Women Restless and Desultory Yet Altruistic as Workers
Louis E. Bisch notes that Milady’s daily activities reveal a lively but charitable spirit among women laboring in various tasks. The piece highlights women's civic engagement, domestic labor, and public service as integral to the era's social fabric.
Home Making and Knife Craft Footnotes by Wanda Barton
A 1928 feature blends kitchen tool guidance with social notes. It critiques knife design, praises stainless and single piece handles, and then shifts to observations on gendered labor. The author contrasts women’s endless activity with men’s idle retirement tendencies, linking restlessness to homemaking and motherhood.
Fashion Model Discovers Winter Signs On Fifth Avenue
A fashion model and companion stroll Fifth Avenue on a Saturday, noting winter signs in shop windows. They admire a black taffeta evening frock with gold net trim and a pink ribbon rose, imagining it for South travel and dancing with a light wrap.
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Argie
Fifth Avenue
Margie
Palm Beach
Age Not a Matter of Years These Days
Dr. Copeland notes age is not the limit to study and reading. He cites Columbia University figures showing many older students thriving, urges ongoing study to stay young, and warns against late hours and excess. Advice on healthy eating and self-improvement accompanies reader questions and answers.
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Columbia University
James C. Egbert
Carlyle
Cleansing Skin of Impurities By Josephine Huddleston
A vintage beauty guide argues daily thorough cleansing removes all impurities to improve skin. It promotes cold cream cleansing, magnified inspection, a second application, ice massage, and regular twice daily routines to achieve clearer, healthier skin in weeks.
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Josephine Huddleston
Tomorrow's Horoscope January 31 Genevieve Kemble
The column flags a lively day with venture temptations and deals with restricted groups yet promises surprising energy. Speculative ventures may pay off and renewed contracts seem advantageous while birthdays may bring unexpected profits and a clever versatile child could gain renown. Notable Nativity Pavlowa.
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Genevieve Kemble
Pavlowa
Advice to Girls by Annie Laurie on unhappy marriage and temptation
A reader writes as an unhappy wife of twenty three who married for parental pressure and loves another man. Annie Laurie urges returning to her husband, building a home, and ending the outside relationship, urging gratitude and renewed affection. The column blends social commentary with a vignette of modern domestic life.
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Annie Laurie
Thar
C ‘H
Daughter
Son
Moonright
Love's Embers and a Silent Dinner Conversation
In a quiet farmhouse dinner Dicky, Lillian, and Adele Garrison recount tense undercurrents. A troubling photo, Edith Fairfax, and Ellen Lincoln's tutoring loom as Dicky requests a private talk, hinting at secrets and looming decisions.
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Dicky
Lillian
Eleanor Lincoln
Philip Veritzen
Kati
Katherine
Hal Meredith
Secret Service
Ques
Edith Fairfax
Grace Draper
Slick
North Carolina
Dora Paige
South
Newspaper Feature Service, Inc
Woodpecker's Winter Home Impresses Doris
In early spring Doris spots Mr Woodpecker busy at work on a tree. He explains he stays through winter using an entrance on the limb’s underside to keep out rain. Doris tours his tunnel and learns he and Mrs Woodpecker share separate winter homes, then sees them reunite before continuing to school.
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Doris
Mr. Woodpecker
Conner
Doria
Mrs. Woodpecker
Harry Woodpecker
Words of the Wise Silence and Moral Maxims
A compact collage of quotes from Carlyle Horace Mann Juvenal Cicero Emerson and Callimachus on virtue self restraint and the ideal of a well-made life. The collection contrasts wisdom with pleasure and emphasizes moral character and lasting impact.
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