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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1951
Page
8
An article on home organization shows practical ways to gain storage by reconfiguring rooms and furniture. It suggests converting colonnades into cupboards, closing unused doorways, rebuilding chests into buffets, and using glass blocks or partial walls to separate spaces. Tips include collapsible chests, foot-of-bed storage, and repurposing dressers and hutches for kitchen and dining areas.
The piece laments a nation flooded by bonhomie, commercialism, and televised stunts as a call to duty rises above trivial distractions. It contrasts radio spectacle with a pledge for peace, noting U N relocation, Banana Week, jazz and box top slogans, and Chicago’s video by telephone pilot offering full films for a dollar daily.
Kathleen Norris reports a Seattle divorce where a husband drew up a list titled the tens commandments of marriage urging his wife to sign. The rules demand silence on gossip, constant attention to him, timeliness, and cooking, revealing a medieval domestic dictatorship mindset.
Br C J Ruilmann of the University of Tennessee reports in the Southern Medical Journal that a polygraph device may diagnose habitual criminals by measuring physiological responses. The tests on 20 questions show remorse in crimes by most offenders but not in psychopathic personalities who steal without remorse.
Adorable school or party dress combines two fabrics with scalloped detailing and matching panties. Pattern 3199 fits sizes 4 to 12 years requiring 1.5 yards plain fabric and 1.5 yards checked plus a small trim. Also mentions No 8400 pattern for larger sizes with 4 yards of fabric.
A collage of light anecdotes from John Barrymore’s San Francisco earthquake misadventure to Lambs Club recollections in New York. Quick quips reveal backstage wit and stage life, including a soldier forcing Barrymore to brickwork and playful barbs about money, weather, and etiquette.
In small kitchenettes use a wall ironing board to gain serving space before dinner. Make an oilcloth cover for regular use and repurpose discarded window shades as shelf paper. A shoe bag hung behind the door becomes a holder for bags and strings. Gilt frames just need dusting unless cleaned with petroleum jelly for a faux antique look or boiled onion water, then rinsed and wiped. A Mark Twain home visit noted abundant items.
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