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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1910
Page
3
The Star seeks 160 word letters from readers answering about a relationship theme in the play A Man’s a Man at Moore theatre. Contest runs to March 25 noon with nine prizes including seats and divans for the March 30 performance.
Winners of prize letters in the Star contest comment on marriage. B Stevens of Arlington Washington and others discuss reasons men do not propose, including economic pressures and social changes. The responses oppose extravagant views and urge thoughtful consideration of support, happiness, and independence influencing marriage decisions.
A graceful leghorn hat with heavy sweeping white ostrich plumes stands out this season. The broad brim turns up sharply at the sidefront and is faced with velvet, creating a rich and elegant hat suited for evening wear.
Dr. Edna Day of University of Mis spuri advocates scientific care of babies for college girls. Smith College students form a Consumers League branch to refuse sweatshop shirtwaists. Wellesley backs New York shirtwaist relief with funds and orders 1,000 cooperative-made shirts. Muriel Culp, 19, Kansas University student, first young dramatist to have a big NYC manager accept a play. Miss Anna Ragstad, Norway, elected alternate member of the country’s parliament. Alvine de Ferencey, 19, New York, hailed as the world’s greatest woman violin maker.
Winnie loves her pony Beauty until a whip cracks and the pony rears up to dance. Uncle Tom explains the trick pony once danced for circus masters and musters the cause. Winnie forgives him as she learns it is a trained response, not malice.
Silk and cotton blends appear in dresses coats and underwear cut in peasant lines. Skirt details feature ruffles. Large white pearl hatpins brighten black hats for evening wear as peasant fashions trend this summer.
The instructions describe soaking oats in boiling water for one hour then browning. Combine oatmeal with flour and knead until stiff. Add sugar and molasses, yeast, and salt. Mix hard, let rise, pan, and rise again. Shape into two loaves and bake.
The fragment lists breakfast through supper items such as Hileed Oranges Cereal with Cream Tripe in Milk Corn Muffins Coffee Dinner and a supper involving Tomato Boup Steamed Break Baked Potato on Creamed Carrots plus Beef with Spanish Onion Balad Baked Caramel Custard and Caramel Sauce. Chicken-Ham Croquettes lery Oatmeal Bread Nut Cake Chocolate appear as additional course ideas.
The excerpt lists methods for Tripe in Milk with buttered toast, Steamed Steak with gravy, Beet and Spanish Onion Salad with celery onions and capers, Baked Caramel Custard with vanilla, Caramel Sauce, and Chicken and Ham Croquettes shaped into cones. It details steps, ingredients, and serving ideas from a historical kitchen note.
Debutante column offers a lemon frappe recipe that yields a snow like texture when frozen. It also suggests fashion tips for plain cream or white serge suits and suede ankle strap pumps. A late teenage reader asks about engagement and is advised to wait for maturity and view the proposal as a joke.
If the Brush is removed from the carpet sweeper and dipped in water then replaced the sweeper will not raise four dust. To remove ink stains from a colored tablecloth dissolve a teaspoonful of oxalic acid in a teacup of hot water. Rub the solution into the stain until it disappears. If applied promptly before the ink dries it will remove it.
At the third Story Club meeting Storyman begins his famed tale. The narrative centers on the club’s session and the storyteller’s delivery of a well known story.
In a Mississippi town Tessie Fru and Lindy Lou, two young girls of different races, spar over possessions and friendship. Lindy Lou schemes to inflate a pig with a homemade rubber hose using a dying pig toy, while their lives hint at broader social tensions and poverty in the era.
The article advises that small, slender people can have fat, clumsy fingers and offers finger loosening exercises. Shake fingers to shed water, then gently pull each finger toward the fingertip and massage daily. Ten minutes of exercise daily plus drinking six glasses of water improves hand shape and complexion.
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