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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1898
Page
6
The season highlights include trimmed bodices with subtle waist lines and sleeve changes. a plum silk poplin gown with taffeta lining and cream mull vest. A Paris import golf cape debuts, shorter than previous years, in a heavy Scotch plaid with fringe and a shaped plain-goods border.
Practical guidance for child care from a historical source. It urges sun protection for children with linen bonnets and velvet touches, stresses daily and age appropriate teeth cleaning from eighteen months, and notes cautious use of tonics and beverages during fever. It warns against indiscriminate tonics when bowels are unsettled and promotes early dental visits to prevent deformities from early tooth eruption.
Breakfast includes muskmelon oatmeal sugar and cream boiled eggs cream ed potatoes muffins Coffee Luncheon features cold roast beef corn fritters preserved pears cake Tea Dinner serves potato soup roast leg of lamb mashed potatoes beets with butter sauce steamed blackberry pudding and coffee
A legend traces orange blossoms to Spain and a royal orange tree gifted to a Spanish king. An African king and a wily ambassador figure in a tale of a dowry scheme and a wedding hair adornment. The tale links orange blossoms with brides worldwide.
The article notes ongoing fashion shifts with capes gaining visibility and evening wraps rising in popularity, highlighting a trend toward dramatic outerwear in formal wear.
Tuesday meals listed include breakfast with Wheatlet Sugar and Cream Bacon Jags Rolls Coffee and lunch with Lamb Croquettes Beet Salad Gingerbread Cocoa Dinner features Tomato Soup Broiled Tenderloin Steak Rice Potatoes Green Corn Seed Tomatoes Apple Pie Coffee.
A reflective note extols the value of a sensible female friend to a man in any pursuit. It argues women combine tact with sound judgment, safeguard character and repute, and urge prudent, honorable choices. A wife with good sense and heart is described as a man’s best female friend.
The essay extols female friendship as a bulwark and ornament of existence spanning ages. It cites Moliere and Montaigne, noting how intergenerational ties enrich genius and moral growth. It argues female companionship enhances mental culture and worldly understanding beyond books alone.
Wednesday menu lists breakfast with grapes boiled rice pork chops toast coffee and lameheat tash stewed green corn bread peaches crevmr ven. dinner features pea soup boiled chops mashed potatoes fried green plantains tomatoes string bean salad vanilla ice cream coffee.
The article surveys new French sleeve designs with plain tight fits and minimal decoration, plus varied trims like flit folds and puffed partially shirred cuffs. It highlights crescent edge trim on shoulders and endorses modified mutton-leg sleeves for larger or slimmer arms with comfortable elbow to wrist fit.
To four quarts of ripa grapes picked from the stem add one gallon of boiling water. Cover the basin and let stand four or five days, stirring daily. Strain through thick cloth and to every gallon add three pounds of leaf sugar. Once dissolved, place in a clean cask and cork loosely. When the wine stops working, strain and bottle. Cork securely and keep several months.
A Victorian guidance item describes aprons or pinafores for girls up to eleven or twelve. Muslin, lawn, fine linen or nainsook are recommended with embroidery or torchen lace. The model features a straight hemmed skirt, full bodice, yoke trim, and sleeves edged in embroidery, fastened by cotton loops and linen buttons.
The article weighs choosing between seaside or inland or hilly retreats for holidays and health. It cautions highly nervous people against the sea and endorses inland or moderate elevations, noting sea air may irritate rather than brace. It emphasizes careful selection after illness and suggests water retreats aid convalescence but warns against premature seaside exposure.
A light musing on choosing between a sunny seaside day on land and a voyage at sea, noting the appeal of both options and the question of which offers the finer holiday experience.
Breakfast features oatmeal with sugar and cream and broiled ham with muffins. Luncheon includes lamb stew with dumplings brown bread and butter bread pudding and coffee. Dinner offers lamb cutlets baked potatoes stewed tomatoes squash and peach shortcake with coffee.
A delicate fan bag described with a pale pink satin foundation lined in sea green silk. It features a satin frill, a double ribbon slide, and a bow at the bottom, designed to protect and carry fans to venues.
The bag shows an arabesque design running the length with buttonhole-stitch edges using two strands of filoselle. The top is bead filled, the next cross stitched with a central bead, followed by a lattice silk pattern fastened at corners with a cross stitch, china ribbon flowers, and silk cording for the stalks.
The article compares athletic influenced body changes to the classic Venus of Milo and the old wasp waist ideal. It describes modern measurements for a fit leisured woman active in swimming and bicycling versus five years ago’s fashion standard, noting shifts in neck bust waist and arm dimensions.
The guidance suggests dieting with up to five meals daily at regular times, milk and dairy foods, eggs, bread, fruits, vegetables, and well cooked meat or fish. For neck specific fullness, cod liver oil, nightly warm baths, olive oil massage, morning dumbbell work, and breathing through singing lessons are advised.
A method describes making a firm parchment pad with listing and rubbing with finely powdered white pumice stone. It notes that water colors mixed with alum water applied to this prepared parchment will not sink.
An ornate description of a white flannel kilt suit for a three year old boy, with loomingly moral narration about patience friendship and life remedies. It interleaves fashion notes with fables about self interest and kindness, then shifts to trivia on Chinese coffins Italian theatres St Pauls Cathedral and London oyster consumption.
Friday breakfast features hominy milk and sugar with scrambled eggs and toast. Luncheon offers scalloped fish with biscuits pickles muskmelon and carcoa. Dinner serves baked blue fish mashed potatoes lima beans cucumber salad and watermelon with coffee.
A traditional starch recipe yields ivory gloss for collars and cuffs. Dissolve borax in boiling water then mix into starch with cold water and a spoonful of turpentine. Ensure no undissolved borax remains to avoid shiny patches. The quantity treats four pairs of cuffs and seven collars.
Separate waists, made in rich materials, remain popular for dressy wear. The corsage article is indispensable for women, especially those with slim budgets, as one handsome skirt and blouse can suit almost any occasion.
A collection of awe inspiring claims describes London as the world’s largest city and Mammoth Cave as the longest cave, Paris library as the largest in number of shelves, and a giant room in Petersburg for military displays. It also notes vast structures like the Imperial Canal of China and a massive sundial on Hayou Horvo with ocean scale shadows. A fashion note offers rose satin visiting wear with jewel embroidery and a mountain shadowing island hour marks, and a tip to prevent rust by threading needles with silk in a summer house.
SATURDAY. Breakfast includes Shredded Wheat Sugar and Cream Griddle Cakes Meat juice Rolls Coffee Luncheon features Sliced Tongue French Fried Potatoes Bread and Butter Apple Dumpling Cocoa Dinner offers fried Chicken Potato Balls Green Corn Sweet Potatoes Tomato Salad Grapes Cake Coffee.
A pretty little dress for a small girl is made from dark red serge. The skirt is unlined and hemmed by hand with its own material. The fullness of the skirt is gathered at the back and attached to a narrow band. The blouse bodice is unlined, trimmed with guipure Insertion, and has a left side fastening with black velvet ribbon bows. The sleeves are full at the top and taper to the lower arm.
Gather elderberries on a dry day and soak in water for three to four days, stirring and pressing juice daily. Strain the juice, measure it, and mix with three and a half pounds of moist sugar per gallon, two ounces of bruised ginger, half an ounce of cloves, and a pinch of allspice, then boil half an hour. Cool and ferment with yeast for four or five days, skim, and bottle in a cask, aging two to three months after sealing.
Regular care keeps clocks accurate. Assign a house member to regulate weekly, wind at a set time, and keep the clock locked. Dust the face occasionally, oil with lime-water purified oil, and apply with a fine brush to the works.
An Austrian professor estimates deaths by old age for only 900 of 1,000,000, with large numbers from gout measles scarlet fever and other diseases. He questions anti vaccination implications. He notes the Suez Canal cuts sea distance from England to India by nearly 4,000 miles.
Dainty doilys are in demand and pretty designs are welcome to needleworkers. A miniature dessert doily is shown in muslin braid lace with linen thread, 215 yards of braid and 2 skeins of thread. It promises popularity after the craze for embroidered doilies.
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