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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1908
Page
9
A column of letters and answers on country schooling adequacy, teacher quality, language use, and family etiquette. Advice covers text-book impact on speech, handling remote schools, adapting to new table manners, and resolving domestic tensions with tact and patience.
Practical household guidance on cleaning gilt frames with eggs and soda, wiping oil paintings with Castile soap, whitening quilted counterpanes, and freshening walls with Alabastine. Includes domestic etiquette on weddings, guest invites, and salon concerns with cautions about proper methods and professional advice.
The article profiles Miss Anna Marble, a pioneering female press agent in New York who handles publicity for actress Mme Alla Nazimova. It notes her theatrical lineage, including her father Edward Marble, a popular actor and dramatist, and mentions the era's gender barriers in publicity roles.
The piece traces Miss Marble’s rise as press agent for major productions and stars. It notes her work for Elizabeth Marbury, Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House, and Mme Nazimova, her retirement to freelancing, and her marriage to Channing Pollock. It also mentions Grieg’s tomb in Bergen and other society notes.
A poem by Rudyard Kipling about a fool who gives all and is betrayed by a woman who never understood why. The verse traces loss of honor, faith, and intent as the fool’s world unravels and the woman remains oblivious.
Boston writer Julia Ward Howe is depicted in a new portrait by her granddaughter Caroline Minturn Hall. The painting, shown at the Women's Municipal League of New York, portrays Howe with a favored expression. Hall, an art student, has held roles in the Women's Art Association of Paris.
A Oswego Montana woman describes slow eye disease with pain and light specks. She quits coffee, switches to Postum, and reports marked eye improvement after three months, crediting coffee as the cause and Postum as the cure while avoiding medicine.
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