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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1927
Page
13
A reader asks if sending a boy to an experimental school will improve him. An adviser says outcomes are unpredictable and advises faith, patience, and best effort, noting many youths deviate or excel regardless of setting. The column urges support while recognizing each child’s unique path.
Mrs T L writes of a 17 month old with bowing of one leg and suspected rickets. Advice: cod liver oil daily in sufficient amount, daily sun bath on the leg, and a near perfect diet including vegetables in custard or soup. Request feeding leaflet for guidance on current feeding.
Readers of the Telegram are invited to write Mrs. Eldred regarding their intimate problems and receive a personal reply. Address letters to Mrs. Myrtle Meyer Eldred, Bridgeport Telegram.
Dress covering design shown for an apron pattern 417 offering a one piece cut with simple piping or braid trim. Printed fabrics such as sateen gingham cretonne stripe percale and pongee fit sizes 36 40 44 with 36 requiring about 2 3 4 yards of 32 inch material. Cost 16 cents in stamps or coin.
The piece outlines preferred and fallback proteins, noting dried beef is tasty but less desirable than fresh meat due to toughness and salt. suggests soaking, parboiling, and careful cooking. It ranks pork, tongue, veal, lamb, and certain fish and shellfish by digestibility and seasonality, with nuts as occasional variety and promises a future look at less suitable proteins.
The Fun Shop features stern editorials by Maxson Forhall Judell and a March humor parade. It includes playful bits on clothing trends, social banter, light controversy, and jokes from contributors like Ike and Cleves, with humorous exchanges about hash and insects.
For summer evening wear dyed lizard skin shoes feature rose and green shades with jeweled heels or decorated metal heels. Paris sponsors threaten gold and silver brocaded slippers as fashionable lightweight SP shoes appear in the city of fashion.
Book shop spotlight reviews a trio of titles. Little Pitchers, Vivian by H L Gates, and Go She Must by David Garnett are praised as best sellers or eagerly anticipated. Exotic locales Indo China and Rio appear in the Isa Glenn tale alongside a child’s family conflict.
An old Bre Rice Company advertisement touts Comet Rice as dust and germ proof with a sealed box. It claims no washing is needed and full nutritive content, inviting readers to mail two cents for a booklet of recipes.
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