What’s Wrong With Our Young People and Why
A 1931 reflection on attitudes of youth postwar and the impact of women deemed ninnies on soldiers and society. The narrator recalls wartime nurses seen as reckless and shallow, arguing decency rests with genuine women while blaming a generation for heartbreak and cynicism.
Home Making Helps By Eleanor Ross
Emily adheres to strict order keeping household items in their placed spots. Her eight capacious linen closets illustrate a reliance on neat appearance over practical use, sometimes creating inconvenience rather than comfort.
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Eleanor Ross
Emily
Advice to Girls and Linen Organization Reflections
A column blends reader questions on friendship and dating with practical home tips. It discusses handling a quarrel with a boyfriend and whether to invite her to a matinee, followed by a detailed opinion on linen storage and kitchen workflow aimed at saving daily steps.
Brown and Beige Autumn Fashion Ensemble Highlighted
A fashion note describes brown as a premier autumn color with brown and beige as a key pairing. It notes summer use of brown with white but forecasts richer brown beige outfits for fall including a natural shanting frock, yellow brown scarf, dark brown coat with blue fox cuffs, georgette beige frock, velvet beret, and dark brown accessories.
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Bown
Heart of a Wife By Adele Garrison
In a backstage scene Adele Garrison's narrator seeks Dicky's help to revise Act Three and adjust speeches for Vickers while navigating feelings and a request from Mr Veritzen. The dialogue shows playful banter and a plan to involve Dicky without hurting Lillian's feelings.
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Puccini and Butterfly Fame in a World of Doubt
A reflective piece on Puccini’s rise from poverty to fame through Madame Butterfly, Tosca and La Bohème. It notes early struggles, key operas, the American themed work The Girl of the Golden West, and posthumous Turandot, ending with a hinted continuation about authorship and a fictional collaboration plot.
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Puccini
Lucca
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Milan
Edgar
Manon Lescaut
Turin
America
Revision Plans For Household Hints Caper
A dialog reveals a scheme to alter a text for Lil and pass off a revised Household Hints item. The plan involves substituting the old copy and claiming the revision, with a note about preserving jars, ammonia washing, and nail driving tips. Copyright 1931.
Stars Say For Saturday August 22
The column notes propitious planetary aspects for August 22 bringing potential achievements in personal and business life. It warns to be cautious with writings or contracts and highlights possible changes, promotions, honors, and unusual contacts. A birthday child may be gifted, adventurous, cultured, and reach high social prestige, though may show craftiness.
Blonde Hair Shampoo Formula For Retaining Natural Color
A reader explains a home recipe to keep natural blonde tone using lemon oil soap borax and egg. The process yields a jelly shampoo: melt soap with borax in water, cool, add beaten egg white, massage through hair, rinse, repeat, finish with lemon water rinse.
Be Sure Milk's Pure As Safety First Rule
Public health guidance urges careful sourcing and pasteurization of milk to prevent undulant fever caused by Brucella abortus. Tests on cattle, clean handling, and keeping milk below 50 degrees Fahrenheit are emphasized to protect children and ensure safe daily consumption.
Health Q and A on taste in mouth and weight guidance
Readers submit health questions answered with brief guidance. Topics include morning mouth taste and nasal discharge, weight norms for a teen 17, banana digestibility when ripe, neck chest redness, shoulder blade pain from circulatory or cold factors, and tonsil removal guidance.
Shadow Staircase Mystery in a Spiral Screwtale
Knarf and the shadow-children explore a kitchen spiral staircase that turns out to be a corkscrew, ending with a wooden handle at the top. They slide back down using glue on their shoes after discovering there are no actual stairs. Copyright 1931.
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Knarf
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Yam
Words of Wisdom and Wit From Many Minds
A collection of aphorisms and quotes on life, politics, wisdom, happiness, and age. Notable lines reflect on opportunity, virtue, illusion, and self-reliance from authors including Byron Clarke Voltaire Disraeli Millet Garfield Terence Twain and others.
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