Girl of 19 Yearns for Her Rights
A 19 year old asks Virginia Lee how to gain parental privacy and more freedom to see boys. The adviser condemns harsh parenting, urges trust and sympathy, and suggests open dialogue to reduce restrictions. The piece argues that teens deserve personal rights and letters should remain private.
Settlement Nurses Cover Earth by Lilian Campbell
Nurses trained in the Visiting Nurse Service of the Henry Street settlement New York care for the sick in 35 countries. Miss Marguerite Wales notes a staff including Ann McCabe who trained 26 Chinese nurses in Peiping and two Chinese assistants. McCabe has prenatal, baby, preschool clinics, nutrition classes and mothers meetings. The Henry Street nurses, center, wear uniforms and carry regulation bags. Wales runs 223 registered nurses from 20 centers in New York City. The service, created by Lilian Wald 39 years ago, aims to bring skilled care and self-care teaching into homes for those unable to pay. The Osaka nurse Mrs Siki Hora and others illustrate the global reach of this program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilian Campbell
Henry Street
New York
Marguerite Wales
Miss Wales
Ann McCabe
Peiping
Siki Hora
Osaka
Japan
Marguerita Wales
New York City
Lillian Wald
Osaka Asahi
Marguerite Weles
Mra. Molloy
Mra
Lamb Curry and Peach Stone Salad in Mrs Morton Menu
Household hints present a Lamb Curry recipe using mutton fore-quarter, onions, curry powder and rice side, plus a Peach Stone Salad combining canned peaches dates nuts and maraschino centers. A Tea Cream Pie with meringue tops the menu and method notes are included.
How Many Children Under Five in Our Country
A historic survey by Dr. Garry C. Myers and Cleveland College outlines census figures for five to nineteen year olds and school enrollment. It notes about eleven and a half million under five, sixteen million under six, and 30,887,167 five to seventeen in the nation with 25,179,696 in public schools. It highlights teenage statistics, literacy concerns, child marriage, delinquency, and feeble mindedness, plus a call for study groups and reader questions with available free outlines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garry C. Myers
Cleveland College
Western Reserve University
William Sadler
Funk & Wagnall
New York
India
Lovely Arms Essential To Beauty
A vintage beauty piece urges women to care for elbows as part of arm attractiveness. It notes elbows suffer wear from clothing and friction and prescribes a nightly regimen of gentle scrubbing with bland soap, pumice and lemon paste, rinsing, then generous moisturizers and overnight lubrication. It cites Mata Hart as a famed example of arm charm and stresses seasonally short sleeves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laerica
Mata Hart
Beauty tips and hair care from 1930s column
Answers cover hair bleaching and perming order, hot oil conditioning, and facial care. Anne advises waving before bleaching. Betty references a Beauty Culture booklet on pimples blackheads wrinkles and double chin reduction. Jane suggests soft peach powder orange rouge and light lipstick to suit coloring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne
Betty
Jane
Guarding Your Glades: Gladiolus Thrips Control
Garden expert advises storing gladiolus corms at cool temperatures and fumigating with naphthalene two months before planting. Remove tops and burn plant portions at dig time. Thrips overwinter on corms and attack leaves and flowers, causing bleaching and malformation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Halliday
General Press Garden
Cornell University
Fashionable flannel robes and negligees with new feminine details
A vintage guide praises warm robes for chilly mornings, promoting flannel robes as practical Christmas gifts. It spotlights tailored flannel styles with notched collars and sashes, then describes velveteen robes with puff sleeves and simple surplice necklines, plus silk crepe options with quilted, slim silhouettes and contrasting color accents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raglan
Tularemia risk from underdone rabbit meat warns readers
In a century column Dr. Logan Clendening cautions that tularemia can be contracted by eating undercooked rabbit meat or by handling contaminated rabbits. A reported case involved four children who fell ill after cooking and eating a dead rabbit, with neck gland swelling and eye involvement noted in some cases. The piece stresses the danger of undercooked meat and possible transmission through dirty hands, plus a reminder that cooking may not always prevent infection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan Clendening
M. D
Tu-Laremia
Kim
Poems That Live Dover Cliffs in Bowles Verse
Fragment from William L Bowles reflecting on white cliffs and sea surges. A wanderer considers leaving loved ones, social scenes, and memories as he contemplates courage against the sea. The poem invokes fate, faith, and resolve with the world as homeland and God as guide.
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Dover
William L. Bowles
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