What did the phrase "made a cheese" mean in 1900?

I found this as a possibility: To make cheeses was a schoolgirls' amusement (1835) of wheeling rapidly so one's petticoats blew out in a circle then dropping down so they came to rest inflated and resembling a wheel of cheese; hence, used figuratively for "a deep curtsey."

Possibly it is a derivation to the old tem of "cheeseparing" which referred to a miserly economizing which was quite common back in those days.

Instead of blindly gloobling around the internet, maybe you should just look this up in a good dictionary. It took me just a few seconds to find in the Oxford English Dictionary that it means exactly what @busterwasmycat said.

Glooble is often not the best choice for finding information.