Pilgrimage of sorrow through a Riviera madhouse
Mildred visits the Montieum villa and a seaside cliff path on a sorrowful journey to uncover the truth about George Ransome. She confronts jealousy, hears the villagers' suspicions, and finds the former patient now sane but haunted by memory, while visiting his empty former rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Villa Monitieum
Ache
George Greswold
Fay
Milcd
Mildred
Beaulieu
Ife
St. Jean
Albrecht
White House
St. Andre
Interview With Mental Specialist Reveals Longtime Patient
Mrs. Greswold seeks the doctor with the longest experience at the asylum. She visits Monsieur Leroy, a 60 year old expert who has spent 35 years among the deranged and kept notes on all cases. She asks about a patient believed to be English and treated seventeen years ago.
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Signor Castellani
England
Maria
Tie
Mildred
Monsieur Leroy
Milan
Castellani
Dr. Leroy
Society of the Deranged
Newcastle
Thomas Hatfield
John van Buskirk
van Buskirk
Indiana Reformatory
Opera Star Turned Inmate At Asylum
In the garden scene at the asylum, a former prima donna of La Scala, once beloved by Castellani, recalls a life of stage triumphs and a cruel betrayal. Her decline followed a failed affair and Castellani’s desertion, ending in poverty and confinement.
Bear Flirting Across Cage Stirs New York Zoo Drama
Grizzly Mrs Pike's Peak clashes with mate Mr P R over Mrs Northwest Territory at the New York Zoological Park. Keepers foresee trouble as the two den mates exchange gestures through bars, culminating in a scuffle and the male retreating to shade. Separate notes report census pins output and India's plan to hire women telegraph operators, plus ship tonnage and a closing quip about friendship and schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grizzly
Pike’s Peak
Rocky Grizzly
Pike's Peak
Healthful air and fashion notes from Indiana bulletin
The Indiana Health Department urges sleeping with a window tent for fresh air and lists health tips. It highlights beauty trends, silver trims, and the revival of Louis XIII gowns with pointed trains. Also described are negligees, millinery shades, and modest home remedies for common ailments.
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Indiana Health Department
Handkerchief Laundering Tip For Overworked Mothers
A home washing method for handkerchiefs suggests stitching corners, washing in a machine, dampening lightly, and ironing individually or in a batch. The illustration also notes a crepe de chine gown in Old rose silk crepe using voile or crepe de chine fabric.
Health Advice Fragments Mention Home Care Tips
The text offers practical home remedies such as using coffee on a stove cover to purify air, giving children a pinch of sulfur nightly to prevent scarlet fever or diphtheria, and suggests egg shampoo may dry hair. It endorses soap and water as a superior cleansing method with a note on soap quality.
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Sol Frank
Petersburg
Ligeaviley
Milton Speicher
Warsaw
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Oakland City
High Boned Stock Plaitings Reach New Heights
Fashion notes emphasize taller boned stocks with extreme plaitings and frills. The trend favors very high hats and elaborate ruching, though observers warn that oversized frills and excessively tight, too-low stocks spoil the look.
Fashion Description of Silk Bodice and Silk Skirt Ensemble
The text describes a bold design for a bodice in silk to match a long trailing skirt finished by shaped applied folds. The yoke and undersleeves are white chiffon tucked in small squares and inset with Chantilly lace.
Eller Teeth and the Warning About Orthodontic Destiny
A New York Press humorous note warns would be husbands to study a woman’s teeth before marriage. It claims close teeth indicate a homebody, while widely spaced teeth signal a roaming wife who will travel and not stay rooted, with greater gaps predicting more wandering.
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Eller
Peggy
New York Press
Smile's Face Value Across The Modern Smile
The piece contends the modern smile acts as currency, depreciating in value as a social tool. It notes the smile neither dominates nor bridges awkward silences while suggesting it once equaled beauty in a woman’s charm.
Hat Pin Sheath guards pedestrians from long pins
A new ornamental sheath for hat pins is fitted over the point after the hat is adjusted. The longer stronger hat pins from huge period millinery had posed a danger to passers by, but the sheath offers a safer solution.
Retired Rear Admiral Dayton Residing in South Bend
Rear Admiral Dayton of the U S Navy now lives in South Bend at the Oliver Hotel. He was born there and his retirement takes effect on October 25.
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Dayton
United States Navy
South Bend
Oliver Hotel
Ambrosia Light
Evansville
Madison
Edgar Faught
Crescent Coal Company
Henry Kling
Linton
Ball Brothers
Muncie
No. 1
Homemade Tights for Children
Instructions describe making children tights from ladies' stockings by stitching legs together to form a gusset and inserting a rubber hem to finish. The method yields a workable pair of tights in about fifteen minutes.
Readiness Before Feeding an Invalid
The passage advises ensuring an invalid is ready for a meal before serving. It warns against serving hot food while the patient needs tasks like washing hands or adjusting pillows. The recommended approach is to confirm readiness first, then bring the meal.
Removing Color Stains And Praise For The American Woman
A feature on stain removal advises soaking dyed garments in cold water for twelve hours and sun drying. A separate piece quotes Dr. Charles F. Aked praising the American woman, noting more leisure money freedom and initiative compared to other women.
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Charles F. Aked
Fifth Avenue Church
New York
England
Practical sewing tips and a light life-note
Instructions on mending stockings by lengthening the wear and resewing to avoid visible patches. A school anecdote about the word grewsome from a spelling lesson. A Life note on buttermilk as a simple whitening remedy for skin and freckles.
The Abominable Wrinkle in Woman’s Peace of Mind
A column warns that the first wrinkle devastates a woman’s serenity, contrasting it with tolerable gray hairs and exploring societal pressures on aging and beauty.
Making Undergarments from Old Drawers for All
Instructions advise using the ribbed bottom of old drawers to fashion men's undershirts with neck openings large enough to slip over the head, avoiding button holes and saving sewing effort.
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George Ransome
Ransome
Villefranche
Nice
Riviera
Mr. Ransome
Ile
Ran
Nowise
la Scala
Leonora
Lucrezia
Old Castellani
Italy
Paolo Castellani
Bear
Census Bureau
United States
America
Liverpool
India
Beauvais
Ward
Louis XIII
Louis Ball
Otto Rail
Terre Haute
Montevideo
Minn
Rail
Roy Smelser
Rushville
Roy
Boone County
Huntington
Huntington Common Council
John C. Curtis
Cincinnati, Bluffton & Chicago Railroad
George Williams
Shirley
New York Central Railroad Company
Mr. Williams
Michigan
Big Four
Carnegie
Anderson
William Stevenson
George Heaton
E. H. Matthews
Lapel
Edward Clark
Shelbyville
Clarke
Plymouth
Edith E. Brockus
Bourbon
Clyde Kittinger
Syria
Ohio
Israel Yaney
Kirkland Township
Adams County
William H. Taft
Working Girls’ Auxiliary
Pike County
White River
Bowling Green
Waterloo
John Wood
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad
Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company
asenwCd
Poland
Ray & Livezey
Clark and
Rickman
I. S
John Murnan
Columbus
Tabernacle Christian Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
J. Willer Canning Company
Cincinnati
New Brothers
Guyman
Greenfield
Brazil
Roberts-Conner Veneering Company
New Allany
Earl Easterday
Byers Bros
Logansport
Charles Stout
Stout
D. F. Randolph
Waldron
Waldron Natural Gas Company
Cook
Charles W. Fox
Lorane Dellstreet
W. B. Wright
Fox
Miss Dellstreet
Greensburg
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