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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1895
Page
10
A composite of domestic guidance discusses the value of artful screens in room design, practical cookery for pleasing meals, and protecting hands in housework. It highlights the housekeeper’s craft, dressing-table impressions, and the top bureau drawer as a window into character, urging orderly, balanced living.
A reader describes a simple hygienic waist as a corset substitute. Made of doubled white duck or heavy muslin with whalebone between cloth layers, it fits at the waist and distributes weight to the shoulders. Two front and two back bones provide support, with six waistline buttons. It is washable, inexpensive, and quickly made at home.
Frequent turning is key to broiling and 8 wooden spoons are needed for mixing to avoid butter discoloration. A cinnamon touch in hot chocolate enhances flavor. Wear well fitting shoes for housework. Serve hot milk for morning appetite. Scald oats potatoes and cabbages for soup. Bake bread with a splash of boiling water to keep crust tender. Don’t slam oven doors. Sand or flour can extinguish oil fires and lamps should have a sand box ready. A macaron sandwich with sage cheese is a new afternoon tea dainty.
A guide to creating a standing work basket from two peach baskets. The lower basket remains unfinished while the upper is lined with pockets for needles and pins. Exterior is covered in cretonne or silk with a decorative band and bow. The top gathers with a drawstring for flexible use.
A Congregationalist note urges proper introductions of children to visitors to avoid awkwardness and ensure recognition. An old settlers’ meeting and picnic will be held at Garfield Park in North Topeka on June 19 at 10 o'clock, with horse hitching posts provided and shade trees to be kept clear. Everyone is invited, and the Journal is urged to subscribe.
Instructions from Farm and Fireside advise putting away furs and woolens early in spring to prevent moth damage. Shake and brush outdoors before storing, seal boxes, use paper sacks or clean flour sacks, hang in a closet, and consider pyrethrum powder to deter moths without strong odor.
Simple banana dessert with orange or lemon sauce. Peel one side, loosen skin, fry in a baking dish, dust with sugar, and bake twenty minutes. Make sauce by heating orange juice with sugar and cornstarch until slightly thickened, then pour over bananas.
The celebrated author and medical lecturer Zaro offers free consultations for chronic diseases at Veale Block, Quincy Street, Topeka Kansas. He treats long standing illnesses of the blood nerves and senses with mild methods, promising accurate diagnosis and rapid improvement for those once deemed incurable.
Nearly twenty suffrage leaders and Dr O N Green of Topeka addressed a Throop hotel gathering on marriage and divorce. Green’s paper argued for equal rights, protest against male control, and reform of marriage law to protect women, children, and equal partnership.
Advices from Jiddab report rising danger to European lives as Bedouins threaten. Religious feeling runs high and a general Bedouin rebellion is a probable outcome unless a power enforces respect for foreigners.
Visiting physician Dr Long will depart Ohio and return to Topeka on June 10 to resume his medical practice. J Bartholomew & Co plan to relocate into the vacant barn at Fifth and Kansas Avenue. A sneak thief stole clothes and fruit from Mrs Dessie Veale’s porch at 400 Harrison Street. Ladies waists Incadered in a first class manner at Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 West Eighth Street. The Star’s Journal Want and Miscellaneous columns reach far more Topeka readers than any other paper during the work week.
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