The Nervous Emotional Woman Advice Column
A guidance piece urges a highly emotional woman to endure a milk diet for six weeks to restore nerves, then reduce meals and adopt mental self control. It emphasizes gentleness, self analysis, and reassessing love within home life, arguing affection and reason resolve mood swings better than stoic restraint. It notes men respond to tenderness and advises early environment shaped behavior.
World Growing Better by Jane Addams Through James Evan Crown
Interview with Jane Addams on progress and uplift in society. She cites Americans as melting pot builders of civilization, favors women suffrage, and praises reforms in tenement housing and education. Addams notes improving labor conditions, shorter work hours, and the newspaper’s role in shaping public virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Addams
James Evan Crown
America
Miss Addams
Rockford
Ill
Chicago
Ilinois
New York
Clarence Mackay
World Growing Better Through Newspapers And Civic Efforts
A column reflects on progress across society with humor about travelers in Switzerland and notes how intelligent workmen, church liberalization, settlement workers, and especially newspapers curb corruption, uplift the poor, and promote self-help. It argues modern media foster virtue and cleaner amusements while education aids improvement.
Made the Minister Think
Dialogic piece features a minister and a boy debating umbrellas on a rainy day. The boy quips that since his father stopped attending church he no longer brings home umbrellas. The minister remarks the showy accessory is too exclusive and notes a lack of portly ladies to snub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seri
Renee
Disillusionment of the Honeymoon o By Mabel Herbert Urner
Helen, newly married, wakes to a severe headache during her first visit to Warren’s family. He fails to anticipate or comfort her, confusing neglect with independence as his mother forgets the coffee and the care she longs for from him. Her longing for maternal care intensifies her loneliness and homesickness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Herbert Urner
Jon
Warren
Jane
Why Kitties Cried story brief from Scraps
Wallie six year old finds four kittens in a cellar and guards them from harm. A visitor asks to see the new babies, but Wallie vows to raise them carefully, declaring he is carrying them by their stems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallie
Up-to-Date Jokes and The Chestnut Tree Memoir
A humorous montage of dialogue snippets and vignettes. Observations range from romance under a chestnut tree to fashion, gardening, and marriage paradoxes. The pieces skew toward playful dialog, social quirks, and light satire.
Can Fright Whiten the Hair Explainable or not
Professor Stieda of Konigsberg Germany challenges the belief that fright can instantly whiten hair. He explains hair may appear to blanch due to replacement of pigmented by non pigmented hair or pigment root changes. He cites aging psychical stress misperceptions and historical anecdotes as deceptive or non permanent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stieda
Konigsbers
Germany
London
Lancet
Prof
Pines
Berlin
Moll
Vauquelin
Landola
Metehnikot
Marie Antoinette
Don't Be Tame Poodle Dog Young Man In Love Advice
A persuasive piece advises men to maintain dignity in romance, warning against becoming a submissive “tame poodle” for demanding partners. It stresses self respect, a man’s will, and mutual respect as keys to lasting love and marriage, noting spoiled behavior harms both partners and the relationship.
Century old Swiss cheeses kept for family festivals
In Alpine Vaud and Valais regions Swiss cheesemakers age cheeses for years. Ormonts in Vaud keeps special festival cheeses properly labelled to be eaten at later occasions or funerals. Heirloom wheels are common and one example dated 1785 proved extremely hard yet good when cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vaud
Valais
Paris l Industrie Laitiere
Ormonts
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