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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1930
Page
8
A vintage guide outlines a summer buffet plan featuring green garnishes, color accents, and simple but generous dishes. It recommends sliced meats, chicken salad, casseroles, crisp salads in lettuce nests, and cool drinks like iced tea and lemonade, ending with fresh fruit desserts and light puddings.
A June Bride offers recipes fit for hot weather meals. Readied dishes include Fruit and Vegetable Salad with celery pineapple carrots cucumbers and lemon gelatin, prepared and chilled in molds or a freezer. Brazilian Bean Salad combines celery or cabbage with kidney beans and mayonnaise dressing, served on lettuce and garnished with eggs. Orange Sherbet uses whipped ingredients to finish the menu.
The text provides a fragmented recipe detailing cream and pulp blending, pouring into trays, freezing twice to prevent settling, and lemon or orange flavoring. It mentions sugar as an optional sweetener and notes the quantity serves eight, with references to water and a bottled ingredient.
A patriotic religious meditation urges turning to God for wisdom and light. It critiques social ills born of appetite and oppression, pleading for truth, justice, relief for the poor, and redemption from drink. The editorials call for liberty, harmony, and hopeful action to end suffering.
An article recounts Mrs. Harlan Thomas at 716 Arkansas Street describing life around a girls and boys mission school in Jiama Sierra Leone next to Liberia. It notes farming practices, crops including rice bananas citrus and peppers, weekly rest days, belief in one god, thirteen month year, and polygamy with men having multiple wives. Over twenty years the boys boarding school educated 200 plus, girls few at boarding, weddings observed, and mothers increasingly seek education for daughters.
Mrs. Thomas details customs in a Sierra Leonean village near Jiama, including marriage practices, the role of older wives, secret female rites, and a system of bride price. She notes child death rates, lack of milk cows, and the mission's aid with prepared milk. The Thomases plan to return to the colony after graduate study in Kansas and a August sail from New York.
Mrs E M Owen recounts a trip of 31 passengers from Seattle aboard the S S Alaska bound for Fort Yukon and Dawson. The Yukon voyage began June 12 with Dr and Mrs Owen among 55 on board, as they described pleasant weather, midnight sun, and a bear sighting near the boat.
A fashion note describes sheer chiffon styles in mousseline de soie envisioning nightgowns chemises and dance sets in sunburn shade with fine lace trim. The piece highlights light fabric and delicate detailing typical of the era.
Mrs Herbert Hoover enjoys jig saw puzzles as entertainment during recovery from a back injury. She passes time with intricate wood and card puzzles, finding them relaxing in Washington.
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