08 Apr 1905
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1905
Page
1
Fashion notes describe colors to watch, including mauve violet and white satin, with velvet accents. Details cover jackets, coats, and two piece suits, Paris gowns, and practical everyday frocks, plus tips on wedding cake, pansy colors, and adaptable trims for evolving styles.
Daily washing of towels and utensils keeps cookware durable. Wood spoons protect saucepans. metal spoons wear them down. A wire whisk with a wooden handle is essential for clearing soup and beating eggs. When empty, rinse sauces with cold water and boil out with soda later. Spring styles from Paris workrooms imitate homemaker looks but fall short of originals.
A brief dessert recipe lists ingredients: sugar butter milk vanilla cream tar tar baking soda and flour to roll thin. The directions suggest shaping into very small fancy forms for serving.
A white broad cloth coat features a heavy white silk ring and a Russian lace yoke with scalloped bias folds. Also included is a cream puff recipe detailing butter and flour dough, eight lightly beaten eggs, hot oven, and cream filling.
Advice on making light omelets by beating eggs separately, folding yolks into whites, and using preheated butter. Double the omelet into half its dimensions for quick service, and avoid letting it stand to maintain lightness.
The iris pattern of the peacock inspires a spring design using changeable silk with green and blue interwoven. Peacock eyes with metallic luster come from Dhljuish green paillettes on lace or velvet, used on a bodice yoké girdle and cuffs, with a ban- cuff detail noted.
The article outlines pale colored Rice cloth gowns and new deep collar cuff sets in pale blue or pink. It highlights chiffon voices resembling real voice at low cost, a dotted black veil with Valenciennes, silk ginghams with shaded effects, and pretty kimonos. Emphasis on soft pale colors, blossoms designs, and affordable drapery silks with chrysanthemums or cherry blossoms.
The article describes washable chiffon care using tepid suds with white soap and alcohol, gentle scrubbing on soiled spots, air wringing, tepid rinsing with alcohol, and ironing while damp with a clean smooth iron. It also details a Russian blouse suit for a little boy with a brown holland blouse, white Buster Brown collar, red tie, and red leather belt, noting full sleeves with tuck details and short bloomers.
Hat makers describe hair braid ornamentation as a narrow tonal weave used in dressy hats. The graceful effect is highly fashionable as braids come in all colors and can display up to five tints including silver tones.
A 431 year old yellow fir in Clatsop county Oregon was felled weighing over 23 tons and yielding 12 000 board feet from a 28 foot log. The tree stood 200 feet tall with no limbs and logged seven sections produced 40 000 feet of lumber. First class flooring from the log sold at 30 dollars per 1 000 feet, bringing 360 dollars.
Paris correspondent reports seventeenth year old pickpocket Louis Hugon attempted theft at Place d Italie. His finger was caught in a newly sold mole trap, he stayed silent as bystanders seized him and police sent him to Hospital de la Pitie where the finger was amputated.
In Birmingham Sir Olver Lodge criticised arithmetic calling it absurd and a pretended commerce. He said the terms of arithmetic were the worst creation of a nation emerging from semi barbarism and that mastering them wasted a child's time.
Stationmaster J. Floyd of the South Eastern and Chatham railway narrowly escaped death while crossing the metals as the Dover express thundered through. He leapt onto the down platform just in time, his boots torn and carried by the engine, yet he remained largely unhurt aside from minor injuries and shock. An accompanying note mentions a camel statue of General Gordon by Onslow Ford, once set up in London.
The Bulawayo Chronicle recounts a Saturday night incident where five feet of black mamba burst through an open window during whist in a Rayl ton area room. A guest hurled a water bag at the intruder, the snake fled, and police say it remains at large after a subsequent room search.
A Parisian actress travels to a night theater in a closed brougham with venetian blinds and two electric lamps. Inside she applies makeup at a miniature toilet table with a mirror, glass bottles, brushes, and grease paints. A foot warmer filled with hot water rests beneath.
A swarm of bees occupied a ventilator on the British warship Diana at Gibraltar. A skilled seaman transferred the insects into an old soap box and sold them to a local beekeeper.
An Eastern inventor has produced a portable merry go round that roams poorer Philadelphia streets. It sits on a low track with a rear step for entry and exit, a front telescoping rod for leveling on slopes, and a manual crank with a band to drive music. The device, first crude, will be built larger on a royalty basis, recording rider counts for profit sharing.
Workmen uncover a well preserved man trap in a Danish field once used to deter trespassers. The four foot device carried a strong spring and was traditionally noted with beware of man trap. Open air setting was legal since 1827. today traps are museum curiosities fetching 30 to 41 dollars.
Miss Daisy Badland arrives from New Zealand at Middleboro Massachusetts to wed her English fiancé Francis Wentworth. Wentworth, a former South African War volunteer, left South Africa for America after the war and began duck farming in East Mindieboro. The couple married quietly after reunification and financial prospects improve with the farm.
The novel spectacle of an OK hitched to a sleigh delighted Westminster VI residents during winter. Mr. Fareham of the south district drove the improvised conveyance through the street scene.
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