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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1962
Page
3
A homemaker urges honest family cooperation to aid weight reduction. Plan lean meals, substitute low cal desserts, and offer structured help at breakfast and dinner. Avoid kidding, reduce kitchen calories, and invite support from spouse and children to sustain the diet. Readers are invited to request more guidance via a mailed postcard.
Salt helps prevent color running on patterned wool during washing. Soak in cool salt water before washing and use warm water for washing. For broiled tomato halves, sprinkle sugar before dotting with butter or margarine.
An advertisement for Marian Martin patterns offers a bright sun ready dress and a drawstring jacket in brisk checks white pique linen or organza. Pattern 477 covers girls sizes 6 8 10 12 14 with yardage details and mailing cost plus a catalog offer for over 106 styles.
A reader asks about her life with a missing, distant husband now living in a town far from their earlier happiness. The response identifies possible emotional illness, urges urgent psychiatric evaluation, and recommends confidentially seeking skilled help from a doctor, clergyman, or family counsellor to address the couple’s strained situation.
A reader asks about the proper roles for family members in a wedding and whether separation is needed for welfare. The reply suggests considering a generous maid of honor role for a sister and a bridesmaid for a lace sister, noting flower girls may be considered but aren’t a perfect substitute for the maid’s duties.
Ida Bailey Allen notes canned tuna grows in popularity yet is underused in America. Two new varieties join the shelf: corn oil packed in solid white and chunk light, and broth packed in clear seasoned vegetables with half the calories of oil varieties. Broth tuna suits dieters and low cholesterol plans. The piece includes a buffet menu featuring tuna lima bean salad and ham mustard biscuits for the meal.
A Tribune editor in Peru Indiana, Ernest Mazzarenta, discusses reader objections to a column on transvestism and abnormal psychology. He advocates open letters and reader comments as adult education, arguing newspapers must address truth about venereal disease, teen sexuality, and homosexuality to educate parents and youths, contrasting prudish attitudes.
The text laments parental failures to prepare children for reality and suggests such omissions lead to theft, vice, and later social ruin. It argues that parental neglect can mirror personal sins causing crime or divorce, presenting a moral warning without clear events or reporting.
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