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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1939
Page
6
Ingenious fur accents are slated to dominate fall wardrobes with bold ideas such as bow-knot fur appliques, fur bands outlining jackets, cuff muff details, fur yokes, and plaid wool fabrics. Designers preview dramatic trim like polka dot fur patterns, chic capes, and luxurious textures, promising a season of striking, decorative woolen ensembles.
The lace-top dress is highlighted as a leading fashion on the current style program. A navy corselet skirt with a white lace top is shown at a Chicago Style Creators revue and praised for its versatility from summer through fall.
The season’s fashion edict pushes a warm honey beige shade across hats, footwear, and makeup. Tanned skin appears with a shiny finish and vivid rouge, while outfits feature peaked hoods, wide hats, fishnet turbans, and bold hairpins. Cork clogs and raffia sandals linger, and beach bags grow larger to hold makeup and beauty essentials.
The description details a natty costume from Bruyere in white and deep blue. A sailor motif appears on the jacket and bodice with a white embroidered anchor on the dress shoulder and a blue outlined anchor on the jacket sleeve. Buttons are flat, mother of pearl.
Gray woolens and gray furs dominate the season as coats and suits emphasize a quiet vogue. The feature highlights fall fashion with a reliance on grayscale fabrics and streamlined silhouettes.
A French milliner crafts an imaginative piece by stitching small fabric stars between layers of marine fabric. The whimsical work highlights nautical textures and celestial motifs, merging fashion with sculpture for a seashell mood.
Dr Morris Fishbein discusses milk as the best overall food for protein fat minerals and vitamins noting milk’s high value for the money. He cites League of Nations research on milk safety and stresses domestic milk quality starts on the farm with cow feed and care.
Two factors drive tractor costs hours of use and economical loading. Study your machine to gauge economical load and avoid low-draft hitches. For example a 14 inch mold board plow drafts 600 pounds, a 14 inch one way plow about 250 pounds, and a spike-tooth harrow slightly over 50 pounds. Manufacturers can provide draft figures.
John Flaherty, a Niles Ohio tailor, lived on an all milk diet for 20 years after a wartime esophagus stricture. Beginning in 1917 he drank a quart of milk daily and died at age 75, illustrating milk as near perfect nourishment for long-term use with no other food.
A rural survey of 14 000 families finds farm radio ownership at 69 percent and rural households trailing city dwellers by 13 percent in listening while farmers listen more. A cow under good conditions consumes about 160 pounds of green pasture daily. Rotations protect soil and provide roughage grain and income amid economic shifts.
A vintage recipe for crisp fans and sandwiches outlines a savory filling using mustard sugar salt milk eggs vinegar lemon juice butter cream cheese olives pickle green pepper and more, plus a second filling of American cheese and dried beef with condensed tomato soup. It notes refrigeration keeps the fillings indefinitely.
A vintage guide to summer sandwiches outlines keeping them moist, varying breads, and using leftovers. Recipes include Raisin Orange Filling Banana Butter Filling and a Mayonnaise Sandwich Loaf with bacon and tomatoes. Also features Hot Peanut Butter Sandwiches and methods to toast, fill, and serve promptly.
If you want simple inexpensive meals read next week's column by Eleanor Howe. She will share practical tested macaroni recipes suitable for family menus camp cookery and informal buffet suppers.
An appeal offers a cookbook with over 125 recipes tailored to male tastes like steak pie and potatoes au gratin. Send 10 cents in coin to Feeding Father Eleanor Howe at 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago Illinois to receive a postage prepaid copy.
Practical household hints from a Western Newspaper Union release. Lessons include polishing with brown paper and vinegar, saving paraffin from preserves, using a pipe cleaner to clean teapots, scraping cream whippers, adding corn syrup to jams to prevent sugar crystallization, kerosene polish for bathroom fixtures, halving and coring apples before peeling, and using a chore ball to scrub carrots and potatoes for easier peeling.
A fragmentary remark notes a steam shovel doing its work and links tradition to respect. The speaker suggests real love is shown through deeds rather than grand speeches, and hints at the value of steady effort over rhetoric.
Decorators report a shift in ceiling color theory stating deep colors on ceilings raise perceived height. A new technique uses wallpaper from walls to extend up onto the ceiling about ten inches, creating an illusion of more height.
A reflective line cites Ed Howe on arresting thoughts, noting that people laugh at bold efforts until money is made from them. The remark questions strict judgment and mirrors the idea that strict critics deserve similar scrutiny.
The excerpt ponders human flaws and self acceptance by comparing self scrutiny to a woman's gaze in a mirror, and imagines applying beauty shop processes to a man to reveal potential transformations.
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