New Year Party Games for Adults and Guests
Mary Dawson suggests entertaining at a New Year’s Eve gathering with pen night style games for adults. Activities include writing year resolutions, a city name handkerchief game with forfeits, Snip word challenges, letter juggling from Happy New Year, and a 1908 history essay contest. Prizes and crepe paper favors welcome 1909.
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Era
Washington
Paris
Berlin
Mary Dawson
Philadelphia Press
Ancient cashmere gown praised for versatility and delicate chemisette
The fashion note extols ashmere as elegant and practical for simple gowns. It describes a gray satin trimmed dress with a lace chemisette over white chiffon, notes possible fabric variations, and lists yardages and pattern numbers for a medium-size ensemble.
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Journal Fashion Department
Patterns No 670t and Size Say
The item listing refers to patterns numbered 670t and another pattern sized say for vegetables. It is a brief catalog note indicating pattern numbers and size notation without additional context or details.
New Year's Cakes Recipe Card
A baking instruction lists ingredients for New Year cakes including butter sugar flour nutmeg eggs milk caraway seeds almond extract and royal icing. It guides creaming butter and sugar then folding in spices and flour, adding liquids, and chilling if dough is too soft or too dry.
Woolen Gloves Display in White Gray and Tan Shades
Woolen knitted gloves in white gray and tan shades are shown as suitable for cold days and for wear over white kid gloves on the move to theatre opera or dinner as highlighted by Fairchilds Magazine.
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Fairchild’s Magazine
New Year Resolutions and How to Keep Them
The piece asks if New Year resolutions are obsolete and argues many still seek self improvement. It urges perspective and humor to curb worries, cultivate self control, and suggests practical aims like balance, patience, charity, and gentleness as guiding resolutions.
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Christian Terhune Herrick
Philadelphia
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