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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1940
Page
22
A Q and A from Anne Ashley Q offers remedies for kitchen concerns. Rub celery salt on hands before peeling to prevent onion odor. To make fudge airy, add half a teaspoon baking powder after removing from heat. For scratches on dark oak furniture, rub boiled linseed oil into the marks until they disappear.
Hoke Norris reports that English tobacco embargo forces South to rethink crops. Leaders urge a diversified, safer farming plan prioritizing family food, soil fertility and then tobacco and cotton to weather emergencies and price shifts.
Business leaders report wartime demand lifting industry in January with metal and machinery exports rising. Copper buying and steel exports offset farm losses, while foreign orders and shipping demand boost American merchant marine, ship sales, and tonnage rates.
A Q and A style item discusses anger management and prevention as a path to popularity. It compares formal versus informal table settings, noting more silver and place plates on formal tables and no bread and butter plates, and states that "at home" wedding cards are optional.
The article argues thinning is essential for young trees to prevent weak crotches and crowded interior wood. It notes thinning requires vision of final form, cites sugar maples and pin oaks, and links proper pruning to decay and disease resistance, balance, and appearance. It ends by referencing a spring wrestling tournament in Tokyo with ancient opening ceremonies.
Answers include Julius Caesar as noblest Roman, the howdah as the seat on an elephant, papyrus as writ ing material, John Greenleaf Whittier as the poet in the middle name, and the Potomac River as the location of George Washington's house.
Learn correct phrases for regret and etiquette. Note common mispronunciations and spellings. The daily word taciturn means habitually silent and not given to conversation with pronunciation tips and example usage.
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