Fewer but Better Tots In Future
By GARRY C. MYERS, PH. D. head department parent education Cleveland College Western Reserve University. The article notes a long term decline in US birthrates from 1921 onward with births likely to fall below deaths by 1950, predicting a population around 150 million with fewer children and more elderly. It discusses school capacity, welfare shifts toward old age pensions, and the idea that future parents will be more selective and better at childrearing.
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Garry C. Myers
Cleveland College
Western Reserve University
United States
Recalls Coach Days In Camel Hair Top Coat Ad
1935 edition describes a camel hair and cashmere top coat in beige royal blue or old rose. Driver in box coat drives a gallant four in hand. Coat covers a shirtwaist dress in camel hair with chevron design. Large varnished buttons fasten and decorate front pockets.
Modern Dinette Fits Early American Style For New Couples
A dinette suite in solid maple blends modern streamlined design with early American and country interiors. It is affordable for newlyweds with modest means, and the china cabinet doubles as a bookcase or cupboard with low base cases adding extra storage and versatility.
America's Most Famous Beauty Teaches Lipstick Skills
Irene Dunne recalls arriving in Hollywood and learning lipstick use should enhance nature. She advises matching lipstick to natural lip color, testing shades with free samples, and choosing normal tones. Youthful colors are preferred over purplish aging shades, bite the lip to gauge color, and aim for a natural look.
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Irene Dunne
Hollywood
Irene
Beauty Advice Column Fragments From Miss Glad
An advice note offers tips to stop nail biting with tincture of aloes and promotes Miss Glad’s pamphlets on The New Figure and Beauty Culture. Readers may request care of hands and nails and feet and legs articles by sending self addressed stamped envelopes with coins to cover printing and handling. Personal questions will be answered through Miss Glad's daily column.
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Glad
Pach
Clendening
Logan Clendening
Chinese Police Enforce Queue Cutting Under New Law
In Taian Shandong province a new regulation bans long queue braids as part of cultural reform. Police carry scissors to enforce the rule by trimming pedestrians hair, reflecting strict adherence to departing ancestral styles.
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Taian
China
Shantung
Moberly Woman Rebuilds Chapel From Church Wreckage
For 54 years Mrs J B Hackley, 76, of Moberly, Missouri, has attended the Episcopal church there. After the old church was razed she uses the wreckage to build a private chapel shrine and home with a cross on top and a sign reading Peace on earth.
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J. 8. Hackley
Moberly
Episcopal Church
Dances ban jazz music. Ballina girls protest with knitting
The Gaelic Athletic Association forbids jazz at dances in Ballina in the Irish Free State. Girls chant anger at the ruling claiming the all Irish dancing is exhausting, leaving them unfit for work after hours on the floor.
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Gaelic Athletic Association
Ballina
Irish Free State
Colors Pearl and Teresa: Furnishings and Health Notes
A short piece notes color shades for Colors Pearl with tan brown russet capucine pinkish beige and greens on tone. It also mentions constipation as a possible cause of overweight in Teresa and hints at a broader health discussion.
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Teresa
Style Whimsies White Suits Shine This Summer
White suits in gabardine flannel and linen dominate summer fashion among Florida and California women. A printed lace accented frock and a crepe dress with yellow and white motifs showcase delicate Valenciennes lace and shallow sleeve ruffles, including a twisted bow trim.
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Florida
California
Rest Cures Arthritis In Young
Rest dominates treatment views for rheumatoid arthritis in the young. Prominent physicians favor rest, then massage and exercise, heat, and water therapy, with many other methods listed. Editor notes offer six Dr Clendening pamphlets for ten cents each.
Wife Preservers On Stove Odor Control
An old household tip notes that grease or milk spills on a hot stove produce odor and suggests sprinkling with salt to counteract the smell.
Stairs in Rock Garden Improve Look Without Necessity
Central Press discusses rock gardens noting they require minimal care once established. It advises choosing natural stones, using limestone for structure, avoiding shale, and filling gaps thoroughly to prevent root freeze. It suggests visiting other rock gardens, noting attractive foliage, and incorporating incidental steps to enhance natural appearance.
Dried Beef with Mushrooms and Date Fondue Menu Item
An unusual home menu features dried beef with mushrooms served on toast and a date fondue dessert. The recipe for Dried Beef With Mushrooms uses butter mushrooms eggs dried beef flour and milk. The Date Fondue combines milk bread crumbs butter egg yolks sugar dates vanilla and egg whites baked in custard cups. Lamb stew is noted as a hot picnic option with vegetables.
Poem Excerpt Be True by Horatius Bonar
A brief verse urges living and speaking truth with an overflowing heart. The poem links personal authenticity to meaningful, noble expression, emphasizing truthful thoughts and speech as a foundation for a fruitful life.
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Horatius Bonar
Prune and Rice Fluff Dessert for Children
A chilled prune and rice dessert adapted for kids uses one-half cup cooked rice, two cans prunes, gelatin, orange and lemon juice, sugar, egg white, and salt. Cook and dissolve gelatin, heat liquids with rice, mix in prune pulp, fold in stiff egg white, chill in sherbet glasses, then top with whipped cream or nuts. Serves six.
Friendly Peace vs War and Dating Dilemmas
A reflective piece argues that friendliness among peoples could ease world tensions while giving dating and relationship advice. It contrasts global diplomacy with common folk's desire for work, home security, and peace, and offers pragmatic guidance on handling romantic misgivings and awkward suitors.
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