Baby's First Bed and Mothering Sunday Reminiscence
An old column blends household craft notes for infant bedding and garments with a Mothering Sunday homage. It details fabric choices, embroidery, and care for a warm baby bed, plus reflections on the fourth Sunday in Lent as a day to honor parents, especially mothers, in England. It also recaps a White Elephant party’s playful gift swap and social energy among hosts and guests.
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Madame Merri
Baby
Coulton
Duffy
Laurie
England
Wy Owlog
Witte
Her Spring Suit Fashions in Pale Mac Shade for Early Spring
A coat and skirt ensemble features a walking length skirt in a stylish box-pleated round with netted button trimming and silk cord loops in a delicate hue. The coat opens to reveal a blouse with Irish lace, a wide satin ribbon throat, and a violaceous shade. Sleeves are newly styled with elbow drapery and undersleeves to the wrist. A felt hat with a feather trim completes the look.
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Sol
Mately
The Fashion Knows Them and Color Names
A fragmented text discusses color dictionaries for the well dressed, listing many color terms and scraps of place names, suggesting a fashion guide or dictionary of hues. The passage mixes color labels with foreign or exotic terms, showing a broad palette and examples but lacks coherent narrative.
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Maine
Bengal
Rome
Alpe
Payet
Volga
Niger
Teceda
Mahonta
Monsen
Roth
Ganges
Neva
Rine
Pocket Powder Puff Craft Description From Historical Text
A detailed description explains making a pocket powder puff from cambric with embroidered or lace edge. It covers attaching a silk ribbon pull, sewing the pull to the center, adding a silk slide with loops, and drawing up the handkerchief to a neat, unobtrusive form with colored silk visible.
Walking Suit Described in Navy Serge With Black Silk Trim
A lightweight morning wear walking suit in navy blue serge features a one-button cutaway coat with centerback seam and curved side-back waistlines, black moire silk faced reverses and braid trimming, and a 15-gored flare skirt. Yardages vary by bust and waist measurements, list multiple widths and trims, including braid and nap considerations.
Novelty in Girls Neckwear Captures Color in Collars
Fashion notes describe color integration in neckwear for women, highlighting two toned dies, scalloped or fine welt edges, and polka dot or stripe embellishments. Edges feature white embroidery or white sprigs, with decorative corner flowers. Gown imagery pairs deep rose and mushroom brown chiffon, damask rose embroidery, and mink tail hems.
Worn Lingerie Transformed Into Corset Covers and Baby Linens
Practical home craft notes describe repurposing worn lingerie into decorative corset covers, with steps to cut off collars yokes and sleeves, bead trim, and mark belt lines. It also covers making a tiny layette drawer box from a pasteboard and six jewel boxes, and notes gingham dresses often feature squared necks and trimmed hems from handkerchief lace.
Girl Poses Amid Grim Cadavers in Eerie Photo Session
Chicago artist Mims Frane Kingsworth arranged a photograph titled Asleep with the Dead. Miss Kingsworth was blindfolded, led into a room full of embalmed bodies and cadavers, and fainted when her eyes were finally uncovered to the grisly spectacle. She recovered hours later at a physician's home amid hysteria.
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Chicago
Mims Frane Kingsworth
Mise
Talen
Miss Kingsworth
Absvo
Miss Kingsnorth
Carson
Milas Kingsworth
Dr. Wilcox
Healthy homes rely on trusted health products
One of the essentials for happy homes is solid information on health practices and high quality, widely approved products. The text extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a proven laxative from the California Fig Syrup Co, urging buyers to choose the genuine product from leading druggists.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Conscience Spanned Years Through Soap Theft
A St Paul shopkeeper Edward Hamilton recalls a 20 year old theft when a thief returned two cakes of soap as payment for one taken from his display. The note explains the remorse and the delayed restitution after seeing a change in business news. The tale, sourced from Sunday Magazine, illustrates a surprising moral reckoning.
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Minnesota
Edward Hamilton
St. Paul
Hamilton
Busi News
Cure for eczema on baby’s face via Cuticura after failure
A mother recounts three months of raw eczema on her newborn son’s face resisted by a physician’s treatment. After using Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent, the child recovered fully and remained eczema free at age two. The testimonial is dated May 14 and June 12, 1907.
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Baby
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Olga
Iain
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