Waxing Lyrical

 

We are now in France

Where the young men wear tight pants.

Quote of the Day

 

Mothers, teach your daughters to keep au courant with the leading vital issues of the day.  If a taste for them has been crushed out by centuries of serfdom instill into them the fact that they will help their beloved America by their intelligent vote to suppress evil and blot out corrupt politics.  ~ Eugenie de Rivera (1905).

More Than A Three Day Weekend

 

From the Atlantic Monthly, "Child Labor in America"

August is National Immunization Month

 

Let's not go back.

I've Died And Gone To Heaven

 

Quote Of The Day

 

But around Verdun you have miles of land which is made one-third of steel, one-third of human remains, one-third of soil.  It is frightening for a country when its land remembers more than its people. ~ Mary Blume

Knitting - A Wedge Washlcoth from 1940

 

From the February, 1940 issue of Workbasket.  The entire issue is available as a free download from the Antique Pattern Library (don't click if you aren't prepared for a stereotypical "cullud chile" lawn ornament pattern).

Quote Of The Day

 

photo by Joseph Crachiola

When you erase the history/experience of one kid to "protect" another, what you're saying is that there is one type of kid worth protecting. ~ B.B. Alston

Quote Of The Day

 

There are not many boys who don't know how to play "cat."  It requires a good deal of skill, and if you don't break anybody's window or put out anybody's eye, it's a lot of fun. ~ Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Boys' Make At Home Things

Other Crafts - Skis from Barrel Staves

 

From Modern Mechanix, February 1929.  If anyone has a barrel and gives this a try, we want photos.

Woodworking Crafts - An Exploding Battleship Toy, 1936

 

Published in the December, 1935 issue of Modern Mechanix, just in time for Christmas.  Readers were supposed to make and sell these things to unsuspecting parents, I suppose, but as Bill Watterson once put it, the opportunities for mayhem would have been unlimited.

Quote Of The Day

O Tempora! O Mores!

image from Pinterest

My grandmother once told me the story of when she was a little girl and her older sisters decided to throw a Halloween party, circa 1915 or so.  One of their girlfriends decided to come as Charlie Chaplin, who was just beginning to have a great success at Keystone Films with his "Little Tramp"character.

She had to notify the police in their little Wisconsin town that she would be appearing on the street dressed in men's clothes.  They dispatched an officer to her home to escort her to the party, and then later that evening sent him to escort her back home.

Even more amazing, it was an all-girl's party.  I got the impression from something my grandmother said that this girl would not have been allowed to attend the party as Chaplin had there been boys present.

War Is All Hell

Suggested menu from Kitchen Klatter, March, 1942.

Lest We Forget

Get your damned flu shot.

Workbasket Magazine - "Women Who Make Cents"

From the February, 1953 edition of Workbasket magazine. This was a monthly feature and I'm speculating that it is a hint of how limited the opportunities were for significantly remunerative part time employment for women. 

The directions for dusting gloves, geraniums, and making earrings out of nylon stockings are on my Flickr account.

Vintage Advertising - Bon Ami

From The Farmer's Wife, October 1932.

Cooks and Cookbooks

Ladies Lunching from the January, 1919 Delineator

I have recently acquired another lot of vintage 50s/60s/70's cookbooks, all of them published by/for a major food company or magazine publisher.  Many of the recipes aren't bad (especially for cakes and cookies) but there are some lulus. I was trying to find the one for Hawaiian Tuna Puffs (chief ingredients pineapple, tuna and cheddar cheese) but I guess that will have to wait for another Sunday.  In the meantime, here's a ladies' luncheon favorite from Better Homes and Gardens Jiffy Cooking circa 1973.

"CURRIED TUNA AND PEAS. Blend 1/2 cup milk,into one 10 1/2 ounce can condensed cream of mushroomsoup. Add 1/2 to 1 teaspoon curry powder and heat to boiling  Carefully stir in one 6 1/2 to 7 ounce can tuna, drained, nd 1 cup frozen peas.  Cover and simmer 5 minutes.  Serve over hot cooked rice.  Makes 4 servings."

Vintage Advertising - Pyrex

This is not an advertising angle that would appeal to me, but...autres temps etcetera. From the Australian Women's Weekly, March 1941.

Nightmare Food

I can’t remember if I’ve posted this before (From Dainty Desserts for Dainty People, courtesy of Knox Gelatine circa 1915), but it looks as though it has fangs and would turn on anyone unwise enough to attempt to eat it. 

The rest of the illustrations in the booklet are far less menacing.