Tag Archives: housekeeping advice

maternity corset illustration advertisement 1914

Maternity Corset Ads and Cooking Ideas

Honestly, the best thing about these pages are the advertisements. These pages contained a small ad for maternity corsets, which I found particularly interesting.

Also advertised were canned sardines, The Alaska Freezer, Jello, Coffee Jelly, Maternity Apparel, Karo Syrup, Hair Dye, and a variety of “Make Money from Home” ads.

early 1900s hotel advertisement

Early 1900s advertisements and housekeeping advice

These next few pages are a miscellany of advertisements and pithy articles. Another adjustable dress form advertisement, perfume advertisement, Blue-jay corn plasters ad, an advertisement for The AlbeMarle-Hoffman Hotel overlooking Madison Square in NYC (“a good room at $1.50 per day, and a good room with a bath for $2 per day “- imagine paying that in NYC nowadays!).

Old Sugar Advertisement for Blue-jay sugar

Filet Crochet Patterns and the Back Pages from the July 1917 issue of The Modern Priscilla Magazine

Here are some housekeeping tips from 1917, as well as filet crochet patterns…. and alot of old advertisements! There are also even more recipes, an article on the nutritional value of eggs, and “Tested Household Devices” (featuring a vacuum insulated beverage container, and antiseptic nut cracker).

turn of the century Domino sugar advertisement

Home Making a Business, and other pages from the July 1917 issue of The Modern Priscilla

I think that the turn of the century business advice for women was just fascinating. It’s “The story of a woman’s success in adapting the materials at hand and developing from them a pleasant and profitable occupation….” . The middle section is about how to stop food waste, which in 1917 was estimated at $700,000 [...]