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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1930
Page
15
A 1920s style kitchen note explains how to prepare cauliflower from trimming outer leaves to soaking head down in salted cold water. It covers cooking methods head up in ample boiling water with a clean cloth, and suggests serving options like shrimp sauce or cheese crumb topping, plus variations for a vegetable platter with other vegetables.
A humor column reflecting on courtship and marriage with sharp observations about husbands wives and social norms. The piece notes changing expectations after marriage and the enduring tension between romantic ideals and practical reality and cites distant era attitudes toward divorce and female independence.
A critic argues Venus de Milo remains the measure of beauty against today’s fashion plates. He rails at the pursuit of extreme thinness, praising age old health and vitality, urging women to resist harrowing dieting and artificial standards.
In a San Francisco setting Cathie and Gordon face Marguerite’s death and a cryptic confession. They recall Cheong and Alfred Karnsworth as they tour Marguerite’s rooms and consider motive, love, and a looming truth. Gordon vows to seek answers at the Chinese Six Companies while Cathie wrestles with past betrayals and future doubts.
A fragment discusses rejected suitors driven to despair and even death. It suggests vengeance through memory as the soul’s measure, warning against murder and urging perseverance. The tone is moralizing and cautionary about romantic rejection and ambition.
Open Door etiquette and wedding planning tips from Kathryn DePyster. Advice covers door etiquette for arriving visitors, how to dress for a wedding, processional pacing, and correct forms of address for wives of professionals. Includes guidance on timing and attire choices for brides and attendants.
A fragment from Goodnight Stories features Mr Flor and companions meeting a bird in Holland. A stork humorously explains sleeping habits and chimneys for warmth, while Yakn and others debate living places and a delayed tale about a brother who built a nest in a stave.
Beauty note column discusses hair fashion trends and the playful exaggeration of hair length. It jokes about sweeping the floor with long tresses, mentions women removing hairbrushes at night, and muses on Godiva like locks losing popularity and shoulder length styles being common.
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