Hot chocolate recipe and Miss Grey advice column
A reader provides a six‑serving hot chocolate method with chocolate, milk, and whipped cream. The page also features questions to Miss Grey about hair loss remedies, stain removal, hair washing, marriage tips, keeping husbands at home, stamp pattern stains, and benzoin stains with various practical answers.
Miss Grey Letters and Household Requests
Readers seek guidance from Miss Grey on household matters including pet adoptions and marshmallow recipes. Instructions cover mailing addresses, phone numbers, and step by step candy preparation, with readers submitting questions for future columns.
White House Cook A Drama in One Act at Taft's Residence
A humorous piece depicts Mrs Taft seeking a new White House cook after Amelia Howard resigns. Flora Hamilton, a Scottish Irish immigrant from New York, lands the position amid a chorus of applicants. The sketch outlines kitchen duties, daily meals, and the aim of top White House cuisine throughout festive and diplomatic entertaining.
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Washington, D. C
White House
Amelia Howard
Martha Peterson
Helen
Charile
Taft
Miss Hamilton
Batton
Man With New Christmas Idea Helps Chicago Dock Workers
A poor Chicago man plans to gift hot coffee in bottles to dock laborers during lunch. He carries three bottles and hopes to buy more, but a strange sensation in his pockets distracts him as frost nips at his ears.
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Chicago
Mr. Bottles
Mrs Lillie Devereux Blake and Women’s Legal Gains
Mrs Lillie Devereux Blake, founder and president of the National Legislative League, has long championed laws aiding women since 1869. Legislation across states has granted school suffrage, joint guardianship for parents, seating for saleswomen, pensions for war nurses, and civil service eligibility, reflecting her sustained suffrage work.
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Lillie Devereux Blake
National Legislative League
Tiny Helper Fairy Grants Bottles Christmas Gift
In a comic holiday tale Mr Bottles falls asleep beside a railroad crossing and meets a tiny 17 inch fairy who leads him to a wagonload of bottles intended for dock workers. The fairy, now vanished, leaves Bottles to distribute the gifts with the wagon driver amid grateful workers at the docks.
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Flagman
Mr. Bottles
Mr. Hotties
Cute Little Cap for Evening Wear
A velvet cap with a soft lining and a narrow velvet throat band features a jeweled pendant. The piece can be made at home with minimal cash outlay using velvet, silk cord fringe, chentile braid and jewels, or purchased from a furnishing store.
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the Hrousehold
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Organized Labor
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