May Day Queen Tale Of Courage And Kindness
A father tells children a bedtime tale set on a May Day festival in Brother Gordon's town. Amy deflects praise to Martha, a poor crippled girl, who is chosen as queen for her courage and sweetness. Martha receives a pocketbook to seek treatment, and the town cheers.
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Martha
Amy
Daddy
Sehont
Brother Gordon
Miss Brown
Evelyn
Jack
Had the Goods Superincident Watchman Wanted
A narration calls for a night watchman who stays alert for any noise or indication of burglary and can sleep with one eye open while not fearing a confrontation. The speaker asks for applications and mentions sending his wife around.
Those Dear Girl Friends
A fragment quotes Miss Ataplace saying she received natural photographs from last week and Miss Pare Avenue noting cheerful endurance under misfortune and joking about lawsuits in a Baltimore American exchange.
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Miss Ataplace
The Ideals of a Boy by Byron Williams
A meditation on boyhood hero worship from everyday idols at home. The author recalls Mart Royal the delivery driver Bill White the fisherman and a village lawyer who became his earliest role models and the impact of parental guidance on choosing heroes. The piece ends with a humorous exchange from a Boston Transcript item.
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Carlyle
Washington
Lincoln
MecKinley
Mart Royal
Mart
Father
Bill
Hawkshaw
Wedmore
Boston Transcript
The Useful Safety Pin In Everyday Garment Care
A compact guide extolling the safety pin’s thrift and versatility for fasteners. It suggests keeping multiple fine pins for button eyes, skirts, and travel use, noting the pin’s urgency in laundry and closet scenarios and advising on practical packing to avoid lost buttons.
Frock of Green Pongee and Handmade Chapeau
A reseda green pongee afternoon dress trimmed with silk braid and matching buttons is paired with a handmade black lace chapeau with willow plumes. Also instructions on removing tobacco odor from draperies suggest airing, closing rooms, and using a tub of water with broom straw to absorb odors.
The Proper Sized Broom and Best Books Insight
A heavy broom proves thorough sweeping as its weight aids cleaning. Test by pressing the edge. bristling and bending straw mark a poor broom. Read the best books first as Thoreau advised. The oldest royal dynasty is Japan, uninterrupted for 2,600 years.
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Thoreau
Japan
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