Dear Miss Grey advice column excerpts from readers
A vintage advice column fronted by Miss Grey answers readers on topics from romance and etiquette to hair, fashion, cooking, and cosmetics. Letters mention courtship, hotel humor, storks legends, candied citron, pickling onions, and wardrobe questions. Readers seek guidance on relationships and daily living.
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Glasses Cleaner from Silk Fags and Chamois Scraps
A simple home method instructs to cut small silk pieces and chamois skin to create multiple covers. The author describes sewing the pieces together along the top edge with the silk as the covers for a glasses cleaning aid.
Household Advice On Shopping And Weight Standards
Practical kitchen rules warn households to watch weighing, avoid phone orders, insist on standard weights, and not be swayed by fancy packaging. Advice discourages small purchases, overpaying for cheap goods, and trusting unreliable grocers.
Flower Sachet Craft Step by Step
Instructions describe making a two color ribbon flower sachet with loops on paper, yellow knot center, green ribbon leaves, and filling one petal sachet with powder. Includes folding, sewing, knotting, and edging details with reference to figures.
Old-Fashioned Apple Dumplings Recipe Method
Instructional excerpt describes preparing apples by paring quartering and coring, making a stiff rich biscuit dough, rolling and cutting into strips, wrapping four apples with two or three dough strips, pinching ends, and simmering in a quart of water in a pudding or baking dish.
Hatpins in Paris and America Stir Controversy
A fragmentary reminiscence attacks hatpins and hat fashions, claiming hatpins injure and threaten passersby. The writer cites Paris and American incidents, noting arrests and public alarm and recounting a woman injuring a baby and other near misses on crowded streetcars.
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America
Salmon Souffle and Apple Dumplings Method
Dish describes making a salmon soufflé by flaking canned salmon and seasoning with salt paprika and lemon juice. It also outlines preparing dumplings with sugar and butter, boiling the mixture on the stove then baking until crust and apples are done.
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