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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1909
Page
6
A Chicago Daily News snippet notes a matronly aunt asks how long for a girl to learn skating and the pretty niece jokes it depends on how many handsome young men are available to teach.
A compact collage of quips and jokes from multiple U.S. papers. It playfully contrasts Italian ukes and polar expeditions with limerick like lines about boarding, housekeeping, and a failed poker drama. It closes with light ad copy noting subscription prices from several papers.
Instructions for making winged butterfly ornaments from chiffon using wire cores and embroidery. Details cover shaping two‑part wings, edging, securing bodies, and attaching to pins. Also describes adding petals and flowers with sequins, and styling with ribbons, tulle bands, pearls, and wire supports for black or white gowns.
Classified notice lists newspaper pricing with The Springfield Sun at $1.00 per year and The Sun and Courier-Journal at $1.60, indicating annual subscription rates.
A housekeeper introduces linen napkin rings as a neat, washable solution to keeping napkins orderly at meals. Made from heavy white linen strips folded and stitched, each ring encloses a napkin and buttons over. Centered top features a small embroidered flower wreath with a family member’s initials, rings kept stiff with starch.
The article offers beauty and hygiene advice including using liquid green soap sparingly to avoid drying the skin, substituting a harsher soap if tightness occurs, making a mouthwash by boiling cinnamon bark in water and mixing with pure alcohol, and using small amounts of oil to style dry or greasy hair. It recommends five drops of oil rubbed between hands and worked into the hair several times weekly.
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