Suburbanite Trades Garden for City Life Tale of Moving
An advertising man describes selling his suburban home and moving to a city flat due to cold winters and preference for urban life. His boss teases him about giving up garden pleasures while the man notes his wife insisted on the move, hoping to enjoy nature via the park.
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Palace of Delight
United States
Some Old Women and Marriage by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A mid century essay argues against aging women marrying younger men, urging hair and beauty not to mislead, and praising mature partnerships. It contrasts Ninon de L Enclos with aging women, notes male desire shifts, and advises older women to avoid younger husbands, favoring independence and restraint to avoid long unhappiness.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Tropics
Ninon
Lorelove
Teken
Disraeli
Grabbing the Opportunity Milk Quality Improves
Mrs Younghusband notes better milk quality and purity from a new supplier. Mr Younghusband agrees the recent purchase is superior, saying the man guaranteed it to be perfectly pure and bought enough to last several weeks.
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Mrs. Younghusband
Mr. Younghusband
Excerpted Remark Triggers Temperance Paper War
A 19th century English bishop spoke in Exeter on temperance claiming he had never been drunk. The next morning Exeter papers blared with bold placards attacking the bishop, reflecting a sharp public reaction to his remark.
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Exeter
The Vialed Toy by Nell Brinkley in gray old days
A vivid portrait contrasts medieval England’s rulers and knights with modern power dynamics. Brinkley traces how “big men” were knighted by kings, then shifts to a new England where lineage and fame travel in a bottle, through a parasite who taints great descent with modern show.
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England
Tord
Nell Brinkley
The Maxims of a Match Making Mother
Dorothy Dix outlines a mother’s strategies to secure a marriage for her daughters by selecting from four classes of men. She advises controlling suitors, dressing daughters well, creating a welcoming home, and orchestrating social opportunities to attract desirable matches while warning against unsuitable partners. The tone reflects early 20th century advice columns.
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Dorothy DIX
Tuan
Tim
Mamie
Sadie
Sadile
Heaven
That Successful Club Supper Today and Then
A Culture club supper at Hetty Tuttle’s home unfolds amid chaos as guests clash with forgotten provisions and missing sugar while Minnie Tuttle and Alf Kreeble share a private moment. Hetty, praised loudly by onlookers, smiles through the tension as the evening culminates in a seeming triumph.
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Culture Club
Woman's Club of
Three Pines
Sawyer White
Springers
Hetty Tuttle
Minnie
Alf Kreeble
Minnie Tuttle
Alf
Great Women of History Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Reverend Thomas B. Gregory profiles Lady Mary Wortley Montagu born 1680 as a luminous intellect and bold reformer. She defied her father, accompanied her ambassador husband to Constantinople, authored Letters From the East, argued for arbitration, and introduced smallpox inoculation to Europe before dying August 1, 1762 at age eleven seventy two.
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Mary Wortley-Montagu
Thomas B. Gregory
Lady Mary
Mary Bierrepont
Evelyn Pierrepont
Lord Kingston
Tom Jones
Edward Wortley- Montagu
George I
Treasury
London
George
England
Charles
Constantinople
Europe
Turkey
Hairline Barrier in a Marriage and a Polecat Stir
A humorous domestic scene features a daughter halting marriage over hair part, while a National Geographic member ponders naming kittens Cook and Peary amid polar debate. A Scottish baker’s horse clears trams, and a ruralist mocks a City Park museum portrait of E H Smith by himself, in lighthearted anecdotes.
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Deaver
City Park
E. H. Smith
Smith
Cincinnati Post
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