Favoritism and fashion in mothers and corsets
The piece discusses parental favoritism toward gifted children and the harm of unequal attention, then shifts to fashion notes about Directoire blue and a critique of tight corsets, arguing true support and comfort should govern design and wear. It highlights how balance in affection mirrors balanced attire trends and calls for thoughtful restraint in dress.
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Papa
Momma
Hoth
Mothers' Magazine
Gemet Lne
Chaney
Parlor Fashion Notes on Waist Lines and Spring Hats
Health and beauty tips warn against extreme corseting and waist compression. The piece surveys spring fashion, hats, bags, and fabrics with advice on skincare, bathing, soaps, and cosmetic care, plus trend notes on hats, ribbons, net coats, and delicate fabrics.
Flowers for the Gardening Beginner and Later Notes
A gardening column advises amateurs to study flower traits to tailor borders and beds. It highlights nocotiana varieties for fragrance and contrast, California poppy for mass color, hollyhocks, radbeckia golden glow, dahlias, cosmos, chrysanthemums, and Drummond phlox. Also details a small chick coop design and introduces the Fremont Williams strawberry as a promising late variety under testing.
Lime Use and Orchard Fertilizing from Indianapolis Notes
Lime overuse harms soil despite acidity, so test on crops. For orchards, raw bone meal and potash aid growth. apply 400 pounds per acre plus 850 pounds bone meal and 50 pounds potash mulch with cut grass. Electric plows in Italy use trolley power to cover seven to fifteen acres daily. Hampshire pigs spark debate on bacon vs lard type per Professor Shaw.
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Italy
Uncle Billy's Shade Tests Human Nature
A humorous vignette shows Uncle Billy clinging to a crooked window shade to avoid waste while Evelyn Polly and others react. Polly ultimately fixes it herself, prompting Uncle Billy to admit the lesson about human nature and fairness in reward. A second short quip notes a new typewriter joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Billy
Evelyn
Billy
Caroline
Trude
Polly
Fitted separate bodice in black chiffon offers chic renovation
Fashion note describes a fitted black silk chiffon bodice with a Alencan lace yoke and raspberry pink satin trim. It notes possible renovations by removing sleeves and yoke and adding lace or linen gulmpes, and highlights black and white styling with gold or silver embroidery as smart trims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Directoire
Americans' Worship of Wealth
Mrs. Craigie, a novelist, just back in London after a lecture tour in the United States, says wealth worship runs high in American cities though New York and Chicago show fewer idle rich. She notes American women spend heavily on clothes and gems, second only to Orientals, and that Americans remain temperamentally linked to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the press shaping a humane and individualistic national mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Craigie
London
New York
Chicago
Details Of A Chicken Coop With Removable Floor
The article describes a sunning and cleaning friendly chicken coop with removable floor and roof. It features a ventilated top inch board, a wooden button, and a 2 inch bottom strip to secure wire screen for stormy days and young chicks. Two sizes are offered: single coop 20 by 24 by 16 inches and a double 30 by 24 inches with a removable lath divider.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cain
Lettuce Planting After Wintering For Best Returns
Winte red lettuce plants should be planted early in spring with seed sown about the same time. Lettuce yields well on rich deeply manured soil, grow in rows twelve to fifteen inches apart with plants eight to ten inches apart when thinned. Provide clean cultivation and choose a few strong varieties for best results.
The New Flax Industry in Minnesota
The flax straw to binding twine industry is new to Minnesota and has grown in recent years. Professor Shaw notes in Orange Judd Farmer that the industry will reduce farm waste across the western states, where flax straw has been largely wasted. Fox straw proved nearly a total waste, and larger flax acreage increased waste rather than reduce it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Shaw
Orange Judd
United States
Max
Cleaning the Coops with Lice Control Method
The passage describes using hot soapsuds to clean a chicken coop and then whitewashing with carbolic acid to kill lice and mites. It emphasizes thorough drying and ongoing care to keep pests under control.
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Can
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Seattle
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