Good Ways to Freshen Skirts and Clean Oranges
Practical tips on refreshing wrinkled skirts, removing dust, and polishing mirrors. Also instructions for boiling oranges to remove white lining, and guidance on loosening corks with slight pressure. Includes advice on softening wallpaper with steam for easy removal.
Homemade towel rack for guest room design
A towel rack can be built for the guest room by shaping oval wood with Huen and cardboard backing. Linen in gray or colored tones is embroidered with floral or conventional designs before covering the board. A nickel bar is affixed, creating a dainty and practical towel rack.
Colors for the Brunette and Sardines in Lemon Juice
The article outlines color choices for brunettes by skin tone from pinks to deep reds, with navy or pale blues for various subtypes and notes eye color influence. It ends with a practical tip: when opening a box of sardines, drain oil, turn the fish out, and sprinkle with lemon juice.
Beauty and Health Tips for Hands Chin Feet and Teeth
Simple home remedies cover hand cream with cocoa butter and almond oil plus zinc and borax, chin posture for firming, cold salt rub for feet, and paw stone technique for gums. Readers advised to follow steps nightly and avoid overuse.
Sunshine the Best Possible Disinfectant
Sunshine is praised as the best disinfectant for homes. It brightens rooms and helps keep spaces occupied when possible. Dark corners with stuffy smells are warned as unhealthy for household health.
Use of Beef Fat In Cooking In German homes beef fat boosts butter savings
German housewives economize on butter by using beef fat more than American housekeepers. Suet is soaked in water a day, water changed once, then simmered with skim milk. Fat is clarified and poured off. It has no strong taste or odor and can replace part of butter in many recipes. Some cooks add leaf fat to soften the fat for easier use.
Fat English prospector in the Andes blocks homeward return
A wealthy English prospector who grew fat while mining in the Andes is trapped by a fourteen inch trail to civilization. He became rich yet homesick, unable to squeeze through the mountain path, awaiting aid as his companion remains with him. Chalmers Adams recounts the tale of hardship, endurance, and loyalty amid perilous terrain.
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Andes
Chalmers Adams
South America
Cincinnati Times Star
England
Itrich
London
The Woman We Walk With Through The Years
A reflective poem emphasizes the indispensable role of women in shared life and progress. It asserts women’s equal rights and partnership in daily struggles, dreams, and societal advancement, then notes a historical note on persistent caste marriage in Sweden reducing noble family lines by seven percent.
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Sweden
Saving the Bank in a Small Town Tale
Erbert Morrow faces a bank run as Ridgley schemes to ruin him. Degnon proposes wiring the Union bank to show enterprise while Provident and First National shuffle cash through a hidden street feeder. A dramatic protest erupts as workers pull a bulging cylinder of cash from under the street, proving the plan to save the bank by clever manipulation. Daisy and Degnon confront the danger as the city reels in a tense financial snare.
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Erbert Morrow
Daisy
Degnon
The
Union Bank
Dew
Rich
Provident Savings Bank
First National
Sid Deen
Provident
Sean
Cit
Tse Muse
Pernon
Poth
Provdent
Morrow
Savings
Ridgley
Union
Morrow's Bank
St Ridgley’s Savings Bank
the Provident
Deguon
Ansious
Denon
Russian Boys Unearth 1500 Year Old Silver and Gold Vessels
Two Russian lads find a hoard of beakers and dishes buried under ground. The artifacts, likely from the fourth or fifth century and partly Byzantine, are valued around $40,000. The pieces were acquired by the Russian National Museum. the boys receive half the prize and the landowner the rest.
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Archaeological Society of
St. Petersburg
Russian National Museum
National Bank
Ancient saying origins and a royal vineyard tale
An old proverb about twisting the cup is linked to a king's son who overworked slaves in vineyards. After the grapes were pressed and wine prepared, a prophet predicted the prince would not drink it. A slip of the lip led to a fatal pursuit and the prince was killed by those who mockingly raised a cup.
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Samasso
Arithmetic Riddles on Eggs and Ages in a Newspaper Slice
A reader presents puzzles about eggs lined a yard apart and a man gathering them, yielding 1300 yards. Another: eight sons ages from four to thirty-two increase arithmetically. common difference sought. A London to distant town journey in twelve days with increasing daily mileage yields daily increase five miles and total 366 miles.
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London
Percival Pencil and Paper Word Relay Game Rules
The game uses two minute rounds where players receive a letter and must compose a sensible sentence starting with that letter. During each round players read their sentences aloud. Each player marks others with pluses or minuses for sentence length compared to the read aloud one, and the player with the most plus marks wins.
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Eaca
Susan
Wlaver
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