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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1939
Page
8
Ruth Wyeth Spears suggests combining yellow with brown for a smart guest room. She sketches tassel placement for bedspreads and borders and promotes DIY home decor with her sewing books priced at 25 cents, with a free quilt leaflet for orders.
Fashion feature notes a vibrant spring suit season with dramatic color play and varied wool fabrics. It details necks to accessories, includes jackets, reefer coats, miniskirt silhouettes, and plaid jackets paired with pastels, emphasizing coordinated, youthful, versatile ensembles.
A fashionable traveler chooses a heavy blue wool coat featuring large leather buttons. Shoulder tucks form pockets while novelty stripe check and diagonal wools trend. New Jong coats fit snug at the waist with soft fullness above and below.
The new hats blend Scottish flair in both form and hue, reflecting cultural inspiration in their design.
Mothers approve cutout toelegs shoes for daughters with open sides and slashed heels. Patent leather and colored soles gain favor as platform width becomes popular. The trend also shows in children's hosiery with the Stop and Go anklet socks, red Stop and green Go letters.
Lelong presents a heavy silk crepe evening gown with slender golden chain straps and a chained waist. Madame Cham pin wears in bright pink, Madame Jacques Fabry in bright blue, and Princess de Fau cigny-Lucinge in ultramarine. Coquille d Or coats a dull silk crepe sheath with a halter bodice in silk lame, ordered by private clients in brown gold black bordeaux gold.
A homemaker oriented guide argues Lent can be a chance to diversify proteins beyond meat. It highlights cheese legumes nuts and eggs as nutrient rich meatless options and suggests ways to use them in soups croquettes patties loaves and casseroles while balancing energy and minerals.
A note cites research showing bananas contain about 74.8 percent water and sweet potatoes 72.6 percent water, illustrating how seemingly dry foods may be largely water. The remark is credited to WN-C. Houston Goudiss, dating to 1939.
The article extols fish as a meatless main dish with quick frozen, dried, salted, canned varieties and highlights canned salmon as affordable and nutritious for children. It also lauds cheese as a versatile, high energy protein source rich in calcium, phosphorus, vitamin A, and iodine, noting its flavor and thrift value in meals.
Cheese blends enhance macaroni spaghetti and egg noodles offering a pleasing flavor contrast with these staple foods.
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