Around the House Tips and Time-Savers
Practical household hints cover salt and pepper shakers oven rust prevention step visibility, painting steps, baking in wide shallow pans, easing dresser drawers, improvised flower holder from paraffin, lining coats inside out, drying silk hose, and a split pea soup recipe with beef shank and knuckle.
Love of Animals Teaches Kindness to Children
A guidance piece urges teaching children to love animals and never tease them. It warns even tame animals may bite or scratch when provoked, harming character and safety.
Peace on earth and good will aid two mountaineers
On Christmas Eve the feud between Jim Knox and Joe Hathway shifts toward reconciliation after Hathway reads The Christmas Carol and a Bible verse. Morning note shows Hathway leaving for Cedar Creek to seek work, promising peace on earth. Boxing Day celebrations noted as a holiday with Christmas boxes described.
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Bells of Christmas and a father's changed heart
A strained father confronts his son Tom Jr over an impending Christmas wedding to Sally a dancer. After months apart Tom returns seeking his father's blessing and a chance to celebrate Christmas together as family amid broken ties and reconciliation.
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Dressing table project features curved front and buckram band
Detailed instructions describe sewing a skirt to a buckram strip for a dressing table with hinged arms. It covers cutting buckram, wrapping with fabric, creating a top edge, shirring with cords, and attaching the finished skirt. Advertisement promotes Ruth Wyeth Spears sewing book at 25 cents.
Respect for precedent and social concern in society
The text argues that precedent has a solid basis and should be studied for authority. It notes a past clothing extravagance and questions notions of universal indifference to others. It contrasts cigarette stubs sparking fires with burning kindling, reflecting on human instincts and responsibility.
Favorite Fruit Cobbler Recipe for Cold Weather
A weekly favorite presents a fruit cobbler using canned apricots peaches loganberries cherries or the like. The batter blends egg sugar flour milk and fat with a hot syrup sauce optional cinnamon lemon or nutmeg. bake 30 to 40 minutes at 350 degrees and serve warm with fruit syrup. MARJORIE H BLACK credits the recipe.
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