Women in Europe’s War Fight Beyond Borders
Wartime report describes seven wounded German women in Warsaw and Praga hospitals, with Soviet and Austrian female fighters noted. It highlights Russian women in Galicia and Siberian troops, roles of nurses, and 80 women awarded the St George’s Cross. It also surveys mobilization, class differences, and the presence of women guarding railways and bridges. The piece adds anecdotal details about Olga Ellviser, Irena Treskoff, and others. It ends with domestic guidance on travel water for families and children.
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Warsaw
Praga
Frieda Bergent
Carpathian
Ussuri Cossack
Rennenkampf
Irena Treskoff
Russia
Poland
Galicia
Siberia
Europe
Jakutsk
Siberian
Volga
Samara
Plenty of Water For Children
Advice urges parents to ensure children drink ample water early in life. Use a teaspoon for babies to learn sipping, avoid bottles, and promote kidney health especially during illnesses like scarlet fever. Encourage regular, small portions rather than full glasses to ease digestion.
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Sid
The Model Housewife and Her Dusty Demands
A humorous poem satirizes a wife obsessed with cleanliness. She polices every corner and sweeps away flies and mice, fearing dirt even after death. When death comes she hints there may be no dirt in heaven, trailing the idea of eternal tidiness.
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Death
Fashion Notes on Hats Trimmings and Knickerbocker Styles
Style notes describe satin and silk topped navy hats with white or black trim as spring fashion mainstays. Turban toques feature military insignia embroidery front trimming. Delicate embroidery swishes and edging decorate petticoats and drawers. Knickerbocker styles lead for silk and mull linen combinations with envelope patterns.
Queen Elizabeth Supports Belgium King in Dark Trial
Queen Elizabeth stands by King Albert of Belgium through hardship. She reportedly pawned her jewels to raise funds for her country, turning over large sums to aid the Belgian cause amid the monarch’s ordeal.
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Albert
Belgium
Queenlizabeth
Httle
England
Suffrage Garden Seeds Demand Tops Market
Mrs. Frank M. Roessing of the Pennsylvania Association says yellow flowers for the suffrage garden are in short supply due to wartime disruption. After filling 2,000 orders, the seedsman reports scarce yellow seeds from Europe, prompting a nationwide scramble to stock 10,000 gardens with yellow poppies cal enopsis calendula zinnia yellow snapdragons and yellow chrysanthemums.
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Pensylvania
Frank M. Roessing
The
Pennsylvania Association
Europe
Pennsylvania
New York
Helpful Household Hints From A Tea Spoonful Of Butter
Practical kitchen tips cover icing texture remedy and cream chilling for whipping. Advice includes using butter in sugar syrup to smooth icing, chilling cream in cold water then hot water to whip easily, removing yolk specks with warm cloth, turning stale bread into griddle cakes, soaking bread scraps overnight with milk and added egg flour and milk, buying dry goods in bulk, keeping flowers fresh with a sugar water mix, and using white vaseline as leather dressing.
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Elizabeth
Hershey Laundry
Hershey, Penna
Aco Harel
Earth
Quetzacoate
Eden
Spain
France
America
Hershey
Hershey Chocolate Company
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