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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1911
Page
5
A column of short Q and A items from The Star featuring Cynthia Grey guidance on Kohlrabi preparation freckles hair norms and engagement timing. Readers ask about peanut butter, debt loans, citizenship, and local addresses with concise responses from KR and A answers.
A reflective lament on clinging to ancestral comforts over new desires. The narrator recalls familiar furniture, shared memories with family, and gratitude for timeless homey things that money cannot buy, preserving a home’s enduring love and warmth.
Practical homemaking advice covers food prep, furniture care, laundry, baking, and storage. Tips include avoiding beet juice leakage by trimming tops carefully, rubbing scratches with nut oils, baking peppers stuffed with macaroni, whitening linens with blue water, easing potato skins, tempering custard, oiling umbrella tops, preventing silver tarnish with camphor, moth prevention with paraffin, protecting china with a Turkish towel, polishing mirrors with alcohol, and using bran water on net fabrics.
The piece urges low wage workers to budget strictly and avoid envy. It champions using a ledger to track pennies, maintaining neat clothing and cleanliness on small salaries, and shaping a positive outlook to improve prospects and social reception.
A letter from Florett tar describes personal hardship from failed marriages and a single mother’s journey to peace through Christian faith. She urges would be brides to wait for ideals, practice unselfish love, endure discouragement, and trust in a higher power to foster lasting happiness.
Fashion notes describe revived lace frills including frills over the hand and a black satin ribbon bow at the neck. A jabot forms from white cambric or lace, with long tight sleeves in lace or tucked fabric. Frills pair with coat skirts. ecru or cream heightens artistic effect. The piece ends with a quip on unkind words.
Spanish Onion Soup and Maitre d Hotel Sauce recipes with butter sugar beef stock lemon juice parsley and minced herbs. Cocoanut Cake combines butter sugar eggs vanilla milk flour soda cream of tartar and coconut with a boiled frosting. Cane bottom chair restoration details include cleaning washing drying and taut seat restoration.
Advertises new rooms at low prices with contact at Virginiann 804 Virginia Ave near Westlake Ave. Phone or call details provided seeking inquiries.
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