How Would YOU Run This Page Editor's Open Letter
A reader asks for input on improving the women page explaining the editor reader partnership and inviting concrete suggestions. The piece argues the page should reflect fashions home baby and practical help with Cynthia Grey cited as guiding influence. It urges readers to send ideas to The Editor Women’s Department today.
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Candied and honeyed peaches from home canning methods
Home canning instructions describe making candied peaches by simmering sliced fruit in sugar syrup, drying in the sun, and packing in jars with powdered sugar. It also covers honeyed peaches using honey, peach salad garnishes, tapioca desserts with peaches, peach leaves for flavor, and two canning methods with sterilized jars and oven processing.
Votes for Women interview on New York suffrage parade
Marriot Stanton Match and Harriet Stanton Blatch De Forrest discuss a grand October parade in New York to showcase 100 years of women in America. The plan features floats, costumes, and a baby show with participants from nursing, teaching, law, and other professions.
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Questions on etiquette and hair care from The Star column
Readers seek guidance on dining manners at hotels and lunches, how to address a dinner partner, and polite phrasing for thanks. The Miss Grey column answers napkin placement, combining lunches and dinners, and asks about remedies for hair parting and perspiration.
Peaches Poached then Baked with Raisins and Coconut Milk
Peel peaches by boiling briefly then slit and stone without damage. Fill hollows with seeded raisins and bake with sugar. Prepare a dish lined with boiled rice, spread peaches on top, and serve with a coconut milk dressing thickened with cornstarch and sugar.
Canning Peaches Decide on Fruit Amount
A brief item notes decisions on how much fruit to process for canning. The readable segment focuses on quantities and planning steps for peaches.
Paris 1512 Shoe Styles Preserved in French Museum
Samples from Paris shops in 1512 show diverse footwear. One shoe features leather covered peg heel and openwork leather over satin with a pointed toe. Another large street slipper has a very high heel thick hollow sole and daisies on the toe.
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Paris
The Body as a Servant and Machine
The piece urges strict bodily care to keep the body strong and hardy. It warns against coddling the body yet promotes regular exercise sleep and proper elimination. It compares the body to machinery requiring discipline and daily habits.
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Woman's National Daily
Preserving Peaches and Jar Care Tips from The Home Desk
A collection of domestic hints on peach desserts and canning. It covers lemon juice to enhance flavor, baking in a pie crust with whipped cream, and steps for sterilizing jars. It also advises selecting firm peaches, using new rubbers, and proper jar handling to prevent discoloration and ensure air bubbles rise.
Canning String Beans The Delineator August Guide
Instructions for canning select young beans in sterilized jars with salt, cold water, and rubber seals. Jars are processed in a boiler over three days with staged steam releases, then cooled, labeled, and stored, avoiding drafts to prevent cracks.
Parisian Costume Sketch in Black and White Fad
A Paris fashion sketch depicts a black and white striped linen gown with lace shoulder caps a black satin belt a rosette and a black and white linen hat trimmed by white ostrich plumes reflecting the ongoing Paris fad for monochrome outfits in town society pages.
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Cherry jelly mould and caviar tea service notes
A 19th century recipe style describes making a cherry jelly mould with jelly and cherries, then turning out onto a dish with cracked ice garnish. It also outlines an apicy caviar canapé on toast with hard boiled egg parsley spring onion, lemon, lettuce, pineapple and orange, topped with mayonnaise and a cherry, with optional English walnuts.
How to Prepare Creamed Mushrooms with Toast or Steak
Melt butter in a saucepan and stir in flour when it foams. Add cream, salt, pepper and mushrooms and cook until heated through but not boiling. Remove from heat, whisk in beaten egg yolk. Serve on buttered toast slices or poured over broiled steak. Canned mushrooms need only be heated before serving.
Simple Cream of Asparagus Soup Method
Stew the contents of one can of asparagus press through alove and add to a quart of hot milk. Season nicely and serve with cubes of toasted bread. This soup may be improved by thickening slightly with butter and flour.
Traditional Roast Set of Stuffed Poultry
A kitchen instruction describes preparing a roast by picking and trussing the birds, removing and dressing the legs with parsley bread crumbs, pepper and salt. The meat is slit and skewered, roasted thirty minutes, basted with butter, and served with bread sauce.
String Bean Salad
A simple recipe instructs boiling young beans until tender then cooling. The beans are mixed thoroughly with either mayonnaise or French dressing for serving.
Gelee aux Cerises Dessert Recipe Note
A delicious iced summer dessert recipe describes making a sweet jelly in one quart of Wan ner, adding two tablespoons Maraschino, then cooling before setting. It calls for pitting one pound of cherries, half red and half black, if possible.
Simple Butter Nut Cake Instructions
A recipe outlining creaming butter and sugar, beating eggs, folding in flour with baking powder, then adding milk to form a firm batter. Bake in a paper-lined tin in a steady oven for 35 minutes.
Victoria and Return Special Fare Announcement
Victoria and return for 2.00 with departures or arrivals on weekend days. Princess Victoria sails from Pier A at 9 a.m. and arrives in Seattle by 0:30 p.m. The return trip offers four hours in Victoria with the steamer service from Seattle via PL Ry at 609 First Avenue.
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Drug Addiction and Cocaine in Soft Drinks Raise Alarm
One in fifty Americans reportedly addicted to drugs with many syrups containing opium morphine chloroform or chlorhydrate. Mothers giving drugged bottles endanger infants while over 76 soft drinks in the market use coca leaf extract. Last year 15,060,000 ounces of habit forming drugs were used.
Quick Home Fixes From Odd Tips
Longstanding lemons soften with a minute of boiling water. Oatmeal with dates and sugar cream. Melt scraped paraffin in water to form a lump. Crushed white tissue under hat lining repositions crown. Loosen a stoppers with a warm glass and wood strike. Repair a hot knob with a corked screw and lid.
Majestic Theatre Free Tickets Adverts in The Star
Classified readers are invited to find two free Majestic Theatre tickets from The Star. Names are drawn from the directory and may include your own. Read The Star classifieds to get the habit and claim the free passes.
Miss Anna Maley Socialist Suffs Speaker at Seattle Event
Miss Anna Maley national organizer of the Socialist Party spoke at Maccabees hall Ballard last Friday and urged ballot for women in Seattle. She will lecture on the suffrage question at Columbia hall Seventh and Union Saturday evening at 8 o clock and address an open air meeting at ay and Union tonight at 7 o'clock. Maley, who has lived the working woman life, promotes equal suffrage and has campaigned across the United States with notable success in South Dakota.
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