Easter fashion sets dainty gowns and soft laces
The article reviews spring 1913 fashion in delicate gowns and hats. It notes pastel colors like mauve and pale rose, fabrics such as crepe de chine and foulards, floral hat roses, embroidered ceilings, new shirt waists with soft collars, and a trend toward light, dainty trims and accessories.
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Senator Jones and the kitchen visit riddle
Congressman Jones from Virginia recounts his father William Jones after the war. A former slave who became a state senator sat beside him and asked to visit the senator’s kitchen. The exchange ends with the slave visiting the cook while the senator stayed in the library.
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Yo’ House
Highland girl recalls dinner grace from six years past
A Dundee servant visiting her old mistress toward the north recounts that her master offered a blessing at dinner, only to hear the remark that the grace was the same as the one said six years ago, a memory voiced in humor.
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London Telegraph
Railway Lamp Quality Questioned by Passenger
A traveling railway official asks a passenger to inspect train lamps. The passenger replies he is an optician and prefers the lamps as they are. The official is pleased by the professional acknowledgment.
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London
Texas Town Courthouse Standoff Over Lawyers Case
A Texan with a revolver advances toward the courthouse but agrees to wait after learning Lawyer Johnson is in court. The would be shooter jokes about delaying the act and offers camaraderie while Johnson pleads the case inside.
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Boston Globe
Home Doctor Remedies From a 19th Century Column
Severe nosebleeds are treated by placing ice on the wrist and keeping the head level. For rheumatism the remedy is half an ounce of saltpeter dissolved in half a pint of sweet oil rubbed on the affected parts. A woman in a malarial region found chills and fever could be averted by swallowing red pepper seeds with water at first sign.
Chicago Clubwomen Defend Love Against Miss Rives
Chicago clubwomen rebut novelist Hallie Erminie Rives claiming club life harms domestic love and fuels divorce. Doctors and educators defend maturity in women, argue clubs broaden intellect without destroying passion, and say true love remains strong despite club life.
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GEMS IN VERSE AT LOVE AND LOYAL LIFE LESSONS
The verse urges love as fuel for life and faith to gain hearts. Minnie Had a Little Lamb is retold as a comic cooking caper where the lamb becomes a dish named Monsieur Fricassee and ends as plain hash, playful and cautionary.
Whom the Gods Love Die Old in Scribner’s Verse
A reflective poem by Julia C. R. Dorr invokes aging and enduring grace. It contrasts Adonis’s doomed youth with the wisdom and fullness of old age, celebrating the older, wiser life praised by the gods. The piece echoes through life’s cycles, praising steady summers, blooming roses, and golden sunsets.
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Keep Out of the Past Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poem urges readers to abandon the past filled with decay and despair and embrace the present. It contrasts past gloom with the present’s promise of growth and a hopeful prize, stressing renewal and optimism through vivid imagery.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Old Red Sunbonnet and a Train Metaphor
A Norman tone piece recalls childhood in a Denver Post verse about the old red sunbonnet worn by girls with no frills yet beloved for the kiss and memory it sparked. The poem shifts to a rail yard image describing engines, some efficient others failing, awaiting their switch in gloomy or fair days.
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