Dainty Trifles Art Nouveau Jewelry and Fashions
A feature on art nouveau jewelry and fashion details highlights ornate pieces for hats muff bags and gowns. Enamels are praised as beautiful with French Italian influences and items like seven violet bouquets neck ruffles and lavender cascades are described with silver spangling and lace borders. A humorous William and Violet kitchen anecdote from the Washington Post closes with a violet scent substitution for creme Yvette during a dinner party.
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Chantilly
SMART MILLINERY The crease for white useful tolle hats
The era favors small hats worn over the face with shading to soften the forehead. White beaver and straw beaver blends top fashion, soft straws with chenille appear, and demi balls on tulle and silk arrive. Black hats remain wardrobe staples. Ecru lace hats with pale blue and pink trim offer novelty. The smart tulle hat features tiny tucks, rippled brim, and pink rose trim. Jupio CuoLine.
Sacred Torah Ecrotl and its Display in Jewish Practice
The article describes the Torah ecrotl as a parchment scroll mounted on wooden rollers wrapped in green velvet embroidered in silk and gold, with ivory and silver adornments. It notes the Torah’s sacred status, its division into a pericope to cover year readings, and mentions a professional scribe preparing parchment from clean animal skin. It also includes medical anecdotes about olive oil use and baths for health.
Ancient and modern organ histories and table etiquette
The article traces the organ’s antiquity from Pan’s pipes to the water organs of antiquity and notes a tenth pipe instrument in the second century, then mentions the gift of Constantine and Pepin’s possession in 757 with Aldhelm’s earlier reference to gilt pipes. It then shifts to a table lesson on child self restraint and sharing chores to teach manners, urging boys to share in serving duties alongside girls.
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Floors and cleaning methods for wooden surfaces
Instructions describe dusting hardwood floors with a canton flannel bag tied over a broom to dust and polish. Heavier canton flannels serve as floor wipes and for cleaning paint. A playful exchange features a riddle about the word reviver and a brief dialogue between two men as they ride on.
Goats Thrive on Grass Weeds and Poison Ivy Say Farmers
Ed W. Cole notes goats eat brush and grass with gusto and even poison ivy. Laurel can harm goats if eaten in spring when feed is scarce, but later in the season pasture is safe. The exchange hints at the goats’ hardiness and preferences.
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Ed W. Cole
National Brackman
Watering Horses in Practical Horse Care
A writer in the Iowa Homestead advises watering horses at sensible times. Water about thirty minutes before grain, or immediately before feeding if early watering is not possible. If water must come after eating, wait two hours. Following this rule helps avoid trouble and is easy for owners to apply.
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Iowa Homestead
Goats and gas remedy questioned by expert
Mr McKibben cites Wool Markets and Sheep noting goats off feed and tired look may receive a teaspoonful of gasoline in half a pint of fresh milk daily for three days. The advice appears in a livestock column discussing stomach worms in goats.
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Mr. McKibben
Woman complains of staged lodging and restraint in town
A visitor reports being moved from a guestroom to a back bedroom and then to sleep three in a bed with children. She says she would not notice if she were tied to a mirror with blue ribbon, a claim reported by Atehison Globe.
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