Married Life In the Second Year and Parental Surveillance
A satirical piece by Mabel Herbert Urner critiques the Parental Surveillance Association of North America and its imagined control over daughters' marriages. It contrasts rigid guardrails with a modern couple's tensions as the wife Helen asserts independence amid her husband Warren's jealousy and temper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances ,L. Garside
Kansas City
Parental Surveillance Association OF North America
N. A
WN. A
John Doe
Kalamazoo
Great Reform Association
Apa
Association
Mabel Herbert Urner
Helen
Warren
Delia
Daughter of English Premier in Amateur Actress Role
A scene unfolds as Delia appears with an announcement averting the Premier's wrath. Helen exits to the kitchen while Warren, muttering, swears, dons his coat and hat, and storms from the apartment without breakfast.
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Delia
Helen
Warren
Elizabeth Asquith
Puck
England
Olf
Lord Lonesborough
London
Miss Asquith
All Around the Home Tips for Cleaning and Crafting
Practical home tips on embroidery projects using handwork marks, repurposing a sailor’s bag as a laundry bag for a boy’s room, improving round steak with flour, buttered hot frying pan seasoning, removing paint spots from window panes with hot vinegar, and cleaning a browned porcelain tub with spirits of serpentine.
Observations of a Bachelor Girl
Observations on gender roles and opinions contrast the suffragette's applause with domestic bliss. A sewing and cleaning tip for chamois gloves outlines a gentle, non stretching drying method.
Dear Miss Grey Advice Column Seeks Fashion And Frustrations
Readers ask about a graduating dress in sheer white fabric with a low neck and short sleeves, trimmed with lace, insertion, and embroidery, plus a white ribbon sash. Other questions cover dating etiquette for 14 to 16 year olds, handling unjust slander, and a love triangle among several girls.
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Grey
Miss Grey
Kissae
F. M
Dear Miss Grey Shoes for the season and etiquette
A reader asks about season footwear and proper door and stair conduct. The response specifies satin and suede pumps and low ties. It also outlines etiquette: on stairs the escort precedes going up, the woman goes first when going down, and at a door the escort opens it and the woman passes through first.
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Miss Grey
Myrtle Reed born in 1874 and writer of A Spinner in the Sun
Lucile A. reports Myrtle Reed McCullough born September 27, 1874. She wrote A Spinner in the Sun in 1906 and lived at 2281 Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
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Miss Grey
Myrtle Reed
Oatmeal Bath Preparations for Soft Skin
Describes a home recipe to treat skin with an oatmeal bath. Boil two tablespoons of meal in two quarts water for eight hours, strain and cool, then add lemon juice and one tablespoon alcohol. Apply after washing with warm water and soap, allowing lotion to absorb.
Eve’s Temptation Echoes in Enduring Human Craft
A compact reflection on how the idea of temptation sparked human ingenuity and effort across ages, suggesting the first trespass set a pattern of striving and invention that persists. The line frames moral myth as a driver of progress.
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Nell Brinkley
Blackamoor
Houston
Fisher
Harrison Fisher
Lucy Cotton
Texas
Lee Miss Cotton
Nous
Farrel
Will Farrel
Cynthia Grey
Anna
Eve
Adam
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