Wedding Roses Reveal a Hospital Gaffe and a Wife’s Spotless Grace
A comedy of misread signals unfolds in a doctor's office as roses from an admirer spark a playful scene between Dr. Jason and his wife. Brown misreads the gesture while Mrs. Jason arrives to claim the blooms, and the two men swap roles in a lighthearted swap of attentions. In a separate vignette, a father-scolded robin tale reveals a child’s innocent grudge against birds and a rambunctious line about “kill ’em all.”
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Jason
Brown
Dad
Seroes
Remy Brown
Mrs. Jason
New York Press
Archie
Robin
Poor Old Bird and Other Quips From Seven Papers
A collection of short humorous exchanges and oddities from Catholic Standard and Times New York Sun and Baltimore American. Features a temperance hen worried about eggnog, a telegraph boy’s parade effect, baseball players summer plans, church saints and Easter hats, a playful debate over money and pay, and a child’s joke about cat-nepa.
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Catholic Standard and Times
Bocker
New York Sun
How to Sew a Circular Skirt With a Nine Inch Hem
A brief craft note explains folding and stitching steps to create a circular skirt with a ten inch hem. It emphasizes aligning hems perpendicular to the fold and maintaining even gathers for a smooth finish.
Ornate embroidery design for gaunt sandals and blouse
The text details a decorative embroidery pattern featuring narrow soutache braid, curved U shapes on a skirt hem, and carved lines forming scrolls. It describes using flowers with petals in eyelet or satin stitches, links to satin and French knot fills, and extending the motif to the blouse and sleeves with sprays centered along the bodice and shoulder areas.
Linen trimming and insertion patterns for blouses and skirts
Textile details describe braiding, embroidery, and banding to trim a blouse and skirt with sprays, scrolls, vines, and lace, using five to six yards of three to four inch wide banding, plus inserting lace with careful hemming and stitching. A final note lists vanilla junket and hal es ready for serving.
Inside the King's Wardrobe A Royal Tailor’s Precision and History
The article details the Wardrobe’s clerks and Chandler's duties, from checking accounts and fees to approving uniforms. It notes the careful scrutiny by the Superintendent, the prestige of royal names on books, and a famed anecdote about the Star of the Indian Empire placement. The King’s uniforms are stored in mahogany wardrobes, each four outfits per unit and logged by numbered pages.
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Pate Chandler’s
Royal War
Chandler
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Europe
Edw
All Hallows Barking Shrine Draws Cosmopolitan Pilgrims
A London shrine among minor churches, All Hallows Barking by the Tower attracts many overseas sightseers after St Pauls. Visitors from China, Australia, New Zealand, America, India, and Johannesburg join locals in tracing its historic ties to Barking Abbey. The site, burial place for figures like De Fine Richard lion hearted, the Earl of Surrey, Bishop Fisher and Laud, blends ancient associations with modern pilgrimage. A World War incident recalls a war correspondent in camp seeking French and misadventures with a dismounted rider and a pie.
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London
All Hallows, Barking
The
Tower
Barking
Essex
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Oversea
China
Australia
New Zealand
America
India
Johannesburg
Edward I
de Fine -Richard
Earl of Surrey
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Wndrher
Bears
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Hamor
Witte
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Solan
Boone
Marys
Cowans
Baby Park
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the Cowan Co., Limited
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Reseves
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