The Home Cheer and Hymn of Gratitude to Theo
Fragment from Home Cheer edited by Mrs. Mabel Bates Williams. Poem reflects thanks to Theo for gifts of life and nature. Includes lines about summer sun, winter snow, fulfilled and unfulfilled hopes, and the search for divine presence. Ends with musings on the order of the universe and the law of nature.
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Mabel Bates Williams
Theo
November Thankfulness in a Tramp's Visit
A Michigan writer's tale invites gratitude as Mrs. Stanley, a busy homemaker, helps a freezing tramp by sharing warmth and clothing. Her acts of kindness grow into a Thanksgiving ethic, leading her to reflect on Ben and the note Do all the good you can.
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Ann Arbor
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Craft and play activities for children from stringing to scrapbooks
The article outlines hands on crafts for kids using macaroni beads beans and seeds to make strands and small items. It suggests threading with colored threads beads and toothpicks while offering alternatives like clay beads and paper cutouts. It emphasizes independent work and the joy of crafting alongside guidance for memory books and scrapbooks.
Washout on the Line Delays Tex Arkana Wedding
In a Chicago Journal item a dramatic wedding tale from Tex Arkana unravels as a bride waits in a small church while gossip swirls. A telegram explains a washout on the line delayed the groom John Ison, prompting Aunt Tibbie to reassure guests with feigned calm and a bold display of dignity.
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John Ison
Texarkana
Tibbie
John
Mabry
Chicago Journal
Systematize Housekeeping For Time Saved In Daily Life
A Boston Cooking School Magazine recipe aside, the piece urges readers to adopt a fixed housekeeping system. It argues that detailing daily tasks, assigning specific days for cleaning, mending, and bill filing, and writing a routine will save time and reduce stress. It compares orderly business offices to homes with scattered chores and stresses adherence, with guidance for creating a practical, repeatable schedule.
Marmalade and cloth care from old kitchen notes
A recipe for marmalade mixes carrots and sugar with lemon rind and juice, plus almonds, boiled 30 to 40 minutes to make a carrot preserve. A separate domestic tip instructs washing chamois with soap suds, rinsing, air drying, then drying with a cloth to remove stiffness.
More tested recipes today from the Michigan federation book
Home Cheer prints a collection of tested recipes including Winter Pudding Cranberry Conserve White Fish a La Martini Veal Birds Delicious Egg Salad Cheese Balls Kalamazoo Escalloped Parsnips Toasted Sandwiches and Escalloped Ham. Contributors include Mrs Frances H Turner Eaton Rapids Mrs elle PF Hill Albion Mary Georgia Lloyd Manistea Helen M Lamphere Chesaning Mrs Ross Evers Kalamazoo and Mrs Elnora Chamberlain Hartford Michigan.
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Home Cheer
Michigan State Federation
Frances H. Turner
Eaton Rapids
Lansing
Elle PF. Hill
Albion
Georgia Lloyd
Manistéa
Helen M. Lamphere
Ross Evers
Kalamazoo
Elnora Chamberlain
Hartford
Clara N. Bates
Traverse City
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