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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1909
Page
3
A long reader recipe fragment lists making bread with milk sugar and yeast overnight, a beef pie with apples and raisins, and a steamer dessert with peaches. It also includes steps for a cake batter, steamer cups, and assorted ingredients like flour suet butter and spices.
A fragmented collection of household hints covers crochet crafts, pillow stuffing, fabric care, and home remedies. It mentions crochet stitches, making satin moire gowns, silver polish, and tips on ironing sheets, with scattered references to laundry and clothing upkeep.
Readers learn a fashion forward hair technique using a light wire frame and long uncurled switch wrapped over it. A puffed fringe frames the face while a soft large knot sits at the back. Ribbon bows and bands finish the look, claimed kinder to hair health.
The current fashion notes emphasize embroidered linen and Irish lace as key fabrics. Shawl like lace drapes extend from the shoulders to the waist, enhancing evening gowns. Skirts retain a walking length with vertical folds and jet buttons, while sweater coats feature large hip pockets with flaps and secure closures.
Narrow bands of fur trim many garments from heavy coats to chiffon gowns. A sketch features a silk gown with Paisley print and gray silk crepe underdress. Deep green satin edges the overskirt, sable fur fringes, and a green velvet hat with faux peacock feathers and a gray satin cabochon.
Advice for tangled hair relief with alcohol and a crib size double blanket sewn to hold a child comfortably. Instructions detail pinning sides with large safety pins for neck room and freedom for reaching.
A farmer tells a cautious colored man to enter saying a barking dog won’t bite. The man, unsure, replies in dialect he’ll wait and see. A second tip suggests spreading newspapers on a freshly scrubbed kitchen floor to catch footmarks while drying.
In a Bronx express train from Bowling Green to Wall Street two men stood as seats were taken. A middle aged woman moved between them and offered her seat to the man on the other side with the quip take my goat please. The gesture prompted amused responses from passengers.
Instructions describe four grape juice methods from ripe grapes: stem and wash, add water, mash, strain, and sugar amounts. Method No. 2 uses ten pounds grapes with three pounds sugar. No. 3 uses two quarts water per quart grapes with one cup sugar. No. 4 uses five pounds grapes with one pound sugar. All emphasize boiling to point, bottling airtight or sealing.
The old rule outlines a large meat and fruit mixture for mincemeat including seven pounds of beef, three pounds of minced beef, one peck apples, two pounds raisins and currants, citron, sugar, salt, spices, cider, and molasses. It notes canning the meat while hot for indefinite storage and suggests reducing quantities for small households.
Autumn brings gossip and questions from young readers seeking party ideas and fashion tips. Letters cover birthday plans, hair and dress length for a married woman, bust development myths, outdoor work options, wedding attendance, cleaning advice, mole removal, odor from dyed jackets, and nosebleed prevention with weight considerations and blood pressure caution.
Fred Schaefer shares light anecdotes from a family scene. A 5 year old remarks on his grandmother while molding mud into a cookie, another child jokes about mamma wearing the trousers. A shy boy admits loving both parents yet did not know they were sick.
A humorous vignette recalls Aunt Matilda’s heat complaints and family quips. Mabel calls aunt a fib, Mam ma serves hogshead cheese, Vernon asks about pumpernickel, a safety pin hurts, and Waldo swallows a dollar change by mistake.
A fragment shows Gerald and Geraldine in a playful exchange about love and weather as Miss Stiles and Miss Chellus discuss a street sighting. Chellus deflects remarks about a limp by noting large feet, amid a Catholic Standard and Men ad for Leary’s cough remedies.
A weathered note argues sweets please both women and men, with chocolate and fondant praised as sedatives even to cigarettes. The piece suggests giving chocolates calms wives in harems and notes a taste for fluffy neck bows remains fashionable, implying social impact of treats and fashion on domestic life.
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