Good Ideas on Furniture For the Makers of Homes
The piece argues for harmony between old and new in home furniture, warns against fake antiques, and advises buying authentic pieces that fit room design. It notes the rise of antique collecting, cautions about dealer traps, and praises rural houses and housewives valuing genuine furnishings. It cites Oak, Chestnut, Mahogany, Walnut, and Jacobean pieces as key choices.
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Boccaccio
Tours
Oal Walsh
Ventilation and Heating for Winter Homes
The article argues for continuous fresh air in living spaces to keep air quality high while heating. It notes that standard furnaces and steam or hot water systems can bring in air but often raise room temperatures with impure, stagnant air. It stresses health benefits from slight extra heating cost for ventilation, linking poor ventilation to higher winter pneumonia risk.
War Stories From a French Weekly At War Front
Readings from Les Annales August issue tell two tales of wartime sacrifice. An old peasant at St Paul de Varax bids farewell to eleven sons and sons in law as the family vows to support those who fall for the Patrie. In Bourg a beggar woman intercepts a Red Cross fundraiser by a young noblewoman and donates 12 cents she found to aid wounded soldiers.
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Les Annales
St. Paul de Varax
Dombes
France
Bourg
Red Cross
Thaye
Women Nurses Ride Breeches to the Front
A Folkestone party of nurses travels to the front wearing riding breeches spurs and long coats with helmets. Their duties include riding over the battlefield to loot for the wounded and render first aid before other nurses convoy stricken fiddlera to the base hospital by motor car. Many wounded have died due to delayed attention.
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Folkestone
Worth Knowing Tips for Cleaning Potatoes and Garden Care
Scraped raw potatoes placed in cold water will clean them if left two or three days. Wash cooking utensils immediately after use to remove grease. To keep plants fresh while the house is shut up, place bricks in a zinc bath with water to cover them, stand plants on bricks, and let bricks absorb moisture to keep plants in good condition.
Genevieve Clark Calls for Nationwide Cotton Drive
Miss Genevieve Clark urges American households to buy cotton goods for the coming year to support farmers as European demand wanes. She cites a $600,000,000 trade gap and urges a nation wide one week buy session. A concurrent national cotton fashions show in Washington will display cotton uses by designers and manufacturers.
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Genevieve Clark
Champ Clark
Paul Warburg
Senate
Washington
Paris
Ions
Household Tips and Cosmetic Fixes From Everyday Advice
Instructions cover stain removal for woolen blankets using glycerine and egg yolk, wick maintenance by pulling threads, lemon to whiten ivory, cocoa in rice pudding, and tinting curtains by blending cream starch with white starch before each load. The piece compiles practical household tricks and anecdotes for common domestic tasks.
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Pennsylvaiania
Samuel G. Dixon
Commissioner of Health
House of Representatives
Hershey Laundry
Hershey, Penna
Earth
Quetzacoate
Eden
Spain
England
America
Hershey
Hershey Chocolate Company
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