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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1898
Page
6
The article discusses boleros trimmed with velvet and braid as fashionable, noting red serge versions with layered trim. It links exposure to cold with lowered disease resistance and suggests catching cold may enable microbes to take root, potentially causing pneumonia and other infections in susceptible individuals.
The menu lists breakfast items such as oatmeal with sugar and cream, hashed chicken on toast, coffee and rolls. Luncheon features chicken salad neufchatel cheese stewed prunes cake and tea. Dinner includes potato soup leg of mutton mashed potatoes buttered parsnips cheese olives and Charlotte Russe with coffee.
Instructions describe making a potato pastry with flour baking powder salt and butter mashed potatoes. Roll crust line buttered basin fill with apples sugar and flavoring, seal with top crust, tie cloth and boil two hours. Ends note the crust is considered healthier than suet and can suit meat or fruit pies.
A description of a handy bag made from fine canvas. The bag is large enough to hold pieces of work or knitting and is designed to be hung on a wall in a bedroom or dressing room. It is divided for organization and storage of soiled handkerchiefs, collars, and lace.
The article describes picturesque bonnets for small girls in silk, batiste or nainsook with accordion pleated fronts. It explains back drawstrings for washing and wire substitution for silk bonnets, plus ribbon loops as trim. It notes a popular spring hat for young girls will be a black-brimmed tam with color-matching gown and floral or tipped trimming.
A daily meal outline shows breakfast with Wheatlet Creamed Potatoes toast and coffee. Luncheon features Curry of Meat Rice Bread and Butter Cookies Tea. Dinner lists Cream of Celery Soup and Cold items.
Instructions describe cutting a 26 by 19 inch canvas, darning with blue grain cotton in Italian and long stitches, joining edges, lining with blue sateen for a work bag, and adding brass rings with a draw cord and tassel. Also lists roast mutton sweet pickles roast potatoes browned sweet potatoes browned Betty Puddings coffee.
Recent experiments described seek to rehabilitate individuals through new methods. The article notes progress and cautions about limits, highlighting the potential for improved recovery and ethical considerations in application.
A simple bread idea uses mashed potatoes seasoned with salt and mixed with enough flour to form a stiff dough. It is rolled to about a third of an inch thick and cut into triangular pieces for baking.
The excerpt describes pricking pieces of bread with a fork to prevent blistering and baking on a hot floured griddle. It advises eating the bread hot with butter or frying it for breakfast with ham and eggs. It warns fudge is not very digestible and should be tried cautiously by first tasters.
Wednesday menu lists breakfast with hominy and poached eyes, luncheon including fried hominy cakes sardines and sweet pickle peaches, and dinner of vegetable soup sirloin steak broiled haddock with potatoes parsnips lettuce salad and snow pudding followed by coffee.
A tale praises Queen Margherita of Italy for kindness. The Queen asked a child to knit mittens and gave money for materials. She sent back two mittens, one with money and one with sweets, and asked the girl to choose which she preferred. The child’s letter says her father took the money mitten and her brother enjoyed the bon-bons mitten.
A white satin evening gown features a simple skirt with three rows of fine lace at the hem. The bodice is a tight fitting design with a lined overlay, presenting a refined classic silhouette.
Practical home hints cover candy lemon peel, orange peel soaking, milk with subcarbonate of soda, door hinges, baldness with onions, chimney fire response, teeth wash with port wine myrrh and almond oil, brush cleaning ammonia bath, umbrella and bodice fabric tips.
A refined front bodice design features cream satin gathered at neck and waist with embroidered chiffon trim forming a fan near the neck. A Marie Antoinette fichu in white mull edged with lace and long ends crosses over the skirt fullness.
Large stores display belts and shopping bags in plaid leather. Favorite plaid colors include red green blue and yellow. Leather varieties cited are calfskin cape goat dongola and seal. Items described as stylish durable and affordable for broad use.
A new device uses a rod held by an operator to feed a roll of paper past a paste reservoir and feeder that touches the paper. The paper sticks to the wall as a roller presses it flat, and a string cuts the pasted sheet at the ceiling, saving labor and time for paper hangers.
A table lists meals with items such as Whole Wheat Biscuit Hamburg Steak Fried Potatoes Brown bread coffee baked beans and brown bread with pickles mixed cakes pears tea tomato soup roast fowl mashed potatoes scalloped squash white onions caramel custard and tea.
A pleasant tale tells of Colonel John Hay, American Minister, and his modest claim about poetry. When praised for his poems he smiled and said he imagined himself a poet for three weeks, to which a quick-witted companion replied that in those weeks he won immortality.
The season highlights many novel hair ornaments with pompadour and bolero combs in demand by spring. The empire or light-backed Spanish comb resurfaces after years out of fashion. Sidecombs rise to balance fullness, with plain designs favored over rhinestones or mock jewels to avoid distracting from hair’s natural beauty.
A fashion description outlines gown styles for spring using smooth-faced cloths in fawn almond and beaver. It notes a stone colored cloth model with skunk fur, brown braid, blue velvet toque, and embroidered belt. Another gown features dark blue serge with a velvet blouse bow and leg o mutton sleeves.
Friday meals listed include breakfast with oatmeal milk bread omelet potato cakes coffee a luncheon of clam chowder crackers mixed pickles cake raspberry jam tea and a dinner of bean soup black bass stuffed and baked baked potatoes peas celery and coffee custard coffee.
A youthful blue striped silk outfit with blue chiffon frills and a black silk sash accented by silver thread. The bodice features front and back frills and a circular chiffon yoke. Silk foundation sleeves bloom into ruched chiffon sleeves for a dainty daytime look.
The article describes Dewsbury in Yorkshire as a global hub for old clothing. Carts deliver bales from the UK Europe America Canada Asia New Zealand and Australia to be converted into shoddy. It notes Catania Sicily exports seventy tons of ragged clothing annually as part of this unusual English industry.
Marmalade pudding recipe shows a wholesome dish for children. It combines breadcrumbs, shredded beef suet, salt, powdered ginger, baking powder, and chopped candied lemon peel as core ingredients.
The excerpt details a pudding mixture topped with a hat motif, then layered with orange marmalade in a buttered mould. It instructs baking in a moderate oven for two hours and turning out before serving.
Aged lady humorously falls for a fad visiting a talkative neighbor. She brings tea sugar and a warm flannel petticoat a gift the recipient hesitates to accept. The exchange unfolds with regional speech and comic tone.
A remark on how shoes define appeal and the impact of footwear quality on impression. It emphasizes that boots, with flaws such as missing buttons frayed laces or uneven wear, spoil the allure of any girl by their footwear.
A neat street gown in tan drap d ete features a tight bell shaped skirt with back flare. The front panel is bordered by folds and three folds circle the bottom to the front seam. A cream chiffon vest under the bloused bodice and black satin collar and sash complete the look.
Expert observers can distinguish men from women at distance by movement. Even the most graceful men appear ungainly next to a woman's sinuous motions. A single arm motion above the head can reveal sex to a trained eye, unlike a man tidying hair with awkward, windmill-like moves.
A short, readable cooking note lists six ounces sugar, six ounces butter, one pound two ounces flour, a quarter pound currants, nutmeg, lemon essence and eggs, mixed and baked in small walnut sized portions for about twenty minutes in a moderate oven.
Censomme roast beef mashed potatoes turnips stewed carrots white onions with cream sauce olives crackers fruit mixed ice cream coffee served as a Sunday dinner offering with a full plated sequence of items.
A stylish turban trend grows in popularity with diverse materials. A rough mixed straw model features a tam crown while violet velvet drapes the crown and side, accented by a gray bird. A velvet brim toque displays a feather mount and violet bunches on each side.
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