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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1894
Page
12
Readable fragment from a 1900s era column mixing fashion tips with home decor and cosmetic ideas. It discusses new ideas from Kogisod for seasonal cards and warm gowns, mentions velvet chokers, and offers care tips for fabrics. The piece also quotes social observers on color in interiors and features a humorous exchange about fashion and marriage.
A garbled 19th century style meditation on the ethics of love and passion. It debates whether tenderness, possession, and the Golden Rule apply to married or courting behavior, referencing Plato Epicurean ideas and a poetical digression about Miss Brown and a hypothetical gentleman.
Practical tips describe ways to disguise wine flavor after meals and improve dinners. Advice covers tea and mint to mask tastes, quick sheet folding tricks for appearance, substituting rice for potatoes, and linseed oil applied to corns with nightly dampening for removal.
The piece surveys London fashion, praising Humphreys of London for an peach velvet and fur trimmed cloak with a rich yoke. It notes adaptable materials and the Medicis era influence on future styles, plus home sewing tips and advice on garment care and burn treatment.
A mix of kitchen how tos and light anecdotes covers steamed oysters and rice pudding tips, onion recipes, oyster stew method, a humorous origin of the sandwich, and cheerful family vignettes. It also notes Queen Victoria's Maids of Honor privileges and attire.
A fashion feature notes women’s spring trends with new fabrics and broad sleeves. It observes jackets clash with large sleeves and cape styles, while shoulder seams lengthen toward historical long seams, and skirts grow longer yet remain practical for street wear, except for formal dinners.
Miss Annette Crossman hosts a five o'clock tea at her New York home showing a pearl gray India silk afternoon dress. The design includes a wide box pleat back skirt, black velvet panels, a plain gray bodice with a black velvet girdle, elbow sleeves with crinoline fullness, and a crinoline effect. Basques and double skirts with side openings remain in fashion, with heavy trimming and large flat bows often used to cover openings.
The article details children's clothing from ages eight to ten, describing red striped ribbed velvet garments, red and black velvet trims, feathered fur edges, and velvet raffia finishes. It highlights ribbon boas, a large black moire cravat with lace, and fashionable spring dresses with silk, velvet, and decorative clasps. It ends with spring coats and two coat styles, noting fit and finish.
The article blends a fashion note about a black Russian leather cow shoe designed for travel with a long profile on Emma Bouviier Childs wife of George W. Childs. It details her meticulous housekeeping, social circles, charity work, and retirement from public life, including her home life at the Childs mansion and interactions with Philadelphia's elite families.
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