Ladies’ Home Magazine: Part Two

Today on Reading Wednesday I’m back with the second half of the Ladies’ Home Magazine. We’ll be continuing right where I left off last week.

We’ll start right off with the eleventh page of the magazine. It’s full of advice on manners for that time period. It’s interesting to read, though most isn’t really applicable to modern times. I enjoyed comparing then to now, however. Amazing how the times have changed!

And here, in case you might be interested in that sort of thing, I’m including another ad. The magazine is actually full of ads for this laxative, which I find…interesting. Anyway, you can read it, if you’d like. 😉

This page is much more my style, featuring more patterns. These are intended for children, however. This is also the only page that seems to have had a run-in with a pencil. Perhaps a child was looking at the patterns? Of course, there also seems to be an adult’s handwriting. Oh well, I guess I’ll never know. 🙂

And another page of women’s patterns! I think my favorite is #8210, with the little buttons and hat. In reality, that style would probably look terrible on me, but I can dream. 😉 This page also features an evening dress. I wonder if that was typical evening wear for the average woman?

This page features more patterns and a way to order them. It also has a bit of household advice for baby-proofing your home.

Turning to the next page, we have more household advice, as well as the remainder of the short story. The story might not be entirely believable, but the conclusion is pretty amusing.

On the next page the topic is cooking. I’d like to try some of these recipes some time. It would be interesting to see how they turn out!

On the next page we have another column of writing, under the heading “Fanny’s Funny Scrapbook.” What follows are some amusing tidbits, and then another ad for “Black Draught.” You’d think they wouldn’t need so many ads for the very same product!

And here we have yet another ad for the women’s medicine.

And on the very last page (I believe, at least) we have a small article on canning tomato juice. It’s hemmed in by more ads for the same products as the previous ones.

Well, that concludes Ladies’ Home Magazine: Part Two. I hope you enjoyed this peek into the past. What was your favorite of the dress patterns? ~ Emily