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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1901
Page
13
The article surveys late Paris fashions for children, detailing hats with wide brims and shields, velvet ribbons, and delicate embroidery. It highlights gowns for girls around ages 12, featuring tulle, lace, and diaphanous fabrics, with emphasis on velvet ribbons, plastrons, and decorative collars.
A fashion note by Catherine Talbot describes summer dress details for Parisian misses and children. White lawn gowns with embroidered trims, buttons, and battened tabs on waist plaits are highlighted, along with chalices, lace, and pale blue prints. Footwear shifts from low summer shoes to English walking boots for stormy weather, and accessories like embroidered handkerchiefs and matching gloves complete the wardrobe for a well dressed twentieth century child.
A description of fashionable garments features a black voile tea gown with empire shaping and satin ribbon insertions, mauve lining yoke, and lace. White satin trimmed items include a silk tea jacket and veiled jackets with tuckings. Various gowns in French muslin and white wash silk showcase belts, bows, and decorative sashes.
A long excerpt details methods to beat sweep and wash carpets, remove stains, and preserve fibers. It includes step by step advice on beating, stretching, cleaning with whiting and soap bark, using ammonia and turpentine, and preparing floors with disinfectants and insect powders before relaying carpets. It reads like a practical Victorian household instruction with named actions and old techniques.
A detailed description of a gown in black and cream with silk lace trim and triple velvet collars. The outfit features a fitted bodice, draped front, group tucks, cream tuxedo lace, and a matching bolero. Accessories include a white felt hat with a rose and black velvet trim, completing the ensemble.
Outisg Bate Milliners showcase elegant erraws in Durhed and brows shades for Uihe river and cyeling. They offer colored towardo and taffeta ribbons with new rosettes resembling mushroom pluffs. Prices are inexpensive for couster festivities and fashion notes praise refined, chic headwear.
A fragmented old recipe page describes boiled halinet and mufter from daily meals and methods to clean cooking utensils. It mentions a French bran salad and methods for washing and whitening products with batched ingredients and sequences, including a reference to a warden and Amana.
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