Fancy boxes and Burmese childhood tales in Polly Evans periodical
The piece explores hobby box making with wallpaper, cretonne, and silver curios, noting Valentine heart boxes and miniatures. It shifts to Burmese childhood customs, describing cradle design, naming days of birth, tattooing rituals, and a zoo of superstitions around baker's dozen and corn naming.
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Cretonne
Watteau
Planning the meals saves time for seven days
The article advises planning all weekly meals at once to cut drudgery. Write seven daily menus in advance during a leisure hour to gain meal variety and spark new combinations. Follow the plan closely in shopping, adapting as needed.
Women’s Ways of Earning Money Movers and Mural Jobs
A practical guide by Cynthia Westover Alden outlines female led home based income ideas. It promotes packing moving services window box decorating hairdressing and house cleaning as viable seasonal earners. It encourages forming a network of skilled scrub-women and expanding services to offices and institutions with modest wages and steady demand.
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Cynthia Westover Alden
A. S. Barmes & Co
Grege Cronp
Scarlet fever in babies warns against exposure and outlines care
Dr Emelyn L Coolidge cautions that infants under one may contract scarlet fever though less often. She details transmission through clothing and toys, symptoms such as strawberry tongue and rash, and risks of kidney and ear complications. Isolation, careful nursing, and medical guidance are stressed.
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Emelyn L. Coolidge
A. 5
Barnes & Co
Peggy and Karl Faithful Angel Tale of a Twin Bond
Peggy Thomas recovers from illness with Karlie’s steadfast belief in a visiting white angel. He comforts their worried parents and helps persuade Peggy to eat and take medicine, promising rewards and a healing future in a heavenly home.
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Peggy
Karl
Mother
Karlie
White Reeey
Peggy Thomas
Angel
Mrs. Jones
Coes
Bertrand Le Count and the Tale of the Honest Lion
A boy with vivid imagination deceives his mother by claiming to see a lion. She teaches him about honesty and repentance. He prays for forgiveness but returns to play, insisting the lion he imagined is real, ending with a humorous misunderstanding about truth and imagination.
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Ung
Bertrand LE Count
Bertrand
P Samand
Naughty
God
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