Making Home Fit Your Personality by Mile Andree Lenique
An era editorial urges decorating to reflect personality, advising styles matched to hair color and age. It promotes Louis XVI as flattering, critiques overbearing decorators, and laments a trend toward social bustle over home life while warning against extreme black interiors as unattractive and unhealthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Omar Khayam
New York
San Francisco
Daysey Mayme Appleton
Daysey Mayme
Daysey
The Renaissance Decorator in a Modern Home
A critic argues for Renaissance style as the ideal setting for a strong female type, favoring light daytime colors for rooms and dark rich wood for dining or smoking rooms. He condemns mismatched luxury and bogus art, extols harmonious color schemes, and stresses that a hostess should reflect personality through color, furniture, and period style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bacchus
Marguerite of Navarre
Chateau
Voltaire
Marguerite
New York
Napoleon
Congress
Crane
Chicago
Alphonse Mucha
Bohemia
Star Company
Great Britain
The Poseur and the Value of Genuine Thought
A columnist laments the allure of clever posing over real intellect. The piece contrasts two women on art and ideas, warns against borrowed beliefs, and urges authenticity and patient self-cultivation of one’s mind and character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. A
Mayme
Daysey Mayme Appleton
Dancing Lessons From East For American Women
Ruth St Denis argues that Japanese fashion and posture hinder grace, stressing obi rigidity and contracted muscles. She contrasts East Asian serenity with Indian patience and urges women to study posture, energy, and discipline to cultivate calm, focus, and reasonable behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Island Kingdom
America
Orient
India
Pet
Star Company
Skin Trouble on Feet and Limbs Prompts Cure Claim
A 1912 reader testimony from Mrs. J. H. Fowler describes a skin disease starting as red blisters on feet hands and limbs. She credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with full recovery in under two months and endorses the product for pimples and blackheads with specific application steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker St
Greenville
Miss
J. H. Fowler
Cuticura
Dept. T
Boston
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Mile
Andree Lenique
Duc de Richelieu
Boudoir
Paris
Rap
H. C. Rees Optical CO
Commerce Street
San Antonio
Our Mail Order Department
Eastman Kodak Company
FOX Studios CO
Ame Ehad Oun
Re Is
Ruth St. Denis
Frances BD
Garside
Pillsbury’s Best Flour
Pillsbury
Caffarelli Bros
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