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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1932
Page
10
In a charity wedding plan for crippled children, Dr. Morrow and nurse Mrs. Part coordinate a village style celebration in a home garden. Nobbs and others discuss decor, lighting, and a charitable tea as Cissy Sanders leads planning with care for the orphans Elsie and Doris.
The piece outlines how weekends hinge on the woman’s labor in planning meals, shopping, and house duties to create a pleasant family time. It stresses advance cooking, ready desserts, and careful pacing to avoid fatigue, with recipes and tips for cookies and readiness.
A recipe fragment lists ingredients and steps for raisin cookies and almond tarts with steps about creaming shortening and sugar, beating eggs, and folding in flour and spices. A side note comments that blue or green eye shadows suit blondes, advising restraint with makeup.
A vintage ad praises Plough's Favorite Bouquet powder with velvetized texture that clings smoothly and evenly, preventing caking or streaking for long wear. It touts low price, 26 cents, and warns against costly brands, urging purchase at local stores or counters.
This vintage shopping piece promotes bandeau and girdle sets described as uplift items for immediate wardrobe use. It touts elastic panels and delicate trims in flesh or tearose, priced around $1, claiming wrinkle and shadow protection for sheer dresses. The tone emphasizes confidence, elegance, and value in ready-to-wear undergarments and decorative layers.
A high school girl writes about a boyfriend under pressure from two sisters who favor another girl. The reader wonders if the brother will tire of his family’s influence and return to her. The column urges the girl to show she is popular with independent, admired suitors and to seek sensible affection.
Vintage ad offering Marian Martin sewing patterns and catalogs. Details pattern 9380, sizes 4 to 20, fabric guide, prices: 15 cents per pattern, 25 cents for catalog and pattern. Order through San Antonio Light Pattern Department with name, address, pattern number and size.
A tongue in cheek beauty column advises Mrs. Efficiency to cultivate warmth, humane feeling, and posture rather than a stern gaze. It mocks heavy makeup, prescribes darker powder, careful blush, and a five minute massage to stave wrinkles, urging early prevention and cheerful demeanor.
Nancy Ann Miller, once married to the Maharyjah of Indore, has reconciled with her husband and two late daughters in Bombay. She appears content, with reports indicating she remains happy and untroubled by her marriage. A linked note recalls Elsie Thompson, who became Sita Devi after converting to Hinduism and faced a maintenance suit in London in 1938 challenging Hindu law's reach on a Christian conversion.
Aids to beauty suggests relief for stressed women through relaxer exercises done nightly and morning routines with prone stretches and deep breaths. Pimples and blackheads are treated by twenty scrubbings with soap, compresses, warm rinses, and boric powder. Emphasizes daily hygiene, water intake, balanced diet, and regular outdoor exercise.
Tintex offers quick color restoration for faded drapes, curtains, and household fabrics. The ad promotes a game card with 35 new colors, available at drug stores or notion counters, claiming easy use and low cost for dyeing and color removal.
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