The Fable of the Unflinching Heroine
George Ade humorously chronicles Mrs Wambo resisting the flapper era and the Seven Sutherland Sisters craze. He contrasts Mary Queen of Scots fate with a modern salon culture as bands of young women revolt against traditional dress, hair, and etiquette. The piece parodies vanity and age anxiety amid changing fashions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eve
Cleopatra
Gafliva
Coventry
Mrs. Wambo
Paris
Vida
Buster Browns
Welcome in Hawaii for Baker as War Secretary arrives
The arrival of Newton D. Baker, secretary of war, in Hawaii is marked by a warm reception and lei coverage. He travels with his wife and daughter to meet Institute of Pacific Relations officials ahead of a forthcoming Ranft Canada conference, amid wide commentary on modern womanhood and societal expectations.
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Newton D. Baker
Wilson
Hawaii
Baker
Institute of Pacific Relations
Ranft
Canada
American Council of the Institute
Smith College
Wambo
First Water
Moral from a Purse String Policy in Atantic City
A satirical note describes a humorous moral about a wife and husband with a claim that a convention of hairdressers in Atlantic City opposed a certain bob. It mocks social norms and ends with the warning that a woman is as old as her husband says she is.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peacock Alley
Atantic City
Sabbath and Sunday observance through early church history
The article explains the Sabbath as the seventh day from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset and notes the rise of Sunday as Christ's resurrection day. It discusses the Lord's day as distinct from the Sabbath, imperial influence on Sunday observance, and 4th century civil laws in the Roman Empire, with a nod to colonial penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantine
Indianapolis News
Theatre as relief in revolutionary France observed
The Kansas City Times notes how during the revolutionary era the old French crowds flocked to theater nightly. Audiences packed eighty theaters to laugh at comedies and shed gentle tears over imagined woes, a striking escape from bloodshed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Times
Chic Sails in Hats as Maid Vogue Reaches Millinery
Cherie Nicholas notes a first hat trend featuring shallow crowned sailors worn at a precise angle. The model shown uses dark green yellow and white plaid straw with a tri color band and feather pads, signaling spring fashion influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union
Pioneers in Movement for Total Abstinence
Centenary of seven Preston men marks origins of the total abstinence pledge. Joseph Livesey drafted the pledge in 1832 with signatories John Gratrix Edward Dickinson John Broadbelt John Smith Joseph Livesey David Anderton and John King. Dick Turner popularized the term teetotal at a Preston meeting in the cock pit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston
Lancashire
Joseph Livesey
England
John Gratrix
Edward Dickinson
John Broadbelt
John Smith
David Anderton
John King
Livesey
Dick Turner
Cockpit
Custom Welcomes Spring in Thuringia Tradition
In Thuringia Germany a pre Christian spring observance is staged in Eisenach on the fourth Sunday in Lent. A procession forms at St Nicholas Church with a mounted herald leading four bands and three men in straw mantles. The Wagon of Winter follows with an old man on a throne among snowy firs. Then Sunna the Goddess of Spring arrives with a silver bugle as villagers cheer Feist and dance.
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Thuringia
Germany
Eisenach
St. Nicholas
Sunna
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George Ade
Mary Queen of Scots
Mary
Bridgers
Sutherland
Police
Ernest Torrence
Hlsie Janis
Carrie Chapman Catt
Hlsie Verguson
Ethel Barrymore
Bebe Daniels
Queen Mary
Glenna Collett
Galli-Curd
Union Central
Orden
Lib
Ella
Jess
RULES
Walter Okeson
Lehigh
E. K. Hall
Dartmouth
Okeson
Football Offcials' Association
Gabby Gertie
Chic
Cherie Nicholas
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