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Newspaper
Grand Traverse Herald
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1902
Page
2
A reflective verse by Mrs. M.E. C. Bates urges readers to laugh away troubles and seek daily acts of kindness. It contrasts future sorrows with present deeds, asking what we have done today to spread love, retain faith, and lift others, while stressing practical benevolence in the here and now.
A reflective line emphasizing that men aid each other through shared joy not through suffering. It argues they should not sacrifice themselves for others but fortify themselves to support one another.
The editor discusses sewing as a practical job for girls leaving school, noting many traditional roles are full. It highlights hand finishing as a valued skill, the pay for good hand sewers, and how apprenticeships could let fourteen to sixteen year olds start as assistants. It stresses dedication to detail and reliable work in sustaining demand.
Jeanette Young offers practical advice for mothers urging cause and effect learning, temperance, and honest promises. She warns against deception and harsh public punishment, advocates single-child corrections, attentive responses to wishes, and comforting losses. She emphasizes understanding each child’s pace, avoiding scolding, and guiding through self awareness and social growth.
While traveling south I met a charming elderly woman who endured great hardship after the Civil War. She had lost all she once possessed, a fate she shared during my drive from New Orleans to Ostondelot when I was overtaken by a [text cut].
A traveler shelters in a cottage home to a ruined southern family. The widow recounts losses from Helena battlefield 1864, loss of land and wealth, and raising a daughter while selling praulines. Included is a recipe: brown sugar milk butter pecans to candy, then set and cut into pieces.
A practical fashion tip describes cutting an old pair of trousers into four pieces to line and hem a worn dress skirt. By cleaning and attaching the trouser fabric inside, then seaming and finishing the hem, the skirt gains a fresh look at no extra cost.
Reports from the New York horse show note Miss Alice Roosevelt repeated a blue velvet gown and the same picture hat worn at prior public events. Mrs Roosevelt reportedly limits dress spending to 100 for formal wear, prompting commentary on reuse and style.
The article stresses careful fitting of dresses around the throat to avoid restricting throat muscles and laryngeal movement. It advises smoothing the bodice like a glove, fastening from the bottom up, and ensuring the waist is not dragged out of shape by tension or ill fit.
A narrator considers using only two eggs to feed six people steering through multiple cookbooks. After half an hour of reviewing recipes that require more ingredients or time, they settle on a long abandoned cake method that uses the lone two eggs, seeking a richer outcome within limited resources.
A detailed Harper's Bazar recipe explains a two egg drop cake as a foundational batter. It covers cream butter and sugar, add eggs and milk, flour proportion, flavorings such as nutmeg almonds currants and chocolate, baking times, and icing method. The guide also notes variations for leaf cakes layer cakes and drop cakes and suggests uses from pudding to custard to fruit sauce.
A Vassar girl shares a fudge making method using a phafing dish. She combines two cups of granulated sugar and one cup of cream, adds a quarter cake of unsweetened chocolate, stirs, then includes one tablespoon of butter. After boiling, beat till creamy, cool, and pour into buttered tins. Then combine a cup of sugar with grated chocolate, milk, molasses, and vanilla, boil 40 minutes, test in iced water, beat to candy, pour, and cut into squares.
This excerpt shares detailed tomato and clear salads with butter and gelatin dressings, a fruit salad mold, and a green tinted stock based salad. It notes winter timing in 1902 and 1908 reflections, plus reader letters about Sunshine and Poultry clubs and school children’s notes from Michigan towns.
A vintage recipe lists ingredients and steps to bake a chocolate raisin cake. It specifies sugar butter milk flour raisins chopped nuts egg yolk and a half teaspoon cream of tartar in flour and a quarter teaspoon soda in milk. Melted unsweetened chocolate added last with vanilla flavor.
Three eggs and a pinch of salt are whisked with flour to form a thin batter. Roll out as very thin circles, then fry in hot lard until crisp and golden.
A mixed page of children's writing and anecdotes from the Sunshine column includes a playful hen story about clucking and a child’s account of farm life. Readers named Hazel Beart Green Ray Brough Archie and Iva McManus share news of school routines mail delivery and family details from Michigan to Ontario with day to day observations.
A St Paul, Minnesota endorses Poruna Medicine Co of Columbus Ohio. The letter from O O Lindstrom, high ranking Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias member, lauds Poruna as unmatched. Read by readers seeking remedy for severe cold, urinary trouble, and Brights disease fears, with testimonial of long term health improvement after consistent use.
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