Christmas Time in the Mountains 1907

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? 2680. A Paris card of invitation to an evening party usually implies that you are invited for the season. Frazier, A Little Town in a Wilderness Today we’re going up to my fictional settlement of...

Some Things Never Change

What’s in Mrs. Hales Receipts for the Million 1857? 4143 & 4144. There is such a rush of all other kinds of words in our days … There are vain words, and idle words, and hasty words, and spiteful words, and silly words, and empty words, and profane...

The Forgotten Anniversary: April 9th 1940

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? 326. To destroy Rats.  —  Cut a number of corks or a piece of sponge as thin as sixpences; stew them in grease and place them in the way of the rats. They will greedily devour this delicacy, and...

Catching up

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Millions 1857? 3712.  Prevention of Baldness –Eau de Cologne two ounces, tincture of cantharides two dachms, oil of rosemary, oil of nutmeg and oil of lavender, each ten drops. To be rubbed on the bald part of...

Firing up the stove

What’s in Mrs. Hale’s Receipts for the Million 1857? 130. To light a Coal Fire– A considerable saving of time and trouble might often be effected, if housemaids would attend to the following rules in lighting a fire: Clear the grate well from ashes...

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