Mothers Debate Baby Diet and Food Rules
The letter discusses feeding babies and avoiding crackers for infants, noting salivary digestion limits and age-appropriate foods. It advises gradual dietary variation after nine months, lists safe foods, warns against banana overreliance, and urges mothers to study each child’s needs while maintaining kindness and patience.
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Rebecca T
A Slave and Stue by Helen Bruce Wall
A Woman's Rendynas discusses hat fashion, noting how a professional beauty can transform with choice of hat. It warns against grotesque overloading and incongruous color, urging readers to trust common sense over seller pressure.
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Stu E
Helen Bruce Wall
Hats and vanity in fashion fitting for unwary shoppers
A humorous critique of hat trends and buyer misjudgments. It urges readers to seek blunt feedback, avoid rivals as shopping companions, and consider age, hair, and complexion when selecting headwear. It warns that fashion fads tempt imprudent choices and stresses practical style over impulse.
Mrs Herrick Letters on Self Control for Mothers
Dear Mrs Herrick describes guiding tired mothers and their babies toward better understanding through love patience and self control, offering practical behavioral advice to improve family harmony.
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Herrick
Nighttime wakefulness in a young child
A mother seeks guidance for her 5 to 6 year old boy who wakes around 10 pm and stays awake past midnight. The responder suggests offering a small snack such as bread and milk to ease hunger, noting an empty stomach can keep a child awake and that food may help induce sleep.
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Mrs. Herrick
Critique of Harsh Discipline Toward Children
The author denounces severe corporal punishment by mothers, calls it incompetence, and argues for stronger social consequences. They insist assaults on children deserve penalties similar to those for adults and blame irritable temperaments and retaliation for most punishments.
Cure for Nail Biting in a Child
A reader asks how to stop a child from biting nails. Advice suggests tying hands or dipping fingertips in myrrh tincture to deter biting by leaving a bitter taste. The exchange notes the habit damages nails and prompts readers to share better remedies.
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Mrs. Herrick
R. G
Geography Dance Idea for Costumed Party Fun
A plan called Geography Dance invites guests to wear national costumes or outfits reflecting foreign lands. If no dance occurs, a guessing game assigns nations by costume, using tallies and pencils to identify countries. Twenty minutes allow guests to study and guess, with a book as a prize for the top guesser.
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Italy
China
Japan
England
United States
France
Russia
Sweden
Bulgaria
Switzerland
Pinning Game Ideas From a Festive Programme
A fragment outlines party games including a blindfold pinning activity with a monkey picture and a goat with a beard. It suggests simple crafts like drawing an ark or creating tiny animals on petre and notes household artistic efforts.
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Cma
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