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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1933
Page
7
A vintage beauty guide explains proper lip rouge application to enhance lips and overall makeup. It covers choosing shade harmony, starting at the center and blending outward, balancing with cheek rouge, avoiding heavy lines, and using indelible lipstick lightly. It warns against overloading lipstick, and suggests skin care to offset drying effects.
Eye shadow and mascara lead trends with creams and cakes offering varied shades. Proper application enhances eye size and brightness, while overuse can harm perception. regular brushing and careful shading keep eyes youthful and vibrant.
A home economics writer explores fruit cake varieties by color and ingredients, notes traditional methods and modern options, and shares baking times, steaming tips, and storage ideas. Recipes for English and Southern styles, ready mix products, and decorative finishes illustrate a practical guide to moist, long-lived holiday cakes.
A Literary Digest summarizes a Berlin publication advising how to select an Aryan wife. It condemns brunettes with Mediterranean traits and urges blond blue eyed women, emphasizing purity, industriousness, housekeeping, and child affection, while targeting society ladies and professionals as suspect.
A householder wakes at midnight to find a burglar tampering with his safe. He warns the intruder to wait while he fetches his wife who has heard him intruding nightly for 15 years. The burglar braces for escape as the scene promises a domestic twist.
A comedian touring Australia tried many fresh jokes but drew no laughs. After the show he asked the manager if his gags were all right. The manager replied the gags were fine but the audience had never heard them before.
In Pearson's Magazine a landlady sighs that her last boarder was a wonderful artist who found inspiration in her cooking as she hacks at a pie crust. The new boarder remarks on the bent fork, guessing sculpture. The exchange hints at a literary, humorous tone.
A fragment shows a heated exchange where a speaker chastises a wife for talking, joking that candy would not quiet her and noting she can keep talking with a mouth full of hairpins. The crude idiom implies ongoing domestic friction without further context.
A refined conversation features a gentle friend disliking sarcasm while Miss Cayenne suggests sarcasm can have benefits when generosity makes blunt honesty hard. The exchange blends humor and social nuance, reflecting a witty, urbane tone.
A light exchange of quips about secrets and social barters surfaces as a witty dialogue. The Boston Transcript notes banter between women and observers, hinting at playful candor in society columns.
Ephrinam Youah gal may be de vine, but mah gals de berries. Local dialect snippet notes rural speech and playful fruit imagery without clear event or names.
A brief dialogue excerpt shows Mrs Browne saying she has no complaints and Mr Browne being away. The text hints at a casual, domestic mood with a character remarking about Jones and a nonsecretive note. The fragment preserves a snapshot of everyday speech.
Biggs, manager of the restaurant, speaks softly to the head chef and calls the waitresses to his office. He tells them to look their best and style more carefully. The reason is given as the beef being tough, not butter issues.
A casual exchange on a beach reveals differing leisure choices with one person choosing to enter the water briefly while another implies a stronger preference for staying dry. The remark Weathered by sun and surf hints at relaxed holiday mood.
A patient jokes about leaving a handsome legacy in the will to avoid paying a bill. The doctor agrees, then requests another look at the prescription noting a slight alteration to be made. The exchange mirrors humorous moral tension in medical costing.
A Harassed student seeks help as a librarian states the library lacks the requested book. The exchange highlights resource gaps and student frustration in a campus setting.
The classroom scene features a teacher quizzing pupils on the biblical scene of Balaam and his ass asking which language they spoke in. A student replies Assyrian, reflecting a lighthearted exchange highlighted by the Boston Transcript.
A light exchange about cats and neighbors ends with Mrs Gabb inviting tea, remarking her husband objects to cats while Mrs Stabb confirms she feeds all the neighborhood felines in a Boston Transcript style snippet.
Dialogue shows a humorous exchange about a man named Neckmore staying up to explain inflation to Alicia. The scene conveys a domestic moment with playful banter and a hint of economic topic in a home setting.
A brief Montreal Star mention recalls a girl who met her uncle and asked how his sister fared. In the music examination, the remark states she missed a medal but was horribly mentioned, implying harsh commentary rather than an award.
A brief Vancouver Province quotation frames hope as a blessing and a driver of endurance. The exchange underscores optimism amid discouragement and invites reflection on the role of hope in daily life.
A playful exchange compares a pup and a dog named Rufus. Pup boasts toe-grab trick and cent pickup while Rufus counters with his nose scenting ability. The lighthearted banter highlights canine skills and friendly bragging.
A gardener asks about the label Wait and see on Time Will Tell Master estate plan. The gardener admits memory gaps about what was planted, seeking clarification of the label’s meaning in the context of estate cultivation and care.
A humorous dialogue shows a mother lamenting a crop failing while a boy sows wild oats and a father commenting on the boy's mixing of behavior, reflecting rural life and generational tension in a lighthearted exchange.
A study of 400 children ages five to twelve in New York finds growing realism in fears with 21 percent citing occult and supernatural fears such as giants witches monsters ghosts and devils as their worst fears. Younger children fear animals while seven percent fear criminals and kidnapping as the Lindbergh case looms in memory.
The excerpt notes Anazar chus forcing slaves to wear gloves for kneading bread and Greeks and Romans using gloves at meals to stay clean and avoid blisters. Priests wore gloves at mass for holy rites, while pancratiasts wore iron spiked gloves to enhance fighting claws.
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