Mary Roberts Rinehart on four choices for women
In the April issue of The Home Journal, Mary Roberts Rinehart states that every woman has four options: to marry for love, marry without love, stay at home and devote herself to family, or go out to earn. The article invites reflection on personal choices and mentions four major features in the issue to help readers decide between a home life and a career.
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Lapies’ Home’ Journal
Rinehart
April Home Journal
Red Cross Answers Women on Nursing as Career
The article explains how women can pursue nursing as a livelihood with training steps and typical pay. It notes the Red Cross programs and that a nurse with twenty years of experience offers guidance. It emphasizes opportunities, training locations, and the path to entry in the nursing field.
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American Red Cross
How to Become a Writer in the April Home Journal
Thousands of women seek careers in the writing game with hopes of big money and fame. Elizabeth Jordan shares experience and success, exploring the real path, hard work, and whether storytelling leads to fortune or disappointment.
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Elizabeth’ Jordan
April Home Journal
How to Become a Singer: Advice from Kathleen Howard
Kathleen Howard contralto of the Metropolitan Opera offers guidance in the April Home Journal on training for Grand Opera. She discusses assessing vocal worth, career expectations, and steps to cultivate a stage voice for serious operatic study.
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Geraldine Farrar
Mary Garden
Tetrazzini
Kathleen Howard
Metropolitan Opera Company
April Home Journal
The April Home Journal Bride’s Book Features
The Home and the Bride presents fashions for the bride, her mother, bridesmaids, flower girls, and even the groom. It explains wedding at home or church details, including who pays the bills.
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April Home Journal
Trousseau
Love in Hollywood and more in April Home Journal
The April Home Journal offers Love in Hollywood a witty moving-picture world tale by Karl Derr Biggers, plus The Bardens of Barden-Lacy by Horace Annesley Vachell, The Bird of Paradise by Louise Kennedy Mabie, and fiction by E. Phillips Oppenheim and Grace Sartwell Mason. Also features for home builders, sewing, cooking, crafts, plays for open-air theatres, and full color pictures by Guerin, Chapman, and Wright.
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Hollywood
April Home Journal
Karl Derr Biggers
Barden-Lacy
Horace Annesley Vachell
Louise Kennedy Mabie
Tristan Cary
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Grace Sartwell Mason
Jules Guerin
Charles Chapman
George Wright
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