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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1912
Page
5
A series of personal letters discuss love, financial troubles, and social pressures. Blanche suggests a life of independence for a woman at the YWCA while an admirer contemplates writing as a career and a possible advertising venture. The texts reveal marital and moral tensions, household burdens, and cautious guidance.
A confused exchange touches on joining a team and preferences for handling tasks. The speaker contemplates suitability, mentions care and rank considerations, and hints at relationships or qualifications in a brief, fragmented note.
A fragmented OCR tale describes a home formula using substances like canthrox and paraffin to alter hair color and texture. It hints at a single ounce preparation and warns of warning labels while noting the mixture’s transient effects on appearance.
Readers ask about how community property passes to survivors and children and how debts affect a spouse. Guidance covers signatures, surviving spouse rights, child shares, separate property protection, and home stead exemptions. A reader asks if a deed or mortgage without witnesses is legal, with advice that it is acceptable for parties but risky for innocent third parties.
Advice warns against forcing affection and warns that bringing a young woman to a hotel room can lead to police involvement. Emphasizes there is no method to force love and suggests staying busy to cure blues.
The piece surveys midwinter footwear trends, noting slippers favored over low shoes for indoor wear and street pumps for outdoor use. It highlights white attic stockings with dark low shoes as a fashion freak, hand embroidery on stockings, and various materials including satin, moire, patent leather, and corduroy. It mentions button boots, low shoe buttons, strapped satin slippers, bronze and silver beading, and the colonial shoe with a large buckle for dancing and outdoor wear.
A reader asks about who pays and sits, how to use utensils, and how to decline invites. The reply: decide seating at door, each orders own lunch, rise together, knives and forks laid flat, and the woman thanks the man with simple phrases. Declining invites can be curtly stated as it will not be convenient, and suggest consulting a bookstore for etiquette books.
A reader asks Mies Grey for ideas to serve at a Valentine party. Suggestions include heart shaped cream cheese sandwiches, salad or other light bites, heart or cupid cakes, cocoanut kisses, and verses. Also mentions using a window display and simple festive notes.
A 22 year old man asks how to judge a fiancée who divorced and now wants to marry him. The column notes January 31, 1890 fell on a Friday and urges patience, warning the man to let the woman prove her character before commitment, for the sake of possible future children.
Alfred P. Raven, director, notes three girls seek experience in a city’s best amateur orchestra. First Presbyterian Church provides rehearsal space every Wednesday night at the men’s pews, offering orchestra training without charge as the church maintains the orchestra.
A reader asks if the wife of a citizen may vote when the husband arrived as a minor and later naturalized. The page replies that if the father took out first and second papers, his children are citizens and the wife of an American citizen is qualified to vote.
A warning against substituting medicine for professional medical care urges readers to maintain a steady relationship with a family doctor. The piece endorses consulting a physician regularly and implies even a trusted remedy cannot replace medical guidance. It mentions Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in the context of coughs and colds.
An advertisement touts Pinex cough remedy claiming rapid relief for stubborn coughs and whooping cough. It promotes mixing Pinex with home made sugar syrup to yield a pint supply, promising savings and a money back guarantee. Distribution through The Pinex Co. and Bar on Drea Co. Seattle.
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