Hostess A Pendule Party Delights with Clock Themed Tables
A description of an inventive party idea called Pendule where six tables host four players each. Guests answer clock themed questions, with clock face invitations and prize clocks. Prizes include clocked stockings and a traveling clock, plus cake tops decorated as clock faces.
An Airship Dinner Inspires Aviation Talk
A hostess hosted an eight guest dinner using a miniature air ship as a centerpiece. Guests, including women with flying experience, shared opinions on aeroplanes while decorative airships and balloons adorned the table.
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Dresses for Children Illustrated with Delicate Lace and Embroidery
The article describes three small dresses: a white muslin gown with Valenciennes lace and pale blue satin ribbon. a fine white nainsook dress with embroidered yoke, French knots, Valenciennes insertions, and a lace-belt. and a white pique dress with revers, cord knots, and a pale blue satin ribbon girdle, plus a matching blouse and tucker muslin undersleeves.
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Courtship of Miles Standish Comes Alive in Plymouth Chamber
In a Plymouth room Miles Standish, the Puritan Captain, surveys arms and battlefield memories while John Alden writes aboard the Mayflower voyage. The pair recall battle scars, Rose Standish’s grave, and a tense frontier world as a tale unfolds.
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Ducks Swim Through BC Flood as Apple Trees Wash Away
An elderly man clung to his flooded BC home roof while a passing boat greeted him. He joked that the ducks could swim, and that the flood would wash the winders and apple trees away, reflecting grim resilience amid disaster.
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Joke Husband Teases Wife Over Cooking Lessons
A humorous anecdote from a cooking course shows Mr Youngwedd poking fun at his wife Mrs Youngwedd during breakfast. He jokes that dinner will consist of lesson 4 with exception c, a bit of lesson 9, and the postscript of lesson 12 for dessert as she learns through correspondence.
Stinging reaction to a New York season adaptation
Critics condemned an early New York season adaptation described as a stupid play. A metropolitan magazine recounts a bookmaker style debate where a newspaper man quips that if shown overseas it would have been hissed, while noting foreign visitors present.
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