Toilet Hottie Umbrella and Russian Theater Drapery
A fragmented 19th century style manuscript blends fashion, parasols, and interior drapery. It mentions ornate umbrellas with ivory handles, lace trims, passementerie, and silk bands alongside garbled notes on dress, draping, and a table of culinary curiosities. The text mixes design commentary with odd recipe snippets and a drifting discussion of cinema-like camera curvature.
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Manet
Indy
Here Is Something Nice Savory Cheese Put
A recipe fragment describes mixing grated cheese with cornmeal and spices, adding egg yolk, cream, and butter, forming a paste, shaping into rounds, filling with the mixture, sealing, brushing with egg, and baking until set and golden.
Roasts and Sauces Served With Meats Featured
A list of roasted meats with suggested accompaniments includes roast beef with grated horseradish roast veal with tomato or horseradish sauce roast mutton with currant jelly roast pork with apple sauce roast lamb with mint sauce roast turkey with chestnut dressing and cranberry jelly roast goose with tart apple sauce roast canvasback duck with apple bread and black currant jelly roast quail with currant jelly and celery sauce roast chicken with bread sauce fried chicken with cream gravy and corn fritters
Sandwiches You Will Like and Mars Style Recipe
Instructions for a nut sandwich with equal parts almonds and walnuts chopped fine moistened with French dressing spread on buttered bread with lettuce, assembled and trimmed. Includes Celery Sandwich instruction beginning with chop and ther.
Dainty Floral Mustins and Indian Gowns Promote Summer Style
Floral mussing and delaines promise pretty summer dressers with daintily embroidered Indian mussing in white thread on cream grounds. Black and emerald accents on bedicen fabrics brighten gowns suited for garden parties and outdoor gatherings.
Blouse described with ecru tusser silk trim and tabs
The blouse features a plain yoke and sleeve tops with tabs of the silk material, piped in red taffeta and diagonal galloon. It is plaited at the yoke and front with a wide central box plait and finished with finial long sleeves, cut deeply and trimmed with tabs. Whiner Cate.
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Chantilly
Ecru
Claret Jelly With Cream in Delicate Mold
A recipe describes soaking gelatine in water then adding claret sugar and wine to create a jelly. The mixture is poured into a wetted mold, chilled until set, then unmolded and filled with whipped cream to a pale pink finish. A hint of nutmeg may be included if available.
Household tips on dampening fabrics for ironing
A practical note explains dampening clothes rather than using water speeds ironing and evens moisture. A wooden rolling pin wrapped in flannel aids sleeve pressing by pressing through fabric. Debate continues on cleaning gold decorations in hot water with a dealer noting unlimited washings if soap is omitted.
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China
Admiral seeks loan shadowed by dubious moneylender
An old admiral, seated at Victoria Station, engages with the thinly funded moneylender Reuben Metaxa and a gossiping broker crew to secure a five thousand pound advance. A doctored consult with Doctor Proudie foreshadows the risky security chain and a wary future.
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Walker
Denver
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Betty
Victoria Station
Tverinus
Antil
Ant
Ewitt
Charles Weatmaroch
Hullo
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Seaman’s
Lomein
Agile
Wien
Hhors
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Hanbury
Reuben Moiawa
Weil
Chartes
Janking
Jove
Reuben Metaxa
Charles Westmacott
Annie
Uae
Mesuen
Rivers of the Desert and the Elusive Waterways
A contractor notes few bridges in arid regions due to shifting streams that vanish and reappear after floods. In the southwest creeks alter courses, leaving dry beds while rivers swell elsewhere, prompting new bridge building and even rail line adjustments through changing watercourses.
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California
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