I Have Said in My Heart and Compensations by Idah McGlone Gibson
The piece reflects on aging and gender, noting a shift in tolerance toward women as women reach middle age. It argues intolerance equals ignorance and that knowledge is a compensation of middle age.
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Idah McCglone Gibson
E. P
Bright
Kid Boots Spark New York Winter Fashion Trend
Fashion writer notes the rapid rise of kid boots in New York as a response to the cold snap. The article highlights a fur cuff variant and a Wellington style, describing removable cuffs, pliable kidskin, and color options in black brown and blue.
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Central Press
the Standard
New York
Vogue
Wellington
New Year's Dinner Plan Promotes Dietetic Choices
A health column offers a New Year's dinner plan featuring celery and olives, salted nuts, cucumbers with grated carrots, wholewheat dressing, baked beets, cooked cucumbers, and baked apples a la mode. It adds practical diet tips and reader questions on high blood pressure and calorie needs.
Songs of a Housewife close margins
A playful verse notes a housewife misplacing a button and a bottle as she runs to catch a trolley and a bus. The poem uses humor to depict slipping moments and domestic clumsiness.
Can Salesmen Be Honest A Reader Letter Explores Trust
A young woman writes to Mrs Lee asking if salesmen are honest or just playing a line. She describes meeting a traveling salesman who courted her, then rumors claiming he uses affairs, and seeks guidance on whether his feelings are genuine or a sales tactic.
How to Achieve Beauty by NME and Helena Rubinstein
A column outlines a modern standard of beauty beyond a pretty face. It reframes beauty as total harmony of form, movement, and manner, detailing five principal kinds: proportional, graceful, exotic, pretty, and chic. It notes realism over romanticism and previews daily explorations of each type.
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Beauty
NME
Helena Rubinstein
Big Savage
Hints for the Household Mary Morton Breakfast Menu
Instructions for a hearty breakfast with broiled sausage waffles and coffee. Includes steps to prick sausage, render fat for waffles, and prepare waffles with baking powder flour eggs milk melted butter and folded egg whites. Finishing touches include butter, syrup, or cinnamon sugar.
Freshen faded garments with soap dye method
The text instructs to dissolve a soap dye in a shaker, mix with boiling water until reaching the desired shade, then immerse the garment for dyeing. It presents a basic process for color restoration using soap as the dye medium.
Flapper Advice and Caution on Gossip and Salesmanship
A columnist counsels readers to verify claims rather than trust friends about a man, noting a salesman can be sincere and well mannered. The piece urges personal judgment, warns against gossip, and questions social pressure about flirtation. It emphasizes sincerity as key to sales success and warns against cheapening oneself.
Etta Kett Why Not Charge Him Room and Board
Etta Kett considers billing a roommate for room and board after a dispute over shared living expenses. The comic panel shows Ela and her friends debating fair charges and the cost of keeping a guest.
Syrups and Citrus Syrups from Mrs Morton's Recipe
Simple syrup uses one pound sugar and one pint water boiled five minutes. Orange syrup combines five oranges and one lemon with two cups sugar and one cup water, boil five minutes, grate rinds, add juice and syrup, stand two hours, strain. For lemon syrup substitute six lemons for oranges and one extra lemon, same method.
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Mary Morton
Modern young women and princes on parade
Sir Edmund Gosse at ninety quotes on modern women and men. Princess Mary’s Barnsley visit halted by a traffic officer blocking a route reserved for her procession. Bush flowers stood out at the Gosford N W wild flower show.
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Sir Edmund Gosse
Mary
Barnsley
England
Gosford
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