From the December, 1900 issue of The Designer magazine, the following is a 4-page instruction article in PDF format for Christmas Fancy Work f...
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December 1900 Fashion Color Plates
Fashion color plates from the December 1900 issue of The Designer magazine. Registered members may download the full-size color plates of the...
Among Ourselves | December 1900
That it is Christmas time once more is a fact of which our senses would remind us, even if the calendar did not, for everywhere around us ther...
A Christmas Feast
At this delightful entertainment red and green was the prevailing color scheme. The sideboard held an oddly-shaped dish filled with a mass of...
Child Hardening
Harper's Bazar - December 21, 1867 There is a prevalent notion that children can be hardened, as it is called, or rendered insensible, by e...
Waste of Appetite
Harper's Bazar - December 21, 1867 The appetite for food has been conferred upon man, as upon other animals, not only to delight his taste,...
The Fate of Christmas
Editor's Drawer. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December, 1891 Those who are anxious about the fate of Christmas, whether it is not becomi...
A Maid’s Choice | A Musical Pastoral
Eleven page illustrated sheet music for piano. Published in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, December 1891. A Maid’s Choice is a mu...
Coiffures and Chignons
Chignons are again worn higher and more voluminous, spreading nearly over the entire back of the head. This style of dressing the hair is cer...
Color Fashion Plates 1895
These fashion color plates are from a 4-page supplement in the November, 1895 issue of The Household magazine. The supplement includes a desc...
Christmas Candies
1892 - The foundation for nearly all cream candies is fondant, and when one has succeeded in making that well, little trouble will be experien...
Loaf Cakes
Choice Fig Cake. One cupful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar, one cupful of milk, four eggs, three cupfuls of flour, one-half cup of cornstarc...
Etiquette Notes – December 1892
It is a very great mistake to think you may receive an invitation to an entertainment or a wedding, and take no notice of it because you are g...
The Etiquette of Invitations
December, 1892 The joint committee on ceremonies of the World's Columbian Exposition has very sensibly set a fashion, which if followed will ...
Thanksgiving Time
An antique illustrated poem for children by Frances E. Fryatt, published November 1895 in The Ladies' World magazine.
Teaching Children Self-Dependence
November, 1895 - So many begin wrong with children. They teach them that everything must be done for them. They are not expected even to amu...
Thanksgiving Evening Amusements
It happens in playing many games that forfeits are given. It puzzles some to know just what penalties to impose upon those unlucky persons wh...
A Thanksgiving Dinner and How to Serve it
My loyalty to New England makes me feel that I do not want to vary from the old regulation menu for a Thanksgiving dinner, even if that were n...
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