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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1904
Page
9
The piece surveys Parisian fancy dress ideas with Sarah Bernhardt glamour in the lead, detailing Breton peasant, Norwegian peasant, Spanish dancer, and other era inspired gowns. It notes empire, directoire, and bolero trends, lace, veils, and accessories like ribbon ensembles and jeweled touches for spring fashion.
A long, readable digestion of winter salad ideas and economical entrees for February. It covers varied vegetables, cucumber jelly molds with salmon, artichokes served as entree and salad, grape orange fruit salads with duck, cream cheese and watercress nests, egg and tomato salads, and a Spanish style luncheon patty. It promotes practical, resourceful use of winter produce and offers steps for preparing sauces, dressings, and serving suggestions. Florence Wiberly notes a device for hanging pictures at article end.
An old physician offers a simple bath remedy for nervous fatigue and insomnia. Dissolve sea salt in hot water, let cool, then mix with spirits of ammonia camphor and pure alcohol to make a quart. Apply with a sponge over the body, rub until the skin glows, then rest and refreshment follow for sleep.
A quirky old menu of theater supper ideas including clear soup in cups with crouton bits, pompadour cases milled with lobster and parmesan garnish, anchovy eclairs with goat cheese, apple aspic molds with cream, savory cream on biscuits, and oyster sandwiches on brown bread amid instructions for assembly and presentation.
A recipe for an inexpensive sponge cake combines sugar, four, baking powder, and yolks with water and beaten egg whites, baked about forty minutes. It also gives guidance on saving starch by washing and reusing starch from collars, noting no quality loss.
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