Civilized Man Growth in Stature and Longevity Noted
Royal S Copeland notes in JAMA a rise in average boy height by about 3 inches over fifty years and finds Boston youths taller by 2.6 inches than earlier cohorts. He argues modern science and sanitation extend life and improve motherhood, nutrition, and dental care, producing sturdier children likely to age better than forebears.
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Journal of the American Medical Association
Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tennessee
North Carolina
Miniature Sitting Room by Annette Bradshaw
A compact living space solution for a single room home features a day bed with a rep cover, cretonne cutouts, a flowered rag rug, a flat top desk serving as a table, matching painted chairs, a chest of drawers, dainty curtains, and colorful pillows and prints. Lamps are arranged for maximum effect to create a home suitable for a young woman. Shopping gradually for pieces and painting can yield a stylish result.
Puddings and desserts from The Home Kitchen
The Home Kitchen offers cold dessert ideas with fruit puddings, meringue tarts, chocolate gelatin molds, cream snow, and cheese-raisins preserves. Recipes emphasize make-ahead prep, chilling, and whipped cream toppings for a variety of summer treats.
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Cannel
Hialf
Odd Facts And Fragments From a War Era Text Menu
Strange notes describe trees sealing wounds with gum and blocking disease. A War Office book titled Certayne Waves the Ordering of Souldieers in Rat details marching, forts, and fortifications. The Inter-Allied military effort reports 33,400 visits in Germany and vast war stores including 14,000 airplanes and 100,000 machine guns.
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War Office
Certayne
Germany
Red and White in Youthful Oska Dot Fashion
Vera Winston highlights Oska dots in bright red and white for Summer. The ensemble features a white dot bandana collar on red fabric, a white blouse, pleated white skirt with red crepe de Chine bias bands, and adaptable styling with hats in white or red.
Advice to Girls on Love and Friendship
An advice column where teens ask about romantic boundaries. A seventeen year old boy seeks guidance on relationships and whether to curb letters to other boys. A girl questions love and mature commitment, with the columnist urging broader friendships and time to mature while avoiding ultimatums.
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Ted
Annie Laurie
Teds
Tomorrow's Horoscope for Friday July 22
The horoscope notes prosperous and pleasant trends in heart and home matters. It forecasts a welcome change or journey, abrupt yet advantageous, with happiness and prosperity for those celebrating a birthday. Financial outlook is favorable and a child born today may be ambitious, social, artistic, and well liked.
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Dryden
Sso Fisameta
Blue Eyes Advice on Improving Home Life and Reading Habits
A reader under twenty, married with two children, asks if reforming her drunken husband and continuing to read novels is possible. The adviser urges tact and patience, suggests reshaping the home into a welcoming, sociable space, and recommends lighter, cheerful books to restore peace and encourage family harmony.
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Annie Laurie
Lue
Three-Minute Journeys a Portrait of Japan in Miniatures
The piece sketches Japan as a nation of small-scale living and meticulous craft. It contrasts imitativeness with originality in arts and religion while noting two social layers: aristocratic and common people, the latter more numerous. It calls politeness and etiquette central to Japanese life.
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Nll
China
West
Japan
Wives Fight Monotony and Find New Hope at Home
A 1927 Dear Elsie column shares Agnes’s letter describing how she revived family life by reorganizing daily chores and adopting a disciplined routine. She details dressing for work, cleaning, cooking, and putting children to bed, improving atmosphere and happiness without divorce.
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Agnes
Premier Syndicate, Inc
Doris Meets Mr American Goldfinch At Sunflower Feast
Doris encounters Mr American Goldfinch near her garden sunflowers. The goldfinch explains his nest and family near the oak tree, invites Doris to share a feast, and six baby birds join to eat every seed on the sunflower. They promise to return next year.
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Doris
Caary
Goldfinch
Dors
Mr. Goldfinch
Mrs. Goldfinch
Bathing Fashions in Muslin From Miss Shopper
A Miss Shopper note from Seen on 5th Ave describes bathing suits made of unbleached muslin with stenciled designs. The two piece style remains most popular and is shown in beige skirts with bright sweaters or blouses, or white skirts with turquoise or other colored tops.
Love and Marion Reflections in Lillian Underwood’s World
In a domestic drama set around Marion’s growth and Lillian Underwood’s fears, Madge probes Lillian’s cautious love as the mother admits she is not entirely sane about her daughter. The scene recalls the sheltering past and the risk of letting Marion mature beyond home.
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Lillian
Marion
Ty Morion
Our
Mario
Mary
Madge
Lillian Underwood
Dicky
Tna
Quotes on Temptation and Virtue From Classic Thinkers
A fragmentary collection of aphorisms and quotes discusses temptation sacrifice and virtue. Notable lines touch on bad choices and justification, the worth of sacrifice, motherhood as sacred, and fame as a perilous drive, attributed to figures such as Pito Coleride Seneca Tacitus Holme and Caird.
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Zenger
Royal S. Copeland
United States
Seeater
New York
New York City
Copeland
Annette Bradshaw
A. Bradsha
T the Home Kitchen
Jeannette Young Norton
Rerenee
Newspaper Feature Service. Inc
Vera Winston
Pear Annie Laurie
Sappharie
Appharie
Genevieve Kemble
Ibaa
Temple Manning
The
Land of the
Rising Sun
Coppa
Mer
Ina
Elsie Marlowe
Elsie
Jesses
Blanche
American Golgéitit
Miss Shopper
Adele Garrison
the Wiss
Pito
Tacitc
Spence
Heav
Dr. Caird
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