School Shower Plans and Travel Preparations
A lively social notice describes Labor Day as the last quiet day before school, with a home hosted school shower planned for a young girl featuring gifts and playful costumes. It also details an end of summer outing with sunbonnets, hats, and a seaside party, plus travel packing tips and whimsical gift ideas for journeys guided by Madame Merri.
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Khower
Polly
Clowk
Ube Jien
Tor
South America
England
Madame Merri
Gloomy Piazza Brightened by Crimson Cushions on Willow Chairs
A dark piazza may be relieved by willow chairs placed in natural plate with cushions of bright crimson. The bright red cushion in white or green enameled chairs appears inviting and cheering.
Paris Fashions Feature Fruit Motifs In Millinery
Paris correspondents note the Parisiennes return to black and white effects after bold color schemes. Fruit clusters such as strawberries currants and apples appear on new bats and tulle veils, balanced by magpie tints and black satin.
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Wis
Bose
Tulle
Fragmentary Goethe Quotation in Obscure Verse
A damaged line cites Goethe praising leisure and rest. The garbled text reads as a fragment urging the reader to taste pleasure and do their best, warning that idleness yields no rest. The passage appears as an excerpt without clear context or attribution.
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Goethe
Summer Kitchen Notes and Recipes for Warm Weather
A column of household hints and recipes for hot weather. Green Tomato Mince Meat, Tomato Relish, Egyptian Salad, and Corn Chowder are detailed with steps and quantities. Tips cover coconut grating, quick meals, canned cucumber salad, summer relish, and a light Lightning Cake. Includes moral quotes and general homemaking guidance.
Well Kept Eyebrows Add Greatly to the General Appearance
A guidance piece urging women to care for eyebrows to maintain fullness and gloss. It recommends thorough cleaning with a soft brush and liquid soap, rinsing, careful brushing after exposure, daily washing, and reestablishing natural oils with vaseline or sweet almond oil. Massage techniques to stimulate roots are described, ending with wiping away excess oil.
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Sumeo
Greana
Mme Armand
Late season chapeau buttons of silk
Midsummer frocks trim with large looking crochet buttons that are silk upon close inspection. The secret of making them involves forming a tiny central circle with shirring and circling silk pieces until a shirred satin bolton mold is created, with shirring stitched to the wrong side to secure the button mold.
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Hera
Good for Flowers Says Steam Revives Drooping Blooms
Advice notes that flowers with pegs or curls droop after bringing indoors due to atmospheric moisture. Recommends placing in pans, oiling with hot water to create steam that revives droopy flowers. Suggests using cigar ashes and burned cigar pieces in soil to deter insects without harming the plant.
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Crocka
Dishes for tea and sweets from a home cookery page
Recipes for tea include cottage cheese supper dish using sour milk curds with cream butter salt and optional chives. Blueberry Tea Cake explains muffin pan method. Baked Peaches cover scalding peeling sugared fruit with water and cream. Georgia Broiled Ham details a molasses pepper parsley butter brine. Sally Lunn provides a yeast batter method with warm milk lard butter and sugar, rising twice, baked in a buttered pan. Sally Lunn with maple syrup recommended for evening tea.
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Georgia
Sally Lunn
Looking Ahead. Little Nora and Edith chat about bears and marriage
Eight year old Nora asks Edith about a Teddy bear and future family plans. Nora jokes that her stuffed toy is locked away until marriage and could become a keepsake for grandchildren. Edith questions if Nora will ever have children, prompting a playful exchange about future generations.
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Nora
Edith
Evening party salads and sandwich fillings from a vintage menu
A vintage recipe snippet details Century salad variants with elkied red pepper, olives, cucumber, lettuce, and French dressing, plus Normandy salad stew and walnut additions. Salmon salad with lemon, parsley, gelatine mold filling, and lettuce garnish, followed by apple cups. Cocoanut and tartar sandwich fillings complete the set with biscuits, wafers, and buttered bread.
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Normandy
Mince Inc
Froze His Nose in a Cold Storage Tale
A reader anecdote recalls a man who pricked into someone else’s affairs and paid the price with a frozen nose after a fall onto a mat near a cold storage plant. The tale underscores the hazards of meddling in others’ business.
Jones and Ohio State Journal referenced in rhetoric note
A restrained note in classic style mentions Jone s bolts and a ring type machine prompting speech about Jones Ohio State Journal. The fragment hints at a journalistic or editorial aside but lacks a clear event, date, or participants. Further readable details would clarify context and lead.
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Jone
Jones
Ohio State Journal
Epitaph for Captain at Montparnasse Cemetery
An inscription on a captain's tomb in Montparnasse Cemetery reads Carry arma Present arma I place I. The text reflects a martial epitaph with a blend of Latin and reformulated phrases.
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Tom
Della
Montparnasse
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