Queen of the Californias in a Spanish California saga
In 1783 California a clash of church and state plays out between Fray Junipero Serra and Gov. Don Pedro Fages. Dona Eulalia travels from Loreto to Monterey with her son, aided by priests and a maid, amid suspicions, festas, and a looming mission conflict.
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California
Fray Junipero Serra
Don Pedro Fages
Serra
Mexico
Santa Barbara
Eulalia
Augustias
Don Pedro
Pedro
Fages
Indizuela
San Blas
Loreto
Fray Mariano
Bartolomeo
Californias
Monterey
Presidio
San Diego
Father Serra
St. Francis
Santa Barbara Mission
Escape From California's Royal Presidio
Eulalia, newly installed as La Gobernadora, weighs life at Monterey as Capitan Soler flirts with sociability and Don Pedro contemplates a distant capital. She longs for news from home while letters from Mexico reveal a world of theater, dances, fashion, and gossip she now misses.
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Indizuela
la Gobernadora
Presidio
Royal Presidio of
San Carlos de Monterey
Spain
Mexico
Eulalia
Bay
Bay of Monterey
Royal Presidio
Monterey
Escabellito
Capitan
Nicolas Soler
California
Senora la Gobernadora
Capitan Soler
Presidio of
Santa Barbara
San Francisco
Senora
Soler
Californias
Palacio
Don Pedro
San Carlos
Fages
Governor's Lady Arrives at New Presidio Home
The Governor's wife sits in a crafted sycamore chair at the portal of a new home as servants and Native girls unpack trunks inside. Bells ring amid bonfires and gunfire outside while Capitan Nicolas Soler and a fifteen year old Native girl oversee the scene.
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Escabellito
Chichi
Augustias
Eulalia
Padre Serra
Pedro
Presidio
Capitan
Nicolas Soler
Estabellito
Chighi
Intelligence of Twins Compared by Science
The article reviews twin studies on intellect, noting tests like the Simon-Binet measure learning capacity. Identical twins show about five IQ-point differences, while fraternal twins differ 10 to 12 points, suggesting a genetic influence on intelligence.
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D. Cecil Rife
Scientific American
Moon Offerings Mark the Full Moon Night in Japan
The article notes poets and mindful people place a temporary altar on verandas or near moonlight spots. Offerings include beans cucumbers chestnuts and fifteen white rice dumplings symbolizing the fifteen-night moon.
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Japan
Very Smart New Fashions for Girls and Home Dress
The Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book offers patterns for a bolero frock, a dress with apron for tots, and a house dress for larger figures. Each pattern includes a beginner friendly sew chart and materials lists, with sizes 2 4 6 8 years and 14 16 18 20 40 42. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago for pattern book and individual patterns.
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Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
A Seamless Knit on Round Needle
All eyes on this knitted two piece blouse and skirt set. The blouse features a sunburst lace yoke and stockinette body with no seams, suitable in white or pastels. Pattern 5601 offers sizes 16-18 and 38-40, with illustrations and stitch details. send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. at 259 W 14th Street New York.
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Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
14Th Street
New York
Men Love Girls With Pep and Dignity
An promo style note touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic to tone the system and ease discomforts from female functional disorders. It claims three generations of women rely on the remedy and urges readers to buy from a druggist.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Nature
Pinkham
Time Well Spent and Noble Feelings
Quote reflecting on the value of allowing influence to awaken noble sentiments and virtue.
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Virginia Stivers Bartlett
Pedrito
Jay Junipero
Padre
Angustias
Safa
Nina
Fray Junipero
Dimity
Organdy
Lawn
Anoloe Morglines
St. Augustine
John Ruskin
WNU
Nujol
Nuj
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