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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1936
Page
6
Cherie Nicholas highlights silk misuse and pleating trends shaping spring and summer outfits. Designers pair black and white jackets with crepe, white organdy frills, pleated tunics, and tunic frocks. All-over pleated blouses in bright silks join bold color combinations like purple and green with violet flowers on turbans to crown bolero ensembles.
A fashion note highlights print coats topping plain frocks as the new mode. The model shows a redingote of black and white print linen over a black dress with short sleeves. Bright silk prints and contrasting jackets set to feature in coming months.
Tiny closed volumes of black enamel with gold edged leaves appear as new midseason releases. The fashion for decorative book buttons signals a trend toward ornate accessories.
Fashion notes describe stockings for sandal wear with scarlet toenails, English women with differing fits and wider hips, and shifts from negligees to Manniah dressing gowns. Travel wardrobe items include bright felt hats in sheer fabrics, swimsuits with adjustable straps, golfers returning to knickerbocker pants, and Paris collections favoring toasted tones like blood tortoise shell and burnt straw.
In a humorous dilemma Derek pursues Verda Swantre and hires a writer to craft a unique marriage proposal. The plan backfires as natural expression proves best, ending with Verda proposing she loves him, leaving the narrator to reflect on the failed elaborate rhetoric.
Historical notes trace red clover in America from early exchanges with Holland and England. Records mention seeds aboard 1620 pilgrim ship holds, 1628 seed shipments, and 1645 English grass reference. New England notes cite 1863 thriving clover, Long Island yields, and Boston ads from 1720 for clover hay seed.
The Los Angeles Times notes date palms need hot, sunny summers, plenty of water, and very low humidity with no rain early on. Green fruit turns orange then golden brown as it ripens. a thin brown line at the calyx signals readiness to pick.
The Lighthouse of Salvador, linked to the Izalco volcano near San Salvador in Central America, is noted for bursts of fire that appear intermittently and are visible at great distances.
A compact list of Latin French and other phrases with rough translations. It includes etymology and usage hints such as esto perpetua and qui vive asking who goes there. The collection shows the theme words and occasional spellings from multiple languages.
A pair of size 89 shoes costing $88 was made at Findlay Ohio for Robert Wadlow the eighteen year old giant of Alton Illinois The shoes were probably the largest ever made but were returned because Wadlow said they pinched his feet.
After childbirth women often suffer with constipation. Feen a mint chewing gum laxative is advertised to settle the stomach and stimulate digestive juices gently. Doctors prescribe it for children and adults and the product is non habit forming with a money back guarantee.
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