When Child Makes Gift To Parent
A guide for parents on fostering generosity in children through denial and shared remembrances. It urges balancing needs and wants, teaching self denial, and inviting kids to participate in gifts for parents and grandparents, using birthdays and anniversaries to build lasting emotional value.
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Garry C. Myers
PH. D. Wead
Cleveland College
Western Reserve University
Cot
Black satin corset described with bright yellow trim
The item is a black satin corset crafted from satin and elastic fabrics, uniquely accented with vivid egg-yolk yellow ribbons and garters.
Woman monitors fur trends to buy a coat this year
Lisbeth What Woman tracks styles pelts and prices to judge if she can afford a fur coat. Flat furs are preferred for capes and coats this season. A handsome black caracal wrap around jacket features a silver fox collar, full sleeves, and close-fitting cuffs.
Not in the News Who Wants It Anyway
A humorous vignette about Jack and Mary past quarrels and a ferry boat rescue leads to an impulsive engagement. After a near tragedy they decide to marry the next day, highlighting the quirkiness of love and matchmaking in a light column feature.
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Jack
Mary
Gren
Honey
Stuffed Beef Heart as an Economical Dinner Dish
In a 1900s style home recipe Mary Morton presents stuffed beef heart as an inexpensive yet tasty main. The dish uses bread crumb dressing with onion and sage, simmered in lard with meat stock, about two hours, served with rice waffles and sides like mashed turnips and rice pudding. Key ingredients include beef heart, bread crumbs, onion juice, melted butter, stock, salt, pepper, cayenne, and lard.
Rice Waffles Recipe From A Historic Cookery Page
A vintage recipe lists ingredients for rice waffles: cooked rice, salt, sugar, flour, baking powder, melted shortening, and milk. The method begins by lifting dry ingredients and adding egg yolks beaten with the mixture, forming a batter for waffles.
Wife Preservers Learn Simple Lunch For Strength
Brief advice urges homemakers not to shop all day and skip meals. A light lunch like tea and cinnamon toast is recommended to avoid fatigue and headaches, preserving strength and nerves for daily duties.
Skin and Clean Rabbit Bake in Spiced Roasting Pan
Clean two rabbits and refrigerate overnight in water with garlic. Next day boil briefly, then transfer to a casserole with water bake in 350 degree oven two hours with lard carrots onions apple tomato parsley and seasonings. Baste frequently and serve with gravy. Serves six.
Housewife's Tip for Wool Garment Comfort
A house wife suggests sewing silk stocking linings into wool garments to prevent chafing. She describes using cut off stockings to line sleeves and notes the idea could similarly benefit wool dresses. The remark reflects practical home sewing advice from everyday life.
Woes Pass Comforts Experience in Reading Letters
Virginia Lee presents comforting letters about a family coping with a sick husband and a rebellious adolescent daughter. A reader recounts ten years of illness, a typhoid attack on the grandmother, and family efforts to endure together. Time softens grief, bonds endure, and happier days follow hardships.
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Virginia Lee
New Gowns and Figures Stir Fashion Letters
A Paris sourced feature notes extreme new evening gowns in cellophane rubber straw and taffeta with tight fits and long trains. It urges proper bust development and offers exercise routines and beauty tips from Miss Glad with pamphlets on The New Figure and Beauty Culture.
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Paris
Glad
Rules Aid In Telling Poor Sight
LOGAN CLENDENING M D notes screening for visual defects in children. A kindergartner’s left eye vision was poor, despite normal family awareness. He lists 20 behavioral cues signaling possible vision trouble and offers six Dr Clendening pamphlets for 10 cents each with return envelope.
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Logan Clendening
Clendening
Answers to Queries on Beauty and Hair Care Hints
Marie and Lorna share beauty guidance from a health booklet. It notes shade suggestions for clothing, a dandruff remedy, hot oil treatments for hair growth, salt water treatment for oily hair, and other hair beautifying hints. Buttermilk Agnes adds a remark about buttermilk not being fattening.
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Lorna
Simple method to open oysters with a knife
A concise guide explains lifting the flat valve of an oyster by sliding a thin knife under the adductor muscle. Cutting this muscle allows the upper valve to detach from the lower shell, making the oyster easier to open.
Expert studies nutrition in land of the Soviets
Massachusetts State College nutrition expert Miss Lilian Campbell Mitchell shares impressions from a three week stay in Soviet Russia as a member of the International Physiological Congress in Leningrad. She observed better but still limited food supply, noted community meals at work, nurseries, and creches, and reported ongoing nutrition research aimed at mass feeding and vitamin enhancement for children.
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Helen S. Mitchell
Massachusetts State College
Amherst
Mass
Miss Mitchell
Soviet Russia
International Physiological Congress
Leningrad
Poem Reflection on Life and Death by Arthur Clough
The poem describes life as a stream descending to the sea with mossy banks and green fields. It reflects on waking, labor, love, and learning as currents that move toward an inevitable end. The speaker contemplates what lies beyond death and whether any sun will shine again.
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Arthur Hugh Clough
Pumpkin fruit and toy car centerpiece for kids
Create a playful autumn centerpiece by hollowing a pumpkin and filling it with fruits popcorn and nuts set on a toy car. Surround with leaves or greenery and invite children to participate, encouraging them to suggest additional toys or items to include.
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Stein and
Blaine
Worth
Mary Morton
Virginia
Gladys Glad
America
Helen
Jean Harlow
Marie
Dandruff
Agnes
Land of the Soviets
By Lilian Campbell
Sally