Winter Days on the Farm and Nutting for Winter
The narrator recalls late autumn and winter on a river farm, gathering walnuts, butternuts, hickory nuts, and pecans, drying and storing them, and preparing fuel and produce. Game hunting with quail, rabbits, and squirrels persists with neighborly permission, while sleds, bells, books, and kitchen gatherings define cozy farm life through November to February.
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Ben Davises
Moke-Houga
gAlgkeg-house
Lenore
Horatio
Cecile
Britannica
Amplog
Styles In Bodices For Woolen Fabrics In Period Trim
Article describes two bodice styles for woolen material with fitted linings and decorative silk trims. It details construction methods, sleeve shapes, and fastening, plus yardage and fabric requirements for each design.
Methods of Perfuming Hats Draw Crowds of Crafters
Hat makers share methods for scenting hats using a box inside a tin chest. A large box holds the hat without crushing feathers and a silk lined paper box can be used inside. Four silk liners in a paper box create a strong sachet aroma that remains for months when sealed in an air tight tin chest.
Toilet Vinegar Recipe Fragments From a Teapot Note
Readable lines describe a simple toilet vinegar mix using lavender flowers seven ounces alcohol eight fluid ounces and diluted acetic acid 68 Auld ounces. The text presents a kitchen chemistry style guideline with approximate measurements and ingredient names.
Filet pillow covers for summer divan cushions
A guide to easy to make filet pillow covers for summer divans. Describes small flat cushions, alternately squared filet and embroidered linen, edged with Cluny lace, and options for whole filet squares or sheer underside linings. Tea dyed cream tones and simple overcast seams suggested for stylish affordability.
Outdoor Girl Gloves Guide for Summer Use
The article cautions against chamois skin gloves for typical outdoor girls with modest means. It notes large look, weak spots after washing, and poor investment for summer wear. It suggests silk gloves as better value, warns against bright colors, and advises white or tan shades with black reserved for mourning.
The Cameo Popular Across Jewelry Styles
A fashion note highlights cameo use in drop earrings, pins, belts, and bracelets. Jet or old gold settings enhance delicate cameos, with large brooches and even harpiums noted. The cameo craze spawns many strong imitations in shops nationwide.
Nearest to Her Heart Question Ends Conversation
A tale of a man seeking to engage a woman in dialogue by listing a subject’s globetrotting experiences. She grows impressed with travel, literature, art, and danger as he extols a prolific writer’s life, until she finally asks a single personal question: Is he married.
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Alaska
Amazon
India
China
London
Vienna
Paris
Florence
Dickens
Thackeray
Balzac
Kipling
Port Arthur
Africa
The Woman and the Feline Reflection
Isabel Gordon Curtis analyzes a judge’s remark that all women are cats and the mixed public reaction. The piece explores stereotypes about women, noting that some women endorsed the judge after qualifiers and that cat metaphors appear across social ranks.
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Isabel Gordon Curtis
Success Magazine
Bess
Sticking Pins Revolutionizes Paper Pin Making
The modern pin making device automates sticking pins in paper rows, excluding coloring and polishing. Samuel Slocum of Connecticut invented the early system in 1841, later improved by Thaddeus Fowler, and by 1900 the U.S. produced about 50.0 million gross pins with most being ordinary pins, plus safety pins and hairpins.
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Samuel Slocum
Connecticut
Howe
Thaddeus Fowler
The Melodrama Ends In A Dramatic River Chase
The heroine Helene Homing confronts the villain who shows his automobile goggles and declares the vow broken. She cries out in despair and leaps into the pasteboard river ending the scene with a dramatic, unresolved moment.
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Helene
Reluctant confession as lovers reveal feelings
A tense scene unfolds with Beth and her companion finally alone. He presses for harmony while she confesses love, and he bluntly declares his wish to reject the declaration and move on.
Awake Ye Zion and Bind Your Strength in Wakefulness
Sermon by Rev. A C Dixon urges Christians to end spiritual sleep and engage in active faith. It cites signs of sleep like inactivity and insensitivity to sins, causes such as harmful atmospheres, and argues harvest time urgency. A call to duty compares sleep to treason on watch and warns of danger to families, children, and souls.
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Israel
Zion
Soula
Christ
Walla
Echo
Darlin
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Rasselas
Abyssinia
Acathera
Ernest McGaffey
Ught
Joseph B. Bowles
A. C. Dixon
D. D
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