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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1910
Page
10
An article by Phil M Riley argues for personalized home portraits printed on black platinum or sepia papers. It suggests creating a compact family calendar with twelve prints, mounted and titled, using varied colors and a soft cover, suitable for traveling salesmen and holiday gifts.
A hostess creates a winter dinner that honors Christmas traditions without upstaging the holiday. The table features white damask, glassware, snowlike cotton, and evergreen centerpieces. Courses include grapefruit cocktail, asparagus soup, olives and nuts, sweetbreads a la Newburg, roast pig with German forcemeat, browned potatoes, endive salad, and biscuit glace, finished with nut wafers and coffee.
Hester Mayo manages a careful December routine balancing budget, meals, and modest celebrations. The family uses strict accounts, preserves margins for contingencies, and crafts festive activities with simple, resourceful touches.
A game named the Ship assigns each child a vessel role such as sailor pilot fog horn rudder or sail. A prewritten story weaves all roles as readers recount, and children rise to mimic their assigned character when named, each performing without adult help.
The article describes crafting cane latticed booths from river bank canes resembling bamboo, with wild smilax leaves and pink paper flowers to create a Japanese look. It also details a Christmas bazaar bean game, a bean crown king or queen, and a novelty cushion filling tip using wool wad ding.
The Left Handed Party features hosts with right hands bound behind them and guests greet with left hands only. Forfeit is paid by anyone offering a right hand. Potatoes on spoons are raced, potatoes set at one end, contestants collect them and return in time. A peanut haul uses the back of the left hand before refreshments.
The text describes a circle game where one player acts as a cat kneeling before others to provoke laughter. The cat’s three doleful pleas aim to break stiffness, with each nonlaughing participant patting the cat and repeating a sad chant. The humorous absurdity makes even shy players smile.
A curio explains a telephone based mind reader prank where a person selects a card from a pack and is told to call a friend who knows the trick. The friend’s name is linked to the card by suit and rank, producing names like Charles Harris or Charlotte Harmon for the three of hearts and Laura Carson for the queen of clubs.
Ante teas reveal new debut ideas in a small town. Invitations will be tied with narrow ribbon and delivered by messenger rather than mailed. Hosts will greet guests on two consecutive days, Monday and Tuesday or Tuesday and Wednesday, to guard against bad weather and ease crowding.
An old fashioned candy pull offers a lively social activity. Slips with each guest’s name and a candy recipe are drawn, then pairs make the designated treat. Outcomes vary but pride rises with each successful confection as ingredients and utensils stay ready.
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