Seasoned A La Cora Brings Cheer To Tight Budget Evening
Cora Brown reflects on strained finances amid high prices and strikes while caring for Chester and children. A neighbor visit prompts talk of dresses and recipes as the couple returns home to a wholesome supper. She notes a new “seasoned” approach blending love and cheer.
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Cora Brown
Chester
Dudley
Cora
Mary
Fred
Chester Brown
Edith
Mr. Brown
Nora
Arnold
Bill
Etiquette and Manners: Bride Gift Etiquette
Miss Alice Stuart explains wedding gift etiquette for brides. Only intimate friends and relatives may present gifts in person, while others should send gifts to the bride’s home with a polite sentiment. Introductions follow age and relational norms between the sexes.
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Alice Stuart
Rippling Rehymes by Walt Mason: An Old Truth
A verse on repeating lessons to curb forgetfulness and urge thrift. It recalls wartime wealth saltings, postwar splurges, and urges weekly saving to avoid ruin. The piece mocks lavish spending as society drifts toward the waiting place, urging prudence.
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Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Have You Written to Mother Poem Advice
A poem urges a son to write to his mother, recalling her blessing words and loving care. It counsels keeping faith, living a pure life, and keeping prayer as a beacon to guide him far from sin. The speaker pleads not to forget a mother’s patient love and the cost of silence.
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Olst
God
Mother
Robin
Dutton
Mediterranean
Our Sea
Ulysses Ferragut
Ferragut
Ulysses
Pompeii
Freya Talberg
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Hugo
Four Horsemen
Booth Tarkington
Ramsey Milholland
Doubleday
Page
Mr. Tarkington
Ramsey
France
Dora Yocum
Dora
Julian Street
Shelley Wickett
Molly
Wickett
Small
Maynard
Violet Irwin
Maurice Weyl
Kennerley
Asenath McBride
Asenath
James Rawlings
Harold Larned
Harold
David Vallery
Scribner
Francis Lynde
David
Nalbro-Bartley
Anne of Green Gables
Rainbow Valley
Stokes
Anne
Prince Edward Islands
L. Montgomery
Starling
Bobbs, Merrill
Juliet Wilbur Thompkins
Sarah Cawthorne
Sarah
Moffat
Yard
Mary Imlay Taylor
Henry James
Diane Herford
Simon Overton
Arthur Faunce
Diane
Arthur
Overton
Rtg
Diane Co
Home Loving Husbands Prefered Over Dancers
Readers debate whether a husband who stays at home with family or a man who frequents dances makes the better spouse. A chorus argues home-loving men provide stability, sleep, and attentive parenting, while dancers risk loneliness and missed work. The column urges marrying a home-loving partner for lasting happiness.
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Sewing Circle
Home Life Advice From The Sewing Circle Letters
Readers discuss home harmony and gender roles in a Sewing Circle exchange. Letters urge unselfishness at home, criticize modern dancing trends, and advocate traditional family duties with emphasis on fathers’ involvement and mothers’ care. Letters call for steadiness, patience, and domestic dedication.
Questions and Answers on War Speeches and History
A reader queries origins of the Red Cross symbol saying it has no religious meaning noting the Geneva Convention of 1864 established the hospital flag. The paper answers the flag is reversed Swiss flag, no religious significance.
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Red Cross
Geneva
Switzerland
Household Hints From Mrs Alice E R Hubbs
A column of practical tips covers entertaining a convalescing child with a cardboard sheep game, scenting a sick room with lavender or citronella, drying towels on a radiator, matching mintyial trim on dresses, pin placement on hat brims for correct alignment, easing cake icing, and removing glass stoppers with oil.
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Alice ER. Hubbs
Washington Street
Forest Hills
The Cheerful Cherub I Shine TM in Conversation
A brief note discusses the cheerful cherub motif found in a product name. The item signals a branding effort and involves a conversational context with the phrase I Shine.
Mare Nostrum and Other Tales Dominate New Library Picks
Alfred S. Clark surveys recent fiction and nonfiction, praising Ibanez’s Mare Nostrum and contrasting it with Wodehouse Their Mutual Child Tarkington Ramsey Milholland and others. The column notes May Sinclair Mary Olivier The Choice Dudley Spriggles and more, with fashion and society notes toward the end.
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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Boni & Liverright
Lora Delane Porter
Kirk Winfield
Ruth Bannister
Ruth
Mary
Miss Sinclair
Appleton
E. Lawrence Dudley
Mr. Dudley
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Lydia L. Roberts
Marshall St
Winthrop
Wile
Gell
Whteres
Rocession
Pops
Jane Ronalson
Hubby
Bhrlin
Mildred Champagne
Miss Champagne
Daily Post
Ambiguo
Knights of Labor
New York City
United States
Arizona
North Dakota
New Mexico
District of Columbia
U. S
Americage
Sir
Lusitania
Atlantic
Jefferson Davis
Confederate States
H. S. Jefferson Davis
Europe
Roi Cane
the World of Books
Alfred S. Clark
May Sinclair
Love
Mirabelle
Pamipeluna
Colette Yver
Lucy Humphrey Smith
Louise Duval
Henri
Louise
Pampeluna
David Morton
Everybody’s Magazine
Mrs. Curtiss
New England
Dave
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