary fame.
The schedule lists a Wednesday meal plan with Breakfast items including Whole Wheat Biscuit Bacon and Eggs Fried Potatoes Hot Rolls Coffee Luncheon Cold Roast Beef Bread Cream Cheese Sugared Peaches Chocolate Cake Tea Dinner Fricassee of Chicken Dumplings Mashed Potatoes Peas Celery Salad Wafers Cheese Chocolate Pudding Coffee.
The article notes abundant fabrics for girls dresses with organdies and batistes over silk. A cream batiste dress features a lace trimmed skirt with guipure edging and a white ribbon sash. A pale blue Indian silk dress showcases an accordion skirt and refined finish.
A hairdresser advises weekly washing in summer and monthly trimming to prevent shedding. Proper drying after washing, daily brushing, and avoiding tight braids help maintain hair. temperament and routine affect outcomes. An Irishwoman with long blue black hair illustrates variability in hair care results.
Hints on Coming Styles note straws will be worn unusually early with novelties covering most months. Closely plaited coarse straws in fashion colors, finely sewn straws, Panama, leghorn and manilla plaited hats lead the trend. Coarse straws suit dressier toques for spring and early summer while finer straws and Panama suit less dressy midsummer wear.
The world's largest wine tank in California now finished with a capacity of 560000 gallons and built underground. The reservoir is constructed from concrete cement and iron, forming a massive storage vessel for wine production and aging.
A person may ignore a topic but still catch every word spoken about it. The saying highlights selective listening and the paradox of attention in communication.
The article describes a compact indoor plant corner built beside two windows with a six inch shelf, a front plant box, and trailing vines. It details a green faille dress design paired with a square neck, green gauze scarves, and a rippled basque effect, noting careful watering and sun needs.
Breakfast offers oatmeal mutton chops creamed potatoes coffee cake and coffee. Luncheon features chicken salad potato cakes prunes vanilla cookies chocolate. Dinner includes cereal soup porterhouse steak baked potatoes parsnips with cream sauce celery salad coffee custard and coffee.
The era favors heavy neck to waist fringe on blouses with beads or chenille. Fringe panels appear in skirts with rows of falling fringe swaying with movement. Narrow fluffy silk fringes border flounces on short sleeves, forming a semi circle above the arm.
The item notes a late winter or early spring hat in light straw or plain felt with a brim turned up on the left. The Tam a Shanter crown uses crimped satin and appears very full, tightly banded around.
The article notes rich winter theatre outfits with satin brocade bodices in mauve blue sea green or cream white furred edgings and lace. Velvet buckles frills and plumes adorn left fronts and hair bandeaux. A pink brocade ensemble with coral design and blouge waist uses open work basket pattern and jet fringe with a black corded silk skirt.
The latest shirt waist style is the sailor blouse loved by outdoor enthusiasts and yachting fans. Its design features free sleeve movement from shoulder to wrist, with a back cut suited for sports and sailing activities.
The article advises avoiding duplicate gifts by not marrying them to one another and sending duplicates in the house box for easy exchange. It discusses blue linen chemisettes with white pique, anchor embroidery, and practical wedding presents with lasting value rather than passing fads. It notes black velvet stock collars once costly but now largely useless.
A formal gown described as extending below the hips with a demi-train. It features a narrow front and sides and flows into full rich folds at the back, presenting a graceful silhouette.
Friday breakfast lists hominy grits with cream fish balls and fried potatoes hot rolls coffee luncheon baked beans stewed tomatoes bread and doughnuts tea dinner features fish chowder halibut mashed potatoes turnips succotash crackers pickles oranges bananas jelly cake and coffee
The doily book uses a stiff cardboard cover wrapped in linen with bound heavy-paper leaves holding flat doylies. Ribbons attach to each cover edge to tie the book together. Linen designs range from rose linen with gilt thread to monograms, suggesting a decorative handkerchief case use.
A Pretty Fashion presents a new taathlon featuring long scarves hung straight from the square neckline to the gown hem. The look is described as graceful and stylish, with an emphasis on refined silhouettes.
Preakfast includes oatmeal sugar milk sausages buckwheat cakes toast coffee. Luncheon features corn fritters ham burg steak white sliced bread butter plain cake peach preserves cocoa. Dinner offers lamp chops mashed potatoes sweet potatoes inverted parsnips macaroni with tomato sauce and apple meringue with coffee.
Prepare veal cutlets from neck meat, trim evenly, and lard with bacon fat. Sear in stock with 1 glass of sherry for four hours, let cool under weight, strain and reduce gravy. Reheat cutlets, arrange in a circle, pour gravy, and garnish with mushrooms and a vegetable center.
Picture frames sold at women’s exchanges feature a blank space for a photo. An ornamental Gibson sketch sits in the upper and lower areas, often a single figure or two faces, posed to convey the scene. The design is framed under one glass, yielding an effective overall effect.
A reader notes that the stringy coat left on bananas after peeling should be removed before eating. The writer compares it to the white underskin of an orange that is also indigestible.
A home project outlines building a combined mantel and bookcase for a girl’s den. It suggests wall mounting with brackets, velveteen finish, white enamel framework, and a two level design with a central bookcase, alcove mirrors, and a glass door top compartment for bric a brac.
A Sunday menu lists consommé roast chicken cranberry jelly sweet potatoes mashed white potatoes carrots with cream sauce lettuce salad nuts fruit pistachio ice cream and coffee as the dessert and drink options.
The article advises opening canned goods several hours before use to aerate and improve taste. It notes tomatoes benefit, and suggests turning vegetables and fruits into glass or earthenware dishes rather than leaving them in tins during this period.
A sugar cream bonbon made from maple sugar and sweet cream, boiled an hour, stirred constantly, with chopped walnuts or buttered plates for cooling. The recipe notes variants using walnuts and the traditional sucre a la creme, and suggests home preparation for dinner bonbons.
A recipe instructs to prepare stewed kidneys using four sheep kidneys, 44 pint hock, salt, cayenne, stock, and ketchup. Slice kidneys, brown in butter, drain, then simmer with hock, seasonings, and stock for 15 to 20 minutes before serving with mashed potatoes.
The article suggests diverse cotton and linen fabrics for sofa pillows. It details a denim and white duck front in light blue, a central white duck circle on white, and a white flag embroidery edge to hide seams, with a blue cotton back completing the scheme.
Black satin blouses are very fashion able and add considerable style to the gown. A girdle of satin with gold and jeweled buckles enhances the look, newer than the long standing shot or flowered silks in fashion.
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