Just a Dream Just a Dream
Gerald Holmes, a once successful engineer, seeks to revive a lost love through a ward named Laura Dean who bears the image of his late beloved Lillian Huntley. After guiding Laura from slum to refinement, a telegram reveals Laura has married, prompting Holmes to accept that life is for living, not dreaming, while realizing love persists in transformed form.
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Gerald Holmes
Lillian Huntley
Holmes
Lillian
Laura Dean
Laura
Professor Murray
Lilian
Evil Eye Myth Revealed As Ordinary Squint
Dr N Bishop Harman argues in the British Journal of Children's Diseases that the so called evil eye was likely a common squint or bossing misinterpreted as witchcraft in earlier times. He cites Shakespeare's King Lear references to illustrate historical fears and beliefs about curses and eye defects.
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N. Bishop Harman
Journal of
Flibbertigibbet
Foolish Question and Port Maid tale from a funeral customs
A humorous dialogue features Mary asking to leave after noon for her uncle's funeral. The reply clarifies the funeral is a burial practice and not a current death. The exchange highlights a local custom and a misunderstanding of terms in a period setting.
Can Environment Create a Musical Genius?
An article argues that environment cannot create genius from mediocrity. It notes inherited traits limit potential, though training can develop habits and interests. It compares development to a goose egg and swan, urging broad opportunities for all children.
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Man
Mother's Cook Book Fruit Bars and Apricot Dessert
Recipe notes for fruit bars with oats flour dates pecan meats and sour milk. Includes preparing date paste sandwich layers bake in a hot oven and jar for storage. Also describes a rich biscuit dough apricot dessert with lemon juice almond extract whipped cream and a cornstarch enriched egg yolk mixture folded into meringue then baked and served with jam and sugar.
Egg Timbales and Fashion Edicts of the Era
Instructions for making egg timbales with white sauce and olive layers, then a buttered crumb topping, plus a recipe for ham timbales in hot water. The text shifts to fashion notes on Russian and Spanish influences, parasols, khaki silk, pastel broadcloth, ragian sleeve, red accents, an infantry helmet millinery idea, and leather trimming sets.
Timely Hints for Poultry Growers
Advice on raising poultry covers feed quality water for ducklings proper egg storage and temperatures and shipping space. Emphasizes removing weak birds avoiding moldy feed protecting chicks from damp conditions and using up to date methods to stay competitive.
Collars Update Blouses With Delicate Edging Styles
The article describes collar options to trim plain blouses, featuring white chiffon or organdie collars that cover the neck and form a slender V below the throat with pin tucked edging. It also notes a second collar with narrow turnover and broad plaited frilling, practical in crepe de chine.
Its Contrariness Club Buffet Paradox
A playful quip notes a club buffet gives paradoxical comfort. It says members eat there when they are out of spirits, turning lack into a social, comforting routine. The line uses wit to link food and mood in a social setting.
Fits of Blues Among Working Women and Wives in 1916
A 1916 prose piece argues that most women, even busy ones, suffer fits of blues but should counter with cheerfulness. It lauds working girls for maintaining good spirits, urges childrearing and frugal discipline, and counsels gratitude for memories of love while encouraging a hopeful, positive outlook.
Husband and wife clash over roles in tense exchange
A heated exchange reveals双方 disagreements over household support and provisioning. The husband expresses frustration about lacking a dependable partner while the wife counters with a demand for financial sustenance and stability.
Kansas Professor Invents Plant Growth Motion Camera
A Kansas university professor has created a machine to film growing plants. The process is slow in most cases but yields an amusing and instructive result.
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Kansas University
The Boot Question In Fashion
A girl who aims to be ultra smart sticks to high boots though many peers wear low shoes. Metallic brocade shoes suit satin and chiffon daytime dresses, while metallic tissue high shoes complement evening frocks. Evening slippers in metallic brocade, novelty tissue, and satin feature carved buttons or rhinestones.
A Cautious Witness
A cautious witness responds to a question about a chicken dinner by insisting investigations must start with proving he head any chicken in the first place. The dialogue uses dialect to challenge the inquiry and imply uncertainty about the source.
Springtime Love and Courtship, a Moral Reflection
A long essay extols spring as mating season for humans and animals, urging men to seek marriage promptly and women to curb a hasty temper. It links warm weather, May moon romance, and wedding trips to happiness, warning that a quick temper endangers married life.
Girls With Hasty Tempers Reflect On Youth and Family Life
The piece argues that a hasty temper in girls is learned from infancy and worsened by mothers giving in to cries. It blames family dynamics for spurring quarrels and notes that early indulgence shapes behavior into adulthood.
If Wishes Were Automobiles and Ambitions
A reflective piece on wishing versus effort, arguing that Wealth and beauty cannot buy happiness. It contrasts imagined instant gains with the steadier path of honest work and personal growth, noting many women chase foolish wishes and urging contentment and constructive striving.
Portrait Updated With Modern Fashion
A New York artist earns 600 dollars yearly as he updates a family portrait for a wealthy widow. Each year or when styles change he repaint s the sitter in current dress, claiming the right to alter the canvas to keep it fashionable. The widow demanded updating after years of urging.
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New York
Pittsburg Dispatch
Rumor Of Lapleigh Theorizes On A Fall From A Truck
Dialogue hints at Lapleigh misfortune with a rumor he relied on his own means. Clara cites his tale of falling from a truck. The piece portrays social chatter about a possible incident without confirmation.
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Maude
Lapleigh
Clara
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