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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1910
Page
3
Julia Bottomley discusses at home hat making using sheer fabrics such as embroideries and linens for midsummer hats. Designs favor edgings and laces on wire frames with mull or chiffon coverings, plus ribbons and garden flowers. The lingerie hat, durable and easy to launder, is highlighted as a lasting trend.
The description details a princess style bodice with embroidery and deep flouncing, trimmed in insertion, a cambric collar and sleeve bands, and puffed sleeves with cambric frills divided by ribbon. A white straw hat with a May blossom wreath completes the look. Materials listed include embroidery, flouncing, insertion, ribbon, and lace. Persian patterns appear in cotton and silk crepes, sometimes forming entire garments.
The article urges wearing a hat during summer to prevent sunburnt hair and scalp drying. It notes sun exposure harms natural oils, likening it to a hot iron. When hats aren’t possible, regular scalp rubbing is suggested, citing Breton peasant women as examples of hair kept healthy under caps.
A simple black chiffon coat for summer evenings, three quarter length and slashed at the sides, worn over lingerie gowns. Front neckline is very low with a silver cord tie. Edges embroidered in a wave design. May use light taffeta or net as substitute. Overall cost described as light with usable remnants.
With warmer days fashion pivots to Irish lace collars. The trend features four inch collars around coats and blouses, complemented by plaited jabots of Irish lace. The look emphasizes neck emphasis and period styling.
A collection of recipes and dessert ideas from Old New England includes raised doughnuts with milk yeast batter, baked pears with sugar lemon juice and water, puff pastry tarts with jelly, Pippin Pile with apples and eggs, and chocolate beverages and sweets. It notes serving suggestions and methods for chocolate toppings and ice cream sauces, with practical steps and period tone.
A Hint describes a charming custom common in Drenden Ia where a cornucopia at the plate holds a bon bon or favor for children at home. It is praised for pleasing mothers and kids while also claimed to lower indigestion rates.
Instructions for cleaning linoleum with milk or kerosene and varnish tips. Advice on choosing durable flooring, avoiding soap, yearly varnish, and wrinkle prevention. Then a cracker pudding recipe with crackers raisins sugar molasses milk cinnamon cloves steamed four hours and served with whipped cream or sauce.
Soak tapioca in cold water overnight. Line a baking dish with peaches and sugar, using canned peaches without syrup. Cook tapioca in peach syrup until clear, pour over peaches, bake slowly for thirty minutes. Serve cold with sugar and rich cream.
Cook ham with yolk and cream and pepper and salt to form a paste. Heat over fire then spread on hot buttered toast or fried bread. Serve very hot.
Household hints advise cleaning marble with powdered chalk wetted by alcohol. Moisten stove blacking with kerosene for longer adherence and gloss. Blue clothes should be whitened before storage to prevent yellowing. Remove paint stains from doors by rubbing with a wet cloth with a little turpentine.
The text offers home remedies for skin whitening and soothing after sun or travel. It recommends lemon juice with glycerine, buttermilk washes to remove tan, cold cream or sweet cream for facial soothing, pumice stone for neck discoloration, and powdered pumice mixed with cold cream as a facial cleanser. It also notes using pumice for teeth cleaning to remove tartar and whiten.
The passage stresses general health for eye care through fresh air exercise and nine hours of sleep. It recommends cleansing with cold water splash, eye movement exercises, and proper lighting and posture for reading to prevent strain and improve circulation.
Fry slices of ripe tomato dipped in batter until tender and brown then serve on warm buttered toast. A touch of salt and pepper seasons the dish for a simple, classic frypan supper.
A recipe describes mixing butter and flour with baking powder and malt, adding milk to form a dough, and shaping on a floured canvas. The dough is rolled, cut with a sharp tool, and baked on a granite griddle until puffed, then flipped and cooked a second time for hot service.
A vintage guide promotes kerosene as a labor saving cleaner for windows mirrors and chandeliers. It describes diluting kerosene in water for washing, polishing wood pieces, whitening cloths, and treating hands, noting hot water rinsing and careful handling.
A century old recipe describes whites of five eggs with sugar and butter mixed with milk and cream of tartar to form a white cake. It instructs coloring half pink with strawberry and combining white and pink layers with lemon and vanilla flavors, then frosting with melted chocolate glaze.
A plain white cake uses one cup sugar one half cup butter two cups flour with two ten spoonfuls of baking powder and two beaten egg whites folded in with vanillin. Bake in a flat pan and fill each square with a chocolate cream made from yolks beaten with sugar and vanilla.
Roil green peas until tender and cool them. Rub a salad bowl with garlic and mix in the peas with cooked beans. Garnish with rings of hard boiled eggs, rounds of cooked beets, and parsley. Add chopped shallot if desired and serve with French dressing.
A recipe fragment describes oatmeal cakes with butter or half lard and half butter, sugar, cinnamon, sour milk, soda, turmeric, raisins and currants, cracked oats, flour, and walnut sized drops on pans. It notes optional baking powder if sweet milk is used and mentions a putty like flavor.
Method describes preparing an omelet with calf brains parboiled in salted water with clove onion and bay leaf then chilled diced dipped in egg and crumbs fried in deep fat and served surrounding the omelet.
An inner city letter shows Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helping a Oronogo Missouri woman with nerves backache and bearing down pains. A second testimonial from St Louis praises relief from female weakness via the same remedy and wash.
In a quirky exchange a man jokes about his wife traveling to Europe this summer. He then claims to have bribed a fortune teller to warn her to watch for a slim blonde woman who is entering his life.
Chee se Gallo is mixed with beaten eggs and finely grated cheese. Form into balls with floured hands and fry in hot fat until golden. Serve immediately while white hot.
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