Duke of Devil May-care Chapter in Secretive Chateau
In Harris Dickson's continued tale, Mrs. Ashton and her girls explore a grand chateau room with Lafitte lore. A comical French maid tends Mrs. Ashton’s foot while peering at antique cabinets and a tapestry. They retreat to bed amid shadowy hallways and whispered curios.
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Monsieur Victor
Mrs. Ashton
Arthemise
Alice
Red Cross
Lafitte
Gen. Jackson
Duke of Orleans
Mamma
Napoleon
Bridge of
Lodi
Charlotte Corday
Mrs.Ashton
Anita
Pedro
Noel Duke
Victor
Carnival Awakens Two Wanderers in a French Courtyard
Two travel weary girls awaken to Carnival and a sunlit day. Arthemise brings coffee and rolls as Alice and Anita explore a dim oval courtyard with stiff palms, green benches, parrots, and columned arches.
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Arthemise
Alice
Anita
Breakfast in a haunted French quarter house continues
Two girls awaken in a strange New Orleans hotel like a Balzac scene as a breakfast is left unfinished. Anita notices eerie sounds from a hidden room while Noel Duke’s voice echoes and Monsieur Victor keeps watch over guests in a decaying courtyard.
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Balzac
Alice
Anita
Monsieur Victor
Tel
Mimi Tel
Pietro
Hippolyte
New Orleans
Noel Duke
Monsieur
Donaire
Zis House
After Graduation Exercises Bring Lucy a Husband
Dialogue reveals Lucy secures Dick as a husband after graduation. Thelma’s anticipated win fades as Lucy completes work at home assisting her mother with chores after graduation.
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Lucy
Thelma
Life's Daily Round Advocates Central Laundries and Home Care
The article argues for specialization in domestic work and favors central laundries to ease heavy chores. It shares a 30 year tried washing fluid recipe using potash ammonia and tartar salts, detailing steps to whiten and brighten fabrics through boiling and rinsing.
Homemade jelly paste from gum and magazine pages
A safe, inexpensive craft method describes making a clear jelly paste for children by dissolving five cents worth of gum in water, overnight settling, three days of stirring, scenting with a few drops of wintergreen, then storing in a jar and using with fingers without stickiness.
How to Set Color for Fabrics and Starches
Before a new print sateen or gloria goes into the tub set the colors. Dissolve salt in cold water and soak about ten minutes. Strong Black pepper tea in the first suds freshens blacks. Wash in lukewarm suds with white soap. Rinse, starch, then four clear rinses to prevent starch showing. If very stiff is desired repeat starching and rinsing.
Laundry Hint for Stain Removal and Washing
In ascorting clothes for washing use cold water for stains such as per aspiration. Stains that are from fruit or coffee must be treated with boiling water. Hours of rubbing will be saved by following these simple precautions.
To Remove Match Marks From Surfaces
To remove match marks rub with a piece of cut lemon then wipe with clear water. The stain will disappear.
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Sidney
F. A. Gapen
Siondy
Duke OF
Devil May-Care
By Harris Dickson
Rts
D. Appleton & Co
Life’s. Daily Round
Dodds
Carters
Iver Pills
Tewe
Boston
Kellogg
W. L. Douglas
W. I. Douglas
Atyle
Brockton
Mass
W.L. Douglas
W. Dougie
W. L. Gies
le Mars
Sade
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