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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1909
Page
10
An advice column fragment discusses hosting options for card parties and casual entertaining with dainty foods coffee and oysters in winter. It also includes inquiries about birthdays and ages of historical figures and a reader asking Miss Grey for help with a fan letter and identifying birth dates.
An old guidance note urges mothers to prepare kids for cold weather before winter hits. It recommends mending or replacing last year’s undergarments, ensuring stockings and underwear are ready, and choosing cotton wool blends. It advises sturdy yet not heavy shoes with insoles, waterproofing, and warm outer garments.
A dated admonition argues against unnecessary blues and negativity. It promotes hope as essential for personal advancement and finding desirable outcomes in life, including relationships and material goals, urging women to cultivate optimism and self-improvement.
A fashion column catalogs shirt waists in striped wool taf feta withBugle trimming and moire pieces in white and color. It notes suede wrist bags, silk and chenille hats, Jersey silk waistcoats, and various coats and gowns with ostrich plumes, velvet trims, feathers, and netting. Includes rain coats in moire antique and bows with silk crochet buckles.
The writer notes the gown styles such as tube bolster and cascock provoke laughter among men who call it the galter frock. The piece laments the repetition of fashion terms and acknowledges that as long as these modes persist, they must be endured.
Lilian Devereaux Biake asserts that the wonsipe of the country lies with the men rather than the women. She praises many men as good fellows yet argues they are not the silent sex, accusing women of gossip to mask male faults.
Instructions describe soft steaming stuffed apples with walnut and date filling topped by whipped cream. Sun dried peaches are prepared by halving, sugaring, and turning in the sun under netting until syrupy, then packing. Also includes making tomato figs from small yellow tomatoes and a marshmallow icing cake with beaten eggs and sugar.
The newly appointed Belgian minister, Count de Bulesereta, advanced quickly after marrying Caroline Story, daughter of Maj. Gen. John P. Story. The general, wealthy, divides time between Washington and his estate near Annapolis, and the marriage is seen as key to the count’s promotion to minister.
Interesting values in desirable silks and dress goods offering all silk taffetas in black at 48 cents per yard and Swiss chiffon taffetas at 73 and 93 cents per yard. Includes changeable taffeta 19 inches wide, novelty silks, serges, brocade wash silks, Seda Silk in multiple colors, silk downe 40 inches wide, novelty checks, serges in 44 inches with satin stripes, and vested Panama suitings at 73 cents per yard. Hasement Salesroom. ag HE
A sale offers numerous women’s footwear styles in Oxfords and Pumps for house wear at $1.95 per pair. Featured items include Gray Suede Blucher Oxfords, Brown Suede Three eyelet Bluchers, Chocolate Kid Four-eyelet Oxfords, and Box Calf Blucher Shoes with Goodyear welt soles and Cuban or military heels.
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