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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1919
Page
8
Advice on improving voice quality through breathing, articulation, and mood. Emphasizes avoiding breathiness and indistinct speech, suggests lemon steam and vocal exercises, and links vocal charm to a positive inner attitude. Includes practical tips for placing the voice and practicing reading aloud.
A discourse on marriage happiness argues familiarity breeds contempt and lists rules to sustain harmony. It cites habits to avoid slovenliness and intrusiveness, urges variation in pursuits and dress, and warns against constant repetition and blunt sincerity. Proximity magnifies irritations. mutual effort preserves affection.
Do it yourself tips on making braided rugs from old neckties using a border, and on preparing eggs for winter use. Also includes sewing a crochet rug, turning a top trunk into a child’s couch, washing a heavy comforter, and simple home cleaning steps.
A discussion on nagging as the chief disruptor of domestic peace. It describes how fault finding and persistent petty criticism exhausts family members, notes nagging is often seen as a feminine trait, and urges readers to view others’ faults from a different perspective while recognizing their own. It likens improvements to a simple smart winter dress pattern guidance.
A reflective essay argues that people, especially youths, tempt fate by courting danger and moral risk. It compares human impulse to a horse chasing fire and cites lessons from earlier dangers like electrified wires. The piece warns against deliberate self destruction and invites restraint.
A dialect rich monologue rails at strict gender norms, mocking limits on female behavior. It envisions women challenging constraints from dress to speech, arguing men misdefine strength and propriety, while predicting a future where women wear pants and resist silence.
Mrs Happy Homi champions domestic science noting its rise as a real science while Mrs Shirker laments modern methods. The discussion frames progress in home management, praising improved standards and the push for scientific housekeeping, with mothers urged to support daughters embracing this trend.
A dated recipe snippet outlines lemon sponge pie with eggs, lemon juice, rind, sugar, flour and milk baked in a single crust. Also included is a tomato pie with green tomatoes, sugar, raisins, nutmeg and a top crust. A cocoa cake style mixture with butter sugar eggs sour milk soda and vanilla is partly described.
A compact historical recipe lists ingredients for cake and batter including sugar raisins sour cream egg butter milk flour baking powder and lemon extract. Instructions advise beating butter and sugar until light then adding eggs to form batter.
A narrative portrays a woman torn between caution and romance. She knows danger but seeks love, often temping fate as she plays with fire and risks disgrace. The piece emphasizes inner conflict and moral peril in pursuit of passion.
Two cups dried apples soaked and chopped then stewed in two molasses until three fourths done. Add half a cup butter and two eggs with spoons soda and two cups flour, then taste.
A fragment recipe lists mixing flour bak ing powder and milk with egg, then baking in a buttered gem pan. It includes scalded milk poured over corn meal with butter, then cooling before adding flour and sifting.
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