Fashions In Wraps And Coats For Plain Walking Suits
Fashion notes show wraps with kimono shaped shoulders and sleeves for evening wear and practical coats for travel. The trend favors 36 inch length coats with narrow silhouettes, beaded trims in steel, bold color palettes from Indian red to peacock blue, and rich textures with gold and silver braids. An illustrated mantle demonstrates elderly friendly styling in golden brown cloth with soutache braid and brown fringe.
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de Riguer
Fashion Wraps Reveal Extravagant Day and Evening Garb
The text discusses various fabrics such as mannish worsteda broadcloth novelty tweeds corduroy and others. It emphasizes that cut and fit matter more than fabric name whether the wrap is long short or three quarter length and notes dazzling fashion in any length with gold woven materials for elegant evening and day wraps.
How to Transfer Patterns for Embroidery
Several correspondents ask about transferring patterns to linen for gowns. The simple method uses carbon paper placed under the fabric and design, then you trace with a sharp pencil to transfer. If pattern is incomplete repeat and measure, or pin the design to a frame and trace through with a lighted lampshade.
Cutting Goods With a Cardboard Spacer
A sewing tip explains how to cut away material under lace without cutting the wrong thread. Use a four inch cardboard strip rounded at one end and wide enough to slip between lace and fabric to guide the cut safely.
Repairing the Bird Wing Hat Trims
A reader shares methods to fix birds wing feather trims on hats. One solution uses paste to reattach dropped feathers with ink to conceal the adhesive. Another option covers by embedding black and white iridescent feathers with court plaster strips backing the fabric.
Hanging holder for a fern and tin cap
Practical and pretty fern holder made from a circular tin with three small edge holes. Wire is threaded to form a loop top, with a silk cover gathered into a frill. The drawing shows the completed piece.
Fern Holder Made With Silk and Wire
The article explains crafting a fern holder by threading silk through wire holes, drawing it into a bunch beneath tin, and tying with a ribbon. Painting the wire green hides it among the leaves, finishing the holder looks pretty and costs little.
Ways to Prepare Varied Chicken Dishes
An old culinary piece describes boiled mold chicken and variants. It details making a chicken mold from boiled fowl, broiled cold chicken with lemon and vinegar glaze, scalloped chicken with oyster liquor or tomato juice, and chicken croquettes with sweetbreads, butter, stock, and cream.
Apple Butter Preparation Method from Preserving Guide
This article describes making apple butter by reducing cider in a kettle to two thirds, layering peeled apples in the remaining cider, cooking until tender, repeating until absorbed, chilling in a crock overnight, then reheating to a soft brown mass and storing in jars or crocks.
Crabapple Jelly With Geranium Leaf Addition
To make crabapple jelly cover crabapples with water boil until tender cool and strain juice measure juice add an equal cup of sugar per cup of juice boil juice twenty minutes then add sugar and boil until set test on a saucer near jelly point add two or three geranium leaves near end of cooking remove leaves before filling glasses
Marble Chocolate Cake Batter Instructions
The recipe describes making a white cake batter and a chocolate batter by whisking five tablespoons grated chocolate with milk and vanilla in one teacup. It then layers white batter in the pan, drops chocolate batter in spots, and finishes by spreading the remaining white batter over the top.
Lemon Pudding Method and Serving Directions
Soak bread crumbs in milk for thirty minutes then mix with sugar two egg yolks grated lemon rind and bake for thirty minutes. Beat two egg whites with sugar and lemon juice. Spread over pudding when baked and brown. Serve hot or cold.
Chicago Hot Tomato Relish Prep Notes
One peck ripe tomatoes two cups celery two onions four red peppers chopped one cup white mustard seed two cups white sugar one half cup salt six cups vinegar two tablespoons whole mixed spices trein to matoes after chopping thenSadd other ingredients cook half hour
Doan’s Kidney Pills Backed by Colfax Man
Charles Von Soehnen Jo A St Colfax Washington says after 30 years of kidney trouble and back pain Doan’s Kidney Pills gave him relief He reports nightly awakenings eased and he could work again He urges others to remember the Doan’s name and buy the product from local dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY endorsed product testimonial style.
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Colfax
Wash
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Adam and Eve Face Ejectment After Curiosity
In a comic exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Adam confronts Eve after her curiosity leads to trouble. He quizzes her with a pointed question about who is looney now as they prepare to resume their simple life with gourds and tent poles.
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Adam
Eve
Mankind
Cleveland Plain ‘Dealer
Harvest Dinner Sermon in Portland Provokes Farmer Exchange
Bishop Charles W. Smith at a Portland harvest dinner extols thankfulness while exchanging jibes with a veteran farmer over a record harvest and fears of spoiled hay for young calves.
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Charles W. Smith
Portland
Sterilization Charge Sparks Customer Confrontation
In a business exchange a customer expresses anger while a doctor explains a $20 additional fee for sterilizing the system causing heated dispute over charges and service.
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Kicker
Shck
New Home Remedy Aims to Fight Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble
A simple mixture using Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Karyon and Syrup of Sarsaparilla is touted for rheumatism and kidney health. The ad urges sufferers to prepare or request it from drugstores, claiming hospital tests support its effectiveness and noting it cleanses and strengthens kidneys.
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