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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1938
Page
10
Instructions for making two crochet medallions in sizes 6% inches and 2 inches. Join to form household items like dinner cloths and doilies. Includes illustrations, stitch directions, material lists and a photo. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York N Y. Include name and address.
National Geographic notes Bekonscot as a two acre Lilliput with wood stone and glass details. Roland Callingham built a London area village near Beaconsfield showing churches post office railways docks hotels and a working railway with color light signals and controllable trains.
The chair set uses cream linen with Italian hemstitching and scroll motifs in outline and satin stitches. Measurements are 15 by 10 inches for the chair back and 7 by 74 inches for the arms with 3 inch margins for rolled hems. The piece explains hemstitching techniques A to D and notes Moistened thumbs aid rolling. Book No 2 with embroidery stitches and home decoration ideas is available postpaid for 25 cents from Mrs Spears 210 South Desplaines St Chicago Ill.
Questions cover how Easter is set, the Western name for K'ung Fu Tze, the three estates in pre revolutionary France, who makes laws for DC, the number of lawyers in Congress, U S raw silk imports, and the deepest dive by a diver.
The set lists the first Sunday after the full moon on or after March 21 as a date cue. Confucius is named. The social classes include nobles clergy and common people. Congress is mentioned. A large share of lawmakers are lawyers. Silk imports in 1937 totaled 57,815,573 pounds valued at 106,594,358 dollars. Dr William Beebe set a bathysphere depth record of 3,028 feet on August 15, 1934.
The passage notes people facing ongoing troubles as sentiment shapes view. A grouch finds one relief: he avoids being singled out or picked on.
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