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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1937
Page
8
An article praising a reform focus on serenity in schools over speed tests. Letters from educators and parents extol the writer’s stance against stop watch teaching, urging principals to support teacher morale and calmer classrooms amid heavy testing and long days.
Spring cruise clothes and resort frocks offer lively palettes and prints for spring and summer. Sketched pieces include a two piece silk weave with pockets and belt priced at 7.50 and a white pique trim dress at 3.25. Re images show reefer jackets by Mohuneux with velvet piping and collars.
A physician describes Chinese medical practice, noting non sterilized acupuncture needles used with hair lubrication, a nurse or attendant’s token image for pain marking, and charts marking insertion points. He contrasts old methods with new Chinese health posters promoting maternal care, vaccination, and parasite prevention amid improving sanitation.
Page outlines a winter diet using dried fruits with prunes praised for sugar minerals and vitamins. It lists breakfast items and a dinner menu including prune souffle and date and nut pudding, plus a recipe for Date and Not Pudding and instructions for preparing prunes without added sugar.
Readers ask if boiled rice can replace bread crumbs when making dressing for fowl pork or veal roasts. The inquiry explores a practical kitchen substitution and potential effects on texture and flavor.
Julia Shelby notes Van Dyke valued hands in painting and urges readers to cultivate well tended hands. She covers manicure tips, suitable polishes for skin tones, nail care routines, and the impact of environment on nails, advising regular cleansing, moisturizers, and nightly nail cream to prevent breakage.
Dear Miss Lee suggests middle aged women can find well paying lines of work. Options include shop sales, practical nursing, companionship for invalids, house keeping for young employed families, slipcover making, interior decorating ideas, candy or snack stands near building trades, sewing alterations, and using special talents like baking or cooking to serve busy households. Seek recommendations through friends and ads.
Indignant mothers in Cleveland Ohio nipped in the bud an attempt to launch a date bureau for high school students. The high school is famed for its pretty girls and the mothers refuse to be the victims of commercial match makers who charged a dollar to put clients on dating lists. The piece recalls a college-era affection for date bureaus and aRomantic miracle tale featuring Jerry Smith and Lora Brown, a big man on campus and a sought after co ed.
Sally Lora, a shy freshman, joined the campus date bureau hoping for polite dates. Jerry, a fraternity member, signed up for laughs and ended up with Lora. Their initial match blossomed into a romance driven by fate and the bureau’s matchmaking.
Poem fragment by Charles Webbe pleading for decisive emotion whether love or hate, craving urgency and finality. The speaker rejects indifference, asking for either a fervent passion or a swift grave, and seeks promised bliss or visible kindness before death or ruin.
Screen actress Anne Shirley asserts the tunic is the most useful wardrobe piece. She explains it pairs with a short skirt for casual events and with a long one for formal wear. Her tunic is metal cloth in black gold and flame, buttons at the front and flares below the hips. Her skirt is black crepe.
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