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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1935
Page
7
Dr Garry C Myers urges parents to ready a child for autumn school with health checks and play. Encourage reading aloud, scrapbooks, and simple word learning as play not tasks. Use games with numbers and letters to foster readiness and a positive attitude toward school.
Advice on bright color schemes and natural materials for summer cottages. Recommends white and green walls, blue world mural, beaverboard continents, peasant linens, cotton draperies, bamboo accents, and varied tableware to stay cool and stylish. Includes specific color pairings and decor ideas for living rooms and dining areas.
First Miss Margaret Yard of Washington D C opens a drawing school for children in the Virginia mountains. Only ten pupils per term, four weeks, teaching oils water colors and charcoal drawing. Children as young as four study color design and dramatic effects under her instruction.
Gladys Glad outlines Jack Dempsey's five day reducing diet for men. It includes specific meals with lamb chops steak eggs and salad called the Dempsey salad, plus tea coffee and no sugar. The piece urges tubby men to try the regimen as a stepping stone to a perfect physique.
Dr Logan Clendening reports flies and mosquitoes plague travelers on the Nile. He notes limited screens, open rooms, and a serendipitous hieroglyph tablet about a fly bringing disease. He praises improving Egyptian public health and water, warns against malaria and eye infections, and advertises six pamphlets from the author.
Style Whimsies highlights the revival of the trench coat with a young girl modeling a gabardine topcoat. A juvenile summer party dress features white dotted Swiss fabric with ruffles and a round yoke edged in pink muslin, the full front and back accented by pink blossom motifs at the neckline.
A vintage menu note offers Fresh Fruit Filled Shells as a dessert idea with a Vegetable Luncheon recipe using kidney beans carrots green pepper onion and tomatoes plus rice and mushrooms. The Cookie Shells recipe provides a vanilla shortbread crust filled with crushed berries peaches or cherries and topped with whipped cream.
Save juices from fresh or canned fruits and store in the ice box for future fruit cocktails sherbets or desserts. A combination of fruit flavors improves the result and lemon juice greatly enhances flavors, with 80 use it often.
A lyrical poem praising spring and renewal with imagery of bubble moon and yellow lanterns. It envisions growth into beauty beyond old springs, comparing the moon of midnight and the budding light to fairy gold, concluding that the gift was but fairy gold.
The New York YWCA plans a 100 woman co operative residence for ages 18 to 30 earning $15 or less weekly. Opening planned for September 1 if approved, with a small permanent staff and residents sharing tasks in administration, housekeeping, food service or social work. Residents pay $6 weekly for room and board, work not exceeding 12 hours weekly.
A reader advises if storm rubbers wear out at the heel visit a shoemaker to cut them to the shape of toe rubbers, extending their life and keeping weatherproofing intact.
Virginia Lee advises a worried mother to engage with her 13 year old daughter in daily tasks and songs to ease chores and build happy memories. The note urges patience and shared responsibility, noting teens' immaturity and the value of a cheerful approach. A second reader columns on handling sulky mates with laughter and affectionate support to improve relationships.
Central Press garden expert Dean Halliday explains Hedera helix as an easy, hardy, evergreen wall covering. It thrives in partial shade, rich moist soil, and suits walls, borders, ground cover, and containers. Indoors provide moisture and clean leaves. propagation via layering cuttings or rooted parts. June pruning aids spring shrubs. remove dead heads and old canes to encourage new growth.
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