Women in Business and Beauty Lore Split by Age and Roles
A column discusses Mary O Connor Newell critique in Apples to label women in business as failures when compared to men. It cites three types of women in business and notes many opt for marriage over careers citing lack of family ties and surroundings. A beauty piece argues digestion and exercise keep youth and outlines a Gypsy fandango class improving health and elasticity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Busines
Mary O'Connor Newell
Appleton’s
Woman's views on clubs marriage and happiness in the era
A female interviewee discusses balance between social clubs and home life arguing happiness lies in marriage and motherhood. She notes limited club participation despite belief in clubs and asserts a woman's happiness and usefulness are tied to family life over a business career. Also includes home remedies for eye irritation using boric acid and water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Waite House
Dress for Little Girl Frock in Practical Fabrics
A child's frock design suggests white pique or linen as ideal materials. Trim uses Baby Irish Insertion with a narrow Irish beading edge at the neck and sleeve openings. Suitable for chambrays ginghams or colored linens with embroidery for finish.
A Girl's Room Color Scheme Described
A description of a girl's room featuring white furniture and walls with accents of bright red cushions carpets and ceiling decor. Cerise and lavender or green highlight decorative elements, with a fresh summer mood suggested for a comfortable appearance.
Taft Wife Opposes Women In Politics
Mrs. W H Taft comments in interview opposing women entering politics or asserting themselves in political life. She says as Taft's wife she would focus on issues affecting him and not meddle in public affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Womas
W. H. Taft
Taft
Starching and starching technique for shirts and collars
Damp collars and shirts are stiffened with hot starch. Dip and squeeze fabric, wring cuffs, starch parts, hang to dry, then dampen with water and roll to set. Embroidery may use thin starch. Boiled starch and bluing water give undergarments a smooth gloss without heaviness.
Lace Curtain Care Tips From Home and City Dwellers
Instructions on drying lace curtains without damage in different settings. In country locales curtains spread on grass or in town over a carpet. Wet curtains hung overnight at an open window dry by morning and hang more gracefully. Feathers can be washed in bags, dipped, squeezed, rinsed, and dried in a sieve with frequent turning.
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Flata
Slipping Shoes Prevented by Velvet Heel Padding
A short piece on a simple fix for slipping heels describing placing velvet inside the shoe heel with nap toward the foot. The remedy uses cheap materials and common glue to stop slipping and rubbing, noted as an easy, effective preventive.
Restoring natural skin color with lotion claim
An old advertisement promotes a lotion containing Bichlorate of mercury as a remedy to remove brown or sunburn and return skin to its natural color. The text indicates the formula is described as a coarse preparation.
Renewing Oilcloth for Longer Life
Oilcloth loses its shine after months but can be renewed to last twice as long. Melt glue in a pint of water, dissolve on a warm surface, wash and dry the oilcloth, then rub the surface at night with a flannel dipped in glue water. Choose a dry day and by morning it will have a fine gloss.
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Adsie
Everard
Amber
Mr. Everard
Sade
Te Ali
Irons Easter Sleeve Technique Saves Time
The method opens the sleeve from shoulder to wrist after joining under-arm, hems raw edges, finishes the forward lap, then resews the sleeve with buttonholes and small pearl buttons. This makes ironing shirt-waist sleeves about half the usual time and adds a pretty finish.
Remedy for Chilblains Using Alum and Flannel
A Housekeeper advises a chilblains cure by dissolving alum in hot water to cover the hands, soaking for fifteen minutes, drying, then rubbing with new flannel. Wear loose gloves at night and as much as possible during the day for protection.
Ice breaking and melting ready for use
Instructions describe breaking small ice pieces for melt in alckgoom with a needle and thimble. A large piece is melted in a basin or pail then covered with several thicknesses of newspaper. pieces are broken as needed with little noise.
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Lee
A Lonely Girl in a Turbulent Manor
Amber and Hilary navigate a tangled night of romance and deceit at Sir Lucien Adare's estate. Everard's proposal, Amber's defiance, and a jewel theft perilously unfold as Deane and Adare clash, while Amber tries to flee with Hilary to Carrig before the clock runs out.
Amber Leaves Carrig and Seeks Amber in the Mill
Hilary grapples with guilt as Amber vanishes from Carrig and may have gone to Madam or the Mill House. In a desperate late-night move he heads to the old mill to find her, hoping to reconcile, confess, and seek forgiveness. He suspects she may return to reclaim rings buried in the cellar.
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Deane
Amber
Adare
Tou
Arma of
Hilary
Brian
Lucien Adare
Gertae
Po Carrig
Lucien
Dolly
May
Madam’s
Carrig
Madam's
Mill House
Everard
Madam
Darling
A Whale Mouth and Baleen Giants of the Sea
The Grove of Twelve Foot Quilla describes whale feeding through baleen as a whale swallows its prey. A single whale may hold up to seven hundred baleen slabs in its mouth. a giant fringe can weigh a ton. An 1883 Bering Sea catch yielded 3,100 pounds of contents from one whale.
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Gladstone
Fletcher
Bering Sea
New York Tribune
Careful Grooming Sparks Quiet Domestic Debate
A terse domestic exchange focuses on personal grooming as a wife keeps up hair care routines. The dialogue hints at attention to appearance and routine in daily life within a marriage.
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Chic Coiffure
Vilary
Sir Lucien
Tie
Flab
Wolary
Ilitary
Het
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