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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1926
Page
6
The article recalls Miss Helen Tendiatouw and Mrs. W. Pendleton describing life in Paris. They discuss social norms for servants and workers, the cost of living, taxes, and the social and economic pressures shaping daily life.
Lawrence YWCA Girl Reserves hosted an Easter celebration Thursday morning with high school clubs and five advisers headed by Mrs. Esterly and Mrs. Sisson. Officers for the group included Kathryn McParland as president and Helen Harper as vice president, with a cabinet formed by chairmen for Program, Social, Conference, World Fellowship, Publicity, and Music.
Weather snow forced an Easter morning devotional for the Girl Reserves to the music room on the Thursday before Easter. Ellen Hazard led the worship with Kate Riggs and the program committee. A simple breakfast followed in the cafeteria, with proceeds aiding Miss Vance, the Girl Reserve missionary in China. Seventy seven girls attended, each paying fifteen cents.
Cuca Lopez, a nineteen year old Mexican girl studying in Lawrence, says pianos radios and moving pictures are not strange to Mexicans. She describes her San Pedro Potosi home, education system differences, houses and patios, and lack of girls sports compared with Lawrence.
Ellen Hazard a senior at the high school won a prize in The Magazine World contest for her short story The Water of Happiness. The piece was accepted for publication and will run in the April Round Table section. Ellen serves as president of the high school Girl Reserves this year. Mrs Bertha Wilson teaches the English class involved.
A Lawrence woman describes travel from Paris to Belgrade, Zagreb, and Skopje with notes on public health visits, Turkish influences, diverse nationalities, and local life. She observes Serbian guards, royal reception, limited cars, promenades before dinner, and American jazz at a Belgrade tea dance, mentioning Ford cars and Parisian items.
The writer notes Serbian, French, and German spoken at meals, comparing languages. He mentions not seeing the Journal-World since visiting mother in Florida and hopes she will send clippings. He only receives the Daily Mail continental edition, arriving three days late from Paris.
Miss Ina Smith, a mission school principal from New Hampshire, details Mexico’s low respect for teachers, low wages, and political underfunding of education. She notes social stigma, delayed teacher salaries, and the challenges of urban schooling in San Luis Potosi and nearby areas, including student life, housing, and gender norms observed in the region.
The article describes daily life in Mexican cities with scenes of people carrying trunks, limousines, and women and children in fashionable dress. It notes afternoon visits, cheap dried fruit gifts, cakes and tamales, late suppers, school and business hours from 9 to 1 and 8, and servants taking a weekly afternoon off for bathing and washing. It contrasts affluent homes with poorer outskirts and mentions modern plumbing in wealthier houses.
A traditional recipe outlines ingredients and steps for Hot Cross Buns including milk yeast sugar flour shortening raisins mixed spices cinnamon nutmeg and ginger. The method covers scalding milk dissolving yeast creating a sponge kneading shaping and baking until lightly browned with a cross brushed on top and finished with egg glaze. The note attributes the recipe to Mrs E S Higginbottam of 621 Rhode Island St.
Paris April 3 AP reports Parisian hairdressers, long independent, now demand silence from female patrons. An editor visiting a barber explains a wall notice instructing ladies to keep absolute quiet as chatter disrupts the craft, declared essential to the artist and his aids.
The article reports Queen Mary plans to remodel Buckingham Palace gardens toward a natural style, recalling her youth at White Lodge and York Cottage. It notes appearances of fashion and body image trends, alongside a humane dress parade by the National Council of Animals Welfare promoting non leather, fur, or feathers.
Six hundred parents and teachers from Kansas will gather in Topeka next week for the fourth annual Kansas Parent-Teacher Association council. Speakers include national president Mrs J H Reeves and educators from Washburn College and Kansas State Agricultural College. Governor Paulen and state superintendent Miley will address the event. Election of officers will conclude Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs Zod Myers Siler writes of her secretary post at Chicago University. L B C banquet crowned annual affair as Miss Dolly Atchison and the Student Activities Association receive praise. School dismissed for Eastern vacation. many students go home. New term charts next week. Student officers elected for the term include Milton president and Edith Ernst secretary. Minnie Weickert becomes stenographer for Barteldes Seed Co.
Anna Speck, a longtime Kansas state banking department worker, will be advanced this month to deputy bank commissioner after a 25 year career starting as a stenographer. Born in Maryland and raised in Kansas, she joined the department as a teen and has served through several crises and governor changes, earning praise for efficiency and friendship-building. In the same column a note mentions an Easter era dish, a red herring on horseback, and a local Ladies Aid food sale at Metzler's Furniture store scheduled for Saturday April 3.
The tuberculosis clinic will be held all day Monday April 5 with Dr. Seth L. Cox of Topeka in charge. The heart clinic will also operate from 3 to 5 p.m. A Kansas woman sets a butter making record of over 1100 pounds in twelve months using an old fashioned shag churn.
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