Infant Feeding Rules for Health and Growth
This article by Mrs. Mary E. Hood stresses regular, properly measured feeding for babies both breast and bottle fed. It warns against feeding on every cry, outlines exact times and amounts, stresses waking the infant to feed, and provides a tested bottle preparation method plus safe care practices like mouth washing before each feeding.
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Emelyn Coolidge
Bran Water Remedy For Overworked Women
A wartime style wellness note urges tired women to drink bran water between meals instead of tea or white flour products. Boil three pints water, add ordinary bran, simmer ten minutes, strain, settle, and drink two to three cupfuls daily.
Novel Shadow Drawing to Amuse Small Children on Rainy Days
A guide for kids and adults to create shadow drawings and tracery art for bookmarks or wall decor. It stresses clear outlines, thin tissue paper, and a smooth board surface, with rewards to encourage best tracery.
Health Value of Fresh and Cooked Fruits in Schools
Mary B Williams outlines cereals and fruit pairing for breakfast in New York Public Schools. She stresses selecting ripe safe fruit, proper cleaning, and careful serving to aid digestion, with guidance on stewing and whitening fruit servings for classroom meals.
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New York
Unique and attractive valentines for modern gift giving
The article describes new valentine designs that blend art and utility, favoring wall hangings and decorative pieces over sentimentally worded cards. It highlights a restored English coach motif with heart windows and lambs, a colonial headgear fan card, Dutch style book marks, and cupids on red hearts, noting color restraint and artisanal appeal. It also touches on safe canning practices and the nutritional value of fresh and dried fruits, with bananas needing cooking to unlock flavor.
Systematize daily household work for smooth home care
An inexperienced young housekeeper can manage a home more easily by regular, systematic tasks. Begin by noon, keep breakfast and kitchen in order, wash and arrange dishes in large trays, clean the sink, and prepare meals the night before. Tidy the floor, then handle chamber and parlor upkeep, lamps, and dinner setup to free the afternoon for rest or outings.
French officer offers paper aluminum bullet for humane war
A French inventor proposes a non metal paper bullet coated with aluminium that wounds and kills like a steel projectile but reduces fatal injuries. He claims comparable accuracy at equal distance and asks governments to test the design under Geneva convention guidelines. Austria has ordered trials.
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Austrian War Office
A Thousand Dollars Worth of Good Kidney Cure Testimony
A. H. Thurnes of Buffalo, Ohio, states he suffered kidney and bladder trouble with gravel and stones until using Foley's Kidney Cure. He reports rapid relief, brick dust-like stones diminished, no kidney pain, and claims it has done him $1,000 worth of good. Dreier & Bro.
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A. H. Thurnes
Buffalo, C
Foley
The Mystery of Nell and Ned Ages
A brief verse from St. Nicholas tells of Nell claiming she is twice Ned's age. The narrator shows a young, playful logic with parentage correcting the arithmetic, noting the confusion between their ages and promising to understand as time passes. The exchange highlights childhood math puzzles and parental guidance.
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Nell
Ned
New Discovery Cures Coughs and Colds Says Mrs Paine
In America the cry is for Dr Kings New Discovery for lungs and throat. Mrs Julia Ryder Paine of Truro Massachusetts reports immediate relief and quick cure for coughs and colds. Dreier and Bro druggists guarantee the remedy at 50 cents and one dollar with a trial bottle offered.
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King
America
Dr. King
Julia Ryder Paine
Truro
Mass
Dreier& Bro
Ingenious Bets Highlight Wrights and Santos-Dumont
In New York Cc. S Ralls discusses aviation bragging rights between the Wright brothers and Santos-Dumont. Captain Bragge bets an athlete he cannot ascend a long flight of steps two at a time. After a miscount the athlete loses, Bragge proposes a counter bet and completes the ascent in twenty hops plus a return, claiming victory.
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Cc. S. Ralls
New York
Wrights
Santos-Dumont
Mr. Rolls
Bragge
Smart Parisian Reception Frock From Sheer Printed Chiffon
A Parisian style reception gown made from printed chiffon is described with details for home sewers. It features a yoke lace collar, V shaped revers, double silk or satin ruffles at waist and skirt, puffed sleeves with silk ruffle cuffs, a closely fitted waist girdle, and a decorative skirt with multiple chiffon ruffles and two wide bottom ruffles.
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Falen
L’art de la Mode
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