If You Had to Live It Over Again The Second Woman Tells How Pity Spoiled Happiness
A married woman recalls a failed union caused by pity and dependence. She explains how she enabled her husband’s laziness, sold possessions, and eventually built a successful dressmaking business, while he remained unable to cope. She argues he would need to stand on his own feet to regain respect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Dix
John
Fanny
Manhattan Island
Broadway
Bud Mars
Kamchatka
The Manicure Lady Springs Some Daffydils
A humorous exchange in a barber shop centers on reading habits and editorial pages. The Manicure Lady chides Wilfred and Wilfreds father over newspaper choices while joking about train commutes and breakfast table debates. The tale ends with the Head Barber's reaction to overheard gossip.
Danger in Dirty Ice Boxes
Advice from the August Woman's Home Companion on home sanitation for ice boxes. It urges clean shelves, covered foods, clean ice, weekly interior scrubbing with soda water, and using Platt's chlorides as an odorless disinfectant. Recommends proper drainage by a plumber and suggests an exterior drain outlet to remove waste water.
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Woman's Home Companion
Summer Wash Gowns From Harner’s Bazar
Original and ingenious summer frocks in wash fabric or silk, focusing on collarless necklines, V or square shapes, peasant bodice, elbow sleeves, and empire waistlines. Skirts feature tucks with a narrow flounce or wide front back panels. designs gain variety from applied yokes and trimming sleeves.
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Harner
Old Pals Ada Patterson
A reflective vignette contrasts two longtime companions in a New York morning. An aging couple, she tending the home and her husband’s routines, embodies steadfast partnership amid creeping change. The piece blends memory, duty, and the enduring ties of marriage with quiet elegiac tone.
Ready Made Waists Dominate Shops At Low Prices
Harper's Bazaar notes a surge of ready made separate waists in major and numerous smaller shops. Unlined waists can be improved with a proper underwaist and a belt tape to secure fit, with lace or India silk preferred for strength and effect.
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Harpers Bazar
Lemon Syrup Instructions for Emergency Use
A simple lemon syrup recipe combines four pounds of sugar with three quarts of water. Stir until dissolved then heat to boiling and boil ten minutes before adding three pints of lemon juice or concentrate for long term storage.
Searching for air and light in a New York apartment hunt
Warren and Helen tour multiple front apartments in hopes of cooler air and better ventilation. They reject a $1100 yearly front unit for a $75 to $70 option with less style but more air, weighing memories of their current home and the fear of another hot summer.
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Warren
Helen
Clyne & Johnson
On& Place
Bronx
Hades
Winifred
Woman Dresses for a Bat Woman Dresses for a Bat
Frances L Garside recounts a humorous tale of a wife who talks to inanimate breakfast table objects and how a husband's preoccupation with his newspaper blinds him to the lively exchanges at home. The piece humorously contrasts domestic chatter with male indifference.
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Light
International News Service
Orey
George
Kiddo
Wilfred
Sporting
McGraw
Mathewson
Mother
Whifred
Saya
Mary Garden
Sal-o
Tad
Wilbur Wright
Anna
Helena Butte
Old Pals
Ada Patterson
Harper’s Bazar
Mabel Herbert Urner
Frances L. Garside
National News Association
Joneses
Ibsen
Seth Barton French
Europe
W. G. McAdoo
Hudson & Manhattan Railway Company
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