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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1948
Page
8
A home styling piece advises updating kitchen curtains with crisp fresh fabrics and bright colors. It covers choosing outside scenery, color schemes, edging, and curtain styles from ruffled to plain, including double Dutch options, and stresses fabric care and floor usage.
A fabric guide covers tearing curtain fabric for straight cuts, removing selvage to prevent shrinkage, turning side hems before sewing, and adding a shrinkage tuck at the top. It notes applying ruffles across grain and bias, with yardage estimates for curtain and ruffle lengths and mentions ironing and floor setup for ease.
Fashion copy praises fabric hats with brims that tie on and gather into self bands finished with a bow. It promises many intriguing variants of the baste idea, describing bird's eye pique and crisp organdie finishes.
Outdoor eating is celebrated with easy porch meals and garden menus. The piece details cool supper options, tray service, and festive touches like flowers, plus recipes for Tomato Aspic with Shrimp, Macaroni and Cheese, Butterscotch Chiffon Pie, Special Hamburger Patties, and Strench Pear Pie, emphasizing family, casual planning, and shared dishes.
A simple method to bake a ham slice uses a sauce of water, brown sugar, and orange with cloves. Creamed potatoes can gain body with chopped dried beef and serve as a hearty dish. Sausage meat mixed with egg and soft bread crumbs bakes and accompanies fried noodles.
Sunbonnet Girl motifs brighten kitchens with six gay designs in easy needlework. Pattern 7200 offers six motifs on 6x6 inch transfers, improved visuals, and complete directions. Send 20 cents, name, address and payment number to obtain.
A misquoted list offers household remedies such as starch paste to remove broad stains from mattresses, avoiding sunlit mirror exposure to prevent clouding, and using talcum powder or cornstarch to preserve washed rubber items. It also notes peroxide for chocolate stains on white fabric and adding salt in an oil lamp to prevent flickering.
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