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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1925
Page
7
An article urges women to reduce excess flesh for beauty and health and outlines a home exercise using piano stool support to flatten the abdomen. It promotes a slim boyish silhouette, posture, and confident carriage as the fashionable goal.
In a late night domestic scene Adele Garrison pieces together tensions among Lillian, the Graham visit, and a cautious plan about Steve's alleged fractures. Katherine nerves up for a crucial experiment while a rogue guest’s valise and a sleeping Fanny Powell complicate the plot.
A health column extols the heart as Nature's marvelous engine that beats about seventy two times a minute, pumping six ounces of blood with each beat. It warns against overwork and excess temper, urges right living, and cites Dr. Frederick M. Rossiter on the heart’s tireless function.
Horoscopic note for Saturday May 80 cites conflicting testimonies with Saturn friendly and luminaries adverse. Read on for wealth, business guidance, and cautions for birthday years, employment risks, and reliance on old friends and institutions.
A Paris column header presents letters from readers about love and marriage. An anonymous adviser urges caution on early marriage and recommends continuing friendship, while warning against rushing. Readers seek guidance on attention from suitors and how to interpret changes in affection.
Annie Laurie cites a quip about greeting someone with a casual remark. D A and H DOUBT discuss proper expressions of gratification after meetings. Annie Laurie then confesses she has loved a young lady since September 1924.
A father finds his son missing from university days after he ran away due to not fitting in. The son, in Portland and later the Northwest, hides from peers and fraternities, choosing self reliance over college success. The piece urges resilience, pluck, and making one’s own way.
The article notes a shift in tea gowns toward short frock-like lines resembling daytime frocks. It describes two imports: one flame and print sleeveless frock with a print lining and red black buckle, and a flesh chiffon model with pleated back and velvet streamer. Both can be made in flowered georgettes and chiffons for summer wear.
In a rural scene Mrs Wasp explains to Doris how she builds a nest in a rotten fence post. She shows how she uses wood to fashion cells, lays eggs, and plans to hatch a family while hunting for food for hungry larvae. Doris watches and learns the process.
The East fascinates with riotous colors in Jaipur with uniform rose houses under a royal order. Maharajah decreed mulberry rose calcimine for all dwellings, creating a harmonious backdrop for silks, gold ornaments, elephants, camels, and lively street life.
An excerpt notes English medical limits on patient panels, mentions Baldweas and civilized populations, locates Grasshopper Glacier in south central Montana housing grasshoppers in ice, and recalls Canaries brought to Europe in the 16th century with wild birds described as green with brown tinges and louder notes than domestic varieties.
A cooking column presents several salad dressings and sauces. It covers an oil and vinegar dressing with Roquefort, a tomato ketchup flavored sauce, mint sauce for lamb, a tomato cream sauce for fish, and a rich mayonnaise based potato salad dressing.
Fragmented text discusses ruling passions and speech, praising restraint and self knowledge. It references a lecture on other men's shortcomings and notes that without discipline no endeavor is possible. The passage is incomplete and stylistically archaic.
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