Fresh Air and Ventilation for Health and Housing
An essay argues indoors life harms health through poor ventilation. It stresses one third of life spent sleeping, oxygen loss from lights and gas, and how large sleeping rooms with constant air change reduce poisoning. Emphasizes open air for dances and outdoor amusements as safer options.
Cleaning and care tips for sewing and household chores
A series of practical instructions on cleaning buttons and pins with ammonia, washing and ironing habits for garments, teaching children tidiness, and making a lace apron with pockets. Includes guidance on dry timing, sun drying, and starching for a crisp finish.
Snapshot Photography and the Traveler’s Sharp Practice
Tourists seek pictures worldwide while locals often demand payment or disrupt scenes to avoid being photographed. A tale of a queen who sought interesting characters ends with her coaxing a peasant woman to pose and kissing the baby, illustrating both charm and intrusion in snapshot culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tina
A Name Dilemma and Fashion Belt Advice
A mother father and family weigh names for a newborn amid a guide on belts and figures. The piece discusses how to choose a surname based on relatives and fictional heroes, then shifts to costume details for belts, waistlines, and fit for various body types with notes on girdles and coats.
Recipe Fragments From An Old Household Page
A collection of culinary notes and instructions ranges from cheese stuffed olives to grape cordial and apple tapioca dessert ideas. It includes sugar quantities, method steps, and tips for making frostings, sponge cakes, brown bread, marshmallows, and stuffed tomatoes with basic cooking times and proportions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baku
Warts the bane of beauty simple wart removal tips
Lucille Daudet offers at home wart remedies noting that facial warts require caution and medical advice to avoid scarring. Guidance covers iodine for hands caustic and nitrate of silver applications and caustic formulas, with warnings against overzealous cutting and delaying treatment to prevent deeper rooting and spread.
Leftovers turned into meals and soups from scraps
A guide to using cold meat scraps and vegetables to create stews pies soups and hash. Suggestions include beef stew from small pieces, meat pies from mixed bones and meats, fowl with cream sauce on toast, ham in sandwiches or hash, and soups from bones. Also notes on leftovers for fish croquettes and oatmeal dishes.
The Servant Problem in Domestic Life
An essay compares wealthy owners learning factory demands to improve wages with improving home life. The narrator recalls a friend's maid shortage and a tense domestic wash day, noting the strain between mistress and maid and the desire for stronger cooperation at home.
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Mistresa
Woulé Reault
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BY Lucille Daudet