Fashion Color Plates 1895

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...

Thanksgiving Time Childrens Corner featured

Thanksgiving Time

An antique illustrated poem for children by Frances E. Fryatt, published November 1895 in The Ladies' World magazine.

Mother's Corner

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 turkey cart antique postcard

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...

How to serve Thanksgiving dinner

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...

Colonial Fireplace and Mantel

Mantel and Fireplace

One of the most prominent features of the decoration in a well-furnished room is the mantel and fireplace. There are many different styles of...

Homeward Bound From The Autumn Woods

A November Idyl Of The Woods

Away up in Plymouth county, Mass., dwells a happy pair. They are not only happy, but they are perfectly unique. Aunt Malina and Uncle Aseph

A Gallop Across The Marsh

November Days

One might well ask what can we find out of doors that is pleasant during this dismal month. The very name seems to suggest a dreary

what to wear 1895

Fashions For Women

November, 1895 Basque with Vest Fronts No. 3460 shows a handsome model of a basque with vest fronts.  This pattern comes in six sizes an...

cranberries-antique-recipes

Cranberries

November, 1895 A Thanksgiving dinner without cranberries seems incomplete.  Following are a few recipes: Cranberry Roll Stew a pint of cra...

Thanksgiving goodies antique recipes

Thanksgiving Goodies

Choose a couple of fat, plump chickens, and, after picking, singeing, drawing and washing them clean, carve into pieces, severing the joints n...