Frying Eggs and Food Politics in a Transformed Age
The Middlesex Women's club shifts from culture to Christmas shopping as debates on cooking reveal autocrat kitchen lore. A Washington food adulterants trial under Professor Wiley will test preservatives and coloring in 12 young clerks and students to guide future health and trade laws. Miss Elizabeth McCracken and social reformers discuss bringing good reading to tenement dwellers, with a Scrub-woman’s tale of discovering meaning in novels from Shakespeare to Browning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlesex Women’s Club
Cook
Washington
Department of Agriculture
H. W. Wiley
Wiley
Elizabeth McCracken
Boston
Atlantic Monthly
Miss McCracken
Meracken
Kenilworth
Zenda
Jennico
Helen Mar
Flavia
Richard Coeur de Lion
Basil Jennico
Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Curious electric light dining table at Hackett home
The Hackett residence at 38 East Thirty-third Street features a dining table with a glass top concealing a box holding twenty four colored electric lights. Controls under the rim let Mrs Hackett and guests change light colors during dinners while the rest of the room stays traditional.
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Hackett
Thirty-third Street
Walla
Mary Mannering
Puta
Hackett Wos
Paris
Hacketts
Amber Light Tints Hackett Dinner Room
The room features amber light from a bronze ceiling and bronze walls. Amber agate chandelier and wall lights illuminate the table, then are dimmed one by one leaving only the glow from the table as the dinner ends. Mr Hackett praises the light for stories while Mrs Hackett loves its rose shadows.
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Mr. Hackett
A Musical Afternoon by Middlesex Women’s Club in Colonial Hall
The Middlesex Women’s Club held a tea at Colonial Hall with a music program led by Mrs. EB G Dumas. Singers were Mrs. Jean Sherburne and Mrs. Irene Pinder Kerwin performing works by Rubinstein Dvorak Schuman Field Sobeski Mendelssohn and Burns. Mrs. Dumas accompanied. hospitality tea followed served by Mrs. Plunkett and poured by four members.
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Middlesex Women's Club
Colonial Hall
EB. G. Dumas
Jean Sherburne
Irene Pinder Kerwin
Mendelssohn
Massachusetts clubs respond to Georgia aid plea
At the October State Federation meeting in Newtonville a letter from Mrs. Granger of Georgia urged Massachusetts toward funding model schools. The education committee will organize a plan for club subscriptions. Mrs. Leighton reported progress at the presidents’ convention and letters to club presidents ask for prompt, generous responses amid broad Massachusetts clubwoman interest. The conference of presidents also memorialized Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, praising her humanity and urging members to give freely as she did.
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State Federation
Newtonville
Conference of Presidents
Alice Freeman Palmer
Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs
Social Service Committee
Education Committee
National Association of Collegiate
State Board of Education
Federation
Fancy Furbelo ws and Lace Trimmings Spark Fashion Gifts
The article details delicate gift ideas including note paper en velopes, fancy boxes for children, silk comforts in blue and pink florals, lace coverlets, white satin handkerchief cases trimmed with gilt, white rice waists with narrow taffeta bands, pastel velvets and tiny ribbons, long lace ties, and vinaigrettes in silver or gold with enamel flowers or stones. It notes modern street lamps as new lighters.
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Ana Rhea
Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Howells
Saul
Lientner
Pippa
Browning
Louise L. Vaughn Parker
District of Columbia
Edmond 8. Blackburn
North Carolina
Blackburn
He House
A. F. Sweet
Woburn, Mass
Lowell
A. G. Pollard & CO
Ghinaware
Jardinieres
New England
Palmer Street
Arnold
Merrimack St. Centre
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