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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1932
Page
6
In a dawn scene at the Morrows Welbeck Street home, Arnold Morrow and his wife Kitty reconcile after a grave crisis with their child. They acknowledge forgiveness, celebrate renewed love, and deliberate on daily life through a calm domestic lens, while neighbors and routine chores frame their quiet resilience.
A vintage style note advises sophisticated beauty use with rainbow nails and metallics while the average girl keeps to natural shades. It warns dust proofing powder pads tombs brushes and cautions against ornamental daily use of costly combs and brushes.
The piece notes a surge in cotton use in stores downtown, predicting a bustling cotton season. It highlights fashion trends from cotton bontonnieres to mesh gloves and lisle hose, stressing women will feature cotton wardrobes and accessories as summer approaches. It mentions widespread cotton interest and the appeal of dresses with cotton trims and lace accents.
Illustrated fashion notes describe pique belts bags and opera pumps with rib cord fabrics and patent trim. Fay King praises business women for discipline time management and restraint while urging home remodeling via light classified ads.
The San Antonio Light highlights Marian Martin pattern 9260 for capes joining bodices with lace and seaming. Available sizes 14 to 20 and 32 to 42, it requires fabric and instructions, with patterns sold for fifteen cents and the catalog for twenty five cents, featuring 32 pages of current styles for women and children.
Dear Miss Fairfax recounts a reader’s crush on a man she sees daily with no response. An earlier correspondent used a ruse by offering Paderewski concert tickets via a nonexistent cousin to spark interest, a tactic evaluated for its risk and effectiveness.
A historical kitchen note explores how to prepare a full dinner for six for a single dollar using pantry staples and affordable ingredients. It provides a sample menu with lettuce salad, asparagu s soup, noodles and tuna main, creamed tuna, Harvard beets, and budget tips, plus a Noodle Mold recipe and a Creamed Tuna method with scaled ingredients.
A vintage ad-style tip explains Lux dissolves instantly in lukewarm water to wash blankets. It warns against alkalis that shrink wool and irritate baby skin, promotes rinsing in three lukewarm waters, and drying flat to keep original shape. It stresses gentle care for woolens and knitted items.
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