The Cheering Cup of Tea and Social Tea Tables
A nostalgic guide describes a white enamel foldable tea table, its easy construction for a handyman, and its role in porch and garden tea moments. It highlights serving tea with accompaniments like lemon, cream, toast, and cookies, plus tea wagons, trays, napkins, and decorative finishes.
Color guidance for home decor in old style sensibilities
A reader offers practical advice on color schemes and fabrics for rooms, doors, and exteriors. Suggestions include black and yellow patterns, pink rose accents, rose and brown combos, blue rugs for south bedrooms, creamy white stucco with yellow tinge, and dull Chinese pink or indigo door trims. Emphasizes harmony with walls, furniture, and lighting.
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Walla
Sunday Menu Breakfast and Dinner Dishes
A vintage Sunday menu lists breakfast items like Fresh Cherries Fried Halibut Baked Potatoes Tea or Milk Home Made Rolls and Dinner dishes including Fruit Can Roasted Lamb with Carrots and Peas Rice Croquettes with Cheese Sauce Apricot Parfait and Supper options. Detailed recipes describe Rice Croquettes and Cheese Sauce with steps and ingredients. Hints to Housekeepers cover simple ice cream Pepper Grass and a meal in steels using whole wheat oats and cream.
Nature Brings Her Rarest Brews for Health and Joy
A vintage ad extols ELICIOUS fruit drinks as wholesome thirst quenchers for summer. It suggests serving with crushed ice in fancy glasses, with grape juice punches, and mixes like grape juice with ginger ale or grape jelly dessert formulas. It also describes a grape gelatin cream dessert and notes the drinks’ strong neutral taste.
Warm Clothing for Babies in Hot Weather Cited as Cause of Ills
Dorothy Dolan warns that overbundling babies in heat causes illness. Dress infants lightly with diapers and thin shirts, use soft breathable fabrics, and avoid starch. For sleeping, nightwear should differ from daytime wear, and care includes clean bottles and strict hygiene to prevent diarrheal diseases.
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Dorothy Dolan
Ate
Baby
Plain Helen Chooses Home Over Worldly Love
An admired suitor named Tom proposes to Helen who rejects him citing a home-maker ideal. She explains she values family, domestic life, and practical aims over romance and social pleasures. They marry others, demonstrating common sense and compatible ambitions matter most in lasting partnerships.
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Thig
Tom
Jill
Helen
Outdoor Sports For The Girl Who Works
Encourages women to improve health and work performance through swimming tennis and golf. Advises learning a proper grip and form, practicing against a wall, and playing with better players to learn. Warns against timidity and wasting time on heavy clubs or neglecting putting in golf.
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Yousuodda Amoé
Wieel
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