Restful wisdom for busy holiday housemothers
An editorial note urges practical bodily rest amid holiday toil. It cites The Silver Cross and Madame Trevamier on beauty, then urges true rest as mindful quiet and relaxation. It recounts Beecher’s habit of resting on a lounge between sermons, contrasts active and passive rest, and concludes with the maxim never stand when you can sit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donse
Silver Cross
Madame Trevamier
David
Henry Ward Beecher
The Easy Chair On Motherhood And Work Balance
A poem juxtaposes domestic labor with a mother's endurance, urging seated labor when possible and urging calm despite fatigue. It reflects pressure on women to juggle chores and child care while maintaining nerve and quiet mind. The lines emphasize unseen sacrifices of mothers and the mystery of their daily burdens.
Cure all ointment recipe touted by house keeper’s weekly
A missive offers a so called sovereign salve for sore throat diphtheria burns and pains. It details a wax and lava ointment with camphor oregano laudanum and alcohol, plus directions to heat mix pour into tins and apply to chest throat feet and injuries. The item cites House Keeper’s Weekly as its source.
Little Girl's Doll Bedroom Set Gift Ideas
A handmade doll furniture set for a child includes dresser commode bed four chairs and a backless low couch. Pasteboard outlines are covered in blue cretonne with pink rosebud butterflies. Blue thread secures pieces. A ten cent mirror fits dresser.
Turnips in Purée and Variations from Piedmont to Salad
Classic turnip preparations including Frionseo purée with cream and egg, Turnips a Piedmontese baked with broth and crumbs, Creamed Turnips in bay leaf sauce, Turnip Salad layered with onions beets and mayonnaise, and Turnip Cups hollowed and boiled for individual salads.
Turnip Croquettes and Salad Assembly
Provide a vegetable salad with carrots peas beets and cauliflower arranged prettily. Prepare browned turnips by boiling draining slicing then browning in butter with salt pepper and a touch of sugar. For croquettes steam turnips drain press in cheesecloth, mix with salt pepper and two eggs, form cylinders dip in eggs and crumbs and fry.
Savory Nut Candies From A Classic Recipe Guide
Instructions for making walnut and pecan candy, nut cakes, and stuffed dates, with steps for caramel glaze and glazed almonds. Includes sugar syrup tests, cooking points, vanilla addition, and cooling, plus a fig paste and dusting sugar method for Vig Paste. Names of ingredients and process details preserved.
How to Make a Black and White Yarn Doll
Step by step directions for crafting a yarn doll using one skein split into two pieces. Describe creating head, neck, arms, waist, back hair, front hair, bangs, skirt, and facial features with silk for eyes nose and mouth, plus decorative ribbon and bows.
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Saxony
The Cost of a Fretful Heart on a Face
A fragment from the Christian Herald cites a dinner table discussion on facial lines caused by sorrow and anger. It argues that lines reveal a troubled soul and that for beauty one must avoid anger and fretfulness, claiming we are the artists of our own faces.
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Christian Herald
Ironing away pain and warming cures from old remedies
A reader recounts folk techniques to ease back and side pains by ironing affected areas through layers of cloth, claiming heat expansion within cells and dramatic relief. A neighbor’s tale adds a hot soapstone in a rocking chair to cure a stuck back. An open fire in an invalid room is praised for purifying air in contagious cases.
Mending with Embroidery Hoops for Stockings and More
A reader shares a practical tip from Good Housekeeping on using embroidery hoops to mend stockings with common tears such as three corner ed or barn door, placing a hoop inside and a larger hoop outside to draw the hole neatly with fine cotton then darn it. The method also aids mending handkerchiefs napkins dresses aprons and similar textiles and can be used to repair woolen mittens and gloves with a small tenpin template.
Organizing Closets With Double Hook System
The author describes removing old hooks and using dozens of small hooks arranged in two rows a foot apart. Skirts hang from the hooks by waist tapes, two hooks per skirt, one behind the other, to prevent creasing and allow quick access, a method deemed economical and highly recommended.
Onion syrup remedy for cough from Good Housekeeping
A late night cold cure from Good Housekeeping suggests a cough remedy using alternating layers of raw onion and white sugar. Slice a large onion lay slices with sugar in a dish repeat to form layers then cover. Every three hours a teaspoonful of syrup forms to be taken at intervals through the day.
Recipe for Rice Gruel with Milk and Nutmeg
A simple rice gruel is prepared by simmering one tablespoon of rice in three cups of boiling water for 45 minutes then adding a cup of milk and a teaspoon of salt. It cooks a few minutes more, is strained, boiled briefly, then sweetened with sugar and nutmeg and served with brown toast.
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New York Tribune
Birthday Party Flags Make a Colorful Table Topic
A boy's party featured a clever display with small silk flags from many nations placed along the table. Painted sticks thrust into raw potato halves served as flag holders, the potatoes dyed dark red and set on tiny red parchment mats. Flags and accents were inexpensive from shops.
Something Dainty for an Invalid Toasted Oyster Treat
A compact kitchen instruction describes browning bread lightly and buttering it, then frying at high heat. Six or more fresh oysters are dropped in, stirred as gravy forms, seasoned with pepper and salt, and cooked two to three minutes. The hot oysters are poured over the toast and served immediately.
To Relieve Nerve Strain by a Simple Sandwich
A short curb to nerves suggests a sandwich or a glass of milk when fatigue or reluctance to duties strikes. Sit, eat, and regain energy to resume tasks. Small indulgences are said to make women better natured and prettier.
Pumpkin slice prep speeds cooking and kitchen tips
A short household guide explains cutting pumpkins through a meat grinder for quick cooking. It also relays a note on Miss Florence Hedges, a university graduate now appointed as special assistant in the U. S. Department of Agriculture Plant Pathology lab in Washington. Additional home remedies include earache relief with a coal and sugar cone and sterilizing milk by a double boiler method, plus baking soda to sour milk ratios for doughs.
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Florence Hedges
United States Agricultural Department
Washington
Lansing
Bread and cake tips from an old kitchen notebook
Stale bread can be revived by slicing and rewarming in a damp napkin inside a paper bag in a hot oven for fifteen minutes. Cakes crack when the oven is too hot or batter is stiff. Freshness of eggs is tested by buoyancy, with large ends up signaling good eggs. Chocolate thickness improves with a teaspoon of strong coffee added before serving.
Father Gobbler Missing Hens Seek Help at Gray Goose Door
Sunshine about the farm as turkey hens lament the absence of Father Gobbler. They ask Sir Coral-comb the cook who dismisses them, then wander to Gray Goose's doorway. Gray Goose notes the goodman is gone and may not return, sparking further worry among the poultry group.
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Coral-comb
Sunshine boys share poultry gifts in a grateful Thanksgiving tale
A Michigan community newsletter recounts a light hearted Thanksgiving where Sunshine boys surprise Mrs Bates with white chickens a barred Plymouth Rock rooster a duck and eggs. Children from Elk Rapids and Kingsley write in sharing school life gardens and gratitude to Sunshiners everywhere.
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Sunshine Boys
Thas
Jan Dean Ot Bates
Caine & Parcel Delivery
Roy Peterson
Datk Rapids
Victor Klatka
Maple City
Sunshine Boy
Expressman
Manistee
Elk Rapids
Emma Hodge
Peruna Praised Across Letters for Winter Ailments
Readers in New York and surrounding areas hail Peruna as a cure for catarrh colds and related ills with testimonials from Miss Alice ONeil and others. Messages claim quick improvement after four weeks of use and recommend Peruna as a tonic and remedy for nervousness stomach troubles and general ill health from winter ailments.
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Pittsburg
Mother
New York Mail
Sixpress
Frionseo
Father Gobbler
Gray Goose
Faii
Goodman Goose
Wilhelmina Kllman
Danywheer
Arthur the Enitin
Usdar Run
Mich
Mrs. Lennox
Leon Whinnery
Williamsburg
Gracie Lydell
Kingsely
John Greenleaf Whittier
Hoosier
Tam
Tillian
Seeley
Wingsley
Robert A. Seeley
Kingsley, Mich
Don
Sylvia
Sunehiner
Ea M
Hoitor
The
Herald
Sunshiner
Mina Seeley
Kingsley
Navy
Dewar
Your Snowshiner
Sylvia Seeley
Traverse City
Miss Dunn
Ruby French
Gills Pier
Misa Nettie Paulus
Lilian Bernard
Peru
Rad
Alice O’neil
Alice O'Neil
Siz Adams Street
Brooklyn
Nv Y
Peruna
Peeruna
J. MM. Isaacs
Armstronia
Dannes
View
We. Burman
Congress
Iorida
Prom Press
N.vw
End. J. Purman
Pbs Ghai
Herald Wok Office
Alb
Hannah & Lay’s Hug Store
RTE
Chis Is
Tamorras
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