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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1915
Page
3
A 1920s style call for New Year efficiency urges housewives to purge superfluous furniture and ornaments. The piece argues many homes overflow with items that waste space and effort, and suggests asking whether each item adds beauty or utility before discarding it.
A note stresses mothers should value isinglass for jelly making as children enjoy jellies. It argues isinglass yields better texture and flavor, making desserts more appealing and nutritious for kids.
The article outlines a simple New Year greeting strategy using invitations shaped like a small 1915 calendar. It suggests decorating the parlor with Christus greens, planning a punch bowl setup, and provides a pineapple lemon orange punch recipe with grape juice and water to taste.
Style Jottings describe satin and silken goods as lead fashion items. Tasseled trims and black chantilly lace trim white frocks. Ives styles prevail in evening wear with wider skirts and plait groups hanging free from the knees.
A compact set of household hacks offering timekeeping with a three minute kitchen glass during long distance calls. It suggests preserving blankets with dried yellow soap to deter moths and using stale breadcrumbs with blue washing soda to clean embossed velvet. It also covers storing silver in a flour-dusted box and applying milk to leather furniture to prevent drying and cracking.
Fur remains central to hat decoration with rays the Millinery Trade Review noting monkey fur as a leading novelty. Skink seal and mole mounts and turban fur styles gain favor, while four and velvet sets including hat muff and neckpiece sustain busy workrooms and fur trade.
Tiny ostrich plumes are used to trim small plain felt sailor hats. Each bunch spans up to three inches and features five or six colors to create a vibrant, fashionable look.
Philadelphia customs revive the New Year celebration with elaborate costumes and prize driven dressmaking. A corps of designers crafts the robes, the kings’ train alone stretching along sidewalks and blocking a city block. The event showcases months of preparation and a festive, ceremonial pageant in the dawn of each year.
In Paul Wilstaehs Richard Mansfield the actor recalls years of hardship in London. He describes returning to a sparse room, possibly with a tallow dip, cooking over a fire, begging for food, and warming potatoes in his pockets to endure cold nights.
The Philadelphia Record notes a dialogue on marriage and gambling in which the Bachelor voices concerns about a booby prize while the Married Man defends the game of chance as a test of conscience.
Dudley Yates McKee, a long time bachelor, is startled by a dramatic encounter with a pretty stranger who seeks shelter and fate both seem to guide him toward marriage. With a ticking clock and a impulsive ceremony, the trio including Reverend Ashton Wright completes a sudden nuptial as the year turns.
A children’s party game involves forming a circle where a storyteller speaks a sentence that the right-hand neighbor must pass along around the circle until the relator resumes. The round ends when the last one up must pay if anyone errs or forgets. Also notes a dog named Collar from Canada with Shackleton crews.
A simple method uses an empty cigar box with one end removed and canvas stretched over it. A hole is bored in the opposite end, and inside a saucer holds carbonic ammonia with hydrochloric acid until ammonia chloride vapor fills the box. A quick pressure on the canvas end ejects the vapor through the hole forming white smoke rings that rise and dissipate.
Sixty thousand Campfire Girls are enrolled nationwide with four thousand guardians guiding them. The playful line suggests their reach spans from the Milky Way to the moon in a whimsical cadence.
The article describes a classroom or playroom version of Shepherdess and Wolf. Children form a line with the leader as shepherdess and others as lambs while one child acts as the wolf circling the group. The wolf tries to catch a lamb and the shepherdess protects the flock. If a lamb escapes the shepherdess becomes a lamb and the lamb becomes the shepherdess. The wolf changes with the last lamb if needed.
A whimsical verse about a fairy resting, a honey hungry bee buzzes near, stings threaten, but the fairy awakens and shows her magic. The bee's aggression is met with the fairy’s protective power, ending with the bee frightened by the fairy’s magic.
Gelett Burgess notes in Burgess Un abridged that Samoan has single words conveying complex ideas. He cites terms for social situations and neighborly theft, and contrasts English with what he calls cruder phrasing in Pidgin English.
A sharp exchange centers on a purse gifted at Christmas. The owner quips the wife bestowed the purse, while quipping that the only item inside is the bill for the purse. The line captures a holiday humor moment about costs and generosity.
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