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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1936
Page
6
Fashion notes from Weaters Newspaper Union highlight silk crepe and printed silks for summer sportswear and leisure. The guide showcases tennis frocks in blue silk crepe, jacquard patterns with empire lines, and practical beach ensembles with matching jackets. It emphasizes comfort, washability, and versatil ity across outfits from golf to bathing and vacation wear.
Cherie Nicholas notes girls embrace nautical trends with sailor suits in navy and white linen or light wool. Lacings and marine insignia feature in fall wardrobes along with white berets and sprightly ribbons.
When well chosen and worn properly the simplest nosegay can be as attractive as the most expensive. Pere Molyneux adds tinted stock. belts of Madagascar raffia, almost leather like, appear in bright tones with sports and beach wear. Pastel mousselinge or organza still rule for a young girl's summer night dancing.
Pat Candler Dinkins keeps two goats Sandy and Mandy near Atlanta. Sandy acts as lookout at night while Mandy weaves rugs from scraps collected by Sandy. Mandy can produce four rag rugs a week, while Pat praises Sandy as an effective watchman and supplier of materials.
In Milan Tennessee Bruce Oliver pursues a notably fat girl described as the town’s largest woman. He details playful ice cream visits and a comic courtship marked by a pink crayon marker and napkin chalked around her waist. The tale ends with a humorous accidental bump into another suitor.
The tale from Kalispell, Montana, recalls Chicago winds at the Century of Progress fair. A visitor loses his hat to a wind gust, finds a second hat on his head, and later learns another man’s hat has swapped places with his own amid a herd move to stock yards.
A reflective excerpt contrasts remorse with unavailing regret and the pain of lost chances, urging timely remembrance to spare survivors bitterness. It also contrasts taste with fashion, noting taste as superior to fleeting trends.
Simple Bluebird applique quilt pattern 1191 offers complete cutting sewing and finishing instructions plus yardage chart diagram to arrange blocks single and double size. Send 10 cents for pattern by mail to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Department New York with name and address.
A compact motivational reflection on striving for greatness through daily acts and clear purpose. It urges purposeful thought to shape destiny and warns that aimlessness wastes life.
A scoutmaster sends a tenderfoot to fetch a turnip from Farmer Brown. Brown returns in a panic claiming one of the scouts has gone mad and is pulling up turnips, creating a comic misunderstanding in camp. The excerpt, from Tit-Bits Magazine, reflects playful youth humor and rural setting.
A compact reflective line contrasting humility with darkness and illumination. Thoreau’s observation frames humility as a lens for perceiving brighter, divine guidance.
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