Imagine scathing remarks about how “grotesque” ladies’ hats can look in profile, pseudo-macrobiotics (don’t shun “the much-abused cucumber,” and striking preoccupation with bicycles—spiced with Jewishness, shellfish recommendations, and women’s empowerment—sharing the pages of the same periodical. Too bizarre to be true? Fortunately for her readers, the Hungarian-born St. Louis society lady Rosa Sonneschein’s brainchild The […]
