The Important Thing In Your Life, Doctor Trevor
Dr John Trevor declares his love for Mary Trenton after two weeks of patient detours and social meddling. He abandons medicine for a moment to seek marriage, but a late confession amid a garden hedge reveals love as the actual crucial goal of his life.
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John Trevor
Morton
Trevor
Dell
King’s
Mary
Trenton
Miss Dell
Martin
Mary Trenton
Seome
Joanna
Miss Trenton
M.D. Morton
Eleanor Deil
Mary Trevor
Mise Dell
Hilton
King House
King‘s
The Forlorn Hope Quarrel Between Poets Le Gallienne Watson
Richard Le Gallienne discusses his quarrel with William Watson over The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue. He says the dispute centers on the cruelty of Watson's verses. An elderly widower Herkimer is cited in a derisive remark about a forlorn hope and rejected suitors.
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Richard le Gallienne
William Watson
Watson
Mr. le Gallienne
Herkimer
Women’s Employment Bureau at Barnard College
Mrs. Henry Wise Miller leads the Barnard College Alumnae Association committee running the first women’s employment bureau. It aims to end student and graduate employment discrimination and places college trained women as stenographers and private secretaries, with lawyers and business heads ready to pay at least $100 a month. The service has grown rapidly and may hire a full‑time paid worker next year.
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Henry Wise Miller
Barnard College
Cellar Care Aimed At Health Dampness Guarded
A practical guide urges careful cellar organization to protect home health. It recommends separate bins for coal and wood, two refuse barrels for burnable waste and recyclables, and regular inspection to prevent dampness and mustiness. Keep tools hung, storage consolidated, and ensure ventilation with open windows to avoid heat loss.
Pineapple Marmalade Preparation
Instructions describe ripe sweet pineapple marmalade making. Slice and pare, cut into pieces, mix three fourths pound sugar per pound fruit, chill overnight on ice, then cook gently an hour, mash and press, simmer half an hour more, then pot.
Finman Haddie Fish Cakes Ready for Quick Uses
A new ready to use baked finnan haddie speeds up making fish cakes creaming or chowder. The smokiness is reduced when pre sliced, and cakes can be made by mixing par boiled haddie with mashed potato butter salt pepper and egg then frying.
Lentil and Wheatmeal Patties with Sage and Parsley
Cook lentils in water until soft but not pulped. Make a batter from egg wheatmeal flour oil and warm water. Season with onion sage parsley pepper salt add bread crumbs and lentils mix mash stand an hour then fry spoonfuls and serve with apple sauce.
Vegetarian supper dish with macaroni tomatoes creole corn
Break macaroni and boil. mix yolk cream butter flour milk to a thick sauce. Fill hollowed tomatoes with macaroni, bake until soft. Creole Corn stews tomatoes okra and corn pulp, then cream or butter. Serve with chicken or as a vegetable with rice as starchy accompaniment.
Dainties and Gelatin Pudding from Frugal Kitchen
Three simple recipes for spice cake griddle cakes and a gelatin pudding. Spice cake uses butter sugar molasses sour milk raisins soda salt spice and flour to bake as one large loaf or two small. Griddle cakes mix sour milk soda salt and flour for a hearty breakfast. Gelatin pudding blends milk sugar and dissolved gelatine with vanilla, served with whipped cream.
Philadelphia Caramels Instructions From a Confection Recipe
A historical recipe outlines making Philadelphia caramels. It details melting p butter, adding Porto Rico molasses, brown sugar, and milk, then stirring in unsweetened chocolate to a firm ball stage. Vanilla and English walnut, then cooling in a buttered pan and cutting into squares.
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Philadelphia
Porto Rico
Bacon Fat Sauce Instructions From a Vintage Kitchen
Heat five tablespoons strained bacon fat in a pan. Stir in two tablespoons flour to form a paste. Add one eighth teaspoon paprika and one third cup vinegar diluted with one cup boiling water while stirring. When boiling, remove from heat and whisk in two egg yolks. Do not boil after adding eggs. Chill and serve with greens. Thin with cream if too thick.
Temperance Fruit Punch Recipe Begin With Boiled Syrup
A historical recipe describes making a syrup by boiling four cupfuls of water with two cupfuls of sugar for twenty minutes. It adds 12 mint sprigs, steeped in hot water, then combines with strawberry and orange juices, lemon juice, and grape juice. The mixture is cooled and served over ice.
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Temperance
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