Bedspreads and Dressings for Girls Rooms in Linen and Lace
The piece describes bedspreads for young girls featuring monograms with lace borders and embroidery. It contrasts lightweight white muslin and fine linen spreads with heavier linen options, noting cross stitch progress, color matching, and laundering. It also covers curtains, dressing-table covers, nets, soutache trims, and small items like boxes and baskets in white materials. Heavy linen is less suitable for schoolgirls than older sisters.
The New Bridge Ring Fad Attracts Fashion Conscious Women
A fashion note describes bridge rings for the little left hand finger, with irregular outlines and tall settings. Each ring features a large center stone or three varying sizes, often using old style brilliants and rose cut diamonds, creating a striking individual ornament with sentimental appeal. The piece also notes men seeking fishing spots as the industry shifts with the season.
Servant Problem in Africa Described by a Woman Writer
A woman writer in a newspaper column portrays African servants as essential yet troublesome. She recalls a loyal but flawed servant who endured harsh conditions, noting his intelligence, religiosity, and fidelity despite misdeeds and temptations.
Candied Pineapple Strips in Easy Steps
Sally Sanders explains a method to candy pineapple strips from trimming to drying. Peel and cut fruit into two inch by half inch by quarter inch pieces, mix with half the weight of sugar, soak up to 24 hours, boil the syrup five minutes, add fruit and cook briefly, then dry and roll in sugar. For quicker results, use sun, warming closet, or radiator to dry.
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Sally Sanders
Woman’s Home Companion
Washington Salad Preparation Method
A recipe from Harper's Bazaar describes a beet salad with onions peppers sugar salt bay leaf cloves and peppercorns simmered in water then finished with lemon juice gelatin and served on ribboned lettuce. The method includes soaking gelatin then straining and chilling in moulds.
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Washington
Harper's Bazar
Maple Junket Dessert From Harper's Bazar
A dainty dessert recipe uses warm milk flavored with maple and dissolved junket tablets. After chilling in the icebox, maple sugar and blanched almonds are chopped and spread atop each serving for a sweet finish.
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Harper’s Bazar
Easter Salad Egg Shapes In Lettuce Leaves
A novel Easter salad recipe from Harper's Bazaar blends cream or cottage cheese with one fourth English walnut meats mashed to a paste. Moisten and season, tint to cream color, roll into egg shapes, arrange four or five per crisp lettuce leaf, and serve with green tinted mayonnaise.
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Harper's Bazar
Baseball and Grandma in Chicago Talk
In Success Magazine Ellis Parker Butler recalls a Chicago streetcar encounter. A mourning grandmother asks if he knows how the Cubs fared and who is in the box, illustrating how deeply Chicagoans live by baseball. The city’s daily rhythm centers on the day prior’s game and the one in progress.
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Chicago
Ellis Parker Butler
Success Magazine
Cubs
Home Builders Warn Against Cheap Home Fittings
The Home Builders advise against cheap plumbing lavatories and tiled mantels. They warn that inexpensive fittings and ornate grill work waste money and favor simple straight lines, plain wood, and consistent color schemes for a practical, artistic, and sanitary home.
A Stork Visit Sparks Talk of a Sister
In a short comic scene, Arthur tells how his little sister arrived, noting Dr. Brown brought her. Fred expresses envy and questions the source of the child as the doctor departs.
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Arthur
Fred
Captain Si Latimer and the Andrew Gregg in a windy voyage
White waters and gray skies greet Captain Siegfred Latimer aboard the Andrew Gregg as the tug faces a calm before a changing day. Mate Jay Stebbins notes a distant sail while the crew awaits a sighting and the harbor ahead.
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Andrew Gregg
Chicago
Si Latimer
Siegfred Latimer
Jay Stebbins
Captain Li
Rescue on the Lake A Dramatic Tug Tale
The Andrew Gregg saves the wrecked Dixey with Captain Si and Miss Hettie Allen aboard. The Dixey sinks and rises, while the couple wed aboard the tug, and the Andrew Gregg gains a new captain. Captain Latimer is noted as arriving to assist.
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Iain Si
Andrew Gregg
Captain Latimer
Hettie Allen
Hettie
Frost
Dixey
Allen
Si Latimer
Captain Si
Jay Stebbins
Boston Woman Creates Wedding Director Role
In Boston a wife and mother, Mrs Nellie Bliffins, pioneers a wedding director service to handle ceremony details while brides and mothers manage other duties. She lives with her husband and daughter on Beacon Street and aims to ease household stress during weddings.
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Boston
Nellie Bliffins
Beacon Street
Patriotism Lesson Ends With Surprise Singalong
A Brooklyn school with many German pupils aimed to teach patriotism by displaying the flag and telling its defenders stories. After a lesson, the teacher asked for a song. the class responded with “Die Wacht am Rhein,” a German anthem, instead of the expected American song.
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New York Sun
Brooklyn
Rhein
Took the Hint From the Chicago News
At midnight near the mission clock a man lingers while a woman hints at Roosevelt. She compares him to a big stick, prompting him to leave with his coat and cane, ending the scene with a sly chuckle.
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Chicago News
Archibald
President Roosevelt
French Ambassador Jusserand a Prolific Author
M Jusserand, the French ambassador to this country, is described as a voluminous writer whose works display the thoroughness of the author.
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M. Jusserand
Heart and Home Talks by Barbara Boyd
A husband quietly disproves the stronger sex myth by taking charge of children one evening weekly so his wife can rest and pursue personal pleasures. The piece urges men to share household burdens, noting such unselfish care leads to greater happiness for both spouses.
Breakfast Table Charm For a Neat Morning Look
The article urges women to dress neatly and groom well for breakfast, not just for afternoon or evening events. It emphasizes a tidy appearance, simple handmade dresses, neat hair, fresh air, and a well-set table with dainty china and fruit to create a cheerful morning scene that inspires confidence for the day ahead.
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Jesuits Weill
Destruction of the Seed of Wild Oats at Boohoomian
A scene in a New York Boohoomian restaurant shows two women and two young men drinking champagne. a mother questions how to shield boys from such temptations. The piece argues training must embed genuine love of true beauty and virtue in daily life to prevent imitation parodies from alluring youths.
Modjeskas Early Stage Life Recalled in Memoirs
In a Modjeska reminiscence from Century Magazine, the actress recalls hungry days on tour. She describes frugal meals, bare rooms, improvised seating, two dresses, and a passion for learning lines while glimpsing fields and mountains from the porch.
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Modjeska
Mme. Modjeska
What Socialism Disregards
An essay argues that Socialists ignore enduring differences in human capacity and ambition as the root of economic inequality. It contends wealth redistribution cannot create equal happiness and that individual thrift, temperaments, and choices drive outcomes. The piece asserts punishments of improvidence fall on the imprudent rather than the thrifty.
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Great Britain
Harry A. Armstrong
Trousseau
Mrs. Bliffins
Nettie
Aness
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Willie
Marsha
Times-Republican
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