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Newspaper
The Spanish American
Location
Roy, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
7
Instructions describe making a dressed trinkets receptacle for the boudoir. Use a light wooden or cardboard box lined with wadded silk or sateen, edges drawn and fixed. Cover sides with silk, embroider a top design with ribbon and sequins, then mount on a padded lid with silk edging and a silk or linen lining secured by mucilage.
A lacemaking volunteer demonstrates common stitches enabling a woman to mend torn laces and linens. With this modest knowledge she has preserved delicate textiles including yokes cuffs and household linens, helping her family flourish. The guidance applies to Mexican drawnwork renaissance lace yalenciennes and Irish crochet, noting a double lace knot and a picot aid mending. The piece also mentions sun-drying hair after washing.
Women turning to cre tonne and East Indian prints for coats and trims now discover unbleached muslin as a stylish summer fabric. The coarse wide material offers inexpensive, artistic options for shirt waist frocks trimmed with cretonne bands or solid colored muslin in dark blue or deep red. A frock featured a four inch cretonne fold on its gored skirt.
The text advises that lack of sleep shows on appearance and extols buttermilk for freckles or sunburn. It warns mouth breathing spoils lip shape, promotes a brisk prebreakfast walk, and recommends eight hours of sleep. It notes a tea and potash solution to aid hair curling and suggests sunlight for neuralgic face ache and insomnia with rest and sun.
A historic home canning guide instructs on preserving mixed fruits in a three gallon stone jar with brandy. It details layering strawberries with sugar, then adding cherries, pineapple, oranges, currants, raspberries, pears, peaches, apricots, plums and bananas, keeping fruit whole, grapes fed, and jar cooled.
A traditional simnel cake method uses a pound cake as base with saffron coloring and almond flavor. A wall of almond frosting forms the ring, then a center filled with candied fruit and blanched almonds after drying in a slow oven.
The text cites failing cakes due to rancid butter and inferior sugar, damp flour and doubtful eggs. It notes improper creaming, order of mixing, oven control, and insufficient testing. It advises lifting cakes from tins onto a sieve for steam escape.
Simple step by step directions for canning peaches use one pound of peaches with half a pound of sugar. Dissolve sugar in water boil until clear prepare syrup pack jars tightly with peaches and seal in jars then process in a water bath boiler on wood supports.
A large public statement at the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company in Lynn Massachusetts invites inspection of its laboratory and business practices. It claims openness and encourages doubters to visit and verify statements about Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and its claimed cures for female ills.
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