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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1950
Page
5
The June activities include a Wil loughby Presbyterian picnic at Hatfield Lake with numerous families and individuals listed. Nearby groups from Morgan County gather for American Legion Auxiliary, Central Baptist young people, Rose Garden Club, Ninth Street Methodist circles, and other church society meetings.
Mrs Ruth Davis and others attended a dinner while Tut Montgomery played piano. Mercedes Pittman, Clinical Instructress at Jefferson Hillman hospital Birmingham, spoke on future nursing in Alabama. The West Side Presbyterian Church Auxiliary met at Mrs K A Edwards home for a business meeting with prayers, devotions, and a vote to fund a girls school in Japan. One guest, Mrs John R Mitchell of Fairborn Ohio, attended social hours with dessert.
The article notes scents shape perception from casual beauty to memorable charm. It guides choosing fragrances by season and activity, favoring bouquets and florals for evenings and travel woods for day wear, warning against DIY blending and recommending matching kits for harmony and value.
District Fourteen of the Alabama State Nurses Association hosted Bosses Night in the Lyons Hotel private dining room. Tables featured cut flowers and nurse dolls as place markers. Attendees included Miss Pittman Br sanahee and several doctors, while reception refreshments followed the formal event.
Miss Shirley Braswell and Miss Mabla Haggard depart Auburn June 16 for a month in Chicago Illinois and Camp Milwand Shelby Michigan to teach and take a two week vacation. Mrs Dwight Coker of Collinsville Alabama visits her parents Mr and Mrs T A Newell. Letha Nan Parker and Joan Parker return from Talladega Methodist assembly. Mrs A E Edwards returns from a trip to Canada and Ohio. Mrs Mitchell and three children join their mother for a visit in Flint Michigan. Jesse Eugene Lanier Jr of Bessemer visits grandparents Mr and Mrs W M Lanier.
A reader asks why some women flirt with married men. The onlooker cites forbidden fruit, glamour, vindication, and cruelty as forces drawing women to married partners, with punishment of social fallout. Dorothy Dix explains breakfast and evening hours shape wives’ moods and advises playful, attentive companionship to sustain marriage.
Dorothy Dix notes she cannot reply individually but offers a general guidance column. She has written leaflet D-10 addressing attention from married men and invites readers to obtain a copy by mailing 5 cents and a self addressed stamped envelope to Miss Dix at this newspaper box in Times Square, New York.
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