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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1948
Page
8
Dear Mary Haworth describes Jennie trapped in an abusive marriage with Hank. A sympathetic man conflicts between leaving Hank for Jennie and risking his own love, financial security, and family pain. The letter asks for guidance on Jennie’s intentions and their future.
The writer discusses Dr. Edmund Bergler’s book and analyzes Hank and Jennie as a case of sadist masochist affinity. Jennie’s love for Hank persists despite cruelty, with Jennie using the relationship to stave domestic tedium while Hank remains emotionally entwined. The advice urges the reader not to win her away from the dysfunctional setup.
Practical cookery notes suggest using mixed vegetables, fresh or canned, to substitute meat in casseroles. The guidance emphasizes economical, versatile combinations to stretch menus while maintaining flavor and nutrition.
A recipe outlines a Mushroom Vegetable Pie serving 4 6 with fat onion flour chicken broth mushrooms celery peas carrots salt pepper rosemary kitchen bouquet and biscuit mix. Instructions note melting fat browning onion and adding flour then broth while stirring.
An old newspaper fragment promotes Laura Wheeler Pattern 948 with sizes small to extra large and offers a needlecraft catalog for fifteen to twenty cents plus a quilt pattern. It also includes a cooking direction for a vegetable biscuit topping and a mixed greens salad recipe with mushrooms and cheese using standard pantry items.
A historic menu outlines tomorrow's meals with breakfast including canned grapefruit sections ready-to-eat cereal griddle cakes butter or fortified margarine syrup or honey coffee and milk. Luncheon features cream of tomato soup chopped tongue celery and relish sandwiches fruit bowl tea. Dinner offers mushroom vegetable pie broiled tomato halves whole wheat bread butter or fortified margarine steamed marmalade pudding hard sauce coffee.
A social portrait describes a woman who diminishes others by boasting and taking credit. She avoids admitting influence, inserts herself in conversations with gleaming phrases, and habitually remarks It’s none of my business to judge others. The piece notes such women are common in social circles.
The piece contrasts the wrong and right ways to smoke when visiting a host and emphasizes asking permission before lighting a cigarette. It then shifts to cooking directions for a mushroom sauce with fat melted, flour added, milk and broth stirred, cheese melted, and egg yolks beaten before tempering with sauce.
Powdering feet before stockings eases tight shoes and adds a silky slide. Sachet powder can cushion new footwear and freshen interiors, while some use fragrance in shoe linings. A corn dish recipe follows with beaten egg whites folded into corn mixture and baked.
Ruth Docter of Cincinnati praises Rennel for rapid weight loss from 170 to 127 pounds without dieting. The testimonial promises easier life, smaller dress size, and renewed vitality. Instructions say mix 4 ounces Rennel with a pint of unsweetened fruit juice, take two tablespoons twice daily, with money back guarantee if unsatisfied.
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