Masquerade Party Echoes Mother Goose Charm
A lively Mother Goose themed party features guests in character costumes from Old King Cole to Little Red Riding Hood. The host adds games and favors, prints playful invitations, and notes a summer potential for similar gatherings with simple refreshments and friendly competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Goose
Jack Horner
King Cole
Fiddlers
Red Riding Hood
Queen of Hearts
Blue
Bo Peeps
Little Po
Daffy
Dilly
Jack
Jill
Humpty
Dumpty
Mary
Taffy
King’ Cole
Country house cotillon yields a great success
A large country house hosted a card party in a cotillon style for forty guests. Tables were scattered through the spacious rooms, creating an elegant, lively event with a strong social atmosphere.
Most Approved Designs in Shoes for Fashionable Feet
Boots of washable leather with tan cloth uppers suit tailored suits. The pump improves on prior styles with instep buckle and suede strip inside the heel. Low cut evening slippers fasten over the instep with ribbon bands. Black satin shoes favored with afternoon gowns, ribbed satin vamp, and black pearl buttons. Patent leather slippers feature a cut steel buckle with velvet.
Youngster Given His Kiss At New York Train
A mother races to catch a 1 52 train to New York with her crying youngest son in pursuit. The conductor delays the train to allow the farewell kiss, leaving the boy happy as the train departs.
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Holcs
Mother
New York
Adam
Duty of Janice Cares for Fidokins and Tommy
A household dialogue shows Janice tasked with walking the dog Fidokins and supervising Master Tommy who plays in the street. The mistress warns to watch for traffic at street crossings fearing a trolley or automobile accident harming the child.
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Tommy
Janice
Unruffled Exchanges Over Myopia Figuratively
A dialogue shows Was serby and Pickle dort discussing flaws and blindness with humor. Was serby deflects blame for myopia and possible strabismus while remaining calm and civil in tone.
A Royal Regiment Joke Mentioned by a King’s Wife
The speaker asks if the wife would make a good king’s regent. The reply notes she would excel as a colonel for a royal regiment, referencing the custom of appointing ladies to such positions. The exchange hints at gendered roles in royal military tradition.
Force of Habit and the Bells of Time
In a comedy tone Cyrus Snodgrass recalls a stubborn former boss halted before a church as the bell rang between one and two. He notes the rider’s horse car ride and explains the bell strokes finally moving him, a humorous episode from a past encounter.
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Clevertop
Cyrus Snodgrass
Hiking Home and a Tender Telegraph to His Wife
A man writes a brief, emotionally charged message to his wife saying he will count the hours until they meet and asking for his ties. The exchange shows domestic longing amid travel.
The Effect on a Family in a Fragmented Note
A fragmented text fragment references a baby and a tense exchange. The readable bits suggest a concern or remark about a child and a caregiver, with uncertain dialogue and missing context. The piece reads like a stray note rather than a full report.
Seeking a Handicap
A fragmented social note reflects on marriage dynamics and gender expectations. The speaker questions why a woman would marry a man, suggesting reasons tied to perceived weakness or fairness in conflict. The passage hints at broader attitudes about women and partnership.
Castoria Overview and Safety Assertion
Castoria is presented as a harmless substitute for castor oil Paregoria and soothing syrups. It claims no opium or narcotics and highlights benefits for constipation feverishness teething and diarrhea while promoting natural sleep. The text notes it has over eighty years of use under Charles H Fletcher and warns against counterfeits and imitators.
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Astoria
Chas. H. Fletcher
Albert W. Kahl
Buffalo
N. Y
Gustave A. Eisengraeber
St. Paul
Minn
E. J. Dennis
St. Louis
S. A. Buchanan
Philadelphia
J. E. Simpson
Chicago
R. E. Eskildson
Omaha
Neb
L. R. Robinson
Kansas City
Edwin F. Pardee
New York City
N. B. Sizer
Brooklyn
Centaum Company
End to Sleep Walking and Tacks in a Humorous Tale
A village humorist offers a comic remedy for sleepwalking suggesting a prescription of tintacks from an ironmonger. Other vignettes include a boy asking if his father loves him more than his brothers and the father’s gentle, equal reply.
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Brown
Young Smithson
Smithson
Henry
Queer Trouble in Coal Smoke Confusion
A dialogue notes a hard time with smoke described as coming from soft coal, signaling confusion over fuel source and air quality in a local setting.
School assigns paraphrase task from classic poems
Girls at a local school paraphrase Tennyson and Scott using a dictionary. Examples show attempts to render Brook and Lochinvar in plain terms, with lines like down a valley and undignified shaved in a low place among the hills, and comments that one line avoided stopping for a mechanical contrivance to reduce speed.
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Tennyson
Brook
Scott
Lochinvar
Beébes and Duke Duel Over Love and Cost of Living
A fragmentary dialogue features Beébes and a duke in a tense exchange about love and dependence. The duke laments rising costs while Beébes declares longing, highlighting themes of affection and sacrifice in a compressed, theatrical exchange.
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Socal
Harriette Wilbur
Madame Merri
Wasserby
Pickledort
Castoria
Beta
Lillian
Brak Eye
Rolssedia
Spohn. Medical. CO
Sctoridte Siete Goshen
Ind
U.S. A
Cardus
Oman
Iteznlaines
Wermee
Bulpo
Ladies’ Advisory Dept
Fresiner Sry
Tadsiboies
Ottawa
Cassis
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Therapion Sca
Lyman Bane
Toronto
Loxnoom
Ena
Therapion
Jg RB Sud
Defiance Starch
Defiance Starch CO
Omahs
Nebraska
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