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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1937
Page
8
The piece advises careful gift planning for busy shoppers, urging lists with primary and fallback choices to avoid depleted stocks. It highlights warm robes and lounging wear as ideal gifts, noting fabrics like silk and woolen materials and suggesting tailored styles for different ages and lifestyles.
A roundup of holiday style options highlights contrasting fabrics like satin and velvet for robes gowns and negligees. It mentions satin pajamas paired with cream brocaded coats and suggests coordinating slippers and evening accessories. Winter sports wear such as Tyrolean sweaters in white crimson or green also gains traction among college age girls.
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The article lists snow and ski outfits, plaid skirts, mittens, and various accessories as suitable gifts. It notes smocks for homemakers and apartment dwellers, and suggests feather bags, gloves, silk hose, and handkerchiefs as versatile gifts for women during Christmas shopping.
Practical kitchen hints cover trimming crumbs from frosting and applying orange flavored crust, using orange juice in crust, preheating broiler pans to prevent sticking, removing stains from utensils with steel wool and powder, and broiled grapefruit segments as a pork or ham garnish.
Melt shortening in hot water then mix sugars and eggs. Stir in flour baking powder and salt to form a batter. Spread thin on a greased pan, layer with ground figs, cover with cookie batter, brush with sugar cream mix, bake at 300 F for about 50 minutes, cut into squares. A variation adds ground raisins evaporated peaches and dried prunes.
A guide notes how to mend sagging cane chair seats by soaking with warm water and soap and then letting the cane dry completely before reuse. It also suggests cutting cranberry jelly into one inch cubes as an effective garnish for various dishes.
Classic home recipes guide making candied grapefruit containers and salt roasted nuts for gift boxes. It covers candied rinds, fruit fillings, nut prep, dipping, fondant thinning, and double decker fudges with candied fruits, plus a sample subscription offer.
A Puerto Rico university reports an enrollment of roughly 5 000, indicating steady growth for the region's higher education system. A home improvement note advises washing soiled kitchen wall spaces before applying a new paint coat.
A dated verse celebrates Christmas with religious and secular images. It invokes angels, Bethlehem, and the Christ child, urging goodwill toward all and urging peace through the year. It mentions children, gifts, and festive scenes while urging love, charity, and unity across lands.
A reader reflects on Christmas as more than a meal and tree. It traces Christmas dinner to Christian charity and gift exchanges to ancient pagan festivals honoring Freya, noting evergreen trees, candles, and continuous festive feasts in Scandinavia and England.
Date filling cooked to marmalade consistency with orange juice. Cooky mix combines shortening brown sugar flour soda salt oats to a crumbly texture. Half the mix forms a crust, spread with filling, top with remaining crumb, bake 325 for 25 minutes, cut while warm. Erma Rae Warner, 838 Illinois St.
A dated handwritten style recipe notes date bars with sugar, pastry flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, walnuts, chopped dates, eggs. Instructions describe mixing, sifting, dredging with flour, baking at 375 degrees in an 8x8 inch pan, cutting and rolling in powdered sugar. Author credited as Mrs. E LeRoy Craik of 1545 New Hampshire St.
Christmas candy making is easy with a few controllable factors. The article offers gum drops and fruit paste recipes, plus tips for colorful presentation and a simple holiday shopping list by family member.
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