How Can a Girl Be Different
Through the Widow's Lorgnette by Helen Rowland, a chatty dialogue between the Widow and the Bachelor explores how a woman might achieve being different in modern society. The pair joke about fads, satire, and a suited marriage proposal as a path to uniqueness, ending with playful, self aware musings on gender norms and social roles.
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Helen Rowland
Theda Bara
Venice
Congress
Niagara Fella
Walla
Rover
Heautica
Wheeler Syndicate
Paris Hotels Open in Paris for War Workers Revival
Thirteen hostess houses and three clubs in France and two in Germany are set to reopen in October under the YWCA. Hotel Petrograd in Paris will reopen as an American Woman's Club to serve American women visiting soldiers graves, with co operation from the Army Graves Bureau. Oxford and Cambridge stay open till December 1, while Palais Royal lodge runs until April 1920. The Paris hotels gain popularity as a social hub with tea and after-dinner coffee becoming official American hours.
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France
Germany
Paris
Brest
Hotel Petrograd
Bris
United States Army Graves Bureau
Oxford
Cambridire
Hotel Palais Royal
Flavorful kitchen hints for common desserts and glaze
Summary of practical kitchen tips includes using flavored cookie crumbs to enrich bread pudding, serving buttermilk or iced cocoa in hot weather, pairing cold gingerbread with buttermilk and sponge cake with cocoa, cherry filled cottage pudding with cocoanut garnish, savoy chard as a versatile vegetable, carrots and onions with it, glazing bread with egg yolk or evaporated milk, and serving molded gelatin in blocks with easy release from bowls.
Little Details in Dress Make Frocks Joyful and Distinct
The article urges women to focus on small costume details to elevate outfits at low cost. It highlights sleeve and collar ideas, such as a wide sleeve cut, diagonal slits with lace, and two-tone bertha touches. It suggests combining collar patterns, adding embroidery, and finishing with ribbons, plus a child’s headpiece from leftover fabrics.
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Evans
Secretary Glass Urges Children to Save Money
Secretary of the Treasury Louis D. Glass wrote to the nation’s 26 million plus boys and girls urging the habit of earning and saving. The message, read during Thrift Day exercises on October 3, stresses industry and economy so America becomes a nation of savers who invest wisely and spend carefully.
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the Treasury
Glass
America
Beans Demand Beat High Prices at Farmerette Camp
Volunteer workers at the farmerette training field at 6000 Blair road harvest beans to offset living costs. Housewives must pick the beans, offered 50 cents per bushel and 2 cents per quart for shelling plus exercise benefits. Apple pickers are paid similarly at the Hanoi Maryland farm camp, with Mrs Bertha Taylor Voorhorst at the W C A handling applications.
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Blair Road
Appie Pickera
Hanoi
Shold
Bertha Taylor Voorhorst
More Truth Than Poetry by Montague in a Moral Fable
A satirical piece reworks Aesop with a frog king who inflates himself to rule, then clings to power. It shifts to political quips about mandates, labor groups, and U S foreign policy, closing with a jab about staying home from travel.
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James J. Montague
Aesop
Batrachion
Momarch
United States
Armenia
Mexico
Potatoes Bananas and Candies Care Guide
Potatoes and bananas are similar. Bananas are three fourths water. Candies will burn slowly and evenly if placed on ice for 24 hours before use. Shoes should be well satined and aired, with several pairs kept in use.
Wholesale Beef Prices in Washington by Swift & Co
Wholesale selling prices of beef in Washington as reported by Swift & Co are listed across multiple weeks from May through September. The figures show carcass beef prices per hundredweight and include weekly averages such as 19.65 and 18.46 for specific periods.
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Washington
Swift & Co. Wales
Federal Trade Commission
Swift & Company
The
Trade Commission
The Jarr Family Foretold Fortune in a Downton Tale
In a humorous domestic scene Mrs Clara Mudridge Smith seeks a fortune teller while Mrs Jarr hesitates. Mr Jarr, and the boy Dinkston, explain the slang of bookies and psychics as they follow the two women to the occult parlor.
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Clara
Clara Mudridge-Smith
Mrs. Jarr
Mrs. Sarr
Zingara
Mr. Dinkston
Alwood
Jarr
Mer
Dinksten
Sheparde
Jarrane
Dinkstang
Bae Fonda
Mr. Jarr
Mudridge-Smith
Gopbright
Presa
Fashions Fancy and Elegant Duvetyn Fabrics Spotlight
Fashion notes praise duvetyn for grace with deep lace bands and evening capes in soft gray and beige. Satin trims highlight many afternoon dresses, cotton voile ensembles, and sport blouses in heavy white linen. New square caps appear, long mousquetaire gloves return, silk nets are embroidered with bright metal, and many new skirts feature three tiered detailing.
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Ters
Bent
Milady
Usderwood & Underwood
Tame
Taly
Swift
Pederesh
Lexter
Roy L. McCardell
Swift and Company
Upton Stock Yards
Chicago
U.S. A
Center Market
D. T. Dutrow
Noe Ved & CO
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