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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1910
Page
6
An editorial excerpt from the Pittsburg Evening Post urges granting women equal rights in voting. It argues women share in home life and public interests, noting their influence has improved schools and politics, and condemns baseless ridicule while pushing equality with men.
A dealer reports twenty pianos with outer cases damaged and offers to refinish free of charge. Prices range from 350 to 1000 dollars with terms including cash or installments and free delivery, stools, and scarfs. The sale targets a railroad-damage settlement benefit for the public.
A humorous verse laments traditional gender roles as a husband jokes about sharing housework with his suffragette wife. He declares the dishpan a symbol of hearth and home and vows to remain loyal, despite temptations to adopt other tools. The piece mixes satire with period voice and light exasperation over voting rights.
All summer toilettes feature very short skirts, with new tallermades wearing long coats reaching near the skirt hem. For fall, preferred fabrics include taffetas batistes fine serges silk and wool blends cashmeres and other light weights.
A list of breakfast and dinner items includes Fresh Fruit Cereal with Cream, Bacon, Buttered Toast, Coffee, corn starch slurry, crackers, Fruit Luncheon, Cheese Squares, Oatmeal Bread, Tomato Soup, Fricaseed Veal, Steamed Potatoes, Fried Green Tomatoes, Cold Slaw, Apple Snow, and Coffee.
Recipe style notes describe fricased veal with pork fat, cabbage onion mix and French dressing served cold, plus fried green tomatoes using lard and drippings. Also included Apple Snow with apples lemon juice sugar and egg white and serving with cream.
A recipe method describes layering mashed potato then bacon slices with pepper and onion, finishing with a potato top. Milk is poured to moisten before baking in a hot oven.
A reading of a home cooking segment shows a butter and cottage cheese dough rolled into 7 inch squares with jelly centers and sealed at corners then baked. Also a stout oatmeal yeast bread recipe mixes oatmeal boiling water molasses and a yeast cake, kneads overnight, then doubles before baking. It ends with a tomato soup made by simmering fresh tomatoes and rice then straining and seasoning.
Description notes a polished leather wide girdle worn with a triple skirt frock having sections of different sized dots in the same satin foufard fabric. Also described is a pink linen high-waisted dress with heavy embroidery and soft baliete undersleeves on both frocks.
A toadnamed Toadie plans a bathing party under a lily leaf after a rainy day. His mother warns the sprinkling girl cannot rain but a girl with a sprinkler waters the flowers. Toadie invites Pokey Fatty and two beetles for sundown under the fence lily, while the girl observes.
Extensive English tests by the Leicester Infant's Milk depot show dried milk as baby food favorable. Advantages cited include easy digestion, bacterial purity, freedom from tubercle bacilli, stability in heat, low cost, no waste, and convenience and palatability.
A survey of unconventional weddings includes a flying trapeze ceremony with a minister on an elephant, a lion cage wedding in Boston watched by 4000, and nuptials on a New York harbor staircase. Other rites feature horses, hunting attire, touring cars at speed, a taxicab to a ship, hospitals, prisons, balloons, Ferris wheels, the Eiffel Tower, Mammoth Cave passages, and a mine cage, with airship plans for a future ceremony.
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