The Girl Who Wanted Money Spent Who Seeks Only Spendable Hearts
A parable about a spendthrift girl who relies on others for lavish gifts. A war hero meets her, but she pressures him to spend and overlooks simple joys. He proves his love by choosing frugality, while she learns money cannot buy affection. The tale ends with a cautionary moral about insincere desire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophie Irene Loeb
Elas
Mutahe
Miss Spender
Mies Spender
Prena Publishing Co
Dining Room Chair Arrangements for a New Home
A bride with a modest eight to twelve room home outfits a dining room from a full dozen chairs. Each chair features varied upholstery from blue striped damask to needlepoint tapestry, with two armchairs in the living room and two in the guest areas. Windsor and rush chairs offer versatile use, while leather-seated chairs suit older rooms. A coffee milk ice cream freezer method is described for serving guests.
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Dacke
Amail
Marines At Belleau Wood Honor Roll And Nurse Beadwork Aid
A commemorative poem and features honor U S Marines known as invincible leathernecks at Belleau Wood. It highlights nurses and Red Cross workers like Milas Farrell who aided blinded soldiers in France with beadwork therapy to ease shell shock and ennui. Also provides practical jelly making tips and kitchen hacks for home use.
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Belleau Wood
Hellwood
Wood
U 8 Marines
Hun
Jesson
Resister Croffot
W. A. Cropput
Gertrude M Farrel
Weat
Milas Farrell
New York Public
Association of Teachers of the Blind
France
Calotabs Promises Easy Liver Cleanse with Calomel Roots
Calotabs replace old style calomel offering liver cleansing without sickness or nausea. One tablet at bedtime with water purifies the system by morning, restoring appetite. Genuine Calotabs come sealed, price thirty five cents, money back if not delighted.
More Truth Than Poetry by James J. Montague
A humorous verse piece critiques boastful talk and bravado, contrasting loud bluff with quiet integrity. It includes satirical lines about a self important speaker and ends noting a copyright credit to Bell Syndicate.
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James J. Montague
Scott Nearing
Bell Syndicate
Ige
Bachelor Girl Reflections on Marriage and Hair Do's
A 1919 column mixes social musings on marriage roles with self help notes on baldness and fashion. It jokes about marrying different ages for various rewards, laments the burdens on women, and explains how hats affect scalp circulation. It ends with a recipe tip for marshmallows on crackers.
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Beattles Post-Intelligencer
The Porch Picnic Scene With Foods And Fanciful Decorations
A porch picnic idea is described with trees and sod overhead, dangling spiders and toads from Japanese sources, candy cherries on green boughs, berry picking, and a tablecloth spread for a festive outdoor meal. A recipe blends oleo paprika mustard cheese eggs milk and bread crumbs baked in a pouffe dish for twenty minutes.
Perky Boudoir Cap and Foulard Styles From Vintage Guide
A vintage guide highlights a perky crocheted boudoir cap with a flesh pink ribbon crown and a slim brim. It also notes foulards worn with crisp organdie collars, and practical camp gear like an asbestos roaster and dampness resistant matches.
Vacation hints blend culinary and fashion notes from Paris
The article surveys summer style and kitchen tips, noting straw substitutes for drinking cups, chic fall hats with velvet, cape collars, and leather coats. It shifts to nutrition, praising parsnips carrots and turnips for calcium iron and potassium, detailing ancient recipes and the value of tubers in a balanced diet.
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America
Athens
Entirely New Way to Banish Superfluous Hair
An advertisement-like item touts a new method to remove facial hair using Phelastine. It claims odorless, non irritating results and promises painless use at home with simple directions. The copy emphasizes convenience versus electric, chemical, or shaving methods and targets women seeking hair removal solutions.
Jarrs Grapple With Flirtatious World Across Street
In a tense evening out Mrs Jarr accuses her husband of flirting as a movie actor Charley Face is discussed. Mr Jarr defends himself, insisting the flirtation was with a film star seen across the street, while Mrs Jarr fears further scandal and jealousy lingers in their quiet ride home.
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Adres. Jarre
Mr. Jarr
Mrs Jarr
Rome
Mr Jarr
Mrs. Jarr
Charley Face
Mr Jerr
Apollo
Ang
Aniffie i
Jerr
Jarr
Clara Mudridge-Smith
Stryver
Wi Jarr
Daily fashion hint on a new wrap model
A brief fashion note highlights a blonde model wearing a wrap in metal brocade with decorative accents. The wrap is described as stylish, suitable for wear on summer evenings, and praised for its pleasing effect and banded detailing.
Sandwich Assembly From Fragments of a Dignified Bread Dish
A fragmented recipe describes assembling thin bread slices with butter and honey, adding chopped basil and parsley, and layering into triangles. The instructions emphasize neat presentation on a plate or bread basket with a paper doily.
Delicious nut sandwiches with Devonshire cream and fruit
Prepare nut sandwiches using directed bread and a layer of Devonshire cream or clotted cream. Spread fruit between slices, trim crusts, cut into triangles, and garnish on a paper doily tray. Use well drained berries, pineapple, peaches, or preserved fruit. Heat milk and cream, simmer briefly, cool, skim, and fill between bread slices.
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British Isles
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U. S. Marines
Jelly Dow's
Kitchem
Dresdsthy
W. J. Bryan
Amstican Brewers’ Association
By Helen Rowland
Cleopatra
the Press Publishing Co
Foulard
Fashion Grams
Paris
Alf
Tuntas Seuragl
Roy L. McCardell
Isome
Fratt
Wall
Nestlé
Fikes
Nestit
Che
Restle
William St
Fort Cits
Peeetiahy
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