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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1925
Page
11
Royal S. Copeland M D former New York City health official answers reader questions on infant care in hot weather. He urges preventing heat stress with screened homes netting cribs boiling bottles and nipples and cold soaks for soiled diapers to avoid summer diarrhea. He also notes dogs carry germs and advises prompt replies to readers with stamped envelopes.
Bathing suit trends for the new season show preference for jersey gingham and figured silks. Jersey designs include a one piece or jersey bloomers with a removable sun cape, while another peach colored model uses godets and matching bloomers with printed cotton fabrics and solid trunks edged by printed bands.
Instructional piece promoting high kicking as a feminine exercise to strengthen the hips and abdomen. It advises starting with a chair for support, then performing kicks without aid, stressing posture, attire considerations, and the goal of a supple, firm torso to avoid weakness revealed in swimwear or bathing outfits.
Sailors report herring shoals off Schleswig where buyers bale the fish by bucket loads. Dr Livingstone’s last surviving daughter remains a missionary at Chitambo. her father died there in 1873. The article notes darker skin tones appear less affected by certain childhood diseases than lighter peers. Birmingham’s jewelry trade, employing 60,000, faces a sharp slump as popularity declines. Londoners increasingly show darker hair and complexion adapting to city life.
The piece questions if love is wise or sane and argues that love blends folly and joy. It contrasts clever people’s disdain with love’s powerful pull, calling love both the supreme good and worst evil, ending with a challenge to define its nature. Copyright 1925 by Newspaper Feature Service.
Ghent blends ancient charm with modern industry, from great clocks and canal warehouses to a rare enclosed Beguine community. The Beguines, about 600 women, live without eternal vows, devoting themselves to nursing and charity in a walled, serene sanctuary established eight centuries ago by Lambert le Begue.
Readable excerpt from a home economics section detailing Peach Cobbler Coffee Jelly Creams and Sponged Shortcake. Includes instructions on crusts, fruit layering, cream toppings, jelly molding, and sponge cake assembly for several dishes.
Flora May, nineteen, questions marriage amid a jazz age shift as married friends mock wedlock. A reader letter defends decency, condemns crude jokes, and urges Flora May to stay true to her values amid social pressure. Copyright 1925 by Newspaper Feature Service.
Dicky meets a tiny elf and a visit to a snow block house where Eskimo boys explain double layering clothes. He watches them shed outer fur coats inside, laughs, and returns home grateful for changing clothes once a day. The tale ends with Dicky hurrying home to finish dinner.
In a tense domestic scene Adele Garrison notes Katherine’s control over a somnambulism plan and her own strategy with Fanny Powell. Junior presses for attention as the grandmotherly bond tightens and a child’s remorse leads to a heartfelt apology.
A garbled OCR fragment presents a collection of quotations from classical and historical figures. It weaves aphorisms on prudence, self mastery, justice, learning, and politics, with partial attributions to Sir Walter, Epicurus, Cicero, Erasmus, Livy, and others, amid broken wording.
Annie Laurie counsels solitary young women in a great city to join clubs such as church gymnasium or lecture groups to meet friends. She invites letters from young women on feminine topics to be answered in these columns.
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