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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1911
Page
5
Featured fashions for autumn include designs by Callot Scours with fancy verge satin fabric. A hobbling skirt and display of ankle are described alongside Paul Poiret inspired sleeves. A long kimono sleeve coat with shoulder underarm lines and a lapping front completes the ensemble paired with a yellow crine de chine fichu scarf and embroidered details.
A London dance teacher says many well to do and society women seek public display of their charms. She notes fashionable young dancers claim classical arts as a career yet many show a lack of modesty and provocative costumes that embarrass even seasoned managers.
The lettuce party trend offers cool summer entertaining with simple menus of bread and butter sandwiches and crisp lettuce. Guests crumple leaves and dip in salt, avoiding heavy dressings. Lettuce is praised as a cooling nerve tonic for hot weather socials.
Summer menus for housewives include packing salad dressings in bottles and baking custard in portable dishes. Banana sandwiches and various fillings like cheese straws, pickles, lemonade, and orangeade appear with recipes for mashed banana sandwiches and potato salad.
A prominent beauty doctor warns depilatories do more harm than good. Quicklime based formulas can banish hair briefly but trigger harsher growth and skin problems. Without legal limits the public may face widespread bearded women due to repeated use.
A community advice column presents readers asking about relationships dieting mayonnaise sewing club names and etiquette. The responses discuss choosing whether to pursue love or move on offering practical tips on meals and moral guidance along with brief recipes and reading recommendations.
A short humorous dialogue plays on wedding plans and hesitation. She asks for a week to think over a marriage while he insists she will have time after the wedding, leading to a wry punch line about married life.
Cleaning tips cover removing white spots from furniture with olive oil and salt along with grease from floors using dry soda. Ink and grease stains on carpet handled with blotting paper milk and hot iron method. Wheat bran for wallpaper dust and lemon in copper for whitening clothes. Honor for Mallard high school graduates of 1911 with a shirt waist dance at Janection hall tomorrow night described as a major social event.
Use equal weights of strawberries and sugar in a kettle layered to four inches deep. Heat slowly to a boil, skim, and cook ten minutes from the fruit bubbling. Cool by spreading on platters two to three inches thick in a sunny window for three to four days. Then pour into jars when cold.
The Lake Washington strawberry fields have opened for the public season with fruit priced at 15 cents per one. Local officials welcome visitors to pick berries at the fields this season.
Roses are in evidence everywhere on hats and in wreaths rosettes quills and scattered over straw and fabric creating a decorative display in the scene.
A lyrical note praising simple lace collar pins matching frock trimmings. The text contrasts blue skies and bright sunshine with a heartless world, saying love is life’s fragrance and that time spent without love is wasted. Signed by Grace Margaret Wilson.
Remove shells from hard boiled eggs and cut whites into five long sections from the small end. Leave yolks intact, turn petals to resemble open lilies, roughen yolk surface with a fork. Arrange imitation flowers on crisp lettuce leaves with mayonnaise and bread and butter.
To prevent lingering smells from boiled vegetables, place a pinch of salt on the stove and invert the pans over it. In a few minutes the pans will smell less strong and become sweet.
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