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Long Beach Press Telegram

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

May 25, 1948

Page

18

Vacation at Home Offers Restful Fun and Budget-Friendly Plan

A guide promotes staying home for vacations to save money and gain relaxation. Suggestions include sunbathing, hobbies, reading, and family time, with inexpensive indoor games like ping pong and horseshoes. Cautions warn against overexertion and offer a camping leaflet by Josephine Lowman for readers requesting Leaflet No. 69.

Josephine Lowman The Register and Tribune Lia Yepniticate Marguerite Chapman

Social tact on answering calls to a family member

The piece contrasts two approaches to answering a call when a family member is away. The wrong method asks for the caller's identity, while the proper approach offers to take a message and leave a contact number. The guidance emphasizes courtesy and efficiency in handling missed calls.

Employers List Faults Found in Some Employes

A reflective piece cites a questionnaire from a business school on female staff in offices. It lists faults observed by employers such as poor telephone manners, untidy desks, long personal calls, early hours issues, and missed attendance, while also noting bosses’ flaws like constant nitpicking and overbearing oversight.

A. m Horace

Most Women Overdecorate Homes Says Designer Cooper

NY AP quotes Dan Cooper, famed home furnishings designer, who says many women overdecorate by chasing trends and copying magazine rooms. He urges buyers to define needs, plan for sociability or quiet study, and avoid clutter, recommending a practical, self-tailored approach to home design.

NY York Saya Dan Cooper Cooper House of Ideas Rockefeller Center Army Air Corps Federal Dumbarton Oaks North South America Patter Agd

Baby Must Be Taught How to Use Tongue When Eating

Nutrition guidance for feeding infants describes introducing a single spoonful of soft warm cereal or sieved vegetables and fruit. It advises diluting with milk, tracing the tongue’s swallowing reflex, and gradually increasing to satisfy appetite while maintaining bottle feeding.

Myrtle Meyer Eldred

Fashion trends preview with fall silhouettes and long hemlines

The centennial year for California fashion features gold motif inspired lines with soft draping and slim tubular shapes. Hemlines stay about 12 inches from the floor for formal gowns, with cocktail dresses around shoe top length and dramatic back interest.

California Dolman

Fern Doilies and Laura Wheeler Pattern Offer

Advertisement describes fern crochet doilies in oval and round shapes, pattern 793 by Laura Wheeler with charts and photos. Readers urged to send 20 cents to Press Telegram Hedlecraft Dept Long Beach California for directions and pattern, plus 15 cents for Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book featuring 101 illustrations and weaving on Huck Toweling.

Neeson Laura Wheeler Hedlecraft Department Long Beach Calif

Fall Fashion and Food Menu Recap With Nostalgic Tone

A vintage menu lists breakfast with tomato juice eggs toast and margarine, lunch of cottage cheese and sandwiches, and dinner of molded macaroni with water cress and tomatoes plus pie. The piece shifts to sportswear hints: skirts, sweaters, trumpet silhouettes, pleats, soft wools, furs, satins, taf fetas, and cotton tones for fall campus wear.

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