Uncle Dicky's Raillery Shifts to Worry Over Marion
In this scene Marion's care under Lillian, Miss Jones, and Robert Savarin tightens as Marion endures pain from Uncle Dicky lifting her. Pettit’s precautions loom. Dicky shows remorse and vows to seek Pettit’s guidance, while Marion affirms Robert’s future fatherhood and her loyalty to her mother.
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Dicky
Marion
United States
Dobert
Robert Savarin
Robert
Lillian
Miss Jones
Picky
Dr. Pettit
Ticky
Pettit
Dore
Making Others Smile by Winifred Black 1921
A reflective vignette about beauty aging and a young Irish conductor who helps a frail woman recall her past charm. The narrator admires the conductor’s charm and sees how his playful kindness brightens others, especially the elderly passenger, while noting the joys and burdens beauty brings.
Tomorrow's Horoscope by Genevieve Kemble
The day favors caution as Mars and Uranus suggest strife and tumult. Avoid quarrels and rash actions, postpone journeys, and guard money from loss. Those born today may face a troublesome year due to impulsiveness and bad temper.
Diary of a Fashion Model by Grace Thorncliffe
Grace Thorncliffe describes a color filled late day drive to a friend’s Long Island summer home. Evelyn Trayrore shares landscape sketches and dress designs for children, including a chintz frock with lavender organza trimmings and thoughts on fabrics, trims, and style ideas.
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Diary of A Fashion Model
Grace Thorncliffe
Long Island
Evelyn Trayrore
Evelyn
Eveyn
How to Guard Your Skin Against Sunburn Dangers
Sunlight includes actinic rays that burn skin and heat rays that warm. Some people burn more easily, especially blondes and indoor workers. Protection tips include wide brim hats, quinine preparations, cold cream after burning, and gradual exposure while valuing daily sun for health.
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Fife
Mmeari
Questions on Health for Readers Help
Reader asks if appendicitis can heal without surgery and whether diseased tonsils can be cured with medicine or must be removed. Answer notes antibiotics do not substitute for removal when diseased and attacks can be arrested with treatment. A reader asks how to help a 16 month old with poor appetite teething gas cramps and reassurance that worry affects feeding.
Advice to Girls on Love and Marriage
A 17 year old girl seeks guidance about an underage romance with a 21 year old man who proposes. She values the relationship and potential home but questions marriage at this age. The writer asks for counsel on how to proceed given youth and feelings.
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Bar Anni Laurie
Anyona
Curly
Wits of History and Disraeli’s Sharp Wit in Parliament
The piece recalls Disraeli’s quick humor and scathing replies to Gladstone and Chamberlain. It notes his banter about misfortune versus calamity and his famed Chamberlain monocle, reflecting his influence on political discourse and public life.
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Hobw
Benjamin Disraeli
Disraeli
Gladstone
Tere
Diaraeh
Thames
London
Disraecli
House of Commons
Wilfred Meynell
Sostona
Joseph Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Home making hints for a powder puff luncheon
A 1921 homemaking column outlines a dainty powder puff luncheon for bridesmaids. It recommends pale green accents, white papier mache service pieces, a Jack Horner style centerpiece, decorative ribbons, and small baskets with puffs as place cards. The menu includes grapefruit and green grape cocktail, jellied asparagus tips, broiled chicken, walnut cream salad, pistachio ice cream, and ornate desserts.
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Southampton
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Feminisms
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Jimmy
Marie
Adele Garrison
Winifred Black
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Old Country
Mary
Kate
Rascal
Erin
Larry
Genevieve Kemble
Royal S. Copeland, M. D
New York City
Peeture Service
iRig
Mark Stuyvesant
Wanda Barton
Feature Servics, Inc
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