Our Failure in Character Is the Tragedy of Life
A reflective meditation on human flaws and the gap between wisdom and goodness. The speaker laments persistent faults in patience, sympathy, and love, urging readers to measure success and failure by higher moral standards.
Ask Your Doctor About Safe Regular Bayer Aspirin
A promotional note urges readers to consult their physician about using Bayer Aspirin for headaches and pain relief. It promotes Bayer Aspirin as a safe reliable option and asserts physicians once warned against other remedies for stomach or heart risk. The piece emphasizes asking for the Genuine Bayer Aspirin by name at any drug store.
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Bayer Aspirin
Cotton and Linen Fashion Parade Moves Spring Style High
Fashion previews herald spring and summer cottons and linens with bold prints, shantungs, and printed linens. Designers spotlight two piece suits, bright color contrasts, and versatile fabrics for dresses, suits, and casual wear showcased at a Chicago Merchandise Mart revue by Western Newspaper Union.
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Western Newspaper Union
Padlock and Key Fashion Inspires Spring Linen Dress
Cherie Nichols presents a rose linen frock with a dark linen belt and decorative padlocks on heart and skirt pockets. The model tucks the key in her belt as a preview of spring summer styles from a Chicago Merchandise Mart carnival.
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Chicago
Merchandise Mart
Printed Slip Describes Feminine Under Dress Print
A gay printed slip to wear under a dark dress features bright flowers on a black ground offering a feminine touch. The item aims to delight women with its print and color contrast.
Spring Millinery of Many Periods
New French millinery for advance spring fashions shows influences from Flemish Chinese Abyssinian Medici and Reine Margot themes. Agnes presents Chinese and Abyssinian inspired crowns while Marie Alphonsine develops Medici motifs.
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Paris
du Pont
Agnes
Marie Alphonsine
Eight Basic Colors Adopted for Women's Fall Shoes
A joint committee of tanners, shoe manufacturers and retailers with the Textile Color Car association announces fall 1936 color standards for women footwear. Five colors return from prior seasons: marrona, marine blue, chandron, Oriental oxblood and Araby green. Three new shades include a ginger brown, russet brown and dark gray, awaiting names.
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Textile Color
Cara Association
Margaret Hayden Rorke
Paris Accessory Ideas for Evening Fashions
Paris offers grand accessory ideas to elevate costumes. Mainbocher presents beaded flower bouquets trimming waistlines of black wool frocks while another house shows metal frog motifs in silver or gilt. Metal chessmen dangle from necklines and Schiaparelli uses gold chains to lift gown trains during dances.
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Paris
Mainbocher
Schiaparelli
A Charming Needlecraft Picture to Embroider Pattern 5297
Old-time garden scene ready for lazy-daisy French knots running and stitchwork. Transfer pattern 15 by 20 inches includes color chart material list and stitch directions. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. New York NY.
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Household Arts Dept
West Fourteenth Street
New York
N. Y
Small Nation's Role in Humanity Progress
Ex President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia notes in Karel Capek's tale that a small nation, though limited, can wield immense value like the widow's mite. He argues smallness aids familiarity and home feeling and stresses that a small nation should take its share in advancing humanity among greater powers.
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Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Karel Capek
Concert for Snakes at London Zoo Delivers Music
Two giant snakes react as a radiogram plays canned music in the reptile house. The pink Brazilian boa and Australian python seemed intrigued, writhing toward the cabinet while a native singer's mournful wail fills the room. The animals hear through their bodies, not ears, responding to deep notes.
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London Zoo
Pathfinder Magazine
800 Pound Couple Claims Heaviest Married Pair
A Windhoek couple in South Africa claims the title of the world’s heaviest married pair with a combined 800 pounds. The husband weighs 450 pounds and the wife 350 pounds, whose beds collapsed under their weight until a blacksmith forged cast iron beds for them.
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Windhoek
South Africa
Anxiety as a source of sins and miseries in doubt
A terse quotation from Blair on anxiety as the poison of life. It discusses how doubt and disappointment provoke unrest, wondering if mental stir can change fate or reveal the truth behind human events.
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Blair
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