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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
3
The sewing room guidance warns against cheap lace on frequent washing garments. It suggests selecting patterns with strong edges to resist fraying, notes linen torch on and Irish crochet lace launder well, warns shadow and Valenciennes lace fray. It offers tips using safety pins or wrapped ribbon to thread through casings.
A detailed handkerchief case project for a dainty Christmas gift. It outlines buckram foundations, outer coverings in white moire or ribbon, rose designs, a white corded ribbon spine, and two leaf folds with ribbon ties to secure a handkerchief, described as a pretty dressing table accessory.
Spinach is highlighted for its high iron content and value as a vegetable dish, presented as an essential part of a nutritious meals.
Instructions describe making double frill neckpieces with lace trims and inserted net bands. Details cover triangular jabots, fichu style drapes, velvet bows at the collar, and variations for stout figures, high ruche necklines, and shot taffeta options.
The recipe instructs cutting bread into heart shapes and frying in butter to form a rosette. A round bread piece is placed atop, fried to a golden brown, then hollowed and filled with cooked spinach.
When cutting fur into narrow bands place hair side down on a marble slab. Measure the desired width with a pencil, mark it, and cut along the mark with a sharp knife. Take care not to mutilate the fur.
Suggestions to avoid common gifts include jewelry pins pendants bracelets card cases silver photo frames and tortoise shell tops or carved ivory. Favor unusual items such as love charms four leaf clover lucky hand motifs to ward off the evil eye and attract a husband within the year.
The excerpt extols outdoor living to improve health and appearance. It links fresh air and vigorous movement to better circulation and fewer wrinkles, warns against aimless rushing and insomnia, and notes nerves and worry harm sleep and spirit.
The piece urges basic physical activity for kids with parents and nurses playing along. It highlights forming local ball teams and walking clubs to promote health and daily sprinting for even young children.
Miss Bond accuses Mrs. Lyman and Mr. Porter of cheating at cards using private signals. The scandal spreads through fashion circles as lace theft emerges in a dry goods store. A later confrontation at Dargen & Co. leads to a private confession and a quiet settlement within the social world.
The article describes stork species in Europe Asia Africa and America noting their long bills food and nesting habits and folklore. It then lists a revised seven wonders featuring Wireless Telephone Aeroplane Radium Antiseptics Spectrum Analysis X ray and ends with a playful couplet about Little Freddie and a sugar cane.
The Riddler poses wordplay about a tree named by a numeral Ivy IV and a pun on vice disliked by bad people Advice. A riddle line asks how many bed covers Job had Three wretched comforters in a comic style quiz.
A Chicago Post poem depicts a sleepy scene where a child or narrator is soothed by a fire and a gentle verse about gray and white sheep moving over a hill. The imagery repeats the sheep’s quiet march and the house grows still as sleep takes hold.
A fragmentary riddle style passage ponders numbers and division with playful misprints. It asks if twelve or fourteen can be split, notes that twice twenty-five makes fifty, and repeats impossible seeming arithmetic prompts in a whimsical, cryptic tone.
The article notes a surge of ordained women in the United States now totaling over 2,500, led by Unitarian and Universalist groups with notable figures such as Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane of Kalamazoo and Rev. Olympia Brown of Racine. It recounts early pioneers Antoinette Blackwell and Phoebe Hannaford and mentions a memorial in Uganda to three boy martyrs. It also covers church education efforts in Wales and a new Philippines boys school led by Miss Mary W. Rae. The Presbyterian ministerial relief board reports a $275,000 legacy, bringing its total endowment to $2,400,000.
The Maldive archipelago lies in the Indian Ocean southwest of Hindustan with about 14 000 coral islands. Most rise only seven or eight feet, yet host cocoanut palms and vegetation. Atolls encircle quiet lagoons. some islands form rings with a lake inside the coral ring.
A Washington Star quip notes how woman suffrage in the state affects home life. A western editor remarks it inter feres with a father's discipline as he fears a son may gain political influence from the new vote.
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