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		<title>Doll House Craft for Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adapted from &#8220;What Shall We Do Now?&#8221; 1907, 1922
The most magnificent, ready-made dolls&#8217; house in the world, with gables and windows, stairs, front garden, and the best furniture, cannot quite make up to its owner for all the delight she has missed by not making it herself.  Of course some things, such as cups [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Pig&#8221; Card Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This fun game comes from a 1922 children&#8217;s book.  The name of the game in the original book is &#8220;Pig&#8221;.  You might want to make up your own name for the game that sounds a little nicer!
&#8220;Pig&#8221; is a very noisy game.  It is played with ordinary, cards, unless you would like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;What Shall We Do Now?&#8221;
Copyright 1907, 1922
Distribute a box of letters among the players, dealing them face downward.
In turn, each player takes up a letter at random and puts it face upward in the middle of the table.
The object of the game is to make words out of these letters.
When a player sees a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/letter-game.html</link>
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		<title>Cardboard Doll House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adapted from Children&#8217;s Occupations, 1920
Paper dolls or even small bisque dolls like to live in a real house; so
with a little ingenuity and many kinds of materials, a house can easily
be created.  Any wooden box lying on its side and partitioned
off in four parts gives the suggestion of four rooms.  A box
sparks the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/cardboard-doll-house.html</link>
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		<title>Dolly Dingle Paper Dolls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grace Drayton was well known for being the artist and illustrator of the Campbell&#8217;s Soup Kids and Dolly Dingle paper dolls.  These paper dolls are from Pictorial Review, August, 1922.  Click the images to enlarge, and I have also put them on a pdf if you would like to print them for your child to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/dolly-dingle-paper-dolls.html</link>
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		<title>Cardboard Doll House Furniture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adapted from Children&#8217;s Occupations, 1920

Instructions for Making a Cardboard Doll House and Furniture



Instructions for making a cardboard doll house are given on this page.  Cardboard Doll House
Fairly heavy paper should be used to make doll house furniture.  Construction or mounting paper are good choices.  Scraps of wallpaper are excellent for making furniture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doll House Scrapbook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an activity that little girls might enjoy.  It may encourage their imaginations and make-believe skills.  Have them make a dollhouse scrapbook.
Materials needed:
A catalog or magazines with photos and images of furniture
Construction paper or tagboard to make the scrapbook
Scissors
Possibly crayons or markers
Paper dolls, whether homemade or purchased
Directions:
1.  First of all, make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/doll-house-scrapbook.html</link>
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		<title>Learning Games for Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some homemade learning games to make and play with your children.  They include math, spelling, and 13 colonies social studies game.
Math Games
Here are three math games you and your children can make and play.  An easy way is to take a package of index cards and cut the cards in half to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1920s Dolls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I have a beautiful old Montgomery Ward catalog from 1920.  As I looked through the section of dolls, I actually learned quite a bit.
Just like anything else, the quality of the dolls varied according to the price of the dolls.  The cheapest doll I found was 32 cents!  The top of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Uniquely Decorated Bedroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adapted from Woman&#8217;s World, March, 1921
The chief decoration of this bedroom is supplied by a most unusual cretonne on whose white background garlands of flowers in yellow, purple and rose are twined around ribbon-like stripes of a delicate green-blue, and festoons of narrower ribbon are caught up with nosegays at intervals.
This fabric has been used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/a-uniquely-decorated-bedroom.html</link>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s Party Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some children&#8217;s party games that are a lot of fun.  They are from &#8220;What Shall We Do Now?&#8221; published in 1922.
Clap In, Clap Out
1. Half the players go out, and the others stay in the room and arrange the chairs in a line so that there is an empty one next to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/childrens-party-games.html</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Easy and Often&#8221; Housecleaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Putting Time and Energy in the Bank of Domestic Economy
Woman&#8217;s World, March 1921
Time was when spring and fall days brought with them that dreaded thought &#8211; housecleaning.  Not only did it mean a period of drudgery for the housewife, but a period of upheaval to the comfort and dispositions of the family as well. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Image of Easter Forgiveness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Hiram M. Greene, Editor
Woman&#8217;s World, March 1921
There isn&#8217;t anything in the Bible that has more human interest nor greater religious significance than the betrayal, trial, crucifixion, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  The truth they reveal and the lesson they teach, are what Christians of the world think about and consider at Easter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/an-image-of-easter-forgiveness.html</link>
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		<title>Gardening Notes for March</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tarkington Baker
From The Woman&#8217;s World, March, 1921
Lawn Repair
As early in March as possible, look to repair of the lawn.  If manure was spread over the grass last fall, rake it off.  If no manure was used &#8211; and its use is seldom advisable since it is almost certain to introduce weed seed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/gardening-notes-for-march.html</link>
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		<title>Antique Doll Designer &#8211; Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh was the sister of three well-known men.  Her brother, John T. McCutcheon was a famous cartoonist; George Barr McCutcheon, a famous author; and Ben McCutcheon, a well-known journalist.
Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh created the &#8220;Good Luck Fairy&#8221; from clay.  It was a sweet child appealingly holding out her arms, and became very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/antique-doll-designer-jessie-mccutcheon-raleigh.html</link>
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		<title>Vintage Crochet Patterns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unusual Dining Table Doilies for Your to Crochet
Woman&#8217;s World, March, 1921
Since table linen has been both hight in price and scarce in quantity, the doily and luncheon set have come into such general use as substitutes for the tablecloth, and have become so well liked by many housewives, that they bid fair to take the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/vintage-crochet-patterns.html</link>
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		<title>Colonial House Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Small House of Colonial Design
By Arthur Brookfield
Woman&#8217;s World, March, 1921
When you come to build a house, you are planning for a permanent structure; but more than that, you are planning a home, a place in which you and your family are going to live.  You want a home that is as modern as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/colonial-house-plan.html</link>
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		<title>Bedroom Decorating Themes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charm and Color in Bedroom Decorating Themes
By Winnifred Fales
Adapted from Women&#8217;s World, March, 1921
More, perhaps, than any other room of the house, there is in the bedroom an opportunity for personal expression.  The downstairs rooms may be a little more conventional to suit the needs of the family, and be prepared in case of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Owe it to Your Husband &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 3 of the article written by Movie Star Clara Kimball Young
Adapted from the Woman’s World magazine, March, 1921
If you haven&#8217;t read them:
Part 1
Part 2

By the time John came to take Elice back with him, I thought I would go mad.  I was never permitted the least bit of privacy.  She followed me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/you-owe-it-to-your-husband-part-3.html</link>
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		<title>You Owe it to Your Husband &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 2 of the article written by Movie Star Clara Kimball Young
Adapted from the Woman’s World magazine, March, 1921
Too many of you, I am afraid, go home from the matinee and sigh and moon about the play, and wish you could be the star, and then slip into the old calico apron you had on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/you-owe-it-to-your-husband-part-2.html</link>
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		<title>You Owe it to Your Husband &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Advice to Women from Movie Star Clara Kimball Young
Adapted from the Woman&#8217;s World magazine, March, 1921
 Probably one thousand times a year the postman brings me a letter asking if I can help some woman out of the drab, gray commonplace of domestic unhappiness.
&#8220;I have always tried so hard to save money so that Joseph [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/you-owe-it-to-your-husband.html</link>
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		<title>Kids&#8217; Lunch Box Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These suggestions and recipes came from a Royal Baking Powder Company advertisement in the March, 1921 issue of Woman&#8217;s World
 magazine.
Sandwiches of home-baked nut and fruit breads &#8211; homemade cookies, cupcakes, and muffin surprises &#8211; with what youthful glee is each new thing in the dainty mother-packed lunch box pounced upon and devoured!
Here are some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/kids-lunch-box-ideas.html</link>
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		<title>Today is Your Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is your day.  This hour is your hour.  Now is your time.  Another minute, another hour, another day is coming, but none is so important to you as now.  And yet no days will be as sweet as those that bear the perfume and the beauty of the reminiscent past, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/today-is-your-day.html</link>
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		<title>Pictures of Rooms in 1921</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some neat pictures from the Woman&#8217;s World magazine of March, 1921.  They are from an Olson Rug Company advertisement in the magazine, and include a living room, dining room, and bedroom.
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		<link>http://www.vintage.home-making.net/pictures-of-rooms-in-1921.html</link>
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		<title>Wisdom for Mothers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Ladies&#8217; Home Journal, February, 1905
By Gabrielle E. Jackson
Editor&#8217;s Note:  These are 105 years old, but amazingly still apply today!  I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did.  If you are a mother, there is so much wisdom here for you.
1.  Don&#8217;t fail to suppress ill-tempered rebellion [...]]]></description>
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