Cave Women and Men Work Debate Stirs Banquet
Miss Gail Laughlin of San Francisco, national president of the New York State Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs, argues that labor roles evolved from cave times. She cites Kipling and Otis Mason to show women pioneered in industry, while men later moved into many fields. The talk ends with a call that work is not a matter of sex as women continue in professional and industrial roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
Gail Laughlin
San Francisco
Miss Laughlin
New York Tribune
New York
Kipling
Mr. Kipling
England
France
Otis T. Mason
United States National Museum
Court of Appeals
New England
Philippine Islands
Europe
Wellesley
Cornell University
Colorado
Lilacs and a Lady Love Story in a Spring Evening
Peggy faces a confession of love from Gordon Wilson, her longtime friend, as he declares his feelings during a moonlit drive home from a dance and asks if Peggy would marry him, rejecting Jim Winter's wealth and status. Anne fuels the matchmaking with teasing support.
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Gordon Wilson
Anne
Gordon
Peggy
Peg
F Street
Podunk
Romantic
Jim Winter
Jim
Bud
Boxwood
Stevenson praised American food and scenery in letters
Nellie Vandegrift Sanchez cites Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1879 80 travels and his comments on U S food stockings and states. He praised Monterey baking powder biscuits hot tamales meat stew and red peppers he admired western states and pine forests the Pacific missions the California sky and twenty dollar gold pieces. He noted Latin pronunciation by Indians at church and praised Francis Parkman as historian and Dixie and Marching Through Georgia as songs while disliking Home Sweet Home.
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Nellie Vandegrift Sanchez
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson
England
New York
Monterey
Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne
United States
Sidney Colvin
Arizona
Colorado
Pine Forest
Pacific Coast
California
Francis Parkman
Georgia
Home
Plucking Oranges Is An Art In Fruit Harvest
Orange gathering demands skill and care as pickers on tall ladders prune each fruit by hand. Sharp knives sever the stem while keeping the orange intact to prevent decay, with bags slung over shoulders collecting the picked fruit.
Flowers and charms to ward off witches myths
The piece notes beliefs across cultures about warding witches with plants. It cites May hawthorn in England and herbs hung over doors, suggests timing for burning, and mentions Dutch folk who advise carrying a four leaf clover on Christmas Eve to test these superstitions.
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England
Gorze
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