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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1949
Page
7
A family dessert item outlines a cake recipe with ingredients like flour sugar eggs and vanilla. It describes creaming yolks with sugar, folding in flour with baking powder, beating egg whites, and baking in greased pans. A coconut iced topping is suggested with a boiled sugar syrup and vanilla.
Limestone County listings show events across Oak Dale Sardis Springs Cedar Hill Maplewood Coxey Elkmont Pettusville Parker and South Limestone with times from 7:30 to 2:30. Morgan County notes Priceville Danville Massey and Sept 1 and Lawrence County lists Wheeler Dam Landersville Plainview Chalybeate with host names and times.
Somerville Blue Jeans And Calico Club met August 25 at Louise and Hazel Wray home with Sue Wiggington presiding. Devotional followed by Psalm 19, roll call, minutes read, poem recited, and a bus charter discussed for Monte Sano. Meeting adjourned to Sept 9 with members and one visitor present for games and refreshments.
The Eva Home Demonstration Club held a family picnic Tuesday August 23 at 6 00 p m at the club camp Cole Springs. About an hour of fun followed by a chicken supper in the clubhouse dining room. Fifty seven members and guests attended the event.
The earliest ironworks in America stood along Fall ing Creek in Virginia, marking a formative site in colonial industry. The operation highlighted early blast furnace activity and regional resource utilization by settlers.
The article explains color psychology for home decorating, noting bedding as the first comfort factor and detailing colors to use for restful sleep. It contrasts warm red with soothing pink, and lists favorable bedroom hues such as pink, orchid, pale yellow, blue, green, cream, violet, ivory, and lavender, while advising against large amounts of red, maroon, orange, purple, brown, taupe, plum, wine, black, and white except as accents.
The article explains ear size variation and introduces Wingbacks as a new earring backing. Since 1900, four basic types emerged, with Wingbacks using flexible shape-fitting two upper wings to hug the ear curve and a pliable wire that can be shaped by the wearer to stay in place.
The article advises building a versatile blouse wardrobe with four or five timeless pieces plus a couple of skirts and belts to cover the seasons. It stresses fit with proper shoulder line collar and sleeve length, durable colorfast fabric, and quality details. It also suggests turning the blouse inside out to check seam sturdiness and finish.
The text notes blue conveys spaciousness and tranquility ideal for bedrooms, green feels cool and restful and easy on the eyes, violet and lavender are cool tones, and pale yellow appears light and cheerful, suitable for sunny rooms.
Laure Wheeler offers a dewdrop scarf pattern for easy crochet with center stitch and border, any length. Send twenty cents in coins to The Decatur Daily Needlecraft Dept for Pattern 722, including name, address, and zone to PO Box 13 Flatbush Station Brooklyn NY 26.
Promotional note touts a Laura Wheeler Needlecraft book with 104 illustrations and concise designs for popular needlework hobbies. It advertises free patterns printed in the book and positions the work as worthy of expert attention.
In Persia clay tiles, unequaled in design for 500 years, covered entire floors and walls in palaces of the satraps, displaying advanced ceramic artistry and architectural detail.
Fashion forecasts for fall 1949 favor shorter skirts 12 to 13 inches street length and as short as 8 inches after 5. Pockets proliferate in coats and suits with side, flap and kangaroo styles, while buttons detail sleeves and pockets. Jackets run 24 to 26 inches with belts accenting the bloused back, and the coat dress returns as a popular easy wear.
The Priceville Home Demonstration Club held a picnic supper at Cave Springs on Saturday August 27. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Thompson and daughter Mrs. Edward Poteet Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Weinman Mr. and Mrs. Royal Henderson Mrs. Frank Collier Mr. and Mrs. Harrison McClellan and daughter Mr. and Mrs. John Collier and daughters Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Blankenship and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Conley Sharp. The club will meet in September with Mrs. Harrison McClellan on Tuesday September 6 at 3 30. Mrs. McClellan will demonstrate desserts. All members urged to attend.
Kitchen planning centers on storage and space for equipment and work surfaces. A survey shows typical families own numerous containers utensils and utensils and need cabinets sized to store china glassware canned foods staples and cleaning items. Organize into three zones prep clean up and cooking with cabinet lines that allow future expansion.
Belding Corticelli manufactures fabrics and threads claim silk dress sewn with cotton thread tears slower than one sewn with silk. Woolen suits weaken after multiple cleanings due to cleaning and pressing effects. Silk shows greater resiliency and tests certify silk stretches at least ten percent more.
Sun and sea can leave hair unruly and dull. Cosmetician Mary Imogene Shepherd recommends warming a lubricating conditioning oil and applying thoroughly to both hair and scalp, then letting it absorb for ten minutes. Follow with a concentrated oil and soap shampoo diluted with water, rinse until the hair squeaks, and brush 100 strokes between shampoos to distribute oil and enhance shine.
The Hopewell Home Demonstration Club held its annual three generation family picnic on the Wiggins lawn with 56 members present. A bountiful supper lined with decorative tables followed games and contests with prize winners Loyd Pettey Jack Allen Arthur Gordon Atkins Gail Garner Mrs Bert Allen and Judy Atking. Mrs Harry Wiggins received a salt and pepper shaker as thanks for hosting. The evening ended with a blindfold game.
National and local government office-holders in Great Britain now total 2,146,000, up from 1,385,000 a decade earlier. The figures show a substantial expansion in public sector employment across national and local levels.
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