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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1909
Page
10
Special interest page offers Halloween party tips for women readers. It covers safe indoor celebration, cheap homemade games, crafts for girls and boys, fortune telling tricks, pumpkin and pie ideas, and practical cautions to avoid mess and overlong gatherings.
Short and optimistic fortunes for games. You will have bright days and love. You will not marry unless suited, and a true companion will stand by you. You will gain honors, observe human nature, wed the one you love, and work without fear. Sorrows balance money, and a worthy partner will enter your life.
L G and Minnie F MacD share tips for an inexpensive masquerade costume using crepe paper. Suggestions include a skirt with wide flounces and a matching bonnet or tall witch's cap, with colors and designs seen in downtown store windows. Minnie, age 12, notes the crepe paper can create a skirt to a practical length.
An old style digest notes proverbs linking dreams to wealth and victory over rivals, with a reflection on Courtship by engagement rules where a fiancée waits on her future mother in law for social signals and entertainment. It also briefly mentions Spanish waffles flavored with spices and lemon juice.
A reader asks about recovering letters from a silent admirer and whether to return them. The advice urges writing to seek reasons and offers a plan to stop worrying. A second reader asks how to gain weight and care for nails with practical tips on nutrition sleep fresh air and nail care routines.
A charming 10 year old girl’s dress features pale ecru lace with venise lace trim. The short sleeved gown pairs with a high necked long sleeved guimpe made from the same lace.
A step by step craft gives girls a homemade vanity bag idea for Christmas. Use silk, ribbon, and embroidery to form a lined bag with a mirror backing, lace edging, and a small powder box as the final gift. Includes careful handling of the mercury mirror and finishing touches.
A vintage instructions for a velvet cake with sugar lemon extract and flour steps. It describes beating batter, adding boiling water, baking, rolling with jelly, then sugaring. Also includes a coffee cream jelly mixed with gelatin coffee sugar cream and a whipped egg white.
A recipe fragment describes mixing a flour batter with soda and cream of tartar then folding in milk and beaten egg whites. It details preparing clam chowder using Long Island clams, opened and strained to remove shells, then simmered with salt pork potatoes onions parsley thyme and bay leaves for flavor.
The text advises sprinkling clothes with boiling water for faster ironing and heating irons in advance, then emphasizes quiet public behavior. It urges ironing linens last and avoiding drawing attention by speaking softly and omitting names to prevent humiliation or harm to friends and relatives.
The note lists two small loaf recipes using sour milk sugar molasses flour and spices. One uses half cup sour milk with sugar molasses egg soda and cinnamon, the other uses four tablespoons sour milk sugar molasses shortening and a teaspoon soda with one cup flour and salt and nutmeg. It describes the loaf as small but very good.
Butter bread slices then cover with thin shaved cheese. Salt and pepper to taste. Toast on the upper oven rack until cheese melts and edges brown. Serve warm as a simple snack or starter.
Recipe notes describe cutting cold potatoes into % inch pieces with milk butter and salt. Cook about four minutes to finish.
A weekly paper argues that married men reportedly commit suicide by their own action more often than bachelors. The author doubts this claim, suggesting that neither married nor single men engage in self-inflicted death as a hobby, and that such acts occur only occasionally if at all.
Beat one third cup butter to a cream then gradually beat in one cup sugar and the beaten yolks of two eggs. Lift together one and a half cups flour and a half teaspoon.
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