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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1910
Page
6
A feature on waists made from India print table covers highlights the upholstery departments. The style, inspired by Preach women, uses a doubled cloth, center neck cut, side lower corner cuts, seamless shoulders, and border trims for cuffs and belt. Prices range 76 cents to $1.50.
A reader asks about night school for twelve year olds and plum jelly and strawberry canning methods. The column cites winter night classes via the Y M C A educational department and provides detailed jelly and jar sealing steps, plus a rose leaf formula from The Star of June 10. A separate letter seeks breathing exercises for weak lungs. guidance points to the Anti-Tuberculosis League of King County for resources.
A poem by Lorana W. Sheldon portrays the contrasting quirks of women and men through humorous verses. It contrasts Sunday calls with Monday notices, dinner invites with poker losses, shopping returns with cash woes, and ends by declaring the man worse in general. It closes with a nightlife note: pool game at Oriental Pool Room offering $10 daily prizes at 1413 8th Avenue between Pike and Union.
The passage lists a sequence of foods for a day including breakfast berries Brossed Small Fish Graham Gems and coffee for luncheon and dinner items such as Clam Broth Green Onions Smoked Shoulder Delmonico Potatoes Spinach Tomato Basket Salad Rice Cream and desserts. It describes a gingerbread recipe Molasses Gingerbread and a rattler drink with molasses gingerbread and instructions for preparing clam broth and Delmonico potatoes with steps for cooking and garnishing.
A simple recipe yields one dozen cakes using graham and pastry flour sugar salt cream of tartar soda milk and sliced apples mixed together and baked.
A woman tried a new chopped dandelion leaf salad with asparagus tips and green onion tops, dressed in French dressing. The dish impressed though considered unusual, as Europe favors dandelion greens more widely than the country does now.
Grate green corn to two ears then beat egg whites and yolks separately. Fold into corn with flour butter salt and pepper. Drop spoonfuls into hot lard and butter, fry until light brown on both sides. Canned corn may be used.
A colonial style preservation notice instructs making lemon syrup by juicing twelve lemons and zest for zest oil, steeping overnight, adding six pounds of sugar to form a thick syrup, then straining and bottling with rind oil to taste.
A vain hen, Mrs Hen Pen, parades with a 20 chick brood at Sleepy Hollow Farm. She discovers rival, identical chicks in wire pens and learns pride comes before a fall, ending as a kinder neighbor. The tale hints all chicks share one mother an incubator.
Fashion notes describe jacquard geode designs on cotton dresses and lace trimmings with baby ribbon details. New colors include Rainbow blue Cyprian red corn color and Circassian walnut. accessories feature carved chanteclers and silver studded hair pins. The piece reprints Robert Burns verse about love.
Mme Curle the codiscoverer with her husband of radium was elected to the American Philosophical Society as the only woman among 15 new members. Also noted is hymn writer Fanny Crosby celebrating her birthday in Putnam County New York and still active despite blindness.
Claims of rapid improvement for eczema and blemishes accompany testimonials from users in Wilkes‑Barre and Columbus. The ad touts Poslam as a flesh-colored remedy that heals itching, clears red noses, and hides imperfections. Available in 60 cent boxes and $2 jars at major druggists with a free sample by mail from Emergency Laboratories in New York City.
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