Milk-Worth White Sauce Uses And Methods From hoseholdHints
Household Hints from the United States Food Administration explains milk white sauce as a base for soups croquettes and desserts and outlines two methods with varying fat and thickening amounts. It provides proportions for thin medium and thick sauces and notes timing keeping warm in a double boiler.
Motherhood and Selfishness in a Childless World
A reader letters column argues women avoid motherhood as selfish and vain, praising childrearing's joys and fitness benefits while condemning older women and poor families. Another correspondent recalls youthful hesitation, later longing, and wartime separation, urging sisters to cherish children before loss and regret.
Soldier’s Flag in the Window Poem Vision
A wartime poem recalls a blue star flag in a cottage window far from battle. The speaker imagines home in France and vows to charge the Bosie with steel and resolve, seeing the flag as more than a medal, a symbol of pride and sacrifice.
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Tam
France
Billy
Bill
War Time Recipes of New England Housewives
Wartime cooking guidance from The Sunday Post featuring peanut and rice creamed dish and bean tomato stew with rice. Includes pea souffle and notes on substitutions using barley flour or corn starch and salt pork for flavor. Recipes yield five to six portions with bread and fruit dessert.
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Sewing Circle
New England
Dear Miss Champagne Engagements in Wartime Letters
A reader asks if a yearlong romance with four meetings qualifies as an engagement while the man goes to war. The adviser notes the absence of a ring and clear commitment and urges preserving patriotic duties and cautious expectations until a more definite pledge is made.
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Miss X
Sibyl
Miss Champagne
Benn Pitman and the spread of Pitman shorthand
A compact portrait traces Benn Pitman born 1822 near Bath to Isaac Pitman’s system. Benn popularized phonography in America after emigrating to Dayton then Cincinnati. He lectured across the British Isles, organized classes, and helped expand the method amid Civil War service and postwar publishing.
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Benn Pitman
Isaac Pitman
Benn
America
England
Bath
Isaac
Pitman Brothers
British Isles
Dayton
Far West
Cincinnati
Fashion Notes on Summer Dress Trends and Fabrics
The heavier summer dress is trimmed with narrow knitted braid. Sleeveless sweaters appear dainty in pale silk colors. Girdles feature upturned flying ends creating pockets for knitting. Blue serge dresses suit small women with short waists and pleated skirts. A black serge suit pairs with a white crepe blouse and white faille waistcoat.
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Georgette
Faille
Lifebuoy Health Soap Promises Cleanse and Skin Wellness
Lifebuoy soap forms a rich creamy lather and cleanses the skin thoroughly. The product claims to carry antiseptic properties into the pores, purifying the skin and counteracting acids and impurities. It emphasizes a unique health odor, not a fragrance, to signal its skin benefits and urges readers to buy at grocery or drug stores and start using it today.
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