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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1941
Page
5
Cherie Nicholas notes a feminine Easter fashion trend with pastel suits and coats in light beiges greens violets mauves pinks and blues. Fresh flowers and floral hats are key accessories with matching corsages and decorative hankies highlighted.
Designers draw on fruit motifs for apparel with buttons, hats, and trim imitating real fruit. A beige wool jacket features fruit buttons shaped like small wooden dishes, promoting durable novelty buttons at your local counter. Vegetables such as carrots onions and lettuce vie for similar attention in fashion trends.
Young moderns praise fringed play shoes inspired by Western cow boy style and the inverted pompadour hairstyle. Bridal gowns feature white Nylon velvet drape and spring coats in navy with white fur trim. Accessories include bead or flower necklaces and clips matching print colors.
The piece describes wearing a jeweled gadget as a lapel ornament. It suggests romantic or humorous motifs like a huge question mark in rhinestones, a glittering gold fish, a spray of flowers, or a bright patriotic emblem, all crafted with fine workmanship.
Film notes reveal Ernst Lubitsch will choose and direct stories for 20th Century Fox under a new contract after one more United Artists project. The piece also mentions Pamela Lyndon and Margaret Hayes in upcoming roles, plus Martha Scott winning a horse and Red Ember’s film involvement.
Rio Rita has built a two year career as band leader singer and dancer. Paramount signed her to portray the tropical rival of Dorothy Lamour in Alama of the South Seas and renamed her Rita Shaw. Metro bought screen rights to Rio Rita from RKO and will produce a new version.
Paramount paid 285000 for Lady in the Dark with Gertrude Lawrence and Irene Dunne. Columbia bought My Sister Eileen for 225000. The note highlights Broadway plays becoming movie successes and top actresses capable of handling stage to screen performances.
William Holden reaches a seven year optional contract with Paramount at double his prior salary. He is expected to soon star in Columbia's Texas.
George Tobias appears in four Warner Bros films simultaneously while Abbott and Costello sign for four more Universal Metro comedies. Metro acquires a menagerie for The Yearling. Basil Rathbone collects discarded surgical instruments for England amid shortages. A rumor of Greta Garbo and Mickey Rooney co starring is deemed unlikely by Hollywood standards.
Dr. W B Nevens of the University of Illinois explains that high quality legume roughage is the key you must provide for dairy cows. Vitamins A and D come mainly from roughage and sun exposure, with sun-cured hay as the best vitamin D source for cows large enough to eat daily. Small calves should receive cod liver oil in milk to supplement vitamin intake.
Foresters argue separating woodland from pasture benefits both. woodland yields only 450 pounds of dry matter per acre versus 3,000 in bluegrass pasture, and woodland grazing harms wood crops, leaving degraded stands. Complete removal of livestock can restore productivity, according to Carroll.
Orphan lambs should be fed milk from a freshened cow if possible. warm drawn milk from other cows works. Do not boil heated milk and do not dilute with water. In the first days feed one tablespoonful every two hours, then increase and reduce feedings to three daily by one week. Avoid overfeeding to prevent scours. Encourage grain and hay and place lambs in a lamb creep with crushed oats bran corn meal and a hay rack.
Small worms harming tobacco plants in beds can be controlled by applying naphthalene flakes at 1 percent of the bag per 100 square yards. Often one treatment suffices. If multiple applications are needed they should be spaced about a week apart and repeated promptly if a strong wind arises after application.
A reader asks about softening all wool blankets after washing and receives a method using tepid water soap flakes and careful stretching during drying. Additional tips cover floor painting, musty odors from rotting wood, and reliable home inspections alongside floor and stair fixes.
Home style notes describe making windows appear larger by grouping them and leaving glass exposed. Two sketches compare uneven spacing with a unified wall look using cream walls, glass curtains, two toned rug, and new couch covers. Curtains and draperies explained with project directions and ordering info for Spears Sewing books.
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