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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1948
Page
9
A wife writes about having a second child now while her husband Ned is training for medical school funded by his veteran subsidy. She relies on parents for support. the response analyzes the request as immaturity and dependence, urging growth and responsibility rather than expanding the family.
A martial critique argues that the wish to avoid costly dyeing masks a demand that a young person invest emotionally and financially in a child. It questions maturity by asking if one could handle another child without parental support and urges humility if independence fails.
Alicia Hart reports Lura de Gez advises women considering color to weigh skill, cost, and upkeep. Expert dyeing is expensive and risky. alternatives include illusion rinses, vigorous brushing, scalp massage, cream shampoos, hot oil treatments, and a youthful updo with waves and a pouf.
Budget managers study markets to pick plentiful cheap foods and craft nutritionally balanced meals. Breakfast features grapefruit, oats, cereal, bread, margarine, coffee, milk. lunch offers split pea soup, grilled cheese sandwiches, grapes, milk. dinner includes braised veal with spring vegetables and mashed sides.
An old newspaper item advertises a Laura Wheeler Needlecraft pattern 695 for crochet medallions. It invites readers to send coins to Middletown Journal in Flatbush Brooklyn for the pattern and a Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book, promising charts photos and 101 illustrations plus free weaving instructions.
Breakfast includes sliced bananas ready to eat cereal whole wheat toast with butter or fortified margarine coffee and milk. Luncheon offers poached eggs on toast tomato sauce buttered toast rhubarb sauce oatmeal nut cookies tea and milk. Dinner features tomato and lemon juice tuna and noodle casserole buttered carrots green beans enriched rolls butter or fortified margarine crunchy apple scallop coffee and milk.
A fragment lists daily meals and costs for a family of five. Items include potatoes enriched bread fortified margarine rhubarb betty light cream coffee or tea milk with totals around 2.96 to 3.06 dollars per day. Breakfasts feature fruit juice oatmeal and various breads. Luncheons and dinners include fish fillet steak cottage cheese eggs baked beans and desserts with fortified margarine and milk.
The menu lists bread fortified margarine cabbage and carrot slaw fruited gelatin milk and dinner options including Cream of tomato soup with crackers tuna and noodle casserole or riddled split whit ing steamed escarole bread margarine and a deep dish cherry pie with coffee or tea. The family plan totals $2.59.
An advertisement details Marian Martin patterns 9153 and 9183 with pinafore bonnet bloomers and sizes, pricing twenty five cents for pattern, mail to Middle town Journal 232 West 18th St New York, plus catalog 138 illustrations in the New Marian Martin Pattern Book for Summer for fifteen cents more and a free beach bag pattern. A obituary notes Harvey L Orton 65 president of the Orton Heating Company Akron died after a short illness with services tomorrow.
Berkley California report says the University of California announced a four year extension of its atom research program with the U S Atomic Energy Commission. Named officials include UC researchers and AEC representatives. The extension reinforces ongoing collaboration and funding for nuclear research initiatives.
A columnist argues that the term housewife remains appropriate and dignified despite objections from some women who prefer homemaker or family executive. The piece contends the job is unchanged by labels and remains the best option for many women seeking marriage and a home to run.
Hollywood AP reports Lauren Bacall angered Warner Brothers by refusing a bathing suit scene. She says she is not a bathing beauty and would be embarrassed, as her husband Humphrey Bogart and she sail together on his boat.
A diner notices breadcrumbs on the tablecloth and chooses to leave them for the waiter to remove rather than brushing them onto the plate. The guidance contrasts wrong practice with the correct etiquette of leaving cleanup to restaurant staff.
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