Bathing Wardrobe Trends and Mermaid Fitness for City Girls
A fashion and health column urges modern young women to embrace swimming as essential for safety and beauty. It highlights mermaid-style training, strong shoulders and back, and the energetic lifestyle of seaside summers while urging women to pursue strength, symmetry, and vigorous activity through swimming.
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Renovating That Soiled Wallpaper Tip sheet
A how to guide for cleaning and repairing wallpaper in living rooms with damp walls. It covers removing finger marks with india rubber, ink stains with a mild quinolinic acid solution, and grease with pipe clay mixes. It also advises patching torn patterns from spare lengths and addressing damp walls by gutter cleaning and repainting exposed plaster.
Efficiency Counts in the Home
The article suggests cheaper home paint methods, advising dissolving sizing in hot water to improve shine and extend paint, plus a quick recipe to brighten oilcloth using talc and hot water. It emphasizes avoiding frequent replacement and using simple mixes.
Spiritualism and Family Love Destinies in Mrs Conan Doyle's View
Mrs Conan Doyle defends Spiritualism as a force for normality and family values, recounting how belief in life beyond helps her and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stay happy and tolerant. She stresses personal appearance tied to family, detaches from fashion, and describes robes on the other side, while urging public sympathy for their devoted, poverty-avoiding work in spiritual research.
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Conan Doyle
Sir Conan Doyie
Dorle
Mia Feogle
England
Shekels
Glimpses of Modes to Be Worn Soon
Fashion notices preview spring attire with mauve straw hats featuring blue worsted flowers, drooping crown lines, and blue buttonhole edge. Articles discuss softer silks, economical fabrics, and jackets in bright blue red green and yellow with striped cobra patterns. Grapes adorn straw hats adding shine and decoration.
Tricks With Jewelry Give Novel Touch For Women
Jewelry trends fascinate women with winding bead bracelets and two matching jewels in different settings. Tiny vanity cases, tassels of rhinestones, and pearl pendants on gold chains create striking accessories. Opals in gold settings form unusual necklace strands as colors shift from smoke to pink.
Tent for Summer Uses and Outdoor Comfort
A history style notice extols tents for summer use in gardens. It highlights kids as sleepers and playhouses, with wooden floors for log storage, bungalow tents with mesquite netting for baby naps, and price ranges from 70 dollars upward. Tents serve as outdoor living spaces during hot months, usable as summer cottages for large gatherings and weekend plans.
Frijay Fish Da Gus Recipes for Everyday Meals
Friday's Fish Da Gus promotes fish as a wholesome meat substitute with affordable options. It urges choosing seasonal local fish, offers cooking tips and several non extravagant recipes such as Stewed Fish and Fish Cutlets, including a basic white sauce and steps for preparing haddock hake cod or other fresh fish.
Economy in Choice of Stockings
The article advises buyers that price does not ensure satisfaction and stresses matching stocking fit to foot type and wear. It notes stout or tall women face runs, warns against trusting sales staff, and suggests sticking to proven brands and considering foot width and seam presence for narrow feet.
News Jottings on Women in Early 20th Century Roles
News notes highlight Mrs. Arthur Livermore as the sole woman on a U S commission for the Brazilian Exposition. Ethel Hutson leads a 6 cent fare crusade in New Orleans. Widespread shifts show railroad shop women fell over 50 percent 1818 to 1920 while clerical roles rose 18 percent. One in three Massachusetts women works for a living. Kansas employs women above 13 percent of the total workforce. A State Department rule blocks married women from passport use under maiden names.
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Arthur Livermore
Harding
United States Commission
Ethel Hutson
New Orleans
Kansas
United States Department of State
Planting Annual Flowers in Warm Garden Soil
Guidance on sowing annual seeds after soil warmth, listing species such as ageratum and marigold for beds and borders. Emphasizes thorough soil pulverization, light seed covers, thinning, and regular watering with periodic manure or fertilizer to ensure quick, sturdy germination and summer through autumn bloom.
Folding nursery furniture idea for small homes
A sketch shows a folding table and folding chair suitable for nurseries in small apartments. Wood frames are enameled white blue or pink with cheerful Mother Goose printed cloth covers. They fold compactly and can be tucked away when not in use, cleaned with warm water and soap.
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Offeloth
Facts of Fashion Colored Underwear and Accessories
Describes crepe de chine undergarments in white with lemon bead embroidery and pale yellow crepe lining. Details box shaped handbags and two toned ribbons for underwear, with color combinations including blue rose and yellow. Notes binding colors matching foundation shades for coordinated sets.
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