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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1941
Page
3
A reader learns how to improve perceived room width around built in closets. A wallpaper border softens angles while a dining table between closets creates a dressing area. The feature promotes Mrs Spears home making booklets with project details and ordering info.
Fashion writer Cherie Nicholas urges accessory focus for spring and summer, highlighting matching hat and handbag ensembles. Illustrations feature navy beret with patriotic trim, artichoke straw hat with red felt bag, and black braid pillbox with coordinated handbag. Designers and merchants push coordinated color and style motifs with bold new palette notes.
Unusual fabrics enhance dresses with imagination. For smart shoppers, try the upholstery department for gray background materials. Heavy gray rayon taffeta and gray satin with gold motifs offer stylish options, as a wide fabric needs only a few yards for a lovely gown.
A new jewelry trend features clip series in two to five pieces that decorate necklines or drape down the bodice like birds. Individual clips form a cohesive lotus flower set when joined, with options to wear separately or as a single striking piece. Matching rings and earrings may accompany the collection.
Mrs. Wilhelm Cushman of Ladies Home Journal told retailers at a Chicago spring national shoe fair that Main Street and Fifth Avenue now launch the same fashions. She expects bigger softer bags and more colorful accessories, plus softer shoes and a new seamless glove this season.
Stage and radio notes bring Virginia Lee’s rise as a child star with the film Virginia soon seen by many. Despite talent she cannot read. her mother reads lines as the youngster memorizes them. News also covers Fibber McGee and Molly joining a project with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Maureen O Hara stepping into They Met in Argentina after debuting in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
George Michelson on the film Pot o Gold creates a photogenic tomato by filling a tomato with catsup and whipped cream and getting hit by James Stewart’s throws at Charles Winninger. Fran Allison recalls a prior cosmetic forehead repair with rib grafting from an accident.
Fred Allen reads nine newspapers daily clipping satire for his show. Paramount will cast Brian Donlevy as a romantic gambler in Pioneer Woman with Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea. Velson Eddy heads a 20 city tour and returns to the coast by April 7 to begin Metro's The Chocolate Soldier with Rise Stevens.
Pattern No 8840 designed for sizes 3 3 4 5 and 6 years requires 2 yards of 35 inch gingham percale or linen for long sleeves and 1% yards for short sleeves plus 9 yards of ric rac. Order form directs sending the pattern.
A cheerful description of a simple toddler dress pattern Design No. 8840. The piece emphasizes the ease of sewing a front-buttoning frock with princess seams and ric rac edging, suitable for a young child and encouraging mothers to make multiple outfits.
The home gardener has an important place in our program of national defense. Plan to devote more space to vegetables and perfect plans for the 1941 garden to maximize yield. Use companion cropping with fast-growing radishes spinach and lettuce between slower crops like tomatoes and cabbage. Practice succession cropping with beans corn radishes carrots beets and lettuce.
A reflective note cites Shakespeare on the value of reputation and integrity, contrasting theft of a purse with theft of a good name as a deeper loss that impoverishes the thief and diminishes the victim. It presents a timeless moral about honor.
A housewife leads Mary the maid through upstairs rooms and shows a staircase to the garden. Mary slips and crashes to the bottom. The maid asks if she is hurt, but the mistress shrugs off the tumble and jokes that the exit is too strenuous.
A compact reflection warns that constant eating or reading can overburden nature and lead to illness rather than nourishment, suggesting balance is essential.
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