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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1947
Page
15
Readers discuss how to handle relatives and friends who want to hold a baby. Advice stresses the mother's right to decline handling for the infant, especially near sleep or feeding times, with polite, clear refusals and supportive guidance for managing visitors. A leaflet titled Mother's Daily Schedule is offered for help.
Mrs Brayton Campbell, longtime house guest of Mrs E G Morath at 621 Walnut Ave, departed for Estes Park Cola to join her relatives and will return with them to their Dallas Texas home.
The article advises using eye cream to keep skin supple as eye muscles adjust from indoor to outdoor light. It notes squinting causes crinkles around the eyes and cites Myrna Dell using eye cream twice daily, before sun exposure and before bed, as routine practice.
A mother plans a tailored wardrobe for Addie as she returns to college. The notes describe corduroy pieces in a sensorized fabric, a gored shirt with pockets, a matching cardigan, a dark rayon gabardine suit, white blouses, a round necked white wool middy, and a green option. Also mentioned are classic sweaters and ongoing tailoring by Wext mother.
A reader shares plans for campus fashion with gabardine railcoat and water repellent lining, green plaid wool accents, pleated skirts, a matching middy top, date dress, and several wool blends. Suggestions include a back-flared frogd coat, detachable hood, sheer wool dressy trouser suit, a short dark ta f feta dress, and coordinating pieces for rushing mothers.
Two color single crochet potholders in four strands of string. Pattern 595 by Laura Wheeler offers two potholders with charts and photos. Send 20 cents for the pattern to Press Telegram Needlecraft Dept. Catalog 102 adds fifty designs with instructions for crochet knitting and embroidery.
A 32 page collection titled Puzzle and Trick Book for Children offers Tangrams tricks with paper and pencil magic domino problems and a maze to keep youngsters occupied for hours during vacations. Priced ten cents postpaid, the ad promises steady use and urges readers to order a copy today.
Donna Ford Shanks, hailed as one of New England's finest women beekeepers, runs the state’s largest bee colony. Once a Nazism refugee in New York, she and her husband faced a bee related blacklist issue. Her recollections mix nostalgia with caretaking duties and fashion concerns in Washington society.
A quirky tip from a vintage column describes using a cocktail shaker to wash and protect sheer hosiery. It mentions a fruit jar with gentle suds, caps tight, and a plastic stocking dryer with fan shaped supports.
In hospital according to word received from her daughter Mrs A Mi lam Mrs Mabel Trotter Durin at 6014 Lime Ave is very ill at Harbor General Hospital Torrance.
Honey provides a Varmont woman trained by the Army in artificial eye manufacture. Miss Henrichs studied the patient’s good eye and matched color before enlisting in the WAC. Her dental office background aided her eye prosthetics training, and she plans to continue in civilian life. She notes patients often want multiple eyes for different looks and some request a slightly red eye for a hangover effect.
A social vignette describes a woman who lights her cigarette herself when no man offers a light, contrasting with a wrong version where a man lights her cigarette. The piece emphasizes independence and proper conduct in social rooms with several men present.
A al fresco dinner at the Rolling Hills home of Drs. Rachel and Bowen Jenkins drew 51 Long Beach Osteopathic Society members and Auxiliary. Funds were raised by a per plate charge and a food auction led by Ward G Dewitt. Hosts included Samuel Reese and Frances Neff. Dr George Scouten gave a hospital report and thanked donors for remodeling and furnishing the Polyclinic. An auxiliary tea and dinner break featured a stork shower for Mrs. Thomas Spencer. A film projection showcased scenic spots in California.
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