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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
7
The article discusses choosing wall finishes to suit room function and light. It warns that strong colors in sunny south or west rooms can cause irritability, while pale tones in northern rooms suit bedrooms and parlors. It advises on patterns, woodwork, and bathroom papers for durability and harmony.
Description details a walking costume in brown with a cashmere skirt and a drab face cloth coat. The coat is semi-fitting with side seams, shoulder-to-back seam, brown silk embroidery on collar pockets and cuffs, brown velvet binding, a brown straw hat trimmed with velvet and ostrich feathers. Materials listed include three yards of 48 inch fabric, half yard velvet, four buttons, six yards lining silk.
Pledges immediate renewal of ribbon materials in millinery to avoid lavish spending on fresh bows and flowers. Advises choosing durable, good starting materials to prevent later extravagance.
The text explains a method to renew black taffeta ribbons by sponge pressing to hide hat pin holes. Soak the ribbon in tepid water with a spoonful of ammonia per pint, then lay it on an unvarnished wooden table and smooth with a sponge in one direction to make it adhere and remove creases.
Advice on sending flowers to ill friends stresses faint odor and lasting varieties. Carnations are favored for durability and scent, while roses, lilies of the valley, and violets lose freshness quickly. Recut stems and place in cool water with salt nightly to preserve fragrance and color before upcoming new designs.
This column offers practical tricks from garden to home care. It notes potatoes can wash hands and soften skin, potato water cleans silk, and advises care for houseplants. It explains preserving oil cloth with varnish, producing convincing linoleum imitation through varnish and wax, and washing gilded china with soapsuds. It adds lavender scented linen as a disease precaution and Reinforcing stockings with a patched old kid glove inside knee to extend wear.
The recipe explains making a yeast starter with potato water then mixing flour milk and yeast with sugar salt butter eggs currants raisins walnuts and flavoring. Knead and rise twice, bake in small loaves until light brown, then butter and sug ar top for a week of keeping without drying out.
To remove grease from silk woolens paper floors use French chalk grated thickly over the spot then cover with brown paper and press with a hot flat iron until cool. Repeat if needed. The iron should not burn the paper or cloth. Common chalk may be used but is not as effective.
Instructions describe cleaning and drying fish, cutting side gashes, tying in an S shape, stuffing with salt pork, and baking with frequent basting. A dressing mix of cracker crumbs melted butter salt pepper chopped pickle parsley and onion juice is prepared to spoon over during cooking.
The housewife is advised to candy oranges by boiling a syrup of one pound sugar to one pint water until it hardens in water. Dip orange quarters in the syrup, drain on a sieve over a platter to prevent waste, and allow crystallization as they dry.
A collage of ad copy and quotes selling tonics and patent medicines. Dr Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer offers a $2 trial bottle from Philadelphia. Bromo Quinine is promoted as a universal cold cure with a signature. Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup targets teething pain for children. Political conventions are described as often bossed.
An advice piece endorses a trusted health product, Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, as a wholesome family laxative. It urges buyers to purchase only the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. remedy through leading druggists, aligning with world wide approval.
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