Figs and Valentine Menus Featured In Old Issue
A column promotes National Fig Week and Lincoln's Birthday parties with fig recipes from California cultivation gains. It includes fashion notes by Anne Adams and a Cedar Rapids Gazette pattern feature, listing pattern 4796 for Teenage sizes and a spring fashion guide with a heart shaped gelatin mold and multiple fig based recipes like Valentine Salad Bowl and Fig Bar Crumble Pudding.
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Lincoln
America
California
Anne Adams
Freddie
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pattern Dept
Clinton St
Chicago
Embroidery Pattern Sale Notice for Pattern 792
Advertisement for embroidery transfers and patterns from Laura Wheeler Needlecraft catalog. Includes pattern 792 with sizes 1 through 4, priced 20 cents. requests mail with name and address to Chicago Illinois. Also offers 108 illustrations for 15 cents and a free scrap quilt pattern in the book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Needlecraft Dept
West
Randolph Street
Chicago
Laura Wheeler Needlecraft
Designing Women Start Paint Chair Upwards for Quick Finish
Design tips describe finishing a chair by casting it upside down on a table, painting legs and rungs first, then turning upright to cover missed spots. A covered work area says to use paper on floor and table to protect surroundings while completing the project.
Chair painting tips for drying and moving
The guide suggests leaving one back spot unpainted to grip the chair for moving it to dry. It advises filling the unfinished area after moving the chair. It notes that painting goes smoother with an upside down start.
Wear Specs Leave Them On For Makeup Application
A makeup expert urges women who wear reading or sewing glasses to keep them on while applying lipstick. The advice stresses visual accuracy for precise lip color and alignment.
Expert advice links lipstick flaws to poor sight and lighting
A critic argues many older women misapply lipstick and rouge due to not using glasses. He urges wearing specs before makeup and lighting the dressing table with strong light, ideally sunlight from a north window. If natural light fails, use a powerful unshaded electric bulb for illumination.
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Naomi Doebel
Valentine’s Salad Bowl
Jack Weiner
Armstrong
Designing Women
Elizabeth Hillyer
N.E
1St Ave. N.E
Mt. Vernon Ave
11Th St
Marion
16Th Ave. S.W
Wat
Artemis
Valentine
June Porter
Dupont
Mary Miles Newman
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Homas Plumbing Servic
AST
Insinkerator
United
AIR Lines
Bakers
Agi
General Foods
Gragatares
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