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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1898
Page
6
The article invites a refined queenly portrait with a love of Shakespeare Ruskin Darwin Goethe racine Chateaubriand and classical languages. It describes a airy cosy room with olive denim furniture fish net draperies and a rug, plus a daily menu featuring oatmeal beans croquettes veal and prune pudding.
The schedule lists Monday meals with Wheatlet, Ham and Eggs, Brown Bread Toast for breakfast. Luncheon features Fried Mush with Maple Syrup, Warm Gingerbread, Preserved Quinces, Cocoa. Dinner includes Cream of Potato Soup, Fricassee Chicken, Potato Balls, Stew ed Carrots, Cottage Pudding with Fruit Sauce, Coffee.
A discussion on child allowances highlights diverging views among mothers. One successful mother rejects allowances after age fourteen while others favor weekly sums for girls to cover small needs and emergencies. Proponents say regular allowances teach frugality and that every penny counts.
Summer headgear shows hats tilting over the face remains popular with a side tilt gaining favor. Sailor hats with gay silk trimming and tartan ribbons appeal, while tea table hats feature upstanding bows. The walking hat style turns up on both sides and dips over the eyes with violet lace straw pieces and velvet ribbons cited as dainty examples.
The article praises Queen Margaret as Europe’s most learned royal woman and notes her lifelong study of languages from childhood. It also mentions her diligence and public image as a capable, scholarly ruler despite being known for other traits.
A country vicar relays a curious tale of a vanished bank-note left on a shelves in a store-room. A mouse-hole revealed a nest of young mice with the intact note lining the nest. The note, unchewed and undamaged, appears to have been carried through the hole and kept as a soft blanket in the nest.
Lace point d esprit dia mull French muslin garments with embroidery tuck and frill are highlighted as season's novelties. Ready to wear skirts include narrow satin bands, waists fully trimmed, and sleeves designed for quick assembly. Also note ipecacuanha bark and root come in three varieties ash grey brown and white from Peru and South America.
A gown in gray satin faced cloth with turquoise blue silk details features a shirred waist, pleated yoke, and fine guipure trimming. The close fitting sleeves have double epaulets and the matching hat is gray satin straw with turquoise silk crepe trim and a black plume on the left.
In lace gown orders black white or ecru water ed silk foundations are favored by French ateliers to enhance lace patterns net or flouncing. Ingenious modistes test draping effects to keep folds in place showing the designs to advantage. Some fancy lace patterns adjust in pleatings or kilts without harming the woven dreamlike mesh.
Describes new plain and silk-striped French chalk fabrics and a range of patterns including matelasse silks Pompadour satins Indias foulards Persian devices Empire garlands chintz foliage sprays in olive green and gold. Notes soft sheer all wool materials pair with flounced skirts and velvet trimmed bodices.
Wednesday meals show a full day plan with breakfast items including shredded wheat milk sugar and poached eggs then luncheon scalloped veal cabbage salad gingerbread cocoa fruit and dinner featuring veal broth broiled sirloin potatoes cabbage wafers cheese strawberries cream cake and coffee indicating a complete rationed menu.
Dainty home made pin cushions are popular as gifts for many friends. The article notes heart shaped cushions as fashionable and convenient, made from satin silk or linen to hang on a bureau or sit on a dressing glass.
In Airy Goods many dress patterns use Swiss muslin linen lawn and Ugand ie with forget me nots. This natty linen piece features white silk bow knots as decoration. Silk brocade outlined with Japanese silk makes cushion designs that are handsome and affordable.
A description highlights goods from India including zephyrs and Fedora cloths. Textiles shown in natural tints such as ecru or gray use undyed wool and silk warp. They are roughly woven, very light, yet strong for durable use, appealing to lovers of novelty.
Thursday meal plan lists Breakfast with oranges hominy sugar milk boiled eggs bread coffee. Luncheon features meat balls potato cakes rhubarb plain cake tea. Dinner includes onion soup broiled mutton chops potatoes asparagus lettuce salad crackers cheese cream pie coffee.
The Polyphemus is described as the most singular ship in the world a long steel tube buried in water with a deck only four feet above the sea. It carries no masts or sails and serves as a ram and torpedo boat. Rose leaves are noted as a pleasant perfume and used medicinally as a tonic and astringent.
Hat styles described include a black sail or rough straw with burnt orange satin ribbon and spiral trim. A green silk hat features puff ruffles and a large white aigretta. A braided black straw turban style with jet catashuns completes the walking hat designs.
The article highlights importations in summer dress fabrics focusing on very fine silk and wool materials such as etamines. It notes the appeal of light textures and fashionable textures for warm weather wear.
The record notes at least 1173 individuals have been interred at Weerrenusier Abbey, indicating a long-standing burial site with extensive history.
A fashion note describes a striking corsage and skirt set in geranium crepe. It features a square yoke, black chantilly ruffles, cream insertion, and shirted crepe sleeves. The piece emphasizes fabric quality, design detail, and careful cooking and cleaning advice as part of household hints.
Friday meals feature breakfast with oatmeal bananas sugar and cream omelet muffins coffee. Luncheon offers fried oysters tomato ketchup brown bread prunes cocoa. Dinner includes clear soup creamed canned salmon mashed potatoes spinach watercress salad wafers cheese brown Betty pudding coffee.
The day’s menu lists breakfast with oranges hominy milk sugar ham and eggs toast. Luncheon offers cold sliced tongue French fried potatoes pickles gingerbread fruit chocolate. Dinner serves vegetable soup creamed chicken with rice mashed potatoes green peas spinach lettuce salad wafers cheese strawberry short cake coffee.
J W Mallet of the University of Virginia argues that the brown oily material in tobacco is tar not nicotine. He explains pure nicotine is a colorless oily liquid that darkens with air, and that most cigars examined use pure light yellow tobacco with harmless fiber wrappers, free from alleged adulterants.
A satirical reader anecdote contrasts a boy seeing five privates with a father who is a general. It mocks rank, compensation, and the idea of the rear with the home, noting privates earn $13 a month and can be shot for misbehavior while generals receive praise and higher pay.
All white muslin dresses will be in favor the coming summer and very charming these gowns are ruched ruffled flounced or tucked with rows of insertion between. The skirts are usually gored the waists are simple and the sleeves.
Toques made entirely of flowers will trend this summer. They are unusually pretty and genteel, with blossoms daintily veiled by tulle or fine-meshed silk net, presenting a charming appearance.
A description of a fine white muslin dress with a simple silk under skirt and ruched waist. The outfit features small shirred sleeves, rubhe borders, and a black plaster shoe mend. Black alpaca under-petticoats, damask rose motifs, and a green tulle veiled toque with an aigrette complete the ensemble.
A comparative note lists Hungary with 312 working days per year, the United States with 308, England with 278, and Russia with 291 days, reflecting wide differences in labor calendars.
On the first and third Tuesdays in May and June 1898 the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets good for 21 days to many points in South and North Dakota and other states at near one fare for the round trip. Inquiries to coupon ticket agents or George H Heatford General Passenger Agent Chicago Ill.
A stranger asks if a long distance telephone exists. The native replies that is the only kind, then guides the traveler four and a half miles over a hill to the third turn on the right. The line captures a humor tone from the Chicago Post.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets candy as a blood cleanser to improve skin. It claims the product cleans the liver and removes pimples boils blotches and a bilious complexion with doses priced at 10c 25c and 50c.
An interview with a millionaire liquor dealer reveals his secret to success. He says he attributes it to always being his own bartender, emphasizing personal oversight and hands on management.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad adopted a simple right angled steel hook under the coupling draw head to jam and steady the connection if a draw head falls. The device cannot be jammed or broken and has shown high reliability in preventing disconnection between cars.
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