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...widow Angeline was resourceful. While she put little store by such things herself, she knew that Parisian women loved to soften their skins with greasy pastes, loved to create an artificial bloom to replace the natural color which had faded. The widow Angeline bent over the kitchen stove, mixing potions, whipping them into creams. Each ingredient she showed to the round-eyed, intelligent boy. Thus Louis Philippe was trained to become, not a king, but a maker of cosmetics...
...last week, that a syndicate was offering the public 40,000 shares of Louis Philippe, Inc., cumulative participating convertible Class A common stock. She would not have understood the financial terms, but she would have known that she did well when she led her little boy to a kitchen stove in Paris...
Soap. Thoroughgoing in most White House economies, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge failed to perform one of the oldest and simplest housewifely tasks. Had she liked, she might have gone into the kitchen, selected a few goodly-sized pans, mixed animal fats (ox, hog) with oils (cottonseed, coconut) and lye-then put the mixture to boil. When it had reached a proper consistency, she would have run it off into frames, allowed it to cool and harden. Without much difficulty, she would have made enough soap to stock the White House bathrooms and kitchens for many a month...
...suffrage. She founded the Woman's Peace Society, on nonresistance doctrine formulated by her father and perfected by Russia's Tolstoy. But vote-seeking and international peace gatherings consumed only part of her time and energy. For nearly a half-century she managed the New York Diet Kitchen Association and was active in many another social service body in and about Manhattan. Tireless, vivid, she mounted many a platform in her last years, a majestic old gentlewoman in the kind of hats Queen Victoria liked, voicing the kind of ideas with which Queen Victoria's great-great...
Adroit in arousing public sentiment, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney, M. P., builder in charge of the R-100, last week gave a tea party. Fifty guests, including several M. P.'s, mounted a staircase with mahogany balustrades, inspected a kitchen equipped with electric stoves, visited 39 sleeping cabins, each with a window and beds. Mrs. Burney, onetime Chicago debutante, was hostess...