Six Hours a Day and the Labor of a Family Woman
A moral in verse extols steady toil and honest effort to earn contentment. It contrasts a diligent daily grind with a mother’s heavy labor at home, addressing food preparation, household duties, and the burdens of poverty and limited literacy amid caring for loved ones.
The Art and Tactics of Salad Making
A practical guide on creating appealing salads emphasizing harmony of ingredients and proper prep. It covers cooking vegetables, marinating potatoes, chilling greens, using radish garnishes, and the role of color and texture in presentation.
Dressing Recipes and Garnish Guidance from Historic Cookery
A readable guide outlines cream and mayonnaise dressings with steps for making them and tips for Tartare sauce and marinating salads. It discusses garnishes, noting edible adornments and cautions against overdecorating tables and improper millinery use at meals.
Thrifty Household Shopping Tips For Families
The article urges women to regulate purchases to budget limits and study marketing as a household science. It stresses self denial to avoid waste, recommends prioritizing milk at low prices, and suggests buying milk before meat for children, highlighting practical tips for thrifty family feeding.
Foulards and Challis Dominate Bright Summer Styles
A fashion column praises foulards with wide bouffant skirts and tight bodices as perfect summer wear. It notes silken gowns in blue, champagne, and sand tones, feather trims, and georgette blends, plus Spanish influences and challis fabrics with organdie trimmings for morning and city wear.
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Foulards
Foulard
Georgette
Agin
Tumilinville Rumpus Ridge resident jokes about misfortunes
In Tumilinville a Rumpus Ridge figure Gap Johnson greets an acquaintance and lists a string of unlikely woes including a puny wife measles and mumps, a near-miss lightning strike, a child’s broken arm, a car shot at, and a swapped running horse while boasting six pup litters from two hounds.
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Gap
Rumpus Ridge
Tumilinville
Gap Johnson
Kansas City Star
Boy Searches for Father in Rush Hour Meeting
A breathless boy asks a passerby if they know his father, insisting he knows his father well. The brief encounter unfolds as the child explains his urgent need to find him, creating a moment of curiosity and minor confusion on the hill.
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Ilyle
The Long-Winded Lawyer and a Barroom Exit
A Philadelphia lawyer famed for his loquacious court speeches is outwitted when an opponent slides a note offering a hotel hire and rare bourbon after six hours of argument. He stops, reads, then departs with hat and bag, declaring he leaves the case with the jury. The remark ends with a query about who would do the world’s work if everyone were rich.
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C. Ti. Murphy
Philadelphia
Jack
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