Dining Room Arrangements and Adornment Feature
A feature on women and home topics highlights stylish dining room layouts and adornments. It surveys charming garments and decor such as jaunty coats, luncheon outfits, scarfs, and coverlets, reflecting domestic fashion and hospitality trends.
We Walk Apart in the Boston Transcript
A lyrical poem by Mary Devereaux appears in the Boston Transcript. The speaker laments walking apart from a beloved, contrasting sunset glow with dawn and morning light as years loom ahead.
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Evermore
Mary Devereaux
Boston ‘Transcript
New Fancies in Toilet Scarfs and Bulgarian Design Sets
Scarfe and Coveriets showcase toilet scarfs with green satin appliques and pink pin cushions. Bulgarian and Russian designs charm with bold neutral colors, while Indian silk coverlets with lambs wool edging rise for bed decor. Luncheon gowns feature Delft and spade ware displays.
The Skin Should Be Mealthy and Youthful
A healthful complexion rests on a clean face and vigorous rubbing with a camel hair brush. Scrub with soap and water, apply skin food, and rinse. Daily baths and regular exercise sustain freshness, with the athletic woman retaining her youthful bloom longer.
The Dining Room Ideals for a Cheerful Home
The article discusses how women prize large dining rooms with oak furniture and china, advising on floor care, color schemes, plants, and light touches. It emphasizes making the dining room a homelike living space with a dainty, confident decorative taste and family portraits.
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New Orleans Picayune
Delft
Ornate Persian Lamb Hat With Feathers and Buckles
Description of a ladies hat in Persian lamb with ermine trim. It features black velvet, white panels, large black and white feathers, and is fastened by two steel buckles.
Food Storage Flaws Endanger Household Poisoning Risk
A physician calls for practical scrutiny of food storage conditions. Poor pantry placement, damp ceilings and inadequate ventilation foster mold and contamination. Faulty yard pavement allows filth to soak into soil, creating breeding grounds for pathogens and increasing virulence.
Wise mother guides daughter’s reading toward reality
The statement urges mothers to supervise daughters reading so as to prevent fiction from shaping harmful life views. It emphasizes careful selection of literature to foster grounded understanding and moral guidance.
Trained Motherhood Urges Caution On Sensational Reading
The piece argues heavy sensational reading erodes memory and intellect, claiming habitual novel readers lose trained thinking, punctu ality declines, and selfishness rises, harming domestic happiness despite high gifts. It warns against sentimental fiction dulling the mind and weakening maternal training.
Beet Salad and Classic Desserts From Our Cooking School
Beet Salad combines boiled beets chopped with cabbage and hot horseradish, dressed to taste. Plum Pudding uses bread, butter, raisins, milk and spices then steamed two and a half hours with a custard-like sauce. Cocoanut cake uses a milk and coconut sugar mixture with corn starch glaze. Turkey Celery Sauce provides a stuffing with celery crumbs and eggs. boiled in cloth parcel with flour-wrapped turkey for three hours, plus 12 minutes per extra pound. Oysters may replace or accompany stuffing and sauce.
Tailor Made Man Eustace Kehogan Meets Aurelia Montravers
A humorous Christmas vignette follows Eustace Kehogan a fashionable dresser as he hopes to meet Aurelia Montravers. He debates social seating and fashion pride with sharp dialogue about clothes love and public perception before a late night reunion and a final song under the mistletoe. The Haberdasher promotes gloves hats and attire as symbols of status.
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Eustace Kehogan
Aurelia Montravers
Congress
Ansonia
Sarah
Eustace
Artists’ Society
Mose Levy
Then She Went Out. Philadelphia Bulletin
Tom asks to be the light of her life and is turned down, in a brief dialogue presented in the Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Philadelphia
Tom
World Christmastide Celebration Planned for 1900
A global Christmas event is planned for 1900 starting with the Peace and Liberty Bell in Jerusalem. The ceremony envisions telegraphic and cable connections tying congregations worldwide as the bell rings and the doxology chorus proclaims Peace on earth. Leaders prepare for what is described as the greatest Christian demonstration in history.
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Jerusalem
Peace Bell
Holy Land
Christendom
Earth
Christmas Gift Dilemma Over A White Hand
A lighthearted exchange frames a holiday mom approach as a speaker seeks gift ideas for a man who has many items already. The recurring question highlights the search for a surprising present beyond common items. The answer arrives with the humorous resolve that a white hand will be his Christmas gift.
Christmas Influences and Tiny Tin’s Subtle Feast
The passage reflects on Christmas influences shaping taste and meaning. It speaks of a fusion of novelist and churchman, the Christianmastice leaven changing ordinary things into extraordinary, making peace and joy in Christmas gifts and gatherings.
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Christianmastice
Corny Santa Joke Sparks Christmas Day Giggles
A playful child suggests Santa would fear popping corns if his feet faced a hot chimney fire. The lighthearted quip captures festive humor and family amusement as Christmas cheer fills the scene.
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Santa Claus
Grandpa