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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1948
Page
7
A young wife writes to seek permission to have a second child while her husband Ned pursues medical training with his father’s financial help and her mother’s opposition. A counselor responds that the writer shows infantile dependence and a need for growth, urging realistic planning and self-reliance rather than parental underwriting.
An expert argues against relying on dyeing or flattery as a substitute for true financial and emotional responsibility in supporting a child. The piece questions readiness to proceed with another child without parental or divine backing, urging self reflection on maturity and dependency.
Alicia Hart reports hairdresser Lura de Gez advises against DIY coloring citing risk of greenish tones and aging look. She outlines alternatives including illusion rinses, vigorous brushing, scalp massage, and a youthful up swept coiffure with a crown pouf of curls.
A budget manager plans daily menus by studying markets for affordable foods and balancing nutrition. Breakfast includes grapefruit, oats with milk or cereal, bread, margarine, coffee, milk. lunch features split pea soup with grilled cheese sandwiches and grapes. dinner offers braised veal breast with spring vegetables and mashed potatoes.
Breakfast includes sliced bananas ready to eat cereal whole wheat toast butter or fortified margarine coffee milk. Luncheon features poached eggs on toast tomato sauce buttered toast rhubarb sauce oatmeal nut cookies tea milk. Dinner offers tomato and lemon juice tuna and noodle casserole buttered carrots green beans enriched hand rolls butter fortified margarine crunchy apple scallop coffee milk.
The menu outlines daily meals with items such as potatoes enriched bread fortified margarine rhubarb Betty light cream coffee tea milk and varied breakfasts lunches and dinners. Costs are listed per family of five ranging from about 2.96 to 3.06 dollars with items like sardine her sera dish cottage cheese omelet and top round steak noted.
Crochet A Treasure Spread this cloth with pride at your parties. You can make more than one of this 4 inch medallion in an hour. Laura Wheeler's new improved pattern makes needlework simple with its charts photos concise directions. Send Twenty Cents for this pattern to Middletown Journal Needlecraft Dept Brooklyn. Include pattern number name address and zone. Fifteen Cents for Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book. Free weaving instructions included.
The menu lists bread, fortified margarine, cabbage and carrot slaw, fruited gelatin, milk. Dinner options include cream of tomato soup with crackers, tuna and noodle casserole, steamed escarole, bread, margarine, and a cherry pie. Meals priced at $2.59 for a family of five.
A pattern 9183 for a pinafore with matching bonnet and bloomers is advertised with sizes 2 through 10 and complete sew chart. The ad lists fabric estimates and price details and instructs sending twenty five cents to a New York address. Also promotes Marian Martin pattern book and a free beach bag pattern. A funeral notice follows for Harvey L. Orton, Akron heating company president, who died after a short illness.
Berkley, Cal. The University of California announced a four year extension of its atom research contract with the U S Atomic Energy Commission.
Ruth Millett argues housewives should not reject the label housewife claiming it reflects the important role of managing a home. She asserts the job remains the same whether called housewife homemaker or family executive and notes discontent signals a belief the role is lesser.
Hollywood reports Lauren Bacall angered Warner Brothers by declining to wear a bathing suit in a film. She said she would be embarrassed to appear as a bathing beauty, while Humphrey Bogart sails with her aboard his boat.
A dining etiquette note instructs to leave breadcrumbs on the table for the waiter to remove rather than brushing them onto your plate. It contrasts the wrong approach of brushing crumbs into your hand and discarding them.
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