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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1909
Page
9
Domestic economy writer Alice Mitchell Kirk shares seasonable fruits for canning and preserving. She answers common questions on timing and methods, notes sterilization steps, jar filling, and instructions for beets jelly marmalade and coverings, with practical tips for steam cookers or kettles.
Madame et Monaleur reports a hat contest in Paris with four prize winners. Paris beauties wore hats by Tender, Marly, Chanel, and Dentrelies, featuring white feathered cartwheel styles and a sleek emailer sized winner. The event notes fashion trends that may influence American styles.
Fragmentary cooking notes describe egg baked dishes with cheese and crumbs, spinach with lemon juice, cold lamb, salmon with mayonnaise, cucumber slices, Bermuda onion, and assorted sandwiches. The text also mentions memory aid for a cookbook and odd medical advice about painting skin with iodine in the dark.
Instructions for mothers on treating minor and serious wounds. Describe washing with cold water, dressing with clean cloth, elevating limbs, and applying pressure. Explain differences between venous and arterial bleeding, and advise calling a surgeon for severe cases. Include nosebleed steps with child positioned and cooling measures.
A Victorian era discussion advocates golf as a suitable exercise for women and warns against overexertion while praising walking for health. It emphasizes proper walking form and suggests mothers teach girls to walk well. The piece also covers fly control using powder and formaldehyde solutions, noting effectiveness and cautions.
Dr. Mary Crawford of Winame burg hospital Brooklyn is described as the first woman ambulance surgeon in the world. A queen’s former maid earns about 1000 pounds yearly selling her mistress old gowns, holding semiannual sales with American women as top customers. Helena Zimmerman, the plain American girl who wed the Duke of Manchester, is noted as a greater personage among American women with British titles.
Practical tips discuss storing tacks in glass bottles and handling ammonia near fire. Advice covers bath temperatures for cooling the body, effects of hot and cold baths on skin color, and using salt and vinegar to set colors. Instructions describe removing glass from serge with a damp hot cloth and iron, then steaming to dry without additional pressing.
Corset H style 69A priced at $1.00 designed for average figure with long skirt and back exposure. Corset H style 59A priced at $1.00 for tall figure with lace trim and hose supporters. C-Bala Spirite corsets offered at 50 cents with short hip for slender figures and long-hip styles with hose supporters. Hesement Balesroom.
An assortment of stiff Dutch collars soft Dutch collars jabota and lace stocks offered. Some items slightly soiled. Prices 15 and 25 cents. Also boys plaid silk bowries two for securities.
A catalog of fabrics shows 33-inch natural Pongée at 4 per yard and 24-inch natural Pongée at 6 per yard. 19-inch Natural Pongée and 48 yard 19-inch Pongée are offered, along with 19-inch Black Taffeta at 48 per yard and 35-inch Black Taffeta at 1 per yard. Also 19-inch Black Satin Duchesse at 8 per yard and M-inch All-Wool Albatross in several colors priced by the yard. Basement Bal.
Values in Handkerchiefs Men's all linen hemstitched handkerchiefs priced at 10c Men's linen cambric handkerchiefs with quarter inch hem at 12 1 2 c Women's hemstitched sheer linen handkerchiefs at 5c Women embroidery hemstitched handkerchiefs listed 6 1 4 c Children's cambric hemstitched handkerchiefs with clover or bow knot designs in pink brown and lavender at 5c Hasement alesroom.
Short lengths of Valenciennes laces and insertions, linen laces, Venise bands and all overs, tucked nets, net waistings, embroidery edges and corset cover embroideries are offered at exceptionally low prices. Barement Balesroon.
Clearance of millinery materials offers red and white roses yellow daisies wings in blue champagne white gray and green black quills. Flat shapes of chip in navy brown Copenhagen black uncurled ostrich in rose white blue black champagne. Leghorns natural color at 50c.
Women can buy 19 cent a pair hosiery and silk-lisle options in black white blue red pink gray lavender stripe plaid and polka dot patterns. Cotton styles in black white brown navy pink and plain cotton also 19 cents. Lace and lace-boot cotton hosiery available in black white tan and brown for 19 cents a pair.
Women's pumps with a hand turned sole and Cuban heel priced at $2.45. Plain toe black suede ankle style offered by local retailer.
Yard goods advertised for summer use feature 28 inch fancy batiste with various stripe and dot patterns priced at 10 cents per yard. Also offered 32 inch Madras waisting of soft cotton in spot stripe and check patterns priced at 12 cents per yard.
Store listing describes large fringed crochet cotton red bed spreads and hemstitched pillow cases with soft finish. It also offers double bed sheets in extra heavy linen finished muslin with a center seam, sizes 45x89 and 76x84, priced at 53c each in the Basement Balesroom.
Catalog item list features women s one piece house dresses in navy blue white stripes black and white checks or gray and white stripes. Waist fullness front, turn over collar, shirt sleeve cuffs. House wrappers in black white gray stripes with close neck and turnover collar. Long kimonos of cotton chains Persian pattern in red navy brown tan or light blue with shirted shoulder and tied band.
Mending Tissue one-yard package and Fit-Form Hose Supporters with satla heavy straps 25 cents. Hat pins large jet head and long steel writing tablets good fabric and letter size 100.
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