New Window Curtains Give Crisp Look
Article advises women to replace dirty winter curtains before warm weather. It outlines simple methods to sew glass curtains, including measuring windows, cutting on the floor, and using materials like net, marquisette, scrim, or sheer fabrics for easy, washable drapes.
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Curtain Making From The Old Cloth Handling Guide
Practical seamstress tips for curtains including tearing or cutting fabric, preserving grain, removing selvage, ironing, hemming, and fittings. Instructions cover top heading stiffening with buckram, pleats, buckram eyelets, and shrinkage options.
Beware of Over-Cultivation in The Garden Spot
Eldred E Green warns gardeners against overworking soil and overplanting. He advises loosening clay soils, spacing plantings, using mulch to curb weeds, and rotating tasks to prevent burn out. He covers soil preparation, watering, fertilizing with manure or balanced formulas, and pest control with combination products.
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Silk prints revive for resort wear with new small scale patterns
Silk prints return as a major trend with higher quality and classic lines. Polka dots stay popular while new small scale patterns offer refreshed visuals. The silky hand enables original color interpretations, and many designs remain low cut.
Exaggerated Self-Pity Is Poison in Family Letters
A Kathleen Norris column argues that readers overemphasize imagined parental slights as causes of lifelong disorder. She cites a long letter about a father’s death, a mother’s remarriage, and two daughters, noting how psychoanalysis can misplace blame and encourage dwelling on the past.
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U.S. Preserves World Heritage Through Global Microfilming
The Library of Congress runs labs in Mexico City and Japan to photograph thousands of historical documents. A planned project targets medieval manuscripts at St. Catherine's Monastery in Palestine. George T. Smuser notes U.S. cooperation with the State Department to safeguard heritage records worldwide.
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Columbus landfall on San Salvador in Bahamas
Questions and answers cover Columbus landing site in 1492 as San Salvador in the Bahamas, with limited context and phrasing reflecting a quiz style.
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