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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1919
Page
2
China Grey to the office introduces a new contact line Main 600 for the Women's Page inquiries and features. Readers are advised to use the number for submissions, social notes, and community notices.
A Saturday ceremony at the parish church united Miss Winifred Hielen Swalwell, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ham George Swalwell, with Mr Whittemore Skinner, son of Mr and Mrs David Edward Skinner. The bridal party wore white and blue with autumn florals as guests and relatives, including Mrs Skinner and Lilly of Seattle, attended. The couple will reside in New York City for the next two years after a honeymoon in the city and a reception at the Olympian apartments.
A fragmented diary-like meditation on Mrs. Kymbal and Bete Wallis, torn by love, infidelity, and wartime loneliness. The writer questions right and wrong, the true meaning of love, and the excuses made for selfish acts as she empathizes with a wife trapped by a careless, neglectful husband.
A crowded slate lists meetings across Seattle including Writers Club readings by James Stamps and Mrs Jenkins, the City Federation of the W C T U in Plymouth church parlors, Canadian and Clionian clubs reunions, Aspasia and Alki groups, a Mothers Congress session at the Y W C A, and a large Mothers Congress program with Mrs Ellen Dabney speaking. Also noted are postponed gatherings of the Kansas Woman's Club and the University of Washington Alumnae Association due to fleet arrivals.
A letter column offers guidance on marital strife, loss, and choosing faith. A reader recounts enduring her husband's infidelity to protect her children, advising patience, Bible study, and personal health. Other letters deride moralizing neighbors and urge self-discipline to quit tobacco.
London details report Mrs. Pridger aged 74, has married her fifth husband, a septuagenarian. Mr and Mrs. H. L. Greene returned Friday from Mt Rainier where they spent several days.
The Star invites letters from readers describing the perfect lover with a prize ladder of 10 dollars, 7.50, 5, and 2.50. Submissions must reach by Saturday September 13. The item assumes a lighthearted reader engagement in Seattle.
The Shawondasee Club postpones its first meeting to Wednesday, Sept. 17. A future notice will be issued for any further changes.
A vintage ad touts a lemon based skin remedy mixing juice from two lemons with Orchard White to create a quarter pint lotion. It claims to smooth freckles sunburn windburn and tan while whitening and whitening skin for a few cents from grocers drug stores or toilet counters.
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