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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1949
Page
7
Teen readers submit questions about dating signals and breaking away from casual partners. Nancy Mottram offers guidance on redefining relationships, ending casual dates, and handling jealousy and engagements with honesty and clear communication.
The notice promotes pattern 9022 for Junior Miss sizes 11 to 17, with a blouse and skirt option and yardage details. It invites readers to send twenty five cents for the pattern, lists Marian Martin News Journal pattern dept in New York, and mentions a fall and winter pattern book with a free pattern and gift ideas.
Bar begins week with new recipes for budget markets and warm weather. Lemon barbecue chicken uses lemon sauce and simple ingredients, while a blueberry bran muffin batter blends shortening sugar egg milk and berries for quick bake time.
Breakfast includes canned grapefruit soft cooked eggs bran blueberry muffins butter margarine coffee and milk. Luncheon offers cottage cheese pear salad chopped peanuts enriched rolls lemon sponge cake tea and milk. Dinner presents veal shepherds pie with mashed potatoes lima beans beets enriched bread butter margarine open-face apple pie vanilla ice cream coffee and milk.
Dear Mary Haworth, a wife of fifteen years and mother to two children aged 13 and 12, describes ongoing marital conflict over child rearing. She has studied psychology, follows reasoned discussions with the children, and seeks balance between her methods and her husband's insistence on stricter control.
A letter writer seeks impartial guidance on handling family discussions with children. She notes frequent exchanges with her husband about authority and rules, while praising the children as well behaved and well liked. She asks if her approach is reasonable.
A reader criticizes the husband for a fellowship with forceful child training and a temperamental, noncooperative stance. The letter argues his upbringing fostered aggressive reactions and poor use of reason, showing ongoing resentment in family matters.
The text notes a paternal tendency to react defensively to parenting discussions, rooted in past grievances. It warns that hostile samples of attitude can harm children by mirroring negativity, but credits stable school success and good behavior as signs of the approach paying dividends, urging constructive dialogue.
Laura Wheeler improved pattern offers a simple crochet lace dinner cloth in string or No 30 cotton with charts photos and concise directions. Pattern 988 matches Scarf Pattern 731. Send twenty cents for pattern and fifteen cents for the Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book with 104 illustrations to News Journal Needlecraft Dept New York.
On Barry Bainbridge’s luxury yacht off Mackinac Island Gaynel Teare weighs marriage to the wealthy suitor against true affection for Fritz Freyman. A lively family scene unfolds as the Little Theater group vacations, while Gaynel’s sister Pat falls ill, testing priorities between wealth and genuine happiness.
A mother questions parental authority over a 20 year old daughter who lives at home and supports herself. The piece advises treating the daughter as an adult, offering guidance without asserting control solely because she resides under parental roof. It suggests fostering mutual respect and support while recognizing the daughter’s independence and paid share of living costs.
A clerical assistant is introduced as the one who will provide the requested information. The guidance emphasizes using specific titles for a professional secretary rather than generic terms.
Mrs. Della Phillabaum of West Lafayette Ohio claims losing 75 pounds in four months using Rennel mixed with grapefruit juice. The ad promises no dieting and normal meals with two tablespoons twice daily, plus a money back guarantee if results are not seen.
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