One Night of Temptation Awakens Two Fugitives
Marjorie Kershaw, a young teacher, hides a burglar Doctor Ingram in her apartment after he steals from her employer. She treats him kindly, offers food, and the pair plot reform and a fresh start. The doctor agrees to seek honest work, while Marjorie secures him a future by backing his change.
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Tee
Marjorie
Marjorie Kershaw
Martha
Bob
Farmett
Martha Jordan
Rctor
Updosetti
Kershaw
Youthful Mourning Fashion Rules for Teens and Women
The article outlines mourning attire progression for a young girl up to a year, detailing colors and styles. It covers street wear, day outfits, hats, and accessories, with steps from all black for initial months to white and black combinations after milestones, all with black bordered handkerchiefs throughout.
Gowns as Timeless Wedding Gifts From French Tradition
The article praises gifting wedding gowns, citing the Rothschild niece and the Duchess de Chaulnes as examples. It endorses durable fabrics like velvet satin and chiffon, noting gowns should retain style beyond seasons. It suggests taffeta and brown flowered foulards for modest givers, stressing lasting fashion.
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Robert de Rothschild
Trousseau
Duchess de Chaulnes
Paris
Iced Tea or Cocoa Service Demonstration Notes
The illustration depicts a cat glass service for hot weather beverages. Freshly brewed tea should cool before chilling in the ice box after straining the leaves. Whipped cream tops each glass, with lemon ice added to tea, and cocoa served with the fat removed after chilling through cheesecloth.
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Boverty
Small and Dainty Cap for Baby Weaves Easy Pattern
This instructs sewing a baby cap from a front length cut into a half circle. The straight edge forms the front while the curved part is gathered to shape the top. Use alternated insertion lace and embroidery, with lace across the front and gathered circular part. Sew a narrow ribbon above the lace, top it to fit the head, and loosen for laundering. Embroidery or other materials may decorate the cap.
Trifles for wee folk and baby gifts in crochet and textiles
A short feature on charming handmade baby gifts including miniature coat hangers, crochet poodles filled with cotton, embroidery ring toys, satin ribbon decorations, and scented white silk baby coats. Suggestions emphasize safety and usefulness, with items like white French flannel sacks and white silk kimono sacks described for infant wear.
Sunflower Craft and Word Puzzle Dinner Decor
Readers gather sunflowers from nearby fields to decorate rooms with cadmium yellow tones and green accents. Luncheon guests receive a yellow art paper book with a word puzzle where each clue leads to a paired word like Flow river and Nest bird, with other answers including Rent, Sole, West, and Hose.
Wee Brushes For Babes Attract Luxurious Baby Gifts
The article notes stylish families showering newborns with gifts and highlights a new baby accessory trend. The MacKay family's baby received a set of miniature toilet articles including two military brushes and a matching comb, all with silver tacks and engraved monograms, delighting onlookers.
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Clarence Mackays
Tve
Wen
Art of Sweeping Right Way for Clean Rooms
The article stresses proper sweeping technique using short firm strokes, sweeping in two directions, and allowing dust to settle before a final light sweep. It advises salt or tea leaves to brighten carpets, dampened cloths, and ammonia or oil for finishing, plus moving furniture for thorough dust removal.
Hints for Hair Care from Early Advice Columns
Practical guidance on scalp dryness remedies, including warm olive oil before washing to strengthen hair and prevent shedding. Egg yolk washes with lemon or multiple yolks, cream of tartar in final rinse, whites for very fair hair, and a simple soft soap recipe from castor or palm oil with hot water to a jelly-like final product.
Mend Gauze Hose and Stockings with Varied Needles
The method uses four ply cotton and three needle sizes. A fine needle with one black thread fills small holes in gauze or lisle stockings, reducing fabric tears. A larger needle with two cotton strands repairs bigger holes faster and more securely.
Useful to Know Palpitations Tips and Cooking Note
Palpitation of the heart may be arrested by bending down to allow blood to the head. Do not start houghbacks in the conservatory. They are hardy and dislike artificial heat. Poached eggs can be kept from spreading in the pan by adding a few drops of vinegar.
Woman sent to Panama to study social conditions of canal labor
Secretary Taft dispatched Miss Gertrude Beeks, head of the National Civic Federation welfare department, to Panama to live with workers and families to learn how laborers and their kin lived. She aims to inform policies on canal labor welfare amid many foreign workers and Sunday excursions funded by the government.
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Panama
Taft
Anama Canal
Gertrude Beeksa
Welfare Department
National Civic Faleration
Tropics
Huis
What Girls Should Read
A guidance piece urges girls to read from Shakespeare to Scott and Thackeray. It recommends starting with one or two modern works, then exploring major authors like Dickens and George Eliot, and suggests specific titles such as Tyanhoe Kenilworth Vanity Fair Henry Esmond David Copperfield Silas Marner and The Lady of the Lake. The goal is to build broad, intelligent literary knowledge.
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Scott
Sho
Thackeray
Dickens
George Eliot
Tyanhoe
Kenilworth
Times
Henry Esmond
David Copperfield
Silas Marner
Raveloe
Epple
Imagination and Invention in Genius Minds
The passage notes that imaginative people often possess strange powers of invention. It discusses quaint ideas that require material realization and references the notion that genius equals the capacity for taking infinite pains.
Daintiness and Cleanliness in Daily Rooms
A reflective piece urges readers to judge daintiness by cleanliness and order. It lists checks for rooms and attire, urging removal of soil and disorder, and to make or wash fresh items, emphasizing tidiness over mere appearance.
A Simple Desk Dust Shield From Newspapers
A practical tip advises protecting skirts by spreading a newspaper under the chair to shield light colored hems from dust. Change the newspaper daily as paper also gathers dirt and cannot remain clean.
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Nmust
Do It Yourself Floor Imitation With Paint and Stain
If you have an old floor you cannot afford carpet, paint it to imitate a luxurious wood. Clean the door well, plane rough spots, fill cracks with filler, apply two coats of cream paint, let dry for days, then finish with oak stain for a floor-like appearance.
Cake Recipe Fragment Recommends Simplified Dough Steps
A recipe fragment describes creaming butter with two cups sugar, adding three beaten eggs and sour milk with baking soda, then adding cloves cinnamon nutmeg raisins and nuts. It ends with flour to form a dough for a thin rolled sheet and quick bake, brushed with sugared eye.
Warm House Cooling Guide Prompted by Morning Window Ventilation
The text instructs opening all doors and windows at dawn for two hours, then closing doors while leaving each window slightly ajar not more than six inches. Keep openings across the house and draw shades to block sun, creating airflow to maintain a cool interior.
Girls Prefer Engagement To Early Marriage Says Recent View
The piece notes that many girls today favor engagement over marriage before twenty one. It claims the ideal life is to stay at home, run a small business, and have a fiancé who finances amusements. It adds a baking tip to reduce shortening use.
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