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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1938
Page
8
Fashion writing notes a shift to ladylike fall styles with emphasis on the upper body. Victorian Edwardian and Elizabethan influences reappear as women search for dresses that flatter the figure, with softer makeup and a taller silhouette.
The season favors square shoulders and straight lines with jackets and short fur coats cut to the waist. Skirts range from straight to dirndl full, bodices vary to basque or bloused styles, and long fitted sleeves trend. Hoops return, furs use mouton, and new fabrics feature jacquard, scroll patterns, and gilt trims. Sweaters in soft pastels and teal blue dominate, with wine and purples as key colors.
A scrambled crossword style list presents across and down clues with numbered entries. The text seems to blend puzzle hints, partial words, and spacing errors across diverse topics from geography to mythology and chemistry.
The article urges college girls to express individuality through fashion. Eastern campuses favor skirts and sweaters, with varied fabrics and color contrasts. Reversible coats, tailored suits, and off campus wool coats are recommended, along with accessories like a gold rope necklace over pearls.
Fashion notes describe traveling outfits and weekend wear featuring evening frocks with wide swishing skirts in white black green russet and blue satin taffeta chiffon and velvet. Jackets to match complete the wardrobe for travel and leisure.
The article advises adding hot dishes or drinks to summer menus to boost appetite and balance meals. It suggests quick heat options like canned meats and scalloped dishes, and offers recipes using round steak, meat loaf, tuna, and baked biscuits to transform cold meals into appetizing feasts.
A jam recipe combines ripe pears with crystallized ginger and sugar. Fruit is diced and cooked with pectin, then boiled hard for one minute, stirred, skimmed, and poured into hot jars to seal.
Practical hair ideas for student fashion. The article guides a close permanent for curl control and step by step styling: cutting back hair, curling front, arranging strands with combs barrettes ribbons and a bandana for class.
Recipe outlines making a medley conserve from eight cups of pears six cups peaches and four cups quinces with lemon and orange juice rinds water and sugar. Instructions include simmering sterilized jars sealing and optional serving ideas with cottage cheese or breads.
A recipe for peach mousse uses fresh peaches heavy cream sugar vanilla almond extract and salt. Whip cream fold in peach mixture then freeze in trays until firm, about three hours, with optional substitutions for strawberries raspberries or apples.
A recipe for a citrus punch with sugar water cloves cinnamon ginger and a green coloring. It uses oranges lemons and mint served over crushed ice with a mint garnish. Claudine Miller 1309 Conn. St.
Eudora Flower club set to meet at Mrs. Viola Sheldon residence with Mrs. Minnie Jones as hostess on Tuesday afternoon August 23. Members urged to bring annuals and seeds for exchange. program features An Old Fashioned Flower and Old Fashioned Poems.
Numerous city residents and relatives visit, travel or host gatherings across Eudora Kansas and nearby towns. Names include Scott, Gabbart, Ebright, Moll, Morriss, Nichola, Seals, Norwood, Adams, Sheldon, Grist, Reusch, and many families. The column notes meals, picnics, baptisms, travels to Washington and Virginia, and PTA style notices with school preparations and a new baby named James Louis.
Mr and Mrs George Broers host guests in Weaver Bottom while Elza Wiley of Lawrence and Fred Walker plus family welcome visitors. Hubert Woodard spends week in Olathe. Eddie Papenhausen and Joyce visit Topeka. Fred Papenhause family hosts and plans weekend in Eudora with relatives.
In Louisburg North Carolina Mrs Q S Leonard faced 40 percent losses last year due to blackhead disease. She rebuilt turkey houses added sun porches and improved sanitation and feeding. By late summer no birds from this year’s crop had died.
The Lawrence Business College opens the fall term on September 6. Their free Placement Service will help graduates secure positions after completing the course.
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