Let Your Coiffure Accent Your Type by Edna Egan
Guidance on choosing a hairstyle that suits a person’s appearance and enhances their facial features. Discusses how certain coiffure choices can emphasize personality while acknowledging differences in beauty and style.
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Edna Egan
Awell
Concentrated Woman Power Aims to Save Butter in War Time
The article argues that concentrated effort by women can dramatically conserve butter across households. It urges saving half a cup per person daily, warns of starvation risk in Poland, and notes chefs and institutions eliminating butter as a wartime efficiency measure to feed more people.
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Poland
TE No Bute
Fashioned hairdos and kitchen tips for the mature woman
Fragments discuss coiffure advice for women over 30 emphasizing soft coiffures over harsh lines, avoiding extreme styles, and using clever pinning. It includes kitchen guidance on butterless recipes like Devil's Food Cake and Walnut Custard, plus notes on London street fashion and wartime women workers.
Late garden crops and weed management guidance
The text discusses planting beds for crops, noting difficulty keeping weeds after year two and suggesting new beds with crops like late cabbage. It emphasizes picking blossoms in fall to secure a good frit crop and advises spacing late crops about 1.5 feet apart to improve growth.
Astringent use of Vinegar and Toilet Waters
The text notes that alcoholic vinegars and toilet waters act as astringents and flesh firming agents when used in moderation. It warns that misapplication can worsen blackheads and skin issues, while well-cleared skin may tolerate liberal use of strong colognes or toilet vinegar for beneficial results.
Wild salad plants and dandelion greens in 19th century markets
The article describes how dandelion greens and other wild greens were gathered from the wild or markets, noting their economy, preparation, and storage. It covers washing methods, cooking guidance to preserve color, and traditional preservation in salt, with mentions of related wild greens and regional practices.
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Mets
Keep a File A Guide for the Modern Business Woman
A compact advice piece urges every businesswoman to start and maintain a simple filing system. It argues timely capture of notes from papers magazines conversations and daily work saves effort later and helps the stenographer and the whole operation stay organized. It stresses that items seen or heard in any business or setting can be valuable and should be kept ready for use when needed.
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Sileaus Terahe
Fidme
Schoool
Flowers for Your Porch Plants and propagation tips
Garden notes advise growing flowers in window boxes with rich earth and bone meal, draining via holes, and layering peat or manure. Suggested plants include geraniums, nasturtiums, heliotrope, petunias, vinca, begonias, legume vines, and fuchsias, with emphasis on drainage and consistent watering. Also mentions folk fertilizer from manure dilution and a rice starch cooking tip unrelated to horticulture.
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Benoit
Learn to toe dance early and fix stockings with tape
An old column blends etiquette and homemaking tips. It advises beginning toe dancing by age twelve, shares methods to keep short stockings up with hidden rubber tape, and offers assorted domestic hints from plant care to china prep and cold remedies.
Canned Foods and Botulism Safety Measures
Guidance warns that botulism can occur from canned foods if spoilage signs appear or if canning directions are not followed. Boiling contents for a few minutes can destroy toxin. discard any spoiled cans and avoid sale of damaged goods. Department of Agriculture outlines a cold-30 method with sterilization steps and temperatures for safe processing.
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Usus States Department, of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Annie Sail
Glad
Sean Oy
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