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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1937
Page
6
A reader letter from PUZZLED, a 17 year old farm girl, describes heavy duties at home with an unappreciative father and disruptive hired help. Advice urges focusing on gratitude, maintaining health, and counting blessings, while suggesting improved communication with her boyfriend and guidance for handling the man’s behavior.
Mary Martin, a Weatherford Texas dancer and new vocalist, built her start by opening a dance school with her father Judge Martin. She moved toward Hollywood to train for stage and screen, sang for a club, caught a talent scout, joined Buddy Rogers’s orchestra, and rose to radio fame.
Dr. Josephine Jackson urges psychological focus for midlife malaise and postcareer discontent. Women facing loss of purpose should pursue balanced diets, avoid hypervigilant self-monitoring, and model unselfish living for family. Those with fatigue or laziness may need rest, hobbies, and psychological treatment, even when organic disease exists.
Lisbeth Style creators embrace romantic taffeta gowns inspired by Gone With the Wind and Victorian motifs. The article notes lamp shade silhouettes, hoopskirt echoes, white lace trimmings, and mixed silk fabrics for evening and day ensembles, with redingotes pairing taffeta over satin foundations.
Young French women attending the Paris exposition this summer will wear giddy elaborately flower trimmed hats. Milliners borrow motifs from the riot of colors in the exposition gardens. The hats will be popular as visitors dine outdoors at Seine riverfront restaurants.
Central Press Garden Expert explains simple marking methods for circular or elliptical beds using one or two pegs and a taut string. Drive a center peg, attach cord to a second peg, and outline the bed by tracing the string to the edge, then raking soil smooth. Figure steps show how to position pegs for the outline.
A suggested serving tip advises pairing roast lamb with grapefruit segments for a stylish garnish. It emphasizes presenting the citrus alongside the lamb slices to enhance the dish.
A 1930s style menu highlights broiled hamburgs with onions, baked potatoes, creamed cauliflower, cabbage and carrot salad, pineapple chiffon pie, and coffee. The piece also notes versatile cooking methods for hamburgers and includes a recipe hint for pineapple mousse with whipped cream and almonds.
A pineapple chiffon pie recipe outlines making a nine inch crust with gelatin, water, eggs, sugar, crushed pineapple, lemon juice and salt. It directs dissolving gelatin in cold water, beating yolks with half the sugar, cooking over hot water until thickened, then folding in gelatin and cooling to thickening stage before beating egg whites to stiff peaks.
Beauty advice column offers methods to find natural cheek color when absent by brisk rubbing or hot water cooling method. It also covers bran facial masks for oily nose skin, and guidance on teeth whitening, gum health, and preventing rouge-induced blemishes with proper cleansing, astringent use, and careful removal.
Arline suggests astringent equal parts rosewater glycerine and witch hazel with less witch hazel if drying occurs. Mary weighs in that a 20 year old girl five feet five inches tall should weigh about 128 pounds.
Death stands above me whispering softly I know not its words yet fear has no place in me Walter Savage Landor poem excerpt presented as a brief verse snippet without context or biographical notes
A Ben Jonson couplet praising truth as the purest essence that refines all, describing truth as life and light of love and the sun that shines within, a guiding spirit that empowers faith to defeat falsehood.
Dr Garry C Myers discusses sportsmanship as a metaphor for marriage in a Cleveland Lounge talk. He compares fair play in games like checkers and golf to fair treatment, apology, and compromise in married life, noting couples often stray from simple rules and seek external approval over internal trust.
Dorothy Lamour wears a beige kasha three-piece suit with fox collar. The outfit includes a flare skirt, a collarless short jacket, a seven-eighths length swagger topcoat, and stitched trim on jacket and coat. A brown straw hat with a matching quill finishes the ensemble.
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