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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1930
Page
2
The article discusses how modern hosting moves beyond croquet and whist to golf and bridge, noting bridge as the era’s premier indoor sport. It highlights pinochle rummy as a growing, easy to learn game with flexible play, then explains progressive bridge as a newer hostess option with four hands per table and rotating partners to keep games lively and social.
A modern hostess should favor gracious, simple gatherings with congenial guests over elaborate entertaining. It offers practical, advance-prepared dishes such as a macaroni meal with a pork garlic tomato sauce, and an Italian cheese topping. The piece also covers informal teas, fruit punches, sandwiches, and a variety of parlor games. It then shifts to formal dinners, advising advance prep of menus, silver, linen, flowers, and affordable table settings to create an elegant effect.
Card manufacturers market new playing sets featuring scenic American locations on score pad covers. Each table shows a different rail or air travel scene with tallies printed on the back resembling tickets or pilots licenses. Players are described as hypothetical partners from Denver Nashville Indianapolis Niagara Falls and Grand Canyon.
A guide for modern home management by a working or stay at home wife. It outlines budgeting rent food and utilities, keeping records, and treating the home as a business. It discusses store shopping, cost cutting, and balancing savings with essential needs while considering whether the wife works outside.
The article argues that a wife's increased earnings can raise joint income and alter food outlay. It notes that a working businesswoman lacks time for affordable meat preparation, tends to buy ready prepared foods, and questions whether earned income truly saves money, emphasizing individual cases.
Mrs. Kate Beard attended the Interdenominational Fundamentals Bible conference in Des Moines at the Swedish Mission Church from Monday to Wednesday. The program featured inspirational addresses, election of officers, and diploma presentations to Bible class students.
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