The Perfect House as a Woman's Status Symbol
Ruth Millett argues that many women pursue a perfect house to win admiration and status in their social circle. The piece notes the self-sacrificing effort to maintain a magazine-worthy home as a pathway to respect, envy, and a sense of belonging. It contrasts ongoing domestic toil with social reward, and mentions Swiss organdies as a fashion trend for summer dresses.
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Woman's Magazine
New York
NEA
Corn Beans Are Protein Dishes for Lent
Lent friendly dishes feature eggs canned corn or dried lima beans. A corn custard combines corn eggs milk fat and salt then bakes in a water bath for about 45 minutes. Optional color and texture come from green pepper parsley or pimiento.
Daily menu schedule for breakfast lunch and dinner
The record lists a daily menu with breakfast items including canned grapefruit juice ready to eat cereal scrambled eggs rye toast butter or fortified margarine coffee milk. Luncheon features corn pudding enriched hard rolls raw apples peanut cookies tea milk. Dinner offers tomato juice baked lima beans with ham trimmings corn muffins butter fortified margarine green pepper and cabbage slaw dred peach tarts coffee milk.
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Breeze
Levee Brothers Company
Pyequick
Velveeta
Phubarb
Hoover SG
Cob Fur
Sieimens
Lone Ranger
Marshmallows
Hams
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