Advice on marrying for Sears Circle readers and home life
The Sewing Circle editor offers weekly payments for best letters and invites women readers to submit problems or comments. A long exchange follows with multiple contributors advising One Who Wants to Marry to prioritize homemaking, cooking, and staying at home, while balancing work and social life, and stressing home influence as key to marital happiness.
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Julia
Sisters of the Sewing Circle
Lyman Abbot
Boston
Everyday Day Etiquette and Hosting Advice
Guidance on dining posture and hosting style urges forks in the right hand and bread in the left. It emphasizes attentive service and smooth meal planning to project poise and control during a dinner. It also notes proper address for widows as Mrs. Thomas J. L. J. rather than Mrs. Mary.
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Mary B. J
Thomas Ll. J
Mrs J
Remarkable Show Impresses as Betty Plans Another
The production thrives with no stage fright and higher than expected earnings. Liiis Betty arrives excited to propose a second act while the scene shifts to beachwear in white silk with burnt orange accents. The outfit features two silk panels, a black knitted sash, and blue worsted embroidery.
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Liiis
Betty
Songs of Sunshine by the Bentztown Bard
A short verse from Songs of Sunshine notes the value of clouds and shadow to heighten sweetness of life. The Bentztown Bard reflects on sunshine, storms, and the enduring light within despite weather.
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Southern Press
SynJisata
Southern Press Syndicate
Fashion Notes on Tunics and Accessories
Tunics remain common and versatile in wear with tricot over satin. A pink batiste hat with French knot embroidery suits afternoon or evening occasions. A mull dress features a lace insertion bow tie with long pointed ends. A net motor veil showcases a velvet band large enough to double as a cape.
Isle of the Long Ago Poem Fragment and Dream
A reflective poem invites readers to a magical isle named Long Ago along the River Time. It evokes seasons, memories, and lost treasures, with imagery of beauty, relics, and voices from days gone by, ending with a wish for a green soul Greenwood in sight.
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Isle
She's Human Too A Shopgirl's Quiet Struggle in 1918 Canada
A poem by Wilhelmina Stitch from 1918 Canada notes the fatigue of a salesgirl beside exhausted customers. It contrasts consumer weariness with the staffer constant smile and duty, imagining her hopes for gentler, kinder days and a future moment of personal joy.
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Brother Bert
Wilhelmina Stitch
Canada
Miss Champagne Advises Against Scheming for a Suitor
A reader asks how to win a summer resort man away from his girlfriend. Miss Champagne argues against targeting another woman and notes that beauty is subjective. She contends that attracting a man hinges on his tastes, not deception.
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Miss Champagne
Mitzi
Grape Conserve Recipe From War Time Notes
War Time Recipes of New England Housewives presents a grape conserve using stale bread soaked and squeezed, butter, molasses, salt, cinnamon, baking soda, flour and raisins. Steam 11 to 12 or 2 hours. Submitted by Mrs. E Goodwin Wells Beach Me.
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New England
E. Goodwin
Wells Beach
Birthday bio briefs on Sir Edward Burne Jones
The article outlines the life of Sir Edward Burne Jones born near Birmingham England. It notes his early love of myth and classic tales his study under Rossetti and Ruskin and his romantic idealistic painting. It mentions his works The Golden Stairs The Merci ful Knight and Love Among the Ruins and his death in Exeter in 1898.
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Edward Burne-Jones
Birmingham
England
Rossetti
Italy
Ruskin
Burne-Jones
Burleson organizes vast national telephone and telegraph system
Postmaster-General Burleson forms a national plan uniting over 75 million miles of wires. Edison Ford Hurley and Burroughs join a camping trip with Burroughs the naturalist. A Paris programme for the crown prince invites staff to hear a July 11 Eiffel Tower address, but General Foch was not consulted. Clarence Smedley Thompson and Mrs. Gertrude Atherton seek the expulsion of William Bayard Hale from the Authors' society.
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Thomas A. Edison
Henry Ford
Edward N. Hurley
John Burroughs
Burroughs
Prussia
Eiffel Tower
Foch
Clarence Smedley Thompson
Gertrude Atherton
William Bayard Hale
Prominent figures and names in a fragmented column
The column mentions Dr Hale and potential expulsion over pro German activity. It notes Pat Harrison’s role in Mississippi Senate election, clarifies Pat is not Patrick. Marshal Foch praises the Bible Society. Women may enter U S mall service as letter carriers. A Foreign Legion soldier Gordon Starr set a 215 foot grenade throw. Vermont gubernatorial hopefuls listed. The Marquis Londonderry full name is Charles Stewart Henry Vane Tempest Stewart. Parnell’s full name given.
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Pat” Harrison
Senator Vardaman
Senate
Mississippi
Pat Harrison
Pat
Patrick
Marquis of
Londonderry
Charles Stewart
Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart
Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
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The excerpt presents a reflective meditation on daily life, balancing work and worry with an imagined expansive freedom through books and dreams. It contrasts a simple blue and white dress with the idea of a complete, coordinated outfit as a metaphor for personal expression.
Lifebuoy Health Soap Promises Clear Skin Benefits
Lifebuoy Health Soap is advertised to cleanse pores deeply through a rich lather and antiseptic content. The ad claims daily use keeps skin clear and healthy by purifying pores and counteracting perspiration acids, with a distinctive hygienic odor. Lever Bros. Co. Cambridge Mass.
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M. Payne
Neveder
Metebe
Getter
Corprmant
Dorothy
The
Isle of the
Long Ago
Benjamin Franklin Taylor
Wilhelmina
Mildred Champagne
Sunday Post
Lucy Lee
Lexington Avenue
Cambridge
E. J. Hickey & Co
Friend St
North Station
Edward Burne Jones
Exeter
Arthur
Avalon
Burleson
Start
League
Marshal Foch
American Bible Society
the Society
Mall
United States
T. J. Costello
Springfield
Gordon Starr
Foreign Legion
Vermont
Percival W. Clement
Rutland Herald
Charles H. Darling
Burlington News
Frank E. Howe
Bennington Banner
Space
Rane
Lever Bros. Co
Cambridge, Mass
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