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Newspaper
Chilliwack Free Press
Location
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 25, 1912
Page
5
The article compares dusky native belles fashion ideas in Beatrice Grimshaw’s South Seas travels with humorous church wear and wedding dress displays. A launderer’s mistaken best dress, a poppy toque, and multiple silk gowns at a wedding are recounted to show vivid island attire and outsider reactions.
A compilation of foreign infant schooling practices contrasts France Belgium Germany Finland and Japan with English norms. It notes France and Belgium omitting basic subjects to focus on happiness and orderly routines including labeled lunches.
A wandering man, short of funds, wires for advice. A night letter asks what to do. Morning reply: act as if you were broke. The San Francisco Chronicle notes this pointed guidance on frugality.
A brief exchange notes a daughter learning to say culinary art instead of cooking. One woman confirms the trend while the other agrees it reflects refined speech in a domestic scene.
The snippet notes a father and son running a family business with the father handling the tin trade while the son handles the carry. It cites a New York Globe line about youth and age in business and a Pittacna quote about the mutability of waters and rumors.
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