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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
3
Modern fashion notes a striking contrast of ugliness and charm as tight skirts and odd draperies dominate. The piece discusses hobbie skirts, guimpe bodices with lace, a polonaise of black chiffon, and mourning wear ideas to enhance evening effects with silk or chiffon bands and gathered collars.
The article surveys early autumn dress trends featuring short walking skirts with plain bottoms and gathered tops, ongoing over-draped styles like polo nai se, and long house wear with overskirt effects. It notes material shifts toward summer to fall fabrics, color softening, and the revival of cashmere and linens in muted tones with tabac imdro and wisteria hues.
The article advises blond girls to keep the scalp healthy to prevent darkening. It favors neutral washes such as raw egg whites with bicarbonate and ammonia or peroxide in small amounts, and warns against heavy oils and bleaching agents. It also notes a rhubarb and honey shampoo as a recommended alternative.
Fancy wicker baskets in a variety of designs and sizes for handkerchiefs can be bought cheaply. The article suggests lining the hollow interior with pink batiste sewn in place to create handy home items or small gifts.
The description explains choosing a thread color to match wicker, padding with cotton wool, sprinkling satchel powder, and covering with satin. It notes four ribbons inside to cross handkerchiefs, ribbons on handles, and ribbon strings to secure the lid when closed.
A historic note details chopping cooked meat very finely then mixing with flour salt pepper and water with gravy to form a thick tasty paste. It guides making a pastry with flour butter and baking powder, filling five inch squares, sealing, brushing with egg, and baking fifteen minutes in a hot oven.
The article explains how a portable serving table assists a woman serving her own meals. It recommends a wheeled table with a tray or shelf, easy to move from kitchen to dining room, and notes removable trays and linen dollies to enhance appearance during meals.
A vintage style recipe for apple rolls with lemon sauce. It lists ingredients including flour salt baking powder butter milk apples sugar and cinnamon. Directions cover sifting and mixing the dough rolling filling slicing baking and serving with lemon sauce.
A Harper's Bazar recipe describes freezing vanilla cream, folding in peach pulp and orange juice, two hours’ rest, and serving in peach lined glasses with strawberry sauce. Another method chills the cream in a mold buried in ice and salt, then coats with a thin cold chocolate icing and almonds.
Pare three cucumbers and cut into quarters and lengthwise. Trim the seeded portion and cut the flesh into half inch pieces. In a thick bottomed saucepan melt butter add salt paprika and cucumber. Cover cook five minutes then reduce heat and simmer until tender in about 12 to 13 minutes.
A simple baked dessert using milk bread crumbs cocoa sugar and egg yolk. Mix well bake until firm then top with a meringue made from beaten egg white and powdered sugar and brown lightly in the oven. Serve hot or cold with cream.
A Washington inventor designs a rubber swimming suit that aids motion and survival. It features a life preserver under the arm and elastic leg bands with fins near the ankles to resist backward strokes and assist forward kicks, helping beginners stay safe and enabling experts to swim longer distances.
The text lists various physiological measures including average body weight 150 pounds six ounces, brain weight about 34 percent of body weight for men, 2 pounds 11 ounces for women, heart blood flow about 540 pounds per hour, breathing around 20 times a minute, pulse 120 in infancy and 60 at age sixty, and higher female pulse rates. It also notes blood passage per heart beat and other comparative metrics.
An introspective verse about longing to become a poet and craft proper rhymes each time a thought arrives. The speaker imagines disciplined practice and timely inspiration as the path to literary expression.
A child hero rides a rocking chair, taunts a cat as a tiger, and battles imagined Indians and bandits. The rug becomes a battlefield and the hall a deep river as he battles foes behind curtain folds. He ends the day fearless as he goes to bed alone.
The Delineator recounts Fred a three year old punished by his mother for misdeeds. His aunt offers a moral that a little devil inside him causes the naughty acts and Fred remarks it hurts when that devil gets spanked.
A playful verse where the speaker notices a small girl and recalls household staples traded for a humorous mix up about a pound of jumps and hops. The dialogue toys with rhyme and domestic details while highlighting a kids misinterpretation of items.
An egg placed in clear water sinks to the bottom due to lower density than the egg. In concentrated brine the egg also sinks, since salt water is denser. By mixing water and brine to match the egg’s density, the egg floats mid water, shifting toward surface with more brine or bottom with more water.
A compact reflection notes that humor and genius often intertwine yet wit is rarer. It states a man of genius may possess wit among other gifts, citing Shakespeare as a reference point.
A near sighted stranger and a boy on a bridge witness a distant glow the boy calls a sunset. The stranger praises the boy then learns the glow is the village school burning down.
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