Modern Athens businesswoman runs home and shop
Alice Foster, secretary treasurer and partner in Foster’s University Shop, manages finances, selects fashions, and helps shape merchandise. The couple opened the store in 1934 and expanded in 1948. Alice, a former Oregon State College graduate, blends homemaking with business and enjoys flowers, interior decorating, and costume jewelry.
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Alice Foster
Strathmore Boulevard
Alice
Glenn Foster
Foster
Athens
Vogue
Ray Noble
WPA
Claude Clark
Glen Spatz
Fred H. McCoy
E. E. Davis
Easter Table Whimsy With Straw Hat Centerpiece Ideas
A playful Easter centerpiece guide suggests using an inverted straw hat as a base. Add green ribbon, a crown bowl filled with tulips and hyacinths, and optional milk glass hen or ceramic lambs. Real eggs can be decorated as pastel ladies in flower nests for extra charm.
Tempting Lent Recipes For Last Week Of Lent
Quick-frozen asparagus with cheese sauce and salmon souffle appear alongside tuna and pea scallop bake instructions. The piece also suggests varied lunchbox sandwiches using frankfurters egg yolk and pickle relish on buttered whole wheat bread with crisp lettuce.
Oven-free quick heat for bakery rolls
When rolls from the bakery are on the dinner menu they taste better heated. Place them in the upper part of a double boiler and steam over boiling water to warm quickly without using an oven.
Chores versus living says Australian doctor on women
Ruth Millett cites an Australian gynecologist who says labor saving devices ruin women. Millett argues many American housewives still perform chores by hand and few own dishwashers or garbage disposals, noting that energized work and family care keep women alive.
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Ruth Millett
America
Triple-Threat Teen-Ager Times Two
Jackie Aimers a 16 year old model balances school chores and earnings from modeling to support her family. She aims for secretarial work after modeling and emphasizes education for Ronnie while continuing work to supplement pensions. She values a single versatile suit over many outfits and hopes for a small vacation.
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Vivian Brown
Jackie Aimers
Jackie
Harry Conover
Model Agency
Aimers
Ronnie
Lake Carmel
Traveller Becomes U S Citizen After World-Spanning Years
Baroness Colette Van Boecop settled in Winter Park Florida to teach French at Rollins College after 14 world circling journeys. She lived 13 years in the Dutch East Indies with her husband and knew leaders including Kemal Ataturk and King Alexander of Yugoslavia. She lectured for Alliances Francaises and, stranded in the U S since 1940, now praises America and chooses citizenship.
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Winter Park
Fla
Colette van Boecop
Rollins College
Dutch East Indies
Kemal Ataturk
Turkey
Alexander of
Yugoslavia
Revue de Deux Mondes
Two Worlds Review
Holland
United States
Alliances Francaises
France
Silk Filaments Shape New Silk Powder for Spring
Silk filaments from silkworms enter cosmetics with silk powder debut for spring. The air spun powder adheres to skin for a subtler silken look and is pressed into a compact for handbag touch ups. A silk containing foundation provides a creamy emulsion base.
Women Over 40 Try Two Exercises For A Slim Figure
An article suggests two exercise approaches for women over 40 to maintain a youthful figure. First, control portions at meals to build willpower, then strengthen the abdominal girdle with a cautious sitting up routine. Variations include extending arms and folding them before rising.
Mystery of perfume in New York reveals aging and blends
Madame Jeanne Noel of Grasse explains perfume making from raw materials to aging. She notes perfumes blend 20 to 100 ingredients, including musk and civette, and may use natural and synthetic oils. A single drop of orris root can finish a deluxe scent.
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Grasse
Madame Jeanne Noel
Laboratory Noel
France
Madame Noel
New York
Gramercy Park Hotel
Jeanne Noel
Tiny Easter Tintypes
New York designers showcase infant to six year old clothing for Easter. Merry Hall creates tintype style suits with detachable velvet collars and adjustable features to grow with children. Boys wear plaid washable flannel with bolero jackets while girls wear pink wool covert coats and poke bonnets.
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Merry Hall
U. S
Hull
Spoiled Child Warns British Educator A S Neill
British educator A S Neill advocates against spoiled children in his book The Problem Family. He argues doting parents create self centered youths who fail to value life. Neill prescribes objective parenting, parental careers after nesting, and social schooling to prevent spoiling.
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David Taylor Marke
A. S. S. Neill
Summerhill School
England
Mr. Neill
The
Hermitage Press
Neill
Dad
Nelil
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S. G. Foster
By Marian Bush Reeder
Alice Smith
Coos Bay
Oregon
Oregon State College
Corvallis
Ore
Winston Salem
N. C
Helen Palmer
Hamilton Oldfield
Richard Houck
Fosters
Mitzi
Athena
By Gaynor Maddox
Oe & Sandwich
Traveler
Alicia Hart
BY Kaysherwood
NEA
Small Fry
Pram Row
Epste Kinard
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