Coats For Children In Popular Fabrics This Season
Cozy coats for youngsters feature serge and light cheviots as the season’s favorites. Rough faced fabrics offer lighter weights for fall and winter, with brown and red combos catching the eye. Practical coats compliment dresses except sheer muslin party frocks, while dark serge and broadcloth coats adopt long skirt styles and belt details. Capes outshine deep collars, and a tobacco brown broadcloth model with coachman capes showcases seam joining and flaring cuffs.
Dust and neglect in daily habits spread the white plague
The piece notes trivial everyday actions that help spread disease and dirt, from leaving milk to stand overnight to dusting tea sets and shoes in living rooms. It argues that people overlook small cleanliness lapses until visible dust accumulates on cherished items and food preparations.
Help to the Cook Shirred Eggs Guide
Break eggs into individual paper cases or baking dishes. Season and add a small piece of butter and minced parsley to each. Bake in a hot oven until the whites set. Serve directly from the dish in which they are cooked.
Codfish Cakes From Old Home Cookery
Codfish cakes are made by mixing one cupful of boiled codfish finely, with mashed potatoes. Add one beaten egg or two to three tablespoons of sweet milk, season with pepper and a little butter. Shape into small flat cakes, flour lightly, and fry in hot drippings or lard until delicate brown. For a mellower version, dip cakes in beaten egg then bread crumbs before frying.
Broiled Fillet of Beef with Parsley Butter Garnish
Broiled fillet of beef slices from the tenderloin are placed on a greased broiler and broiled four or five minutes over clear fire. Prepare parsley butter with lemon juice and parsley in butter, then top each fillet with a lump of parsley butter and garnish with watercress.
Needlewoman’s Handy Hygiene for Embroidery and Yarn Bags
Practical home crafts guidance on organizing dusting cloths in washable bags and creating a zephyr yarn bag from ribbon. Steps include two bags for upstairs and downstairs storage, a brace to keep yarn from slipping, and bran water for cleaning fine embroidery without wringing or twisting.
The Recovered Inheritance and the Elegant De Forest
Walter De Forest learns of Julia Drayton's missing $50,000 in $1,000 bills after a taxi ride yields a wallet of cash. He devises a plan to recover the fortune, earns her trust with steady progress reports, and ultimately delivers the full inheritance. She expresses joy as the bills are restored.
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de Forest
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Porcel
Union Street
Julia Drayton
Miss Drayton
Mr. de Forest
Duty and Dream Turned to Truth and Light
A fragmentary verse reflecting on waking from a dream of beauty to toil and truth. The speaker urges a sad heart to endure with courage, promising the dream will become a noonday light and truth. Anonymous creates a reflective, aphoristic meditation.
Washing Lace Curtains For Freshness And Stiffness
Instructions advise soaking lace curtains in cold water overnight then rinse in clean cold water with borax. Heat slowly to a boil and boil for fifteen to twenty minutes. Add gum arabic and finish with the final water to restore freshness and stiffness.
Ant Hill Wonders In Washington State Forests
Devoted to our boys and girls in the state of Washington, the article describes vast colonies of large black ants near the Pacific Ocean. Ant hills four to five feet wide and three to six feet high are built from pine and fir needles, with bustling trails and workers transporting provisions for their young. Children and adults visit to marvel at these remarkable heaps and their mysterious purpose.
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Washington
Pacific Ocean
Fig Layer Cake Filling with Fig Paste
Cream one cup sugar and one third cup butter until light. Beat in three eggs, vanilla, and milk. Fold in flour with baking powder, beat until light. Bake two layers twenty five minutes. Cool then fill with fig paste.
Conundrums on business and forms in comic quips
A compact set of witticisms about fish business, sculpture, swimming lessons, and ceremony. A Chinese actor loses his head and cue, a playful moral on timing and performance.
Helping Mother Darne Anna May and Her Darning Basket
May returns from kindergarten to show her mother the items she stitched. The scene centers on a darning basket filled with stockings and woven paper mats. Anna May proudly displays pink and green embroidery and a mended stocking as her mother praises the simple, precise work and the child’s careful handiwork.
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Anna
Mother
Questions In History. What general sold his honor for money?
Benedict Arnold. What Indian defeated General Cus ter? Sitting Bull. What great statesman began his education under his father's instruction in his own home? Patrick Meary.
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Benedict Arnold
General Custer
Sitting Bull
Patrick Meary
Philadelphia Ledger
Religious Glery and the Bible in Modern Life
The article quotes church leaders on Bible reading, church unity, and practical evangelism. It notes Bishop C P Anderson on comprehensive Bible knowledge, praises for evangelists, critiques of gimmicks, and mentions a female bishop in Michigan. It also covers London Y M C A campaigns and funds raised for Negroes.
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C. P. Anderson
Chicago
Milton
Goethe
Baker's Subtle Bargain Sparks Friendly Debate
A business meeting debated a banker famed for hard bargaining and stinginess. One guest recalled requesting a $5,000 loan. the banker treated him courteously but ultimately declined, prompting lighthearted remarks about cautious lending.
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Kansas City Star
Tea Drinkers Show Britain Leads In Tea Use
British people drink more tea per person than any other country with an average consumption over six pounds. In the United States per capita use is under nine tenths of a pound, and French and German consumption is even lower.
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United States
Man’s temper flares after quarrel at Boston event
Fragmentary notes describe a man reacting angrily during a Boston gathering after a quarrel over a game or card trump. The text suggests a tense confrontation involving a woman and a male partner, with unclear details about the incident or its outcome.
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