Endive With Grapefruit Salad and Other Homemaking Tips
Endive with grapefruit salad instructs halved grapefruit careful pulp removal, endive border, garnish with lettuce leaves, and optional chopped endive mix. Home Made Sausage blends pork beef breadcrumbs salt pepper sage into small cakes, fried or baked. Apple and Celery Salad combines sliced apples with diced celery and mayonnaise in lettuce cups. A Laundry Accessories describes using an old trunk tray to sort laundry. Keep Toothbrush Sanitary suggests weekly antiseptic wash and sun drying. Pressing silk skirts notes steaming heat to prevent cracking.
YOUR FANCY NECKWEAR FOR SPRING AND SUMMER FROCKS
Leftover fabric pieces from dresses can be made into matching bows and collars for each gown. Small scraps of lace embroidery and wash silk blouse collars gain use, with plain white sets handy for mid summer whites. Trim with beads if desired to create coordinated neckwear for outfits.
Little Flowered Frocks and Stain Removal Tips
Pretty fashion notes for children’s dresses using striped lawn and flowered linen in pale pinks and blues. Advice on trimming styles with pointed collars and wide bands. Then steps to remove coffee stains from tablecloths using borax and boiling water, with careful blotting and saucer support.
Homemade Tooth Powder Recipe From Old Manuscript
A vintage recipe combines precipitated chalk powdered orms and cuttle fish with borax and sugar to make a fine tooth powder. Mix 1 1/2 ounces chalk 1/2 ounce orms 1/8 ounce cuttle fish 1/8 ounce borax and 1/8 ounce sugar ground to powder and flavored with elx drops of wintergreen.
Bridal Cake Recipe From Old Text
A historic recipe lists ingredients for a bridal cake including butter sugar spices currants mixed peel almonds eggs and cream of tartar and soda. It details creaming butter and sugar beating in eggs adding dry ingredients, greasing a circular tin, lining with cardboard and baking in a moderate oven.
Leather bound books cleaned with lemon water tips
Leather books bound in leather may be freshened by mixing equal parts white of egg and water. Apply with a soft panel cloth and polish when dry. A teaspoon of lemon juice to a quart of water makes rice very white and keeps grains separate.
Maxims and maxims on war and tragedy in early War Cry text
A collection of Napoleon era maxims on war the drama and literature notes on tragedy and theatre with references to Aeschylus and Agamemnon. It discusses courage imagination and the role of sovereigns in supporting tragedy plus a verse on childhood and a note about large East Indies spiders.
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Courare
Lovett
Napoleon
Aeschylus
James F. Morton, Jr
East Indies
Mandrake Lore Attracts Legends And Price In 11th Century Germany
Of interest to the children and scholars, legends cluster around the mandrake or May apple. Descriptions paint a queer shaped root resembling a man with a forked base and a little old man’s head. Skilled knives can render a mandrake lifelike. In 1075 Germany, some sold for up to 4 thalers. Folklore adds a superstition of stealing money from a poor widow during Christmas, Whitsuntide, or Easter to place beneath a mandrake, supposedly drawing coins from passersby.
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Germany
May Day Maypole Dance Shown In East Orange
A school maypole celebration in East Orange New Jersey is pictured with children circling the maypole. The event honors May Day and echoes ancient springtime traditions. The poem The May Queen by Alfred Tennyson is cited for its mood and imagery about the May Day crown.
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Alfred Tennyson
East Orange
N. J
Fat Baby Falls Into Texas Well and Is Rescued
A fat eighteen month old baby fell into a twenty nine foot well on a Texas farm while workmen were away. After sinking seven or eight feet the child became stuck but was freed when neighbors dug a side tunnel and hauled it out to safety. The incident was reported by the St Louis Globe Democrat.
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Texas
St. Louis Globe Democrat
English Boy Scout Republic at Wadhurst Sussex Estate
An English boy scout republic is proposed on an estate at Wadhurst Sussex where 100 acres and a large house will house 200 boys. Officers elected from among the scouts will govern a self run colony with a daily market and individual patrol led accounts. The plan includes instruction in horsemanship forestry carpentry baking blacksmithing and leather work under normal scout rules.
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Wadhurst
Sussex
England
Montreal Star
Boy Scout
Awerlea
Insurance Romance From a Policy Card
A flood orphan Louise Bradley, injured in a Syracuse area crash, gains care from the Possible Accident Co. manager Richard Hartleigh. He visits, funds doctors and flowers, then becomes her caregiver and confesses affection, culminating in a promised marriage as they plan to frame policy 9834 on her home.
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Syracuse
Tim
Louise Bradley
St. John's Church
Galveston
Tex
Richard Hartleigh
Hartleigh
Louise
Me Mad Earned the Lickin Representative Adamson Says
A Georgia mountain tale describes a stranger hunting quail where wild peas are abundant. A dog flushed turkeys drawing the ire of a native youth who fired at the dog with a long rifle. The youth vanished, later seen near a mountain cabin with a man presumed to be his father as the hunter reported the incident.
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Adamson
Georgia
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