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The Iowa Homemaker vol.5, no.7 The Iowa Homemaker: Volume 5, Issue 7

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The Purchase Price of Beauty
( 2017-04-04) Hoyt, Elizabeth ; Iowa State University Digital Repository

"What has an economist to do with beauty?" you may ask. Leave to them the discussion of the price of corn and cotton, but surely in the field of beauty they are outside their proper sphere. Questions of beauty are aesthetic, philosophical or even ethical; they are not to be enlightened by so material a science. That view of the economist's province which limits him to the ordinary market-a common enough view, to be sure-is, however, a very narrow one. The economist, as Professor Marshall so well puts it, is concerned with man "in the ordinary business of life". He, is concerned, among other things, with seeing that men secure maximum satisfactions from their expenditures of time, energy and money; and the satisfactions which make up the sum total of human consumption obviously include much more than corn, cotton and steel rails.

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The True Spirit of Christmas
( 2017-04-04) Cessna, O. ; Iowa State University Digital Repository

I like the ring of sincerity in this topic. The emphasis seems to be on the word "true." Evidently the desire is to go beyond the mere surface observance of the day to its deeper meaning. 1 think this attitude is a true characteristic of our serious minded young people of today. They become impatient with what has been when it is enforced simply because it has been. The touch stone for them is not simply the traditional but the real.

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Something Different for Christmas Greetings
( 2017-04-04) Johnson, Elizabeth ; Iowa State University Digital Repository

Christmas will soon be in full swing and once again we are settling down to long evenings of delightful planning for the holidays. Christmas is the friendly season, the time when we renew old friendships and correspondences.

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Fuel Economy in the Kitchen
( 2017-04-04) Rapp, Miriam ; Iowa State University Digital Repository

"Dollar savers," "time savers," and "energy savers" are three things much sought for in the world today. Of these probably "dollar savers" is the one which -is most realistic to the busy housekeeper as well as her husband.

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Who's There and Where
( 2017-04-04) McMullen, Josephine ; Iowa State University Digital Repository

Miss Beulah Jones, who has been assistant dietitian at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, has recently taken a position as director of the Edison Electrical Appliance Company industrial cafeteria.

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