Getting Ready for Maybe by Billy Sunday and The Dismals
Collected fragments present sermons and editorial notes from Billy Sunday and The Chicago Post. Sunday lampoons church apathy urging joyful work and faith in Jesus while mocking prayer clutter and miserliness. The Chicago Post pieces lampoon Champ Clark’s gloom and tariff battles amid political jabs.
How to Prepare for Old Age in Teens
A fragment on lifelong beauty focusing on teaching girls aged in their teens to nurture skin, hands, hair, and figure. It urges mothers to guide early habits calmly, avoid vanity, and build mental discipline to brace for middle age. The piece references manners, grooming, and a humorous exchange about handling nerves.
Young Girls and Make Up Warned Against Beauty Tricks
A columnist urges mothers to heed warnings about teen makeup. He condemns rouge and eyebrow pencils for girls from early teens, arguing cosmetic use lowers moral standards and fuels secrecy. He insists on a strict, moral stance and offers a provocative, cautionary perspective.
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Elsie
Concealment vs Frankness in Beauty Practices
From ancient witchcraft to modern cosmetic use, women seek to enhance beauty. The piece argues honesty in makeup, noting past secrecy, current legitimacy, and social consequences for those who overdo or pretend. It urges transparent use of paint and powder to avoid deception.
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Miss Fiancee
The Girl Who Holds a 20 Year Old’s Secret Worries
A young woman of twenty laments aging lines and beauty pressures. She seeks reassurance about her looks and contemplates self care while discussing personal anxieties with a confidant. The tone reflects outdated social expectations on female beauty.
Practice Physical Culture While Doing Your House Work
This instructional note urges housewives to treat housework as a form of exercise. It explains bending from the hips to tighten abdominal muscles, proper kneeling, dusting low furniture, sweeping with controlled arm motion, and walking on the balls of the feet. Each routine begins with a deep abdominal breath to maximize lung and liver engagement.
What Is Beauty In Everyday Faces And Styles
The piece argues beauty is not fixed but varies with time and costume. It urges women to project beauty at any hour and in any look, noting some change their color like chameleons. It suggests radiant periods and grey days, and claims age can be beautiful through experience in the eyes and the softer hair.
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Iaa
Hucklesberry Finn
Widders
Wieder
Helene
Alice
Elsie
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