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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1909
Page
6
The article contrasts $4000 and $10000 house costs and explains that smaller plots require tailored plans. It describes a T shaped, narrow lot design with front living room, rear dining area, practical kitchen placement, a front porch, and modern plaster finishes. It also covers child-rearing guidance emphasizing consistent, moral training and individualized approaches to each child.
The article stresses that a boy’s development hinges on environment and parental guidance. It warns against breaking his will or humiliating him, urges infinite patience with truth issues, and urges fostering self restraint, responsibility, and social interaction with peers to avoid loneliness and social friction.
A sewing guide outlines creating a girdle princess gown by joining a shirt-waist and skirt with a decorative girdle. It covers fabric choices, prewashing shrinking, fitting steps, lining or crinoline girdles, featherbone boning, and detailed seam and insertion work for an elegant, lightly lined lingerie gown.
A collection of domestic tips on thrift home improvement and storage. Readers share ideas for inexpensive decor using washable paints and durable fabrics, methods to dry woolen underwear indoors, cleaning lamp wicks with yarn, and clever sewing notions like wax sealed needles and pin cushions.
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