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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1924
Page
6
A reader asks if a meek controlled wife will be a good partner. Miss Dix advises that an energetic go getter is a true helpmate, but warns that such independence can strain home life. She notes many women change after marriage and that mothers' control can fade.
Alec Holden, a forty two year old husband and father, wrestles with whether to confront Eleanor about her kiss with Ricky Quarles and whether to pursue a renewed romance with Harriet. He debates duty, desire, and the chance of a second honeymoon as dawn breaks on a troubled morning. Tomorrow The Other Side of the Door.
The article describes making decorative tassels and pulls for window shades using cotton or silk thread, beads, and crochet. It outlines methods for four tassels, including a cotton fourth design with beads, and provides steps for windings, looping, cap construction, and bead threading to finish the tassels for use as shade pulls.
A playful note on fashion prints and a city classified ad runs as a quirky feature. An anonymous saxophonist plea invites a secret Thursday meeting near Llano cemetery, prompting curiosity about local nightlife. Political betting odds focus on Coolidge amid Democratic nominating debates.
Dorothy Dix argues that a man should not delay marriage until he can fully satisfy every wish but should provide comfort and support. The girl is right that luxury is not essential, as love tenderness sympathy and understanding can make a marriage happy with little else.
The article extols dancing in comfortable kid leather shoes as essential for health and beauty. It notes American women prefer soft pliable kid for its fit, style, and comfort with color options to match gowns and minimal openwork. It ends with an odd reference to a local panhandle laundry phone number.
The article describes the tube dress as the core of summer outfits, showing variations with ruffles, flounces, and apron tunics. Pleats recur for texture, while the illustrated model keeps a slim silhouette with a cool apple green shade, a flyaway band, and a tie-back scarf trimmed with black and white buttons.
A Los Angeles cafe manager was told by a furious patron that a woman blew cigarette smoke in his face. In Amarillo a woman slapped her husband over a missing button on trousers today.
The Globe invites children to submit original sayings never published before. The paper offers 50 cents per printed contribution and asks contestants to write on one side of the page and mail to the Bright Sayings Editor at Amarillo Globe in Amarillo Texas.
A collection of brief reader submissions from Tulia Texas includes jokes about fried chicken feet and raisins, a rain tale, a girl’s remark to a mother, and a child’s view of growing up. Several letters note anonymity requests for contributors.
The Amarillo Globe offers pattern No 2106 for a boy play suit in blue green or chambray. Sizes 2 4 and 6 years require specific yardage. Price 15 cents. send 15 cents in stamps or coins and name address to Pattern Department Amarillo Globe for first class postage and delivery in about ten days.
The listing highlights new showings at The Mission with Luck starring Johnnie Hines and a news reel, The Fair presents Yankee Madness and Seeling production, Diamond Revue and Telephone Comedy. Liberty shows the first episode of The Ghost City and the final episode of The Santa Fe Trail along with The Drifter featuring Leo Malone and Pathe comedy.
Johnny Hines stars in Luck at the Mission Theater in a two day engagement about a blueblood who bets he can rise from nothing to earn ten thousand in a year. Will Rogers appears in The Ropin Fool with impressive rope stunts. Yankee Madness opens at the Fair for two days with thrills and mild humor. The Diamond Revue offers songs dances and jazz and The Telephone Girl provides comedic laughs.
James Cruze completes the Paramount picture Merton of the Movies with Glenn Hunter. Hunter returns to New York to resume the stage tour while Cruze starts The Cafe of Fallen Angels by F Leroy Scott. The Liberty screens The Ghost City and The Santa Fe Trail with Leo Mallone and The Drifter comedy. Tyrone Power and Ivan Linen join Story Without a Name with Agnes Ayers and Tony Morpo at the Long Island studio.
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