Teach Children to Be Competent and Successful
Dorothy Dix argues parents must teach children one skill well to ensure lifelong success. Competence builds demand: skilled bookkeepers, dressmakers, cooks, lawyers, doctors, and merchants all command fair pay. Start at home with careful chores and orderly play to form habits that determine future achievement.
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Dorothy DIX
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The Angel of Trouble Scene in Olive's Secret Visit
Olive climbs to Marinoff's suite and slips inside after finding no guard at Lumley's door. A postman’s knock echoes in the corridor as she risks discovery and nervy suspense. Her plan hinges on delivering a letter for Lumley to Mme d Enclos’s supposed contact.
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Miriam
Letters in danger as Miriam outwits Marinoff
Olive hides in a Moscow suite as Miriam Selwyn enters the apartment to retrieve compromising letters from Prince Marinoff. She distracts him with flirtation, seizes the letters, and escapes onto the balcony before slipping back inside to confront the risky plan.
How to Make Better Cough Syrup Than You Can Buy
A household remedy promises a pint of cough syrup in minutes for 54 cents. It blends granulated sugar warm water and Pinex with honey as an optional substitute, claiming deep cough relief and a pleasant taste.
Silent end of man follows tense struggle in room
A man lies still with a hand gripping his collar as if attempting to free himself. There are no signs of life or movement remaining, and no quiver to indicate breathing.
The Other Woman
John Wynter arrives at a flat after noticing a visiting board bearing Prince Marinoff’s name. He rings the bell and waits, wondering what urgent news Prince Sergius Marinoff has for him that night. A bell buzz precedes a woman's startled cry, then silence returns.
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John Wynter
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We Give You a Kiss for That Rose
A shy young man courted the "sweetest girl in the world" for months. When she finally acted she pointed to the rose in his buttonhole and offered a kiss in return. He blushed crimson yet accepted the exchange after a moment.
Man Seeks Forist for More Roses
A man grabs his hat and announces he is going to the forist to obtain more roses, replying to a surprised woman at the door. The exchange centers on his departure and the unusual phrasing for his destination.
Seeing the World in a Looking Glass by Winifred Black
A columnist laments a friend who views life through a distorted mirror of her own ego. The piece recalls childhood games with a glass that inverted the world and warns the friend to drop self obsession or risk missing real events and people. The narrator jokes about alternatives like schools for cats or nurseries for canaries to escape self focus.
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Reseda
Ice bag remedy sounds odd in Philadelphia tale
A Philadelphia woman was told by a doctor to apply ice to her sick boy and bind it to his temples. The next day when asked about the patient she replied that Tom is better, but the mice are dead, illustrating a humorous or odd medical anecdote reported by the Kansas City Times.
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Philadelphia
Tommy
Kansas City Times
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