Dear Sewing Circle Letters on American wives and gender roles
A trio of readers reply to Vicente Blasco Ibanez and each other on the idea of cave man treatment in marriage. They defend American wives independence, critique the notion of male dominance, and discuss love, work, and personal choice among modern women.
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Sylvester
Sewing Circle
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Pine Tree
Dirigo
Ibanez
Carolyne
Hyde
Mr. Hyde
Poems for Your Scrap Book Life's Tangled Skein
Life's tangled skein prompts the reader to persevere with humor and acceptance. The poem suggests not overthinking life’s puzzles and to embrace life as a pleasant institution.
Simple New England Home Cookery Notes and Recipes
A collage of quick kitchen tips and recipes from Mrs. Everett D. Wilson Mrs. Tibbetts Old Orchard Me and Urville F Bryant Wollaston Ma detailing frying batter cakes a sugarless pudding smothered ham and kidney beans with brown sauce including ingredients steps and serving ideas for home cooks.
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Everett D. Wilson
New Market
N. H
A. M. Tibbetts
Old Orchard
A Lucky Turn of Fate in a Humble Egg Letter
Molly writes her name on an egg hoping for a note from a city beau. A misaddressed egg reaches Joseph Draper Mills, a 42 year old widower, who replies with humor. Six months later Molly marries Mills and serves dinner as they toast luck.
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Joe Mills
Molly Smith
Moll
Martin
Molly
Maing
Joseph Draper Mills
Joe
Household Hints for Practical Home Maintenance
Various thrifty tips include removing tar with a penny and cleaning windows with a chamois. Use old felt as shoe soles, replace glove clasps with snaps or buttons, crochet an edge on fabric, trim old carpets for door mats, and use saved fats for cooking. A drop of vanilla enhances hot chocolate. Miss Evangeline Liston. 68 Central Street Stoneham.
Dream meanings explored in a light series
An intro to a short series on dream significance notes that modern readers doubt their importance. It explains that the piece aims to present olden time meanings as an interesting topic, not as belief.
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McCluren
Rus
Did You Dream of Giants
Mysticus explains dream interpretations of giants including seeing a giant predicts good fortune or danger depending on the outcome. Overcoming a giant signals great success but implies struggle to achieve it. A Cyclops dream forewarns luck and longevity, while a giant at work indicates ongoing activity or threat.
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Cyclops
Dream omen of giants foreshadows worries or fame
The text notes that friends watching out for you warn that an angry giant signals temporary troubles caused by your own fault or carelessness. If the giant carries a club you may gain local celebrity and perhaps a public office or position of honor among your peers.
Cheese Straws Canapes and Hoecakes Recipe Notes
A recipe fragment lists Cheese Straws with flour cheese butter salt and baking powder mixed with water baked until light brown. Cheese Canapes describe bread rounds topped with cheese salt pepper and melted under a flame. A note signs Mrs Donnelly at 44 Portsmouth Street Cambridge and begins Hoecakes with cornmeal mix salt baking powder yolks milk whites beaten stiff.
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Fancy
Handler & Co
Whandler
Tremont Street
R.h.white Co
Gusdle Guilar
Yvette Service
Urville F. Bryant
Davis Street
Wollaston
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Maurice Ketten
The
Sunday Post
Shirley Symonds
Thorndike Heights
Portland, Me
Edison Electric
Mysticus
New England
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Boston 8
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Norfolk
Boy Scouts
Sygate
Revelano
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