Dorothy Winters becomes artist after queer cows reveal talent
The Winters family, rooted in books and papers, mistook Dorothy for the domestic type until a drawing from her margin sketches catches attention. Her hidden talent surfaces when she is revealed as Henry Page Esmond, a famed artist, after a dinner invite with her father. The moment marks the rise of Dorothy's artistic career.
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Winters
Dorothy
Clarence
Mary
Lucia
Browning Club
Woman's Club
Pretty Dolly
Dolly
Tommy Traddles
David Copperfield
Art Institute
Mr. Winters
Sister Lucia
Henry Page Esmond
Winter
Esmond
Mr Winters
Mr. Esmond
Henry Page Eamond
Judge Whitman
Dish for Tea or Supper from Woman's Home Companion
Directions for a cream of chicken salad with nut sandwiches and a Jenian squash drink. Steps include grinding chicken, making a cream sauce with gelatin, forming balls, serving on lettuce nests with mayonnaise, and a lemon rind and sugar squash concentrate prepared ahead.
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Roballoof
Ada
Automobile Safety Goes Overboard Says Doctors
Dialogue mocks doctors who praise automobiling as healthy while warning that every robust driver would endanger multiple pedestrians weekly.
Fruitless Starch Nonsense Exchange
A comic exchange shows a mother dismantling a doll’s bedstead while a child jokes about hunting bugs. The snippet captures playful dialogue and domestic humor typical of a New York Weeptime vignette.
Pretty handkerchiefs weave charm and thrift
Crafts describe turning 1 yard ¼ of 45 inch linen into nine men's handkerchiefs or yard ¼ of 32 inch linen into twelve women's pieces. Edges are curved and whipped with colored thread to form a cross stitch pattern with a color initial in the corner. The result is stylish and economical.
Potato Mash for the Sickroom in Quick Steps
To prepare baked potatoes for the sick, wash and dry, bake on an asbestos toaster under a granite pan, turn halfway, and cook about an hour. Peel and mash with butter pepper salt and optional cream for a delicate easily digested dish.
Imitation Canton Ginger Recipe Instructions
The passage explains how to prepare preserved ginger like Canton style. It details selecting lake young carrots, scraping, cutting, parboiling, draining, drying, weighing, mixing sugar and ginger essence with lemon rind and water, simmering, jar storage, lemon peel removal, quick boil, brandy addition, sealing, and cooling.
Toasted bread crumb dessert and hot chocolate method
A guide describes crumbling toast slices and eating with cream and sugar for breakfast style nourishment. It also explains making hot chocolate by melting a chocolate cake in hot water and adding milk for a quick, sweet drink.
Frugal Skin Care Mixture Preserved In Jars
A list of ingredients includes four pounds of oats and bran, almond meal, powdered soap, primrose sachet powder, and a note to store in glass jars in cheesecloth sachets. The preparation promises soft clear velvety skin.
Cement for Glass Mends Broken Items with Lime Paste
A Victorian recipe claims to mend broken glass or china by mixing one pint vinegar with one pint milk, separating curds, adding egg whites, beating and sifting in unstacked lime to form a thick cement that resists fire and water.
Sugar Ginger Wafers
A recipe instructs creaming three quarters cup butter with two cups sugar and one cup milk. Dissolve one teaspoon soda in boiling water and add with one tablespoon ginger. Spread very thin in greased pans, bake until light brown, cut while hot and slide from pan.
Boy asks for funds to finish his church
Gilbert, the minister’s young son, struggles with building blocks for a church model. He asks his father gravely if he can hold up his congregation for funds to finish the project.
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Gilbert
Fruit Picking Device Described For Easy Harvest
A simple fruit picking device is outlined using stout tin or wood on a light frame with a hinged bottom. Contents are emptied without removing the bag from the shoulder. A neck strap and a waist strap keep the bag close as the picker works, reducing bruising if careful near ladders.
Barrelling Apples in Orchard Sorting and Barrelling
A correspondent describes how to barrel apples efficiently with a dedicated crew. It covers team roles from nailers and headliners to sorters, the use of a central sorting table, and workflow as trees move through a square, noting prevention of loss and inspection during storage.
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Orange Judd
Storing Celery Storage Methods Discussed
The article notes that large northern growers largely avoid storing celery for late markets due to limited profitability. It describes a storage building with concrete or brick walls, a near ground level roof, double ceiling air space, and tight frost protection. Large end doors allow horse-drawn work. an earth floor layered with soil packs the celery roots. Beds are created with raised boards to keep stalks upright and improve air circulation.
Country Fare in a Country Home Visit
A town visitor is treated to a lavish country meal featuring naked ham, fried egs, homemade bread, churned butter, fresh milk and cream, sweets and pastries, and fruits before being told there is no extra dish for company. The scene evokes rural hospitality and modest misdirection.
Farm Figures Show US Agriculture Scale and Trade
The data show 10,458,219 farmers and 5,739,657 farms worth 20.514 billion dollars with outputs totaling 3.764 billion. Farmers feed 84 million Americans and export 117,718,657 bushels of wheat and 13,919,048 barrels of flour, earning 62.062 million from corn and 28.758 and 59.107 million from wheat and flour.
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United States
Make Cuttings Now For Currant Gooseberry And Grapes
After leaves fall, prepare currant gooseberry and grape cuttings from this season's wood. Cut into eight inch lengths, bundle and bury in sand in the cellar for spring planting. Fall mulch planting is possible but spring setting is preferred.
PLOWING THE ORCHARD Discussion by W Paddock on turning plow use
W Paddock of Delaware Experiment Station discusses clean cultivation in Colorado orchards. He argues turning plows loosen soil, improve root growth, and that fall plowing yields better moisture handling and tree health than spring plowing. Green manuring may follow.
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W. Paddock
Delaware Experiment Station
Colorado
Colorado Agricultural
Farm Journal Gardening Tips From 1900s Advice Column
Practical farm tips on handling ladders, farm help, strawberry cultivation before ground freezes, spacing evergreen windbreaks, ordering nursery trees for spring, grading apples for better market price, and protecting berries through winter by bending canes and covering with earth.
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Farm Journal
Seed corn selection and proper drying timing
The author stresses planning ahead for seed corn, warning against harvesting too late or storing seed where freezing temperatures harm vitality. He notes many growers delay until planting time, while advocates recommend thorough drying before freezing and avoiding exposure to low temperatures.
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C. G. Williams
Cabbage Stubs Disposal Advice for Patch Clean-up
The heads are removed from cabbage stalks and the stalks carried away for hogs or burned. Do not leave stubs to harbor diseases like club root. If ground needs cover, apply a thin layer of manure that can be plowed under in spring if unnecessary.
Surface Overflow Controls for Tiling and Drainage
The article advises farmers to include surface overflow provisions when tiling land. It recommends late autumn surface ditches to catch winter waters and protect crops, with guidance on routing to lead water away. If unused in spring they can be closed, and ditches should generally be no larger than furrows.
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Farm Journal
Woman's Corner Home Made Albums For Unmounted Photos
The piece describes handmade albums crafted from heavy cartridge paper to hold unmounted photographs or postcards. Covers are decorated with pictures and the word Album or Photographs. Albums range from large sewn books to small framed pages for single photos, popular among girls for keepsakes and school memories.
Laundry bag from print pattern for personal use
A decorative yet practical laundry bag idea made from printed fabric. It features a white sateen lining, a thick cord edge, and three removable ribbon bows. Embroider the back with Laundry in washing threads for a simple personal item rather than for household linen.
Waistband Trim For Smooth Line Under Blouse
Sloppy waist outlines from a bulging blouse can be corrected with careful pinning after the skirt is on and the blouse adjusted. Use long pins, or an elastic belt with taped ends and a button to secure around the waist to prevent slipping and keep a neat appearance.
Put Back Glove Catches And Repairs For longevity
The guide explains reusing gloves after catches come out, stressing not discarding them. It advises inspecting the hole, using a fine needle and cotton to overcast the edge in shallow stitches, guiding the hole around the button groove, and drawing up slowly to avoid puckering while the material settles back.
London Favors Simple Suits In Tailor Made Revival
London returns to the old fashioned tailor made suit with simpler lines and trim. Long three quarter coats lead, paired with small inner waistcoats and four-button waist closures. Sleeves vary between wide Curee and braided gauntlet styles as empire draped fronts gain favor. Striped dark fabrics in autumn hues dominate the snuet tailor mode.
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London
Paquin’s
Miudes
Knobkabout Hats Described In Gun Anetal Felt
Describes knockhabout hats woven in gun anetal felt with slight front relld and back droop. Stripes shown simply and effectively adorned with pray and white mottled cog feathers or clusters of natural turkey plumage along both sides.
Fall Millinery Styles with Velvet Band and Purple Cha Peau
The upper hat features gray felt with a charcoal velvet band and uncurled ostrich tips in matching shade. The lower hat shows a purple felt cha peau decorated with a silk scarf, violet shawlings, and large purple roses.
Glove Catch Finish Secures Fastening
Instructions describe looping the thread around the clasp two to three times and finishing on the wrong side to ensure no sign of the catch ever parting from the glove. The method aims for a seamless, durable finish as described.
Embroidered White Linen Dressers Cover Idea
A white linen dressing table cover with hand embroidered scalloped edges and the recipient’s initials on the front edge. A more elaborate version uses a border of dainty flowers and leaves.
The New Collars on Street Suits and Frocks
The article discusses collar styles in fashion, noting small collars that reveal velvet facings on street suits and embroidered or velveted details. It describes high collars on blouses and afternoon frocks as ornate and guffily bored.
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Bugs
N. Y
W. R. Beattie
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Fall Millinery
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