Cupid the Wise Chap Leads Couple to Altar
The Chicago News notes Cupid as a playful guide to marriage, then exits the scene. The Christian Register links title to the ocean and the press to public mind, while the Florida observer contrasts New York life with opera crowds, via the Louisville Courier Journal observation.
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Cupid
Chicago News
The
Christian Register
Florida Observer
Louisville Courier-Journal
New Yorker
Various Views on Labor, Health, and Rice Usage
The passage surveys opinions from multiple papers on topics from cost of rearing heirs and census reliability to sombrero taxation, sickness, eldest sons’ traits, and rice as a staple. It notes earnings, health trends, and cultural cooking differences while urging more rice consumption in America.
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Texan
Louisiana
The Height of Queens in European Rulers
An article notes that most European sovereigns are shorter than their wives with exceptions like the King of Norway and the Prince of Montenegro who are taller. It also highlights Ethel Roosevelt’s popularity at age and her close bond with her mother and family.
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Europe
Alexandra
Amelia
Portugal
Don Carlos
Spain
Victoria Eugenie
Italy
Norway
Montenegro
London
Ethel Roosevelt
Ethel
White House
London doctor warns women cut eating and overemphasis on thinness
A London physician laments shrinking female appetite across classes from working girls to society ladies. He mocks milk and bun habits and urges against candy drinks, claiming they harm digestion and warn that overeating may be healthier than under eating, a stance clashing with fashion’s demand for slim waists.
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London
Princesses Learn Trades In Democratic Era
The Duke Frederick of Schleswig Holstein trains his daughters to earn their living with skills. Princess Victoria Adelaide, wife of the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, holds a Berlin cookery diploma. Princess Alexandra Victoria paints miniatures. Princess Helena is a qualified hospital nurse. Princess Adelaide has a kindergarten teaching certificate. Princess Caroline Matilda is an expert typist and shorthand writer.
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Frederick
Schleswig-Holstein
Victoria Adelaide
Duke of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Royal School of Cookery
Berlin
Alexandria Victoria
Helena
Princess Adelaide
Caroline Matilda
Honeymoon Customs In Arabia
A Wide World Magazine note describes a seven day post wedding period in Arab culture where the bride remains secluded with female relatives and the groom often hides from the bride family. The bridegroom may visit friends at night while avoiding his in laws, and both endure a ceremonial, tiring start to marriage similar to a continental tour.
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The
Wide World Magazine
Women artists change magazine illustration practices
The New York Press notes a shift as female illustrators move away from pleatching generic visuals. They align images with context from the story altering depictions of character age appearance and attire to match text.
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New York Press
Ethel Roosevelt Debuts as White House Sister
The Delineator praises Ethel as a true daughter of her father and notes the White House welcomes two debutantes in one presidency. Alice Roosevelt is already celebrated, and now Ethel prepares for her first formal appearance as a debutante.
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Ethel
White House
Alice Roosevelt
Death of Letitia Semple Reveals National Dignity Gap
An Arrogant critique notes that Letitia Semple, once White House mistress and niece of President Tyler, died aged eighty six in the Louise Home for Southern women. The piece argues her poverty and neglect reflect poorly on national dignity, recalling her Baltimore school years and wartime hardships.
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Letitia Tyler Semple
Semple
President Tyler
White House
Louise
Sempler
South
California
Pierce
Argonant
Fashion Notes and a Folk Tale From Washington Star
Fashion notes discuss pockets in knit silk underwear and hats with pockets, plus coats, vests, scarves, and hairstyles featuring silver gauze ornaments. The piece also mentions gores in skirts, oriental silk blouses, and tailored lightweight fabrics for suits. A separate tale tells of three brothers turned to pine trees by the lord of life after wishes for height, peace, and long life.
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Paris
Washington Star
Five Little Foxes In The Garden Rhyme
A playful poem about a hunter pursuing a clever fox among grape vines. The narrator describes planting and guarding the vines while the fox repeatedly hides and slips away, leading to a lesson of persistence and memory.
Flowers and Trees Guessing Game from Washington Star
A short item notes an old party game Flowers and Trees where players guess a word from four clues. The example uses public house, a state, a command to depart, and a flower to yield Indigo. A minute is given for each guess and a reference list exists for familiar players.
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Washington Star
In the Sewing Room A Refrain of Threads and Roles
A whimsical dialogue among Scissors Timble Needle Pin Spool and a seamstress unfolds in the Sewing Room. The characters trade quips about their roles with pithy puns on life and craft as they become bound in a box by the seamstress.
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Baltimore American
How He Got Home
An impoverished self made man after college seeks return from Europe. Caught in Liverpool with no money Jack ponders boarding a liner to go home when he notices a crying baby and overwhelmed mother struggling with early sea voyage duties.
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Jack
Europe
Liverpool
Stranger offers to take baby for passage home
A man named Jack, described as a college student and later a prominent lawyer, helps a mother by taking her baby to keep him quiet. After the baby is cared for, he proposes to escort the child across the Atlantic for passage to America in exchange for funds. The mother agrees and he fulfills his promise. He recalls the incident with amusement.
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Jack
America
Europe
A Queer Little Man Story Read Aloud by Father
A father tells Dorothy and Bob a bedtime tale of a tiny man in a green coat and red hat with a basket of sweet peas. The processionlike man steps into a street and narrowly avoids a pony carriage, guiding the peas to a flowerless neighbour as the children listen intrigued.
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Dorothy
Bob
Papa
Red Hat
Jimmie
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Rear & Son
Louisville Courier- Journal
New Haven Register
Civil Service
New Orleans Picayune
Robert Hutchison
Detroit Free Press
Arabia
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Hunter Ro
Hunter
Hunter True
Susan Perry Peckham
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