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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1940
Page
7
A 1930s style feature outlines winter jewelry focus on discreet high end pieces. It promotes clips or brooches as focal accents with earrings rings bracelets and optional necklaces paired with simple tailored dresses and coats. The piece showcases gold and platinum settings with sapphires rubies diamonds and mixed textures.
Handbag designers present a long handbag with a low wide base and a new silhouette. A jewel like wire zipper protects the safety pocket as a smart detail. The bag offers a chic winter look.
Fashion notes describe slenderizing girdles worn to shape hips with gypsy style draping and front streamers ending in a deep fringe.
Winter fashions display heavy braid work and quilting with bright embroidery. Suits feature jackets braided throughout, with braided sleeves and pockets on wool dresses. Evening sweaters and long-torso jerkins shine with sequin embroidery, and colorfully embroidered draped turbans add chic flair.
Late fall scarfs in tulle and chiffon offer a vivid color dash for black velvet evening dresses. A full width tissue thin fabric scarfs over bare shoulders and can exceed two yards in length, providing a striking decollete accent and a charming, dramatic touch.
Evening and daytime tricolor costumes win continued approval from renowned designers including Mainbocher. The fashion notes highlight enduring color themes and designer support for the bold palette.
The ad promotes design No 8797 for a pinafore jumper praised as flattering and practical. It highlights a corset waist, back buttoned wide straps, and a swaying pleated skirt. Fabrics suggested include plaid wool corduroy jersey and velveteen.
Answers vary across topics from language and vision in birds to historical events and presidents. This set includes Romany speakers, binocular vision, biblical references, the Joe Miller joke, the shot heard around the world, vice presidents who became presidents, Punic War nations, fool's gold, famous instrumental pieces, and presidents who died in the White House.
A quiz lists Cain as the answer for item three and labels a state joke for item four. It places Concord at item five and notes nine six by death and three by election at item six. It cites Rome and Carthage for item seven and pyrite for item eight, while item nine mentions the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah and audience standing during performance. The final item discusses presidents who died in office and where they died.
The Answers claims Gypsies speak the Romany language. It also notes the owl as the only bird capable of using both eyes for a single vision, while other birds must rely on one eye for vision.
The Dominican Republic reportedly requires a special 25 cent stamp on all letters to the president. Lithuanian families mark grief by placing heart shaped stones at graves. A Guayaquil statue honoring poet Olmedo is a secondhand Lord Byron relic bought in a London junk shop rather than a custom memorial.
Fragmentary aphorism notes a paradox about effort without results. The lines compare reading without understanding to plowing without sowing, implying fruitless labor lacks productive outcome.
An aspiring actor boasted of real acting and rehearsed three weeks to perfect a scene. On opening night he delivers the line with drama but collapses into a misread punch line, reversing the intended ending with a thunderous miscue.
A customer asks for another razor and declares he wants to defend himself. The barber questions the motive, noting the unexpected demand and potential danger in the exchange.
Marie argues that gifts matter less than the expression on a person’s face. Percy claims he gives thoughtful presents but Marie asserts true satisfaction comes from the look in the recipient’s eyes.
A four year old asks his grandma for sleep and bedtime. He politely declines stories and songs and suggests she take a walk so he can sleep. The playful exchange ends with the granddaughter seeking quiet.
A brief note likens listening to music to a regular water bath for the soul. Recommends taking a music bath once or twice a week for several seasons to refresh spirit and mood.
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