Children’s Victorian Parties
The Season of Children’s Parties is upon us! Children of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were cherished and doted upon (those of privileged families). As much energy as we put into our children’s...
View ArticleSpringtime Gardening
I once told my family that had we lived during the pioneer days we would have starved due to my excessive squeemishness over the bugs in the garden. Just imagine you were living sometime during the...
View ArticleSolving the Dilemma of High Food Prices in the 1920′s – Gardening
From Gardening for Little Girls, 1923 It is predicted that this year, 1917, will be the greatest year for gardening that the country ever has known! The high cost of living first stimulated interest....
View ArticleAugust Amusements and Entertainments
Children need play. Young people need entertainment. Old people need recreation. Everybody needs it. They can work better and longer for having relaxed a little. Play gives rest from toil and aptitude...
View ArticleA Dainty Mending Outift
Put together a vintage style sewing kit to catch and fasion emergency. Are you supplied, by the way, with a mending outfit? Every seamstress needs a work-bag, well fitted with the things she is likely...
View ArticleFirst Aid in the Home circa 1920’s
PLEASE, PLEASE! These are 1920’s tips only meant as interesting reading so please use common sense and current guidelines for first aid. Cuts: First cleanse with clean boiled water. Then apply iodine...
View ArticleThe Talk – About Thanksgiving
This is a kindergarten Thanksgiving class circa 1893. Do you remember that the baker was the worker we talked of last week? What other workers can you name? What did the farmer do in the autumn?...
View ArticleWinter Evenings for the Children
Winter Evenings The long winter evenings afford the opportunity for pleasant social enjoyment in the household, such as conversation on special topics, the establishing of a home lyceum, reading...
View ArticleA Garden Scrapbook
We have all played garden and seen other people make a garden; but did we ever have a garden ourselves? Some day we may want to know all about gardening, and perhaps may have a beautiful piece of...
View ArticleGoing Back to School
A merry tramp of little feet just hear the sweet vibration! The children over all the land Have had a long vacation, And back again they haste to In school the dear old places, To measure out the days...
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