Simple Life Ethos and Self-Improvement Quote
A fragmentary civic note reflects on living simply and honestly with emphasis on thrift, careful speech, trusted service, and faith. It also mentions spring greens and watercress as healthful, and urges personal reform before judging others.
Rabbit Dishes and Garnishes Feature in Domestic Cookery
Recipes for Larded Rabbit Baked in Milk and Hasenpfeffer guide preparation with pork fat, milk, and veal broth. Cardinal Pears with sponge cake and currant jelly are described, plus olive oil soaked olives and parsley prep. Ends with a moral reflection on unselfish sharing.
Springtime Foods for Health and Liver Support
The article urges a spring diet of vegetables and greens to revitalize sluggish bodies, favoring olive oil, dandelion, cowslipy, spinach, Swiss chard, pepper grass, and lettuce. It extols fresh foods over medicines and notes exercise as crucial after winter inactivity. Early radishes can be grown in hotbeds or glass-covered beds.
Delicate Vegetables and Cooked Dishes for Invalids
The guide lists tender vegetables like asparagus tips and green onions for dainty sickroom meals. It describes recipes such as glazed sweetbreads with beef broth, shredded cabbage salad, and flaked eggs on toast, plus a note on using nutmeg and optional sparrow pie as bird meat in hard times.
Wartime Cookery: Hearty Hominy and Shipped Dishes
Wartime guidance on making substantial meals from hominy with cream and sugar suitable for breakfast or dessert. Recipes include potted hominy and meat with chicken, and dishes like rice with peas and tomatoes, and fish casserole using pickerel or carp with vinegar, onions, bay leaf, and lemon baked until tender.
Weatherproof coats and knitwear for the stylish woman
The article showcases rainproof and weatherproof coats in military and practical styles with features like patch pockets, convertible collars, and long lines. It also highlights machine and hand knit sweaters for sports wear, including fitted slips, angora trim, hooded details, and versatile coats for varying warmth.
Weatherproof fashion and workwear patterns noted
The article reviews rainproof coats and hats in double-breasted, satin, and patent leather styles, plus new sweater designs and colors. It highlights weather-ready fabrics and accessories for sports and mature women, and ends with a note that thirty khaki trousered women work as pipefitters in a New Jersey chemical plant.
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New Jersey
Lip Reading Romance Wins Magazine Scoop
Vernon Montgomery, a feature writer, enrolls in a deaf school to research lip reading and falls for Ivy Sterling, a deaf pupil. The plot twists as he writes a love story and discovers Ivy is the author who scooped him, revealing their mutual feelings and a humorous confrontation.
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Vernon Montgomery
Vernon
Ivy Sterling
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Pity, Gut Tie Net Se in Alabama Perverse Times
A terse, era voice from Seattle Post-Intelligencer remarks that if raising cane in Alabama were easier, the world would be sweeter, noting a biting social observation with regional flavor.
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Alabama
Cale
Seattle
Vapor Baths in Lapland by Frank Hedges Butler
In Lapland the bathhouse is a two room wooden structure with an oven of heated stones. Visitors undress, sit to rest, then endure intense steam as water is thrown on red hot stones. Attendants whip with green twigs, then wash with soap and cold water.
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Frank Hedges Butler
Lapps
Jokes Highlight Mable Fire Drill Anecdote
The American essayist Hamilton W. Mable recalled a school visit where a fire drill routine prompted students to respond with their standard marching-out line when told he would speak. The tale showcases Mable's self-deprecating humor about his own reputation.
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Hamilton W. Mable
Mr. Mable
Philadelphia
Thiga
Tact and Charm Dinner Conversation Guide
The passage extols tact and charm in social dining, urging avoidance of disagreeable topics and personal burdens. It emphasizes giving full attention to the speaker, maintaining interest, and concentrating on both speaking and listening to maintain polite, formal etiquette.
Moon superstition among Hindus and Egyptians
The passage notes a belief that mice carry to the moon among Hindus and Egyptiana. De Gubernatis cites a pagan war god crushing the night mouse underfoot. It adds proverbs about mice when the cat is away and shadows dancing in moonless nights.
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de Gubernatis
Daily Thought on Sowing and Love by Bulet
The meditation asserts that justice follows personal action and that love elevates beyond strict fairness. It frames life as a season of growth where shadow and blossom arise from our own planting.
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George Bulet
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