Happy Marriages Just Seem to Run in Some Families
The column explores why some women marry well while others struggle. It contrasts two widowed families with daughters married to professionals, merchants, and managers, noting suitors and home comforts. It questions female independence and social expectations in 1928 society.
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Proper Use of Light Dumbbells By JOSEPHINE HUDDLESTON
A fitness column demonstrates a dumbbell routine to improve circulation. It describes stance, breathing, and a sequence of forward lunges with alternating foot work, repeating the motion twenty times to build health, vitality, and physical beauty.
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Josephine Huddleston
Odd Facts from Stefansson and Wider World Notes
Stefansson estimates Arctic animal yields with a huge meat total. England saw a Christmas revival after 1644. Worthing grows fruit under glass with dozens of greenhouses and crops. Dictionaries once defined animals plainly. A Bermondsey girl born without fingers learned crafts. Balloon broadcast concerts reached six miles high. An English couple has twenty nine children three of whom survive. Postmen must be 5 feet 4 inches tall to reach boxes.
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Bermondsey
Home Making Aids From Wanda Barton Guide
Practical summer helpers cover kitchen wash racks for lettuce and berries, electric beaters, sponge rubber bath mats, tub seats, cold cylinder glass jugs with ice, adjustable leg tables, and a buried ground receptacle with removable bucket to cut mess and keep pests out.
New Tennis Costume Innovations Highlight Ennis Styles
Fashion notes describe fresh tennis dresses in sleeveless, box pleats, and tucked designs with jackets in sheer wool and angora. A blue and white silk ring scarf and rolled tennis socks appear, while the Lenglen Wills style hat features a silk crown and green visor.
Tuberculosis gains and losses amid health efforts
Medical columns discuss tuberculosis origins, resistance, and prevention. Royal S Copeland notes poverty and housing affect immunity. mortality peaks ages 25 to 35. disease is preventable and curable through health upbuilding and avoidance of exposure. Also includes reader health Qs about weight and topical conditions.
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United States
Copeland
Stars Say For Saturday June 23 Horoscope
Genevieve Kemble reports a lively but challenging day with lunar Mercury influences and Saturn moon clashes causing delays and uneasy health or mood. Mars Jupiter aspects may trigger rash acts and negative results while birthdays may face recurring adverse forces. a child born today could be lively yet temperamental without discipline. Sir Oliver Lodge quote concludes.
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Giovanni Battista Viotti the Father of Modern Violin
Famous Composers profile of Giovanni Battista Viotti tracing his birth in Fontaneto da Po Italy in 1753 his rise as a violinist at Turin and London and his influence as a teacher earning the sobriquet the father of modern violin playing His career spans London Paris and Berlin with key roles at the French opera and the Paris Opera before his death in London in 1824.
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Viott
Nervousness From Primitive Urges Warns Against Suppression
A 1928 feature argues that basic drives such as hunger, love, and ambition push people through life and are repressed by social codes. Repression can surface as nervousness or digestive complaints, so readers should acknowledge urges and align them with personal moral standards to maintain mental health.
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Advice to Girls from Annie Laurie on meeting nice people
A reader asks for help to meet a decent young woman. Annie Laurie suggests joining a local Y or attending church to meet the right crowd, noting she keeps respondents confidential and cannot share names or addresses. The reply emphasizes using social groups to make introductions and ease loneliness.
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Love's Awakening in Adele Garrison's Heart Story
In a 1928 column, a narrator learns her mother in law and father planned care for Junior while she works in the city. The mother-in-law boasts practical, sharp wit as she manages family duties and praises the narrator's work while navigating the employer’s praise and family bonds.
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Junior
Dicky
Richard
Mr. Veritzen
Philip Veritzen
Mother Graham
Katie
Tennis Frocks Go Beyond Tennis Courts
Seen on 5th Ave Miss Shopper notes sleeveless dresses once called Tennis Frocks shift from court wear to all occasions. They appear in new materials suitable for active sports and informal evenings. A modern trend extends to handbags reflecting the fashion shift in color and style.
Doris Learns About Cotton in a Field Tale
In a rural scene Doris explores a field of flowering cotton plants with the tiny elf Happy Giggles. He explains how white blossoms change color as the plant matures, how cotton forms from fluffy balls containing seeds, and how cotton is processed into cloth.
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Doris
Happy Giggles
Happy
Miss Cotton Plant
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Sayings on benevolence temperance and thought
A collection of aphorisms from Kant Shenstone Terence Confucius Milton and Phaedrus. Each line offers moral guidance on charity restraint study reflection and self improvement.
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