Married Women Lose Their Good Looks After Marriage
A Montreal Herald and Star item argues most women do not lose beauty after marriage. It cites vanity, happiness, and care in personal appearance as keys to perpetual youth. It warns unhappiness and neglect erode charm, while attentive wives remain attractive years after nuptials.
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Montreal Herald and Star
BOSH Dress Described in Pale Gray Voile with Embroidered Trim
A pale gray voile BOSH dress features a bodice full with tuck details, edged in silver embroidery and cut away to reveal a white lace stock. Black ribbon bows with rhinestone centers trim the front, and the girdle is gray chiffon velvet. Puff sleeves with gray velvet bands and scalloped silver embroidery finish the look.
Fashion and etiquette notes from a bygone era
A collage of fashion forecasts and social customs outlines daily girdles and updated sleeves, summer fabrics, and millinery highlights. It notes wedding gift etiquette, invitations, and church wedding tips, plus a health hint about a simple egg white plaster and olive oil remedies.
Charming Hats and Garden Tips Headline Fashion and Horticulture Notes
The page blends summer fashion with home care advice. It highlights delicate hand embroidered Imitiste hats, embroidered boleros and satin ribbon gowns, then shifts to pruning Clematis and roses, starting lantana and petunias, and bulb outset for veranda baskets. Practical horticulture pointers follow alongside light notes on personal care and eye health.
Making Maple Sugar in Vermont Forests and Sugar Camps
The article details how genuine maple sugar is produced mainly in Vermont. It describes gathering sap with horse or oxen pulled sleds, boiling sap into syrup or sugar, waxing sugar, and the scenic maple sugar camp life from March through four to six weeks, with strong regional and historical color.
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Green Mountain State
Vermont
Green Mountain
Cosmopolitan
Sugar House
A Suburban Cottage With Simple Plans
A sketch and ground floor plans depict a 24 by 27 foot suburban cottage on cedar posts or brick piers. It uses 2x4 studs with building paper and clapboards, green mottled shingles, white trim, and a brick cellar, fireplace, plastered interior, and an estimated total cost around 875 dollars including brickwork 75 dollars carpenter work 600 plastering 125 painting 75.
Riddle About Quarts and a Clever Boy
A playful exchange notes a peck of trouble may come from less than a quart. The Philadelphia Public Ledger claims a boy is the smartest of his age, as stated by his mother.
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Willie
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Advertising Truth in Rail and Stage We Hear
Charles B. Young of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway argues in a university extension lecture that newspaper advertising yields greater profit than any other form. He says modern ads must be intelligent, honest, and timely, reaching the largest audience with clear terms. The Chicago Chronicle notes rail and theater managers agree, marking advertising as a trusted community practice.
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Charles 8. Young
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Chicago
Chroniele
Freemen professor weighs prunes and Proclus in marriage talk
A fragment quotes a 1846 Mrs Browning letter on love and gender roles. It contrasts a man seeking home comforts with a solitary reader and notes women are degraded by such beliefs. A final proverb warns not to judge a woman's age by her teeth.
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Freeman
Proclus
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