Mantels as Exclamation Points in Living Rooms
Woman's World advises making mantels bold focal points by reflecting personal interests. Suggests framing old prints or paintings, using color-matched mats, and arranging pictures in a deliberate layout. Encourages measuring light and room angles to spark conversations and add personality.
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Mantel Display Ideas for Hobby Collectors
Shorties for Spring inspire cozy gatherings around a mantel with comfortable chairs. Suggests painting an old oval gilt mirror, flanking crystal candle brackets, and using mantel cupboards or a wall-hung what-not to showcase small antique pieces like china, glass, pottery, and porcelain figurines.
Gardening bulbs and decorative interior accents guide
The article discusses summer bulbs Gladiolas Cannas and Dahlias with planting care storage and succession for long flowering. It also offers tips for using small mirrors in rooms to create space and suggests affordable mantel solutions and minimal decorative clutter.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Easter Is a Continuing Miracle by Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris argues that Easter reveals a living miracle through Jesus Christ, whose radical teachings of forgiveness and care transformed civilizations. She traces how Christianity spread from a humble carpenter to shape Europe and the Americas, contrasting wealth and poverty and urging adherence to Christ’s law.
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Global health agency fights five worst diseases
The World Health Organization uses an epidemiological intelligence service to monitor cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhoid, and the plague. Doctors at ports and airports, alerted by international briefings, vaccinate and track outbreaks to protect populations worldwide. The program began in 1946 and consolidates regional efforts into a global anti pest operation.
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Easter Egg Decorating and Dinner Ideas From 1950s Columns
This piece outlines Easter egg decorating as a playful adult craft with colored eggs, bunny and chick designs, and practical table uses. It also provides Easter dinner ideas featuring leg of lamb with a garlic marjoram rub, roasted to a specified time per pound, plus a sweet potato dish and serving tips for hard cooked eggs in meals.
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Lynn
Lynn Chambers Easter Menu and Recipes
A collection of Easter recipes and menu ideas by Lynn Chambers including New Peas in Cream Carrot Asparagus Salad Sally Lynn Muffins Currant Jelly Beverage Strawberry Ice Cream and Peach Refrigerator Pudding with step by step instructions for potatoes muffins and confections. The notes describe making fried eggs au gratin deviled eggs and a cheese topped egg casserole served with lettuce and various dressings.
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Sally Lynn
First Aid to the Ailing House Fire Hazard
A reader reports smoke filling a front room where a furnace chimney passes through. After removing the furnace, smoke later seeps through exterior brickwork, signaling decayed mortar. Experts warn it may be a serious fire hazard and advise hiring a competent mason promptly.
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