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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1930
Page
17
A vintage food column offers an illustrated guide to escarole as a versatile ingredient. It covers selection, washing, and two primary uses plus several recipes including baked escarole, escarole soup, stewed escarole, escarola salad, and an egg sandwich filling.
This article reviews lightweight summer menswear focusing on breathable suits. It describes double breasted coats, skeleton lining, and tropical worsted suits with minimal padding. It notes color trends gray tan navy and suggests harmonizing accessories with shirts and ties for a crisp business look.
The column notes Thooks fashions featuring tied waists and corsets to slim the silhouette. It critiques straight up and down styles and praises neater looks, while urging women to choose form fitting undergarments for a sculpted appearance.
The author notes that some people pursue admirers of wealth to impress a desired beloved, often failing to win true affection. It argues that envy is futile, urges abandoning futile efforts, and suggests that love can come again after heartbreak.
A vivid tale follows Knart and two children as they witness a war between big and small ants on a hill. The larger ants overpower the smaller, claiming the losers as captives while the winners march their plunder across the wall. The scene shifts to a future where baby ants become slaves in the victor camp.
A dramatic interior sequence unfolds at the mansion of Mrs. Elsworth Hoswit where Raquel, under pressure from Alphonse, moves through a crystalline hall to a gothic ballroom. Alphonse and companions crown the moment with lavish flattery as Raquel confronts a spectral double and a chilling chorus of masked figures in a perilous power play.
A fragmentary excerpt discusses wedlock, desire for a reliable partner, and the social double standard of marriage. It critiques idealized permanence, notes women's reputations hinge on restraint, and imagines a lighthearted, ironic view of long term relationships.
A quirky beauty note warns hair aids may alter hair color and fail to take a permanent wave while certain resistances and topknots remain unaffected by boiling. Test curls are advised. Unsweetened lemon water before breakfast is praised for tallow skin and tired eyes, with citrus fruits deemed cleansing. Dental experts back orange juice as a tooth builder. Diets cover many conditions, jokingly excluding hang nails.
A reader questions proper form for accepting engraved invitations and addressing acknowledgments to hosts. Advice covers whether to respond personally or via hostess, and whether to send an acknowledgment on visiting cards. Other queries discuss who should enter first, helping a gentleman with a coat, and who assists whom at the door in social visits.
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