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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1908
Page
7
Guidance on making a dressing table receptacle from light wood or firm cardboard lined with wadded silk or sateen. Edges are fixed with mucilage and covered with silk, creating a proper storage for trinkets in the boudoir.
Instructions describe decorating a Trinket Box lid with embroidery silk stitches and ribbon. After finishing the embroidery, iron on the wrong side, add wadding, and cover with embroidered silk edging fixed inside the lid. Line the lid with stiff paper, wadding, and silk or linen, using mucilage to secure.
The article notes women turning to unbleached muslin for summer dresses. Patterns use cretonne prints for trim, wide plain muslin bands, and even a four inch cretonne fold on a gored skirt. The tone favors practical, affordable fabrics and simple, stylish outfits.
Black net over faded tints returns as a chic choice for both black and white dresses. Avoid matching belts. trim with black filet lace or ribbon braid embroidery. Add a black yoke with Mechlin net, white lace accents, and a black satin girdle for a smart wrapped look.
Daily bathing is essential for maintaining clean and healthy skin. A sponge bath suits some, cold baths awaken, while hot baths soothe and aid sleep. Outdoor activity after a cold bath prevents dryness. sea salt baths can aid nervous fatigue and heart stimulation.
The article notes lack of sleep betrays appearance and suggests remedies. It claims buttermilk helps remove freckles or sunburn and warns mouth breathing spoils lip shape. It advocates a brisk morning walk and eight to ten hours of sleep. It mentions a tea and carbonate solution to aid curling hair.
An article explains a simple set of home made tools to prune runners on strawberry plants. It suggests using a worn-out hoe blade straightened to fit the shank for precise cuts, and describes adapting a plow counter or sickle shaped hoe blade to trim rows and remove old canes efficiently, with the worker standing erect and protected by a glove.
A Prairie Farmer note explains bracing a corner post with a 54 inch iron piece. A wooden brace and a wire hooked on the iron form a taut support when the iron is turned to tension the wire.
Cultivation should focus on weed control and preparing light dry well ventilated stock barns. Dairying requires a real liking for cows and curiosity about cattle. Half grown potato vines spread lateral roots that should be cultivated over rather than through. The dairy cow needs carbon five times more than protein in her feed to supply heat and energy.
The Progressive Farmer warns that wasting land is a crime comparable to harming a person. It argues gullied hillsides and eroded soil devastate future prosperity, citing James J. Hill and historic land values to show current prices misjudge the real loss to posterity.
A Farm and Home writer shares a jelly straining substitute using a chair, cheesecloth, and mosquito netting. Boiling juice is passed through the bag twice with clean bowls, then left to strain overnight, with all tools kept scrupulously clean.
In thirty years dairy production worldwide has been transformed by time saving inventions and containment methods. The industry moved from traditional practices to rigorous scientific principles improving milk safety and butter production and greatly boosting output.
An advertisement attached to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicines Company in Lynn Massachusetts invites public inspection of the laboratory and business practices. It questions the vegetable compound’s ingredients, efficacy, confidentiality of letters, and the alleged correspondence with over a million women while urging doubters to gain confidence through verification.
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