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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1898
Page
6
The article describes French velvet toques worn flat across the face with black velvet brims and chrysanthemums, plus decorative wings. It notes green silk crowns, long feathers, and a steel buckle, alongside a daily menu including breakfast and dinner courses.
Breakfast features grapes oatmeal sugar and cream bacon and eggs rolls. Luncheon offers lamb chops French fried potatoes cup custard currant jelly cake cocoa. Dinner includes tomato soup roast lamb mint sauce mashed potatoes turnips crackers cheese pumpkin pie and coffee.
The piece argues that many birds utter nonmusical sounds and that true singing is rare. It contrasts musical songbirds with water birds, birds of prey, and gallinaceous birds noting that gobbles and crowing are not singing, though driven by similar motives to song.
A stylish outdoor coat for a young girl features dark red serge with braid trim and buttons. It includes a lined front and back, gathered neck, invisible center-fastening hooks and eyes, stiffened revers with silk lining, and trimmed edges. Bishop sleeves end in turged cuffs, paired with a red felt hat trimmed with black velvet bows for a coordinated outfit.
The article extols the complexity of the human body noting that every known motion by engineers exists in the body. It lists about five hundred muscles and a thirty two foot alimentary canal with the heart measuring six inches by four inches and beating seventy times per minute.
A 7 by 6 inch cardboard strip is paired with a sandpaper patch cut 314 by 244 inches placed in the center. Draw loose matches and a candle on the card, color the candle and flame, tint matches, and thread ribbon ends for hanging. The piece claims benefits for skin diseases via a continuous medicated bath.
A naturalist in Nicaragua reports a vine like black interlacing stems with a thick viscous gum that ensnares animals. He freed a dog after a struggle and found the dog bloodied with puckered skin and exhaustion. The plant twigs curled like fingers around his hand.
A medical note describes long term immersion therapy in a bath as a life saving method. A young patient near death was kept submerged with only the head above water for 183 days and nights while she ate slept and drank, then emerged healthy and strong.
The article notes an imbalance of about sixteen men to one woman in Argentina, creating a rush to marry when a new woman arrives. About fifty men pursue her, with weddings becoming a city spectacle. The bride chooses among many suitors. love may last only three days.
Merchants showcase a large stock of black fabrics including French camel's hair weaves velvet stripes mohairs with boucle cheviots bourette knots whipcords satins and India cashmeres. Mohairs cashmeres offer high durability and dressy appeal next to English serge while other standard blacks meet steady demand ahead of winter.
Wednesday meals list a breakfast with oranges whole wheat biscuit sugar and cream liver and bacon potato cakes buns coffee a luncheon of meat trais lyonnaise potatoes pickles strawberry jam cake tea and a dinner of vegetable soup roast beef riced potatoes beets lima beans crackers cheese homemade apple pie coffee
The German Army is disbanding its organized corps of mice guarding cats after Professor Loefller discovered a typhus bacillus fatal to mice. The plan replaces feline aid with the bacillus, leaving questions about its meals and badges.
The article advises young housekeepers to buy a generous stock of unembroidered tray cloths and carvers cloths with hem stitched or fringed finishes. Such linens are easier to launder and renew, and old fine cloths can be repurposed into a set of cloths.
A health note suggests women with sluggish livers or dull complexions improve in a few weeks by a light diet. It advises avoiding tea coffee and stimulants when nerves are tired and emphasizes eating plenty of oranges, especially in the morning.
Rumors of silk petticoats fading prove unfounded as taffeta skirts remain plentiful and elaborately styled. Oriental motifs dominate table centers and tea-cloths with circular pieces featuring inverted scalloped borders and patterns reminiscent of Turkish rugs.
The Queen's daughters are skilled needlewomen and cooks. As children they kept a private Osborne kitchen making jam from garden fruit and crafting sweets. They prepared savory dishes for brothers, with noted appetites, and one princess still occasionally cooks, claiming she would have been an excellent chef.
Breakfast includes oatmeal sugar and cream pork chops fried hominy cakes bread butter and coffee. Luncheon features sliced tongue fried sweet potatoes biscuit apple sauce cake and cocoa. Dinner offers corned beef potatoes cabbage boiled cauliflower olives crackers cheese peach pudding and coffee.
The article warns against disassembling bearings to clean them. It favors using a kerosene filled oil can to syringe clean the bearings without taking them apart. A cloth wrap around bearing ends prevents kerosene from reaching the spokes and tires.
A 19th century note challenges the gold ring myth, stating any ring or even string or paper circle can legally serve in a wedding ceremony. It cites runaway marriages where brass rings and improvised circles were used without issue.
A simple corner sofa can be made with modest expense. A one foot high platform supports a mattress or cushion, covered to taste. Curtain at the back is lined with a plain cover, with brass rings and decorative ends like a Japanese fan.
An inexperienced housekeeper serves cantaloupes cut in halves filled with ice. The correct method is to pile them on shredded ice and chill moderately rather than serving half frozen. Excess ice water dulls flavor.
An old-fashioned cross-stitch, enlarged and worked over a stamped design, gains popularity this season. A new heavy silken floss, costlier than ordinary floss yet cheaper than silk floss, is used for these simple patterns.
A vivid showroom feature highlights dainty lingerie and negligee robes with elaborate lace trims. Dressing jackets in pale pink China silk showcase a delicate yoke design, signaling an elegant, feminine display at the openings this year.
The passage argues that a woman should cultivate her mind and spirit rather than rely on physical charms. It notes beauty can change with emotion like a lake’s surface and stresses teachability as essential for lasting lovableness, claiming knowledge of all is undesirable.
Saturday meals feature Peaches and Cream Wheatena and Minced Meat on Toast for breakfast. Luncheon includes Baked Beans and Ham Potato Patties Whole Wheat Gems Preserved Pears Cake Tea. Dinner offers Lamb Stew Green Peas Mashed Potatoes Succotash Sweet Pickles Crackers Cheese Grapes Peach Pie Coffee.
The method describes cooking peaches in a French style. Peaches are halved, stones removed, simmered in sugar and water, with a quart of water and eight tablespoonfuls of sugar per dozen peaches. After boiling again, a final touch adds half as much sugar plus lemon juice before cooling in the dish.
The article explains that barbers performed minor surgeries and bloodletting. Patients held a pole to distend the arm vein, and the pole hung outside the door when bleeding was performed inside.
The dialogue sketches a household mix up as the mistress teases Bridget about a bell on the hall table. Bridget flusters over who should ring it, revealing a humorous misidentification and a dash of domestic friction.
The article notes broadcloth from French and German sources to dominate fall and winter tailoring with costumes, princess lines, reddings, jackets, capes, and skirts. It highlights unprecedented finish and quality, signaling strong demand for high end fabrics.
The article details lace trimmed dresses and high collar styles with pink ribbon bows. It notes fabrics from fifty to fifty four inches wide priced 1.40 to 1.75 per yard, plus drap d ete and double faced cashmere. It discusses soft woollens and Henrietta cloths amid novelty textiles and fashionable dyes.
The excerpt lists a daily menu beginning with Friday Breakfast including hominy sugar and cream codfish cakes boiled eggs and Johnny cake with coffee. Luncheon features shrimp salad cold corned beef Boston chips cream puffs and tea. Dinner offers Lima bean soup baked sea bass lemon mashed potatoes buttered parsnips sweet potatoes cold slaw steam apple pudding and coffee.
Instructions advise on bone casings loops at tops, binding turned over, and avoiding holes. Prefers full ccas ing, thorough ironing of coat collars and cuffs before and after stitching, folding skirts into bands, and equal hem lengths to prevent sagging at the back.
A reflective essay argues that true attractiveness comes from wit and vivacity rather than mere looks. It claims bright thoughts enhance any face and voice, making a sharp woman seem a great beauty beyond physical features.
To wash woollen goods use waters of equal temperature, keep hands comfortable, and avoid hot water. Use thin suds with white soap, add a little borax to soften water. For blankets and baby flannels, borax is preferred. Do not wring woollens by hand. rinse and dry by squeezing. Never expose wool to freezing temperatures.
Dressmakers promote peau de sole silks for their rich surface texture and durability. The fabric features half lights, a twisted yarn, and a range of colors and patterns including single hues, chameleon effects, and small floral designs suitable for accessories and waist embellishments.
The description details a violet velvet ensemble featuring a vest and yoke with a high crush collar. It includes two large jeweled buttons, satin outlining, and elaborately styled sleeves. A violet velvet toque with a wired bow and plume completes the look.
The Pekin Gazette is a rare daily publication issued for over eight hundred years with a single copy nailed on a board outside the Emperor’s Purple City. It serves as the court organ, containing sixteen pages of official acts and reports dictated by the Emperor, with no advertisements. The sub-editor is the Emperor’s mother.
A cold tomato sauce prepared with peeled whole tomatoes with seeds pressed out. The mixture is chopped and strained then seasoned with salt onion juice lemon juice cayenne and a touch of olive oil.
To serve stewed figs with whipped cream place each fig on a small sponge cake square and neatly pile whipped cream on top.
A dressy silk bodice is described to pair with skirts of black velvet faille or satin. It is built of rose colored peau de soie and rich silks, forming attractive combinations. A handsome silk blouse features a pouched front with three box pleats beside a vest of figured silk trimmed with intricate detailing.
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