Elizabeth Forges Skid Path to Career in City
Elizabeth arrives in the city alone with fifty dollars and a clipping praising her as a promising recruit in commerce. She endures crowded streetcars and a stark Home For Self Supporting Girls room while seeking paid work. Joe Trenton shifts her to a housekeeper role, enabling a chosen path toward independence and career, with Elizabeth finally landing a position after a compassionate administrator aids her.
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Elizabeth
Elizabeth Cady
Asay
Army of Commerce
Joe Trenton
Joe
Ima
Morton
Bess
Trenton
Jock
Why He Called Over a Pocketbook Finding Scam
A man visits a door asking about a supposed pocketbook found with a large sum of money. The caller admits the aim is to see who would advertise a fortune instead of hiding it. The exchange ends with a polite exit and a note from Judge's Library.
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Judge's Library
A Critic’s Evasion in Praise and Eccentric Artist
A nobleman invites eccentric artist Fuselt to view a noble owner’s painting. The critic praises it as extraordinary, while the pupil questions its merit. Fuselt deflects the critique with a pun about praise, avoiding offense to a potential patron.
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Fusp
Ioyal Academy
Fur Jsen
Purell
Mending Lace Made Easy for Home Needlework
A guide explains simple methods to mend Irish crochet lace at home. Using blue tissue and newspapers to support the fabric, lace is worked from motif to motif with a crochet hook and cotton. For filet lace a frame and slate are used, with the lace basted to keep holes centered during repair.
How to Wash Fine Woolen Blankets Safely
A housewife guides gentle laundering of fine woolen blankets. She makes a soap jelly from Yellow soap and boiling water, dissolves in three buckets of lukewarm water, washes without rubbing, rinses in clear warm water, wrings, and hangs straight in sun until dry. She also warns to always shut off the gas cock to prevent leaks and possible asphyxiation, detailing safe gas use.
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Asphy
How to Clean Lace from Damaged OCR Text
Cleaning lace steps described include wrapping lace around a glass bottle, using muslin, tacking ends, and winding with sweet oil or butter. The bottle is cooled to avoid bursting, then placed in cold water with soap, boiled briefly, rinsed in warm water, and dried in sun. Finally, lace is pressed between white paper for a day.
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Bette
How to Sew Easily in a Sewing Machine
A small cake of white soap kept in the machine drawer saves needles and eases sewing. When hitting thick spots like seam crossings rub the fabric with the soap. the needle passes through as if by magic without breaking or bending, especially when handling sheer lawns or mousselines with a fine needle.
How to Cure Watery Eyes Guide
A simple remedy to relieve watery eyes. Do not strain the eyes and avoid night work. Rinse with a mild wash of one ounce purified water and one ounce diluted white bazel. Bathe the eyes frequently, especially when irritated by wind.
How to Clean Gold Lace
A dated tip advises cleaning gold lace with jamuonia from a druggist ground finely and brushed onto the lace with flannel. After brisk scrubbing and thorough brushing the lace will look as good as new.
How to Kill Worms in Flowerpots
Guide suggests inserting about six matches heads-down into pot soil to release sulfur fumes that kill root-eating worms afflicting decaying flowers and plants.
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Theta
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Thomson Publishing CO
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