Category: Culture

Hands and nails, clean and soft, were a sign of beauty a hundred years ago. The article below was published in 1898 and gives hand…

What were women told about being beautiful over a hundred years ago? The answer might surprise you – and sound very familiar. How To Be…

How did the women of the early 1900s deal with wearing corsets all day long, every day? Here are some corset wearing tips I dug…

Making homemade Christmas candies was a family tradition in the not so distant past, and even today there are some families that still make their…

This insulting, but humorous article published in 1896 covers the invention of the bracelet purse which was essentially a little change purse attached to a…

Halloween costumes from the early 1900s were different than the costumes we wear today. Many of them were homemade and while witches were popular, there…

Halloween parties were a popular pastime for adults, especially in the early 20th century. In this article, it makes one wonder how more houses did…

There are many couples who think they are bucking superstition by marrying on Friday the 13th, but, according to old sources, May was the worst…

The royals had many superstitions of their own. This article talks mostly about Kings and Emperors who had superstitious rings and other trinkets, but it…

The Japanese samurai of Medieval Japan are a fascinating class of people who started off as servants and eventually became the stuff of legends. Samurai…