The Unconquerable Advice On Women's Work
Miss Phelps in St Nicholas urges girls to pursue work seriously for pay. The piece notes that half finished crafts fail commercially, false sentiments aside, and stresses that value received drives buyer decisions over friendship or pity. It laments women’s incomplete labor and calls for training and professional standards.
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Miss Phelps
St. Nicholas
Sorrento
Schiller Club
Schiller
Patchwork Crochet and Patchwork Craze Feature
A January Delineator piece explains a brass ring fringe for mantels and crochet lace patterns for window treatments, with detailed crochet instructions. It also recounts readers’ patchwork debates and gives long guidance on crazy quilts including fabric sorting, foundation work, piecing in squares or stripes, and embroidery touches for fans and rosettes.
Millinery and Fabric Trends for Spring and Summer
The article surveys spring and summer fashion with bow decorations on sashes, wide ribbons, and airy fabrics. It notes new millinery moyenage influences, watered silks, etamine, surah trims, and vivid greens like reseda. It also blends culinary reflections on flavor with a digressive critique of taste evolution.
Glooskap Confronts the Unbeaten Wasis in Legend
In the Algonquin tale, Glooskap fails to conquer the baby Wasis who sits content with maple sugar. The master uses spells, but the child resists, leaving Wasis triumphant, and the legend notes the baby as the only invincible being. The tale ends with the moral that a contented baby remains unconquered.
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New England
Charles G. Leland
Glooskap
Ule
Wasis
Baby
Girne
Fancy-Wor k Rugs From Woollen Ribbons In Home Craft
Fancy work describes making durable floor rugs from woollen strips using strong needles to handle weight. With careful color combinations they suit most rooms and can be finished with homemade fringe or pinked broadcloth edges. Rugs are quick to make, resist linting, and can be turned when worn on one side.
Pine Needle Cushions Trend In Parlors And Beds
Cushions stuffed with pine, hemlock and spruce gain favor as fragrant, useful ornaments. They aid lung troubles and headaches. Pine boughs trimmed, needles stripped, and small spruce pieces fill muslin and silk covers. A pine-green satin variant features Dream of the Forest in old-gold embroidery and pine cone motifs.
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Forest
Quick Hood Knitting Method with Trimmed Ends
A fast method to knit a hood begins with casting about fifty stitches and knitting plain or star stitch. Knit a piece eighteen inches long then split stitches onto a cord, continue the other half a yard long, and mirror the second piece. Bind with a bow matching the ribbon, tassel ends, and narrow to a point. The plain piece goes on the head while the two pieces tie under the chin.
Useful Nepkin Rings Crochet From Old Gold Cord
Crochet nepkin rings from old macrame cord and varnish to make them glossy and stiff. Work baskets paper baskets and whisk broom holders become durable and pretty, brightened with ribbons.
Pretty Lamp Shades and Walnut Furniture Care
Very Pretty Lamp Shades may be made of crimson satin covered with white lace and caught here and there with tiny bows. Do How to Clean Walnut Furniture. When oiled walnut furniture begins to grow dingy, it can be made to look as fresh as new by reoiling. Linseed, or even olive oil, can be used, but pure, good kerosene oil is much the best. Rub in veil with a woollen rag, and polish with clean, dry flannel.
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Eva M. Niles
D.c
S. c
D. c
Shell
S.c
Gulng Wild
Wilist
Barrow
Sarah
Paris
Worth
Bazar
Fars
Berlin
Crefeld
St. Huberte
Crefield
Good Cookery a Flower of Evolution
A commentary on modern cookery noting a scarcity of simple flavors as recipes grow complex and blended. The author laments the loss of straightforward tastes amid overloaded dishes and hints at a return to purer culinary roots.
Ammonia the housekeeper’s friend and cleaner
Ammonia is cheaper than soap and cleans all touched surfaces from kettles to silverware. It removes grease after a ten minute soak, brightens paint and fabrics, cleans drains, and cools skin in sponge baths. Used with care it disinfects, polishes, and even nourishes plants when the waste water is reused.
Seven Tents of Dinner Soup and Economy in Meals
The text argues for starting meals with soup to save meat costs and use scraps, noting soups provide nutrition and comfort. A growing child benefits from small portions, and a little soup can stave hunger quickly, restoring stomach tone and aiding digestion per Cassell's Magazine.
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Cassell
Snow as Egg Substitute in Cake Mix
A reader describes using one cup sour cream one cup sweet milk one and a half cups sugar one teaspoon soda and one cup light feathery snow instead of the egg. The snow is stirred in just before the flour and some neighbors use it for other kinds of cake.
Recipe for Sugar Butter Cream Caramel Cake
A simple batter combines one cup sugar one half cup butter creamed, half cup sweet milk three eggs with two whites reserved for frosting, two teaspoons cream of tartar one teaspoon baking soda and two cups flour. The method promises a light cake that comes off the pan easily.
Brains in Breadcrumbs and Frying Method
The recipe describes washing brains, soaking until white, mincing, dredging in flour then egg and breadcrumbs, and frying in butter or dripping. Serve hot with gravy or simmer in rich stock as an alternative method similar to stewing sweetbreads.
Anise Scented Cookie Dough Preparation
The recipe instructs to whisk four eggs with one pound of powdered sugar for half an hour. Add one tablespoonful of anise seeds, then gradually stir in one pound of flour sifted through a sieve. Roll on a bread-board, cut into shapes, place on greased tins, let rise twelve hours or more, then bake slowly.
A Simple Italian Salad Dressing Method
A basic Italian style dressing uses one egg yolk six tablespoons oil and three of vinegar whisked to a white creamy emulsion. Drain and dry salads thoroughly after washing in a wire basket to improve texture and quality.
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Italy
Breadcrumb Omelet With Roast Lamb or Veal
A historical recipe describes a breadcrumb omelet served with roast lamb or veal. It details mixing one pint of bread crumbs with a large spoonful of finely rubbed parsley half a tiny onion chopped fine two eggs beaten light add a teacupful milk a hint of nutmeg and pepper salt a lump of butter the size of a small egg beat mix bake in a slow oven on a buttered pie plate when light brown turn out and serve at once.
A Nice Dish With Raspberry Gelatine and Ice Cream
A recipe describes a dessert made from canned red raspberries lemon juice gelatine and egg whites. Soak gelatine in berry juice, make a berry syrup boil juice mix in gelatine cool then fold in berries lemon juice and whites, chill in moulds until firm. Serve with sugar and cream or best with ice cream.
Washington Hatchet Contemplates Family Romance
In a Washington hatchet style snippet a fond father warns Irene against a flirtation with Snibbs noting his income is only ten thousand dollars. The daughter retorts with sharp wit about a porter’s wash and dismisses the concern. The exchange shows clipped, humorous social banter of the era.
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Washington
Irene
Snibbs
A Cooking School Demonstration of Dainty Dishes
The Boston Cooking School audience of twenty five to thirty ladies gathered in a sunlit upper room for Miss Leonard’s lecture on breakfast dishes. She demonstrated rye cakes, salt fish with dropped eggs, Adirondack griddle cakes, and a fish toast dish, explaining measurements and kitchen technique while assistants and a waiter circulated samples for tasting.
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Boston
Cordon Bleu
Cooking School
Miss Leonard
Moei
Germany
Berlin
Silesia
Bremen
Taking Pay in Trade in Bristol Letter
A Bristol letter in the Hartford Times notes a local clergyman recently had his horse shod by a blacksmith who is not a church member. The item hints at pay in trade and social tensions in the community.
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Hartford Times
Bristol
Parson Preaches by Request at Hop Hoit's Shop
Reverend J C St John agreed to preach at the request of the faithful in the vulcan's court, arranging a Tuesday evening service at 7 o'clock in Hop Hoit's blacksmith shop on School street to advance a good work despite distance to the meeting house.
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J.C. St. John
Hop Hoit
School Street
The Flower Garden Medicinal Herbs and Historic Beliefs
An old discussion of herbs once common in country gardens. It notes how grandmothers used simples for ailments, contrasts with modern apothecary practice, and highlights many plants such as angelica, anise, balm, balsam apple, basil, blessed thistle, borage, comfrey, caraway, and camomile with their medicinal and culinary roles, superstitions, and historical uses.
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Angelica
Basti
England
Jesus
Henry IV
How to Pot Plants Potting steps and care for healthy growth
The guide explains soil conditions for potting plants, proper pot cleanliness, and methods to move plants between pots. It covers choosing pot size, rooting advice for cuttings, pruning and repotting established plants, avoiding bottom drainage blockage, and post potting watering and shading to prevent drying winds.
The Only Man Who Ever Did It
Philadelphia News notes Mr. Purtell of Atlanta as a possible humorous writer. His only published work to date appears in the Atlanta Constitution.
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Philadelphia News
Purtell
Atlanta
Atlanta Constitution
Labor in Europe shows low wages and harsh living costs
The article surveys European labor conditions, focusing on Germany and other continental regions. It details female and male wages, work hours, child labor limits, and living costs, contrasting them with American conditions and noting the impact of imports, urbanization, and household labor patterns.
Shakespeare dialogue in New York Sun feature noted
In a brief exchange the New York Sun asks Tilinoisan about Shakespeare’s plays, Missourian notes he has seen one or two, and Timoisan asks for a view of Shakespeare as a playwright, with Missourian framing him as a rising man.
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New York Sun
William Shakespeare
Timoisan
Shakespeare
Parker's American Checker Player by Charles F Barker
Boston ad announces Parker's American Checker Player by Charles F Barker with 534 variations and 35 critical positions contributed by Ward and Lyman. Mentions price one dollar, payment via bills, silver, currency, or postage stamps and mail address at No 8 Houghton Street Cambridgeport Mass. Orders few details for multiple copies.
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Parker
Messrs. Wardwell
Lyman
Charles Ff. Barker
Charles J. Barker
Houghton Street
Cambridgeport
Mass
Wife and husband clash over church sealskin fashion
A comic exchange from the Philadelphia North American notes a wife counting twenty seven ladies in sealskin sacques at church and the husband failing to grasp the point. The wife jokes that such details go unnoticed while one is asleep.
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Philadelphia
Miss Sharp Visits Washington in Playful Note
A Sharp Hatchet column describes Miss Sharp's first Washington visit. She writes home jokingly about a cast iron digestion after touring the navy yard and worries about travel arrangements back in a Pullman car.
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Miss Sharp
Washington
Bavy
Eon & Pullman
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